Evo servicing costs

[PompeyPaul]

I appreciate that costs vary from place to place, but what is an average service for say an Evo 8? It is one of a number of cars I am looking at, but I am also aware of the very regular service intervals!

Thoughts and views appreciated.

[mick_coupe]

Hi,

if you find a specialist the servicing costs are ok...I have had 2 services on mine since buying it.One was £160 the last one £120. The next one is around £300 so not too bad. The major one is the 9th/45000 miles timing belt service which at my specialist is around £500.Pretty good considering the performance !

Mick

[renmure]

I was £120 for an intermediate service on a VI TME and was told that the next one will be £150ish. Not too scary really

[Rotary Madness]

To be perfectly honest you can do most of the servicing it requires yourself and spend the saved money on oh i duno, petrol

I mean you gota be pretty special to cock up changing oil + filter. Diff/gearbox oil isnt much harder, and if you consider yourself a DIY mechanic i see no reason why you couldnt do everything yourself.

Ah the joys of owning an impreza

[identity_crisis]

im looking into getting an evo and the running costs are putting me off abit.

only problem with doing the work yourself is trying to sell the car on with no service history. surely for a car with such regular services required lots of service history has to be pretty important.....right?

[rsv gone!]

identity_crisis said:

im looking into getting an evo and the running costs are putting me off abit.

only problem with doing the work yourself is trying to sell the car on with no service history. surely for a car with such regular services required lots of service history has to be pretty important.....right?

Ask yourself which you'd chose; one with a fully stamped service book or one whose owner tells you he's serviced it himself?

[identity_crisis]

that what i thought, im all for servicing cars myself. did all the sevice work on the mr2 but thats because it was an import and didnt have any anyway, but like the mini i'd imagine its service history plays a major part in resale.