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Originally Posted by slowm3
I'm not saying all leased cars are a bad idea, they do get serviced but the bare minimum for them to pass the inspection. It's different if you do the regular maintenance plus pay out of your pocket for extra service intervals then that is different.
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What extra servicing are you suggesting they should have though? Later in life sure additional maintenance will be required, but I’d be pretty annoyed if my brand new car required above and beyond what the manufacturer has specified in the first 3 years.
These cars operate on condition-based servicing, so if you’re driving it harder the system will prompt for a service (i.e. oil change, filters, etc.) more often. You cruise around town then it’ll let you go longer. A current-model engine with modern oil shouldn’t (and from what I read, doesn’t) require the crazy 5000km change intervals that may have made sense in the past, certainly not on a daily driven street car.