Servicing up to 100,000 and/or 3 years...

I agree with you that dealers do ableepe servicing job. Having spoken to mechanics that have worked at our local toyota/nissan/missusbitchi dealership they are expected to do a service within a set time limit that does not allow a thorough job. My opinion is that dealers are interested in selling cars, not making the vehicles they have sold last long term.

Get the services done by your local mechanic and this will save you heaps.
I do all the servicing on mine including the big ones now, but still get a diesel mech to tune the beast and adjust the tappets correctly.

yep, go for it , even if you pay a good local mech, you will still be way in front, if you have half an idea you are in front of the 'lube mechanics' at the dealerships.

When i needed a fill in job for a while i worked at a holden dealership, soon learnt not to report anything, standard reply from s/m was - did the owner report it ? if not dont worry. they only want in/out oil changes. I was doing major services on crapodores in 45 minutes including the test drive, so no guessing how much quality i was allowed to give. Not to mention 1st year apprentices working totally unsupervised 'flying blind'. i couldnt get out quick enough.

BTW - hows those mtrs holding up under full power ? mine squirm and roar something shocking at full noise.

cheers Brad

Gday everyone,
As a factory trained Nissan tech with over 13years experiance i find it hard to see how much we MISS when it comes to inspection. I know heaps of other 'mechanics' at local places that i would not trust to work on my wheel barrow!!. They do not have all info , current tech bullitens etc etc, The amount of times they ring me and ask HOW DO YOU DO THIS? amazes me. Im not saying we are 100% right all the time ,but just becuase some dealers dont do the right thing doesnt mean we are all bad.
sevo

Hi Chris
Servicing is interesting. My Nissan is serviced at the Dealer FernTree Gully Vic and I must say I have no complaints, they take the time to do it properly and have picked up things I have not noticed, also discount for 4WD club members. I have had service at the Local 4WD place in the Northern Suburbs and found they were much dearer that Nissan for no better service. I agree that after travelling around OZ that service greatly varies from place to place. Maybe do the 5000k services yourself and get the others done elswwhere. Also were do you live as the Guru's of the site may have a suggest service place
Ray

Hi Chris still here, slight delay we go next Sat the 5th, just saw your post and yes i am with you on the dealer service, i bought my truck from a dealership near you strathpine due to it being the best price around, $64500.00 for a 4.8 TI with extras and on the road so had to take it, it went straight to ARB southside to get fitted out even before it was pre delivered. When we took delivery we arranged to have it serviced at the gold coast, the first 10,000 service was due and straight after that it was due at the docks for shipment to NZ for the fishing season as soon as it came out i noticed that the 3.5 A/T hitch for our camper was missing, and you guessed it i was told it was not on when it went in well i am not sure how i towed the night before, any way not one to give up that easliy when it came back from NZ i sent it back for its 20,000 and told them not to touch the tyres or the alignment well you can guess what happed they stuffed up the front and it took me 3 weeks to get it right, so since then it goes to Motsons in Brisbane and have found them great, i am not one to do the work myself all i want is it done right and so far they have done that, keep right away from the dealers even when i was in Darwin & broome i did not go near a dealer in Darwin got a local guy who i sourced from several other locals and in broome the TJM outfit who were great
All best with the service i am sure at least you be able to see what is done.
Regards