Swordie Bloggie

Yesterday, 19 August, I sent my car to UMW Toyota for 65k service… the previous service was like 5 months ago and it was for the 55k kilometer-age servicing… meaning I actually skipped the 60k servicing… car servicing supposed to be conducted at every 5,000 kilometer or at every 3 months. But I don’t like to follow the month schedule, I prefer the kilometer-age… coz I’m using a fully synthetic lubricant oil which can stand at very high temperature and I read somewhere, it said it can be used up to 100,000km at normal driving condition… 😛

Anyway, it was not a normal servicing… do you know that you have to service your air-cond system in every 30k km?… well, that’s the recommendation by Toyota. But I think it is true coz my car seem to be hotter since the past one month or so… the air coming out from the air-cond is not ‘cozy’ sometimes… but still consider cool but it feels a bit warmer… it makes you stress… it feels like the hot air from outside is entering the cabin… as if there is an outdoor fireplace lighted-up outside and the hot air from it are entering car… something like heater…

So, I included air-cond servicing to solve the problem… I also included washing and polishing… but forgot to ask them to check my brake system… but luckily they actually checked my brake system and replace the thinning front brake pad…. and the result is great… the air-cond is cozy now… but that did not come free… the air-cons servicing alone was RM480… 😛 but it worth it…

Haiyoo… time to make booking with UMW Toyota… I need to service my car… it has exceeded 3,000 km from its regular 10,000 km maintenance. Maybe I need to replace the absorbers too coz I feel the car is a bit bumpy… the bump is quite hard… meaning there is nothing or very little absorber functions at all the absorbers… since I drive quite rough, I think I should use Ferrari parts so that the car is more comfortable… or make it lower… money fly again… 😛

It’s time to send my car for servicing again… it has passed the 58k KM mileage… errr should it be read as kilometerage?… it’s really strange that we still refer it as mileage although we have been using the metric standard for so long… 😛

I always exceed the once in 3 months servicing schedule… coz my mileage within the 3 months period always less than 5,000 km… so I only service my car once in 5 months, once it has accumulated 5,000 km… although UMW Toyota said it’s not good for the engine, well, I don’t really care coz I’m using synthetic lubricant… lubricant from Toyota itself… 😛

It’s going to be the first servicing for this year… and I must do the servicing before the Chinese New Year… which falls on 14 & 15 February… which also falls on Valentine Day… and luckily my road tax and insurance are still valid for another 8 months… so I don’t have to worry about auto insurance quote… else more money need to be spent next month 😛