So, in essence, because you don't own the lease cars and pay the dealer profits up front with the lease, you feel that servicing them properly is no longer of any importance to you.
That's fine as far as it goes, but it's why I hate to consider buying second hand cars that have been leased. Godfrey On Jan 8, 2008, at 8:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I do all that and more on my 55 BelAir Convertible. I even wash the > underside by hand with Fantastik and rags every 1000 miles or so. > But my lease cars get the oil changed every 20,000 miles, whether > they need it or not:-)/ Period. In truth, I don't do it myself. I > go to quick-change oil place, which are still way cheaper than the > dealer. About twenty dollars. The rest of the maintenance schedule > is truly unnecessary for the first 50,000 miles, if you're not > keeping the car. Much of it is unnecessary regardless. Today's cars > are amazingly self sufficient. But service is a big part of dealer > profits. Hence, the maintenance schedulse. (Changing ATF is the one > that gets me chuckling the most. ) > Paul -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
