First of all thanks to Team-Bhp for letting me into the forum. This is my first thread.
I own a Apr-2009 Honda City 1.5 S-MT. Since the car is more than 6 months old, free services are over now. Honda has a strange servicing cycle.
1st service on 1 month/1k Km
2nd Service on 3 Months/5K Km
3rd Service on 6 Months/10K km :Frustrati
I am not sure about this but how exponentially is the km’s growing? I mean 10K in 6 months then why would a sensible guy go for a petrol vehicle. I also own Swift VDi bought around the same time but it has 3rd Service on a year/10k Km.
Anyway this argument apart, now I was due for paid service and I got call from honda dealer just 3 months later that my car servicing is due. I was astonished, I confirmed that my car was serviced just 3 months back and since I have not much of running It does not make sense. But the dealer representative insisted that is mandatory to maintain service intervals. But 3 months service interval sounds ridiculous to me. I called up Honda one2one and confirmed this. Honda representative confirmed that yes for vehicles in Mumbai(metro city) 3 months and for non metro vehicle 6 months.
Guess what when I reached dealership, he mentioned oil change for car, i reminded him that it has been changed in last service, to which he mentioned that oil change is needed every service :Shockked: ? I resisted and asked him to check how many km’s have I covered since my last service, on checking records it came out to be less than 1k kms, meaning oil to be used only for 1k? I resisted and said no to oil change, just service.
I just wanted to confirm from Honda owners is that you also having service intervals of 3 months? Is it worth?
PS: I had to anyways visit the Honda service center as srs airbag lights were continuously on even on ignition, on inspection at service center, it came out to be a rat menace. Entire wiring harness needs to be changed cost approx 6.5K
Thanks for reading through : Bhpians, please advice on service intervals query