Maintenance
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MAINTENANCE
Maintenance
ROUTINE SERVICING
The safety, reliability and performance of your car will
depend partly on how well it is maintained.
Maintenance is the owner’s responsibility and you must
ensure that owner maintenance operations, oil services,
inspections and brake fluid and coolant changes are carried
out when required and according to the manufacturers’
recommendations.
Oil services and inspections
The service interval display in the instrument panel shows the
next service type (Oil Service or Inspection) and the distance
remaining before the next service is due. This display appears
for 4 seconds every time the starter switch is initially turned
to the second position.
NOTE: Because the service
interval display reduces in
increments of 25 miles, it is
possible to undertake a short
journey without triggering any
movement from the display.
The distance display commences at 15,000 miles and
progressively reduces in increments of 25 miles as the car is
driven, until zero is reached. The relevant service should be
carried out after 12 months or as soon as the distance display
shows zero (whichever is the sooner). After the completion of
each service, the servicing dealer will reset the distance display
to 15,000 miles.
While the oil services and inspections have nominal distance
and time-related intervals of 15,000 miles or 12 months, by
measuring fuel consumption the car’s monitoring system is
also able to assess the owner’s driving style and the type of
motoring to which the car is subjected. These additional
factors will affect the point at which the service should be
carried out.
NOTE: If a service is not carried
out (or the dealer fails to reset the
display), the distance indicator,
having reached zero, will then
start to accumulate, but with
minus values, indicating the
distance by which a service is
overdue.
For example, a car subjected predominantly to short journey
motoring, will consume more fuel, resulting in a more rapid
deterioration of the engine oil. In this case, the service
distance indicator will reduce more rapidly, reaching zero
after the car has travelled as few as 11,000 or 12,000 miles.
Conversely, the driver of a car used mainly for long
motorway journeys, driving carefully and within the speed
limit, may well find that the service distance indicator does
not ‘zero’ until the car has exceeded 15,000 miles.
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