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The car hasn't been serviced for 18 months, but due to time on the forecourt & covid, it's only done 4k miles in that time. Any harm in letting it go until next summer? It's still <15k miles overall.
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If it is fairly new I would get it serviced.
If you come to sell in a couple of years time the trade in value may be damaged by no service for more than 2 years and any warranty or goodwill claim would likely be rejected
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The car hasn't been serviced for 18 months, but due to time on the forecourt & covid, it's only done 4k miles in that time. Any harm in letting it go until next summer? It's still <15k miles overall.
If your car has a handbook, that will advise when to change your oil. Failing that, there are several threads on here discussing if and when to do it. If the car is still within warranty, that may help you to decide.
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Volvo servicing schedule
18,000 miles or
Every 12 months
whichever comes first
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I don't think I would let any car go 18K miles without a change, whatever the schedule said.
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Would I let it go until next Summer.?...No, I would NOT.
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It depends on if it's still under warranty. If it is, get it done. If it isn't, then I'd skip a year.
My six-year-old has only done 300 miles since March. I'll be skipping a year.
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No warranty.
I wouldn't worry, then. Wait until next summer.
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Do at least a minor service, get a Volvo stamp in that book or you’ll lose more in additional depreciation than you’ll save. It’s a valuable and complex prestige car which is very dependent on dealer or genuine Volvo specialist service history for value retention. Yes, it’s unlikely that running it for two years on such low mileage will damage it but that stamp is worth the outlay unless you intend on keeping it very longterm.
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Didn't bother with a service for my 2007 Mondeo this year, I just got the MOT done. Checked the obvious things myself, didn't need the oil changed because it was still yellow from previously. The car has only done 2000 miles between the last two MOT's.
Not worth a great deal, now, so I'm no longer bothered about a complete service history. You don't need a full service history when taking a car to the scrapyard!
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That Volvo schedule looks like a combination of underkill and overkill. I too would not let an oil change go much beyond 10,000 miles. My 2005 Audi A8 had garage services until it was eight years old, but certainly never annually. For low mileage cars an annual service is a waste of time and money. My records show oil changes at 2007/12,000; 2009/23,000; 2010/31,000; 2012/38,000; 2013/47,000 - I bought it in 2014 and changed the oil in 2016/60,000 and Sep 2020/ 70,000. It's a big unstressed engine which rarely works hard and the expensive long-life oil (or any oil for that matter) doesn't 'go off' between changes. I wonder how long this wasteful anachronistic dogma of 'every twelve months whatever the mileage' will persist in the motor trade?
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That Volvo schedule looks like a combination of underkill and overkill. I too would not let an oil change go much beyond 10,000 miles. My 2005 Audi A8 had garage services until it was eight years old, but certainly never annually. For low mileage cars an annual service is a waste of time and money. My records show oil changes at 2007/12,000; 2009/23,000; 2010/31,000; 2012/38,000; 2013/47,000 - I bought it in 2014 and changed the oil in 2016/60,000 and Sep 2020/ 70,000. It's a big unstressed engine which rarely works hard and the expensive long-life oil (or any oil for that matter) doesn't 'go off' between changes. I wonder how long this wasteful anachronistic dogma of 'every twelve months whatever the mileage' will persist in the motor trade?
It'll persist long into the electric era - some EVs need servicing more frequently than IC cars despite very few fluids to change.
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Reading all this on oil changing, BMWs on condition based servicing regularly going 20000miles between servicing and these cars have turbos. If you are a low mileage car suggest that 10000miles over say 4 years would not be unreasonable and the same would apply for any other service replaceable items such as filters. If your car is in WARRANTY then you have no option but to stick with the manufacturers guide. There must be millions of low income people who rarely have their car serviced.
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Do at least a minor service, get a Volvo stamp in that book or you’ll lose more in additional depreciation than you’ll save.
Conventional wisdom SLO - and I recognise that you write from first-hand experience.
However, speaking as an "ordinary" private motorist with over 50 years experience of buying and selling cars, I know that I've never been offered an improved trade-in valuation on the basis that my car has a full manufacturer's service history stamped in the service book - and when I've suggested that this should be reflected in the offer for my car it has been dismissed as unimportant in making a valuation!
I (cynically) suspect the value of a FSH is more in increasing the price the dealer than sets on the forecourt when looking to sell on to the next punter.
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>> I (cynically) suspect the value of a FSH is more in increasing the price the dealer than sets on the forecourt when looking to sell on to the next punter.
Arnold Clark ask about Manufavturer's FSH and that the car was not a taxi, day rent car, etc etc
They sell their own rent-a-cars as "company cars"
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I (cynically) suspect the value of a FSH is more in increasing the price the dealer than sets on the forecourt when looking to sell on to the next punter
Totally agree with this statement, any money you spend on a car is dead money. You can have a FSH and your car can be loaded with extras but you will not win with the trade. If you have a tidy desirable car far better to sell privately.
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I’ve always found most dealers more willing to negotiate trade in values upwards if a full history is included. It was the first question I asked of customers when appraising a potential part exchange and again it would be asked by my gaffer in any further negotiation. It does certainly make a more substantial difference when selling the car privately. Though I have noticed one particular large national chain pays little attention to history or condition but then I have never managed to conclude a deal with them involving a trade in thanks to their insanely derisory offers. Most recently £1500 for a car I managed to get £2700 for. I’m stunned they sell so many cars.
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<< I (cynically) suspect the value of a FSH is more in increasing the price the dealer than sets on the forecourt when looking to sell on to the next punter. >>
On the other hand, when it comes to a private sale, I am sure a FSH (or even a good partial SH) helps to make a car more saleable. I'm not surprised to hear that no dealer will put a price on it for a part-ex.
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I was offered £400 from a national dealer for a car I then sold for £1700. They said it was because it didn't have FSH, despite the folder of receipts I had. The car I was interested in had no service history - I walked. My buyer bit my arm off, offered the full asking price and was delighted with the folder.
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Refusing to pay c £500 (guess) for a service on a car that cost £40k from new and has presumably galloping depreciation seems illogical to me..
Save £500 and get knocked down (say) £3k on a trade in on a fast depreciating asset w/o a FSH?
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I was offered £400 from a national dealer for a car I then sold for £1700. They said it was because it didn't have FSH, despite the folder of receipts I had. The car I was interested in had no service history - I walked. My buyer bit my arm off, offered the full asking price and was delighted with the folder.
There is no agreed definition of "full service history" - I've seen adverts claiming FSH just because the service book has some stamps, but no invoices to say what was done and in some cases missing services with large gaps in time/mileage between each stamp.
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I was offered £400 from a national dealer for a car I then sold for £1700. They said it was because it didn't have FSH, despite the folder of receipts I had. The car I was interested in had no service history - I walked. My buyer bit my arm off, offered the full asking price and was delighted with the folder.
There is no agreed definition of "full service history" - I've seen adverts claiming FSH just because the service book has some stamps, but no invoices to say what was done and in some cases missing services with large gaps in time/mileage between each stamp.
I diy
Fill in service book. Keep all invoices for parts...
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Whilst FSH is desirable to some buyers it is not as important as colour, condition and options. A nice set of wheels in particular is vastly more appealing to buyers than FSH.
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