What mileage does a car need to have in order to send it for maintenance? ?

Question

I have a honda CRV 2008 auto and it just reached 3000 miles on its odometer reading. Is it time for maintenance?

Answer 1

I hate to sound like an  a $ $   ....but your car did come with an owners manual...so instead of setting here on the computer...go get it and read it. It might save you a big headache in the future. After all...if you forget to do something that is required...there goes your warranty out the door.

Right now the only thing you need is the oil changed. Do yourself a big favor....get a large envelope and put all your receipts inside after you have something done...oil change...or any other maintenance. Those records will help you in the future to prove what you had done and when....it also improves the resale value of that car when you get ready to sell.

Answer 2

Check your owners manual it should have the service intervals listed! It is important to make sure you follow these intervals so that you don't void the warranty! Read through the manual, get to know your new car!

Enjoy!

Answer 3

Maybe an oil change and filter, nothing more. Look at your owners manual. That will tell you everything you need to know

Answer 4

I think about every 10K you should take it for maintainence check :)

Answer 5

60000, 90000, scheduled maintenance, (replace wearable parts) every 3000 an oil change.

Answer 6

On most new vehicles, the factory recommended interval for changing the oil and filter is typically once a year or every 7,500 miles in passenger car and light truck gasoline engines. Some OEMs even recommend 10,000 mile oil change intervals. A growing number of OEMs make no specific mileage or time recommendation and use oil monitoring software to turn on an oil change reminder light when the oil is estimated to need changing. For diesel engines and turbocharged gasoline engines, the recommended interval is typically every 3,000 miles or six months.

If you read the fine print in your owners manual on vehicles where a specific mileage/time recommendation is made, you'll often discover that the once a year, 7,500 mile oil change is for vehicles that are driven under "ideal" operating circumstances. What most of us think of as "normal" driving is actually "severe service" driving.



Severe service driving includes:

Frequent short trips (less than 10 miles, especially during cold weather)

Stop-and-go city traffic driving

Driving in dusty conditions (gravel roads, etc.)

Driving at sustained highway speeds during hot weather.

For severe service driving (which is what most of us do), the most common recommendation is to change the oil every 3,000 miles or six months (which ever comes first). This is especially important on older, high mileage (over 100,000 miles) engines.

For maximum protection, many people change their oil every 3,000 miles or three to six months regardless of what kind of driving they do. But some would say this is excessive maintenance. Changing the oil every 3,000 miles is probably not necessary on a newer vehicle with a low mileage engine, especially if it is driven more than 10 miles one-way daily or is used primarily for highway driving or long distance commuting.

A newer engine with little or no wear can probably go 5,000 to 7,500 miles between oil changes with no harm. But in my opinion, pushing the oil change interval beyond 7,500 miles is asking for trouble, especially if an engine has more than 75,000 miles on it, or it operated under "severe" conditions as described above.

As an engine accumulates miles, blowby increases. This dumps more unburned fuel into the crankcase which dilutes the oil. This causes the oil to break down. So if the oil is not changed often enough, you can end up with accelerated wear, oil sludging and all the engine problems that come with it: loss of performance & fuel economy, and increased emissions and oil consumption.