That is a bit of an ambiguous question but according to Kwik-Fit, millions of motorists are on a collision course with a huge repair bill after its research found that one in eight, British car owners are failing to get their car serviced on a regular basis.
Worse still 761,000 (2%) motorists said that they never service their car.
Of those motorists that service their cars irregularly - 2.5 million (8%) of motorists only service their car when they feel it needs it, 1.3 million (4%) do so when they can afford to with a further 331,000 (1%) servicing only when they remember to. This seems to ignore the servicing intervals provided with each car.
51% of motorists that service their car irregularly said that the biggest reason to service a car is to get it through an MOT.
Only 27% of them cited safety as a reason, less still 10% said performance. And despite cars being the second biggest purchase most people make in their lives, only 3% cited ‘maintaining the car’s value’ as a good reason to get it serviced.
I think the confusion arose a few years ago it was not deemed necessary to service your car in conjunction with its annual MOT especially for drivers on low mileage. Then they forget when the last service was and so it snowballs.
Kwik- Fit have recognised this and are offering an incentive to drivers to be serviced and MOT’d at the same time.
Just like going to the beauty salon.
FemaleFirst - Jackie Violet