Miata Mailing List: November 1996, Message #142
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   From: Will Errington 

Subject: Servicing my Car

   Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 11:43:55 -0500



Dear all,



The net wisdom is rather, dare I say, shaky on the subject of servicing

intervals. For me, a period of 6-8000 miles sounded reasonable, not to

mention convenient, so I took old "Betsy" to my local garage. I say I, I

actually mean S.O. She needed an estimate to repair some damage done to the

mudflaps (car's, not S.O's) due to careless (our Miata was parked) yet

neighbourly (left name and address for insurance stuff) contact with some bloke.



Poor S.O has a history of being patronised by the staff at the garage, and

they easily lived up to their reputation. Ahem. "I'd like an estimate and a

service please (very polite, my lass is)". "I'm sorry madam (better than

Dear, but only just), we've just changed our intervals from 6 to 9 000

miles." And they refused to service the damn thing! This alteration in

service intervals seems awfully arbitrary to me....hmmm. What's the story

out there?



Finally (wait for it); in the first post the next day we received a reminder

from Mazda UK telling us that our first service was due. Ho hum. Sounds like

the left arm doesn't know what the right arm is doing. Arses and elbows also

spring to mind.



The upshot of this; service is booked for next month when 7 400 (ish) will

be on the clock.



Carry on,



Will













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