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Tinkrock
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Username: Tinkrock
Post Number: 121
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 8:54 am: | 
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Hey all,
My car's got almost 14,000 miles and I'm due for an oil change. I've got this vague notion I should also maybe get a "tune-up", but I don't know what that really entails and I hate to go somewhere and say that to a mechanic! I'm thinking at the very least tires rotated...? Can anyone help me? Also, would I be better off taking it to the dealership (Saturn, on 22), or somewhere local? I've been to Maplewood Tire for an oil change and they were very nice...
Help an ignoramus out! |
Jennifer Pickett
Citizen
Username: Jpickett
Post Number: 209
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 10:41 am: |
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Hi Tinkrock,
I have a Saturn and you definitely don't need a tune-up- for my Saturn the first tuneup is scheduled for 30000 miles. You probably need a tire rotation if you haven't had one (Saturn schedules it for 6000 and 18000 miles), you can do this at Maplewood Tire. A tune-up entails replacing spark plugs and a few other things. Saturn.com (under the "My Saturn" section), once you sign up, will let you see a chart that tells you exactly what to do at which mileage. I go to the dealer for big things, they are nice and not too pricey, the one in Livingston is very nice, they even have loaner cars for big work. |
themp
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Username: Themp
Post Number: 2830
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 3:51 pm: |
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In olden times, cars needed their "timing" and "carburator" adjusted periodically.
Now cars have electronic ignitions and fuel injectors. Mechanics have held on to the tradition of tune ups, but they aren't what they used to be.
Remember how you used to often hear the sound of someone repeatedly trying to start a car, sometimes until the battery was dead? When was the last time you heard that? |
Bailey
Citizen
Username: Baileymac
Post Number: 267
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 3:58 pm: |
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You need to keep very good records of maintenance work not performed by the dealer to keep your warrantee valid. If you have the work done at the dealer, they keep the records for you.
In any case, follow your maintenance schedule in your owner's manual. |
Jgberkeley
Citizen
Username: Jgberkeley
Post Number: 4554
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 5:31 pm: |
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"Remember how you used to often hear the sound of someone repeatedly trying to start a car, sometimes until the battery was dead? When was the last time you heard that?"
Funny you posted that.
Just yesterday I heard someone cranking away, and kept trying until the battery went dead.
I was thinking, I have not heard that noise in many years.
I thought of offering them a jump, then remembered that I no longer own jumper cables. There was a day a set lived in my trunk.
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Tom N
Citizen
Username: Tjn
Post Number: 110
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 9:39 pm: |
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Most owners manuals have a chart or something similar that shows at what milage certain maintenance procedures need to be done. |
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