Servicing Questions

[Rudedog]

Do all new cars, regardless of their service regime, have a minor service at year one?

[itavaltalainen]

No, can go up to 2 years or ~20k miles until first service is due.
If you plan to keep it then change oil once a year or if you do over 10k miles a year then every 10k miles.
Inspection as the car tells you (1st after roughly 40k or 2 years; then annually).

[Rudedog]

Sure, I just wasn't sure if the first oil change post-production would always be at year one, who knows how long a 'new' car could have been sitting around before it was sold.

I'm going to make sure my car is reset to time/distance as I will be keeping it 10 years plus (hopefully!), even though my car was registered March 2019 it didn’t have its first service until August 2020 when I bought it (I think it had stayed unsold within the dealer network since the first lockdown).

Hopefully my dealer won’t have a problem when I ask for a year two service in March 2021 (I want to bring everything back to same month for when I start the dreaded MoT’s), the inspection service is strangely showing as almost two years away whereas I would have thought it should be the next service?