ClioSport.net

Register a free account today to become a member!
Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

  • When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read more here.

Full service history ??



Just wonder what people think full service history is ?

I just happened to see an advert for a 172 cup on pistonheads and the owner bangs on about its full service history.

Now we have always had several cars at any time and some have done very low mileages in some years , does that mean they don't get serviced that year , well if the interval is mileage or 12 months then dam sure they do .
Its a bit like only doing a cambelt on mileage .... possible suicide.

Now i know missing services is hardly the end of the world , but this car didn't start life being sorted on the button

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifi...miles-full-service-history-immaculate/1107105
 

R-Sport.

ClioSport Club Member
  Mint 1*2's for sale-
Are you looking to buy this?

Has only 1 key and a hole in the rear bumper where an exhaust used to be nb the pics not showing the rear left

s
 
Are you looking to buy this?

Has only 1 key and a hole in the rear bumper where an exhaust used to be nb the pics not showing the rear left

s

No .... don't worry ..... I have just spent the day going over the one i have on stands in the workshop , its nice to see lots of new shiny bits !!

i just happened to see that and didn't get past its missing service history which he bangs on about , i hadn't really looked at the pics ........



edited to say you have obviously looked into this one , as i can't see the bumper cut ?
 

Jack!

ClioSport Club Member
I think it's often confusion between what full service history is - to some it may just be that there is a record of any servicing that has been done, regardless or when, where or by whom it was done.
 
  clio TCE world serie
I think it's often confusion between what full service history is - to some it may just be that there is a record of any servicing that has been done, regardless or when, where or by whom it was done.


In my opinion I had always thought full service history is when a car had never missed its service! however having recently bought a new clio with 'FSH' it appears this has only had 2 out of the 3 services it should have had and was quite dissappointed the garage were selling it as full service history! however i guess your right, thesedays people class the paperwork/records as being FSH which i thinks wrong!
 
  172 cup
I also had this problem looking at a 182. Had its first 2 year service in 2006 then one in 2008 and one more on 2012. Bloke seemed to think this was fine as it had 45k on the clock. Car should be serviced yearly at least even if you havent covered many miles.
 

Jack!

ClioSport Club Member
I'd imagine a large proportion of cars these days don't have proper routine service histories. I guess you've just gotta look for the best you can, or be patient.
 
  Cup In bits
Another thing that annoys me with people selling cars is "immaculate condition" etc etc, you go to view and there's dents and scrapes, kerbed wheels etc. Dishonesty too, I just got stung with a cup I bought that was far from advertised, mechanically a bit of a dog if I'm honest, should have trusted my hunches.

I honestly don't know what some people think, some cars look like Stevie Wonder has done a detail on it. This car for example is advertised as immaculate and at the price you would sure hope so. I'm pretty sure I can see kerbing on the wheels in 2 pics for a start lol
 
Another thing that annoys me with people selling cars is "immaculate condition" etc etc, you go to view and there's dents and scrapes, kerbed wheels etc. Dishonesty too, I just got stung with a cup I bought that was far from advertised, mechanically a bit of a dog if I'm honest, should have trusted my hunches.

I honestly don't know what some people think, some cars look like Stevie Wonder has done a detail on it. This car for example is advertised as immaculate and at the price you would sure hope so. I'm pretty sure I can see kerbing on the wheels in 2 pics for a start lol



i was looking as i might have an idea that in 6 months i might change ours

its a 53 plate cup with climate

it will have had in the last 12 months

2 services
4 new contisports
fully refurbed wheels
all new discs with brembo HC's and renault rears
DS2500's all round
New quiet stealth Ktec
New springs (eibach or cooksport will decide tomorrow)
new rear cup shocks


will be on about 68k miles , has had every service since it was new thats 10 at least , belts done on time


and i recon i would stick it up somewhere between 2.5 to 3k , there are stone chips and a bit of lacquer has flaked on the bonnet ..... but thats how i would describe it ,


then again i can see this being another keeper like our 205 gti was
 

Bluebeard

ClioSport Moderator
  Whichever has fuel
Another thing that annoys me with people selling cars is "immaculate condition" etc etc, you go to view and there's dents and scrapes, kerbed wheels etc. Dishonesty too, I just got stung with a cup I bought that was far from advertised, mechanically a bit of a dog if I'm honest, should have trusted my hunches.

I honestly don't know what some people think, some cars look like Stevie Wonder has done a detail on it. This car for example is advertised as immaculate and at the price you would sure hope so. I'm pretty sure I can see kerbing on the wheels in 2 pics for a start lol

No used car is immaculate. The very fact that people put that word in their advert irritates the fcuk out of me.

Immaculate is a showroom fresh car, with ZERO cosmetic defects. Not a car that's just pretty good condition for its age. (Which is how they SHOULD be described!)
 
No used car is immaculate. The very fact that people put that word in their advert irritates the fcuk out of me.

Immaculate is a showroom fresh car, with ZERO cosmetic defects. Not a car that's just pretty good condition for its age. (Which is how they SHOULD be described!)



but then you understand sales Daniel , describe it accurately and price it right and it sells .

the ones that are misdescribed and overpriced just show the dreamer who sells its view .


i didn't get past emails when we first looked for a clio as the amount that claimed "its not done enough miles to need belts " was just astounding.

our 172 had 4 of its services without doing more than 2k miles in total , as its owner was working abroad ..... but every year his mum or sister took it for an mot and a service
 
Car enthusiasts > Joe Public.


seen it so many times , however there are muppets who pay the polished turd prices , in fact i know a man , and i admire his truly appalling and arrogant turd polishing (usually just verbally on forums) and ends up with people falling over themselves to buy his cars

i know what he is like , and if he has wielded a spanner near it then i wouldn't be a passenger let alone drive it .... but he does it over and again .



then again i have got top money , close to dealer price for every non run of the mill motor we have bought and sold ......... think our sport 160 sold for 500 quid less than 3 dealer cars and had twice the mileage , however it had been maintained to the nth degree
 

MRBILLYUK

ClioSport Club Member
  FF Jeden Osiem Dwa
I also had this problem looking at a 182. Had its first 2 year service in 2006 then one in 2008 and one more on 2012. Bloke seemed to think this was fine as it had 45k on the clock. Car should be serviced yearly at least even if you havent covered many miles.

The service interval is every 12k or 2 years whichever comes first . So obviously he was abiding by the 2 year part of the service interval and got it slightly wrong on the mileage side . I stick to the 12k part which is usually every 2 years anyway as i don't cover very many miles , but i do an interim oil change every 6k myself just for my own piece of mind .

My interpretation of a FSH is that every service is carried out according to the service interval schedule . Anything else inbetween , bills , receipts for work carried out that can be proved is a bonus imo .
 

DrR

ClioSport Club Member
  VW Golf GTD
To me FSH means everything done as per manufactures guidance in the manual.
 
The service interval is every 12k or 2 years whichever comes first . So obviously he was abiding by the 2 year part of the service interval and got it slightly wrong on the mileage side . I stick to the 12k part which is usually every 2 years anyway as i don't cover very many miles , but i do an interim oil change every 6k myself just for my own piece of mind .

My interpretation of a FSH is that every service is carried out according to the service interval schedule . Anything else inbetween , bills , receipts for work carried out that can be proved is a bonus imo .

I thought it was anual ...if its 2 years I stand corrected .....
 
just looked in the service book for mine and it does say that , however ours has had 9 dealer services so far , since its first in 2004 and is about to get number 10 .


and its only on 56k miles .
 
  M2 Comp
Just had a look through my service book, it's an 04 Clio 182 and according to the book it has been serviced as follows -

17/01/2006 - 13,272

23/04/2007 - 25,314

27/07/2008 - 36,696

07/07/2009 - 40,318

11/05/2011 - 51,899

22/02/2013 - 62,227

I take it this wouldn't be classed as a "full" service history, on the basis that it was initially serviced 1-2k miles after it should have been?
 
  DON'T SEND ME PM'S!!
Just had a look through my service book, it's an 04 Clio 182 and according to the book it has been serviced as follows -

17/01/2006 - 13,272

23/04/2007 - 25,314

27/07/2008 - 36,696

07/07/2009 - 40,318

11/05/2011 - 51,899

22/02/2013 - 62,227

I take it this wouldn't be classed as a "full" service history, on the basis that it was initially serviced 1-2k miles after it should have been?

nearly 2 years between services means it's not adhering to correct intervals. 12k miles or 12 months, whichever comes first

Seen 2 cars just recently that have very obvious (to me) fraudulently stamped service books. One former trader on here sold a car and stamped the book for services nearly 2 years before they existed LOL. Another was a 197, 3 stamps in a row black pen, blue pen, black pen to make it look like they were done at different times. Receipts mean everything!!
 

DrR

ClioSport Club Member
  VW Golf GTD
Belt changes, brake fluid, coolant etc all need to be done to.
 
  FF Clio 182
The car has 55k miles (Give or take) and service 6 was on 18/09/2011 at 53,308 miles, It is not 2013 so it has done less than 3k in 2 years? Or am i not seeing it correctly?
 
The car has 55k miles (Give or take) and service 6 was on 18/09/2011 at 53,308 miles, It is not 2013 so it has done less than 3k in 2 years? Or am i not seeing it correctly?

Yep .... but then I have cars that have done less than that so always possible
 
  FiestaST(ex 172 Cup)
Since when is the service interval 12k and 1 year? It's 12k and 2 years.

Also in my opinion there is no problem if the car had a late cam belt change. The engine didn't go bang so it's entirely unaffected. That's not to say I wouldn't look elsewhere but it's hardly the end of the world.

On the mileage mentioned above, my car was garaged for 8 months because I didn't need it. It did 2000 miles between MOTs, it does happen.
 
Since when is the service interval 12k and 1 year? It's 12k and 2 years.

Also in my opinion there is no problem if the car had a late cam belt change. The engine didn't go bang so it's entirely unaffected. That's not to say I wouldn't look elsewhere but it's hardly the end of the world.

On the mileage mentioned above, my car was garaged for 8 months because I didn't need it. It did 2000 miles between MOTs, it does happen.


one of my cars for 2 years has had the mileage to the mot station and back , and no more .......
 


Top