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Old 23-05-2006, 12:32 AM   #1
lokets
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Question Cost of service & maintenance

The Australia Best Cars review rate Fez as the top (or nearly so for 2005) car overall in the past few years. Let's discount Getz which became the top mostly because of price & warranty, but we know better.

Anyway, ABC review also said Fez gains significant good points for parts and servicing costs. I know that Fez service interval is 15,000 km, which is some 50% better than most Japanese cars (I'm comparing with say Honda Jazz), this is good.

However, I like to know what parts get serviced/replaced at what interval and what cost for such parts? As an example, for Jazz, oil replaced every 10k km, $27 per 5L, oil filter every 20k km $18, fuel filter every 40k km $40 (ouch!), air filter every 40k km $50 (ouch, ouch!), no timing belt replacement (engine uses timing chain, aha!), auto-trans oil every 60k km $50, 8 x plugs every 40k km $30+, ABS fluid every 10k km $dunno, coolant every 200k km $dunno, etc.

What I'm trying to work out is for say up to 200k km travel, what sort of servicing cost & parts I would be faced with. Does the service booklet also say any major bits/parts that need adjustment/replacement at higher travel interval?

Can Fez owner share some figures/thoughts on this please?

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