Just wanna survey which car are most maintance free.
Pls state your car age and type after vote. The $$ spend only for REPAIR, not enhancement like adding turbo/change rim/spoiler/mp3 speaker.

This post has been edited by ychwang: Feb 3 2007, 06:56 PM

is it only wear n tear stuff or including REPAIR after accidents?

repair? or is it regular maintenance?

I think what you meant is periodic maintenance, right ? Like every 5000Km

including change
wear out tire, driveshaft, engine oil, battery, spark plug.

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Added on February 3, 2007, 8:10 pmregular maintance consist of
timing belt, driveshaft, engine oil, tyre, service brake, powersteering, battery.

This post has been edited by ychwang: Feb 3 2007, 08:10 PM

sh*t...pressed null vote wrongly...but i spend about rm1000 per year for regular service.....if change timing belt that year will add about rm1000.....if change tyres that year....add another rm1000

No car is maintenance free.

5000km oil change interval, replacement of brake pads, alignment of wheels,
filters, worn out parts etc etc etc.

actualy 500 enuf la,.. change engine oil, filter and such.. but i that year ur tyire already join 'skinhead' than need few buck more...

damn, i just spend RM400++ for
- service car , RM64
- change spark plug & cable RM193
- change steering rubber, alignment, chamber screw RM170

and now i start to heard a sound from my driveshaft even on straight road.

The bigger the car, the higher the maintenance fees..just my two cents

very true......but some of the big cars....its worth it......

but compared to proton cars.....the ori spare parts are equally as expensive than the ones for imported car.......and the quality is not very good either......so that;s why many will resort to chop shop or taiwan stuff......but this is still bearable....what is worse is the shops that con you from these things.....you ask for proton ori but the b@st@rd give you FAKE stuff......written bosch but fake ones......some how this usually happens to proton cars....i have not heard or such cases on japan/korean/conti/us or even perodua.....

i was even told that some of the proton bosch parts even got grades like handphone housing...example is my iswara headlamp....i changed both sides ori bosch but eventually found out that those are 3rd grades ones.....there are 1st and 2nd grades ones and the ori that comes with the car is the 1st grade ones....the light now is not very bright due too poor reflector quality.....

p/s - this is not bashing proton.....its just to enlighten on the different quality of material even though sometimes the shop claims the parts are ori