First time a new guy buys a car, he'll be fooled by 4s. After the sale, the sales mouth is a collection of professional terms, recommending various “engine maintenance” “oil-line cleaning” packages, which either hurt the car or affect the quality assurance, or are paid for by the newbies as soon as they panic, even though hundreds of pieces of basic maintenance can be handled, and it takes thousands of dollars to react later to the pit。
Car maintenance is not as complex as it is, especially home-based start-up maintenance, with the core saying, " just do what you have to do and reject all sales " . As a passing person, today we have the most common charades in the 4s store, the essentials of maintenance that the newcomers must know, and do so, and never again, without spending any more money, so that the newcomers can easily hold on to it and not be fooled by anyone。
First, the newcomers understand that the first is free of charge, and never pay for an upgrade, which is the first pit that 90 per cent of the newcomers step on。
The first guarantee for the new vehicle is given by the manufacturer, and the time and mileage are based on the vehicle manual, mostly six months or 5,000 kilometres, whichever comes first. There are only two core projects under the first guarantee: the replacement of the original plant oil, the oil filter core, the rest of the vehicle-wide inspection, the monitoring of the tire pressure, and the glass water addition, all of which are free of charge and can be done directly。
However, as soon as 4s sold it, it would say: “the original plant's free engine oil is semi-synthetic, of poor quality, and 200 pieces of upgraded oil are fully synthesized, better for the engine”, or “free oil oil is not suitable for visceral viscosity, and more money is needed for better”. In fact, the company's fuel supply, which is free of charge, fully covers the daily use of vehicles and does not need to be upgraded at all, especially during the wear-out period of the new vehicle, which is just as good as the original oil, and which is simply a waste of money。
There are also fuel treasures, engine protection agents, direct refusals, new cars with no carbon, no wear, no use for them, pure iq taxes, no money for the first security journey, which is the right thing to do。
The second is an over-restricted maintenance cycle, with frequent maintenance, with new recruits who do not know about cars。
Many of the 4s stores will tell the newcomers that “home cars must be maintained 5,000 kilometres a mile, the engine above the mileage will be worn out and the warranty will fail” and that even 3,000 kilometres will be used as a second safe. Many of the newcomers believe that it is true, running the 4s stores often costs money。
Most of the domestic vehicles now use full-synthetic oil, and normal travel of 10,000 kilometres or once a year can be maintained completely. Even semi-synthetic oil can be maintained for 7,500 kilometres, without a single guarantee of 5,000 kilometres. The maintenance cycle is not determined by the 4s store, but is clearly indicated in the vehicle maintenance manual, which, as long as it follows the manual, will not affect quality assurance, frequent maintenance will only be a waste of money and will not benefit the engine at all, but will also increase the risk of leakage。
The third formula, the imposition of cleaning-type projects, exaggerates small problems and is the most profitable formula for 4s。
As soon as the car reaches the maintenance level, the repairer takes a random look at it and says, “the gas-efficient door is too carbon-intensive to clean”, “the oil road is dirty, it has to be kept deep”, “the engine has to be cleaned up”, and a set of items comes down, hundreds less and thousands more, and says that failure to do so will lead to higher fuel consumption, lower power, damage to the engine。
In the case of new home vehicles, no cleaning project at all is required within 30,000 kilometres of normal driving and regular petrol. The gas-saving doors, oil roads, and carbon accumulation in engines are all long-lived, and the new vehicles were previously maintained without any need to do so, even if after 30,000 kilometres, they were twitching, fuel consumption increased and cleaning was not delayed. Like the tri-dollar catalyzing, venting, maintenance of air conditioning depths, all without a malfunction, these are unworkable items on which 4s stores make huge profits, and no new ones。
The fourth set, the diversion of perishable items, has been abandoned before life, and the newcomers are easily intimidated。
During maintenance, the 4s store pointed at brakes, tyres, spark plugs, electric bottles, saying: “i'm about to wear it to the limit, change it quickly, and not be unsafe”, the newcomers did not understand the condition of the vehicle and agreed to replace it as soon as it was safe to hear it, resulting in the replacement of spare parts, which could take tens of thousands of kilometres more。
New hands should bear in mind the criteria for the replacement of several vulnerable items: brake blades of less than 3 mm thick, with normal capacity of 60,000 to 80,000 km; tire grafts to alert lines, cracking drum packs to be replaced, with normal use of 5 to 6 years; nickel alloy piping, 40,000 km and platinum plating, 60,000 to 8,000 km; electric cylinders, 3 to 5 years, run out of electricity and fire, cannot be replaced. As long as these spare parts do not meet replacement standards and do not affect their use, they remain unswerving, and while security is important, they cannot be over-stretched。
In addition to avoiding these four sets, the first-man maintenance must be based on three core principles, with the wallet secured。
First, everything is based on the maintenance manual, which does not contain items, and does not do so, regardless of sales, which are the official standards given by the manufacturer and are more reliable than any sales。
Second, maintaining a full view of the work space, not waiting in the lounge, watching the master operate, avoiding the use of poor quality oil, changing spare parts, and preventing the project from being added to its core。
Thirdly, by refusing an oral commitment, consumption must be on the list, all charge items must be placed on the list, carefully checked before signing, unknown items cut off directly, confirmed the correct re-signature and avoided ex post facto charges。
In fact, car maintenance is essentially “maintenance on demand”, not as expensive and as frequent as possible. The 4s store has a lot of routines, such as catching new men who do not understand the car, fearing injury to the car, fearing for quality assurance, who can easily avoid the pits if they understand the core, hold the bottom line and are not deceived by rhetoric。
For the first time, freshman maintenance, without stress or panic, remembers that the only thing to do is refuelling and filtering, while the rest of the sales are rejected, and that hundreds of dollars can be spent on basic maintenance, not affecting the quality of the vehicle, but also protecting the engine, saving money to refuel and buy supplies, which is far better than spending on the unjust project。
Finally, all new owners are reminded that maintenance is a car, not a 4s shop, and that it is more important than anything to spend money on so-called “settling” and to learn how to avoid pits, and that it will be less expensive and less expensive。
