20k completed, mile munching at its best..... Post the last service, I think I've become even lazier & more of a believer in Fill it, shut it & forget it! How else can I justify that it took me 4k kms of motoring to take the beast in for a warranty replacement that should have happened way back in the beginning of August?!
Well, it was like this - after the brake pads were replaced during the last service, I noticed a tremor & shake in the steering wheel on braking from high speeds. Tickled my grey cells & thought it would be the brake discs. Spoke to the Senior WM & he concurred with me - the new pads were probably highlighting this, the old ones must have settled in with the discs. He asked me to bring the beast in....and that was almost two months ago! So I kept motoring on, then I was out of the country, then I procrastinated some more on my return and then, FINALLY, I told myself day before that, come hell or high water, I was going to send the truck in yesterday. It was a wise decision as I also had a lot of fun pelting up & down in the Fiesta yesterday - but that's another story!
So sent my driver to DM with the odo reading 20014 and as expected, I got a call from the supervisor saying that he was completing the 20k service as well! This is like a major one with engine oil, gear oil & differential oil being changed apart from the oil filter. He also took the liberty of adding on the Bardahl treatment again (last done at 10k). And, of course, the pair of discs were changed under warranty. I love Dhingra Motors
The Beast is purring again, noise levels are down, no tremor, vibration or shake from the steering on braking, I need to see if the mileage has improved because that was a grouse - kept hovering between 9.2 & 9.3 for the past couple of months. I will also have to do wheel balancing - the front tyres both had punctures when they were on the rear which resulted in some banging on the alloys when the punctures were repaired, I'm fairly sure that they are marginally out of balance.
Other than that folks, not much has been happening - my caravan has been keeping me quite happy. Need to shampoo her this weekend. Cheers & long live the 3L Safari Dicorcheers:
Last edited by suman : 26th September 2007 at 12:44.
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