52 Servicing Intervals The Engine and other mechanicals
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52 Servicing Intervals
Any advice on how often to have my 2 litre Turbo Petrol serviced. As Ido over 20,000 miles pa and I pay
for the car myself I would anticipate having it serviced every 10,000 miles or so and merely topping up
the fluids between times as I have for my previous Saabs. Or is this not adaquate ? Is there anything in
particular to watch out for between services ?
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My last two XMs (second one a 2.0 turbo) both did over 100K miles in 2.5 years. The latest (2.0 16v
estate) is on 52K after 15 months. They tend to do long runs only and get serviced at slightly over the
recommended intervals. When they go in for servicing the oil still looks clean and probably could do a
few thousand miles more. At no time have I ever have to top the oil up between servicing. These are
company cars, however on my wife’s cars I always change the oil early after all it is the only thing that
really matters in a service (what else is there to do now?).
As a matter of interest I make a note of all petrol that goes into my cars and feed it into a spreadsheet
program. the overall figures for my three XMs mainly doing long motorway runs at 80/90mph are.
2.0i manual hatch 32mpg
2.0 CT turbo auto hatch 30.5mpg
2.0 16v auto estate 32.5mpg
plus
ZX 1.9turbo diesel 52mpg (and it will outperform any of the XMs!)
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