OE Maintenance

[GobblesAuto]

Do you follow the manufacture recommended maintenance schedules or do you perform services more often than the manufacturer recommends?

[CARMandP]

I follow manufactures specs most of the time.

[xrac]

Do you follow the manufacture recommended maintenance schedules or do you perform services more often than the manufacturer recommends?

 

We follow the OE schedule except for oil changes.

[Gonzo]

Same here... Oil changes I might follow the oil manufacturers requirements

 

We follow the OE schedule except for oil changes.

 

 

 

[abbie]

Don't you feal that somtimes these manufactuers are simply selling the old 0 maintenance, buy a new car every 60K plan. I understand the improvemnts in fluid tech and engines, however "lifetime fill" seems a strech. I try to monitor fluid condition as well as possible and recomend as we feal fit. Most customers understand when we mention that, they and us have a vested intrest in them keeping thier car on the road as long as possible (the car company does not)

[Dennis R.]

Do you follow the manufacture recommended maintenance schedules or do you perform services more often than the manufacturer recommends?

 

 

We use the OEM plan as a guide , we move up the oil change schedule and transmission services on SUV's and Trucks to every 15K and cars 30K -Transmissions are too expensive to go with the factory recommends, We also change all accessible fuel filters at 15K , part of that reason is we seem to end up with a very fine silt at times in the fuel

I think the OEM's are going after the you do not need anything on your car for 100K so they can sell more cars

A little more maintenance gets our customers over 200K of reliable service. We have never had a customer in 24 years not want to do the oil change when we recommend it versus the OEM schedule

[Junior]

For those of you who follow the manufaturers recommended service intervals how do you manage the information? We follow the OE service intervals for all later model cars (2000ish and newer) We recommend synthetic for all extended service interval cars that don't require it (over 5k intervals). We are looking for better ways to manage this information as its so model specific. We are also looking at better ways to help draw in new business by selling missed maintenance items. We're in the process of evaluating new shop management software and are looking for something with tools that will help us do this. How do you do it?

 

thanks