Automatic. Nothing wrong with it. Scheduled service items only. Nominally a 50,000 mile service, car has actually only done 28,000 total, about 6,000 of them in the last 12 months.
"That will be £998 sir, when would you like to book it in?"
"I'll let you know. Bye."
That was from my nearest dealer. My usual one, Firs at Hook Norton, announced its closure just after Mitsubishi announced it was to stop selling its cars in the UK - cutting their losses in a difficult year with not much prospect of improvement I suppose. They were an unusually busy dealer for the marque, usually some police L200's in for service, and booking 3-4 weeks ahead for service, at which I thought they were good.
The entire service team from Firs has gone to the new, Vertu-owned dealership in Banbury so I rang them next, as I had planned to do anyway. They suggested that I should leave things like the ATF, front and rear diff oil changes, until the specified mileage. Quote £426 including brake fluid change. Still money for old rope but a lot better than £998.
The gearbox and diff fluids are scheduled as 50,000 miles on which basis the local dealer says they are due as it's a 50,000 mile service. Sounds a bit creative to me.
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