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Old 03-07-2013, 12:51 AM   #20
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I find that servicing every 5,000kms no matter the car is a good option in Dubai because of the dust and heat. When I bought a 5 year old Jaguar XJ8 GCC specs, I was servicing it as per dealer recommendations (roughly every 8,000kms as the computer told me too).I noticed that after 5,000kms I had the regular red alert low coolant popping up and other random messages as well.I went to AAA instead of Al Tayer and they recommended I serviced every 5,000kms and never had any red alerts or random messages after that.In fact by leaving it to the computer to decide when service was done, I ran the risk of having far more expensive service bills as a result (it happened once and that' when I switch to AAA). Just a thought.
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