No one likes having to service their car – especially with the high costs often associated with it. But, it’s important to service your car, and you shouldn’t let a couple hundred quid put you off.
The average car service includes oil changes, filter changes, brake changes and other such wearables being replaced. All together, including labour costs, this can end up costing you a lot of money.
But you need to have it done, and shouldn’t avoid it because of the costs and here’s why.
Safety
Your car will become more unsafe if you don’t service your car. Replacing things like tyres and brakes in a timely manner is extremely important, and these are the things sticking you to the road and slowing you down. Bald tyres and defective brakes can leave you in some pretty bad situations. Not to mention, you can fail your MOT for having worn brakes and tyres – making driving your vehicle illegal.
Higher future costs
Filters such as oil, air and fuel filters need to be changed. They filter and catch all the dirt and contaminants they can and avoid them mixing with your car parts, but after a while, they become defective and dirty themselves. If they can’t filter out all the dirt, where’s it going to go? The intricate moving parts of your engine, which are often very very – and I mean very expensive to replace if they go wrong. Save yourself some money in the long run.
It’s also important to change the oil, as oil is the lubricant for all these moving parts, and keeps them moving smoothly. If your oil gets too mucky, which it will over time, it will start to not work as a lubricant anymore, and if you leave it long enough, your engine may seize, overheat, and break entirely, costing you hundreds if not thousands of pounds to fix.
Not to mention, when you got to sell the car, if the buyer sees you haven’t serviced the car in a long time, they’ll often avoid the deal entirely, or try to knock a lot off the price.
