Cars expensive, parts too, and the purchasing power of the population decreased. Therefore, many car owners have to look for ways to save on your “steel horse.” But it should be done carefully so as not to harm the car.
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Few people know, but you can save even service warranty cars. In recent years, “the official” do not disdain scheduled work with the parts the car owner, not only with their “brand” standing at exorbitant prices. 5-6 years ago about such loyalty could not even dream of. But times change, and the official dealers have to adjust to, because many owners “horses” left in the “garage”.
But not to be trapped, before the arrival of the planned and self-purchase of parts to go to the dealer and all specifically discuss.
Thus, the parts can be a good save. For example, motor oil, purchased in a normal automotive store, will cost much cheaper than “official”. The same applies to many pieces of hardware.
Moreover, you can even buy a non-original engine or transmission oil, and its certified counterpart with the same level of access to content of synthetic additives.
For example, take the BMW. Original Shell oil official dealers is more than 1 500 rubles per liter. And most auto shops it is sold for 200 — 300 rubles cheaper. As for aftermarket, the motor “Bavarian” can be filled, for example, Castrol EDGE 0W-40 that cost about a thousand rubles. Given that oil needs a lot, the savings will be very obvious.
The “extra” services and original spare parts
A good savings will impact the refusal of additional work, which often impose “the official”. These works are Advisory, not mandatory. And the dealer, most often, just wants to earn extra money.
It is important to know which jobs are mandatory and which can wait. All this should be specified in the purchase order.
Another option — the refusal of work that the owner can perform independently. For example, replacing the air and cabin filters. In most cars it’s easy to do, even to a person who does not understand technology. The savings will be quite significant because “the official” for those asking for an inflated amount. Besides, if you replace the filters the car flies from the guarantee. So do not be afraid.
A clear example is with the old (2005 release) the BMW X5 has a 3-litre petrol motor capacity of 231 “horse.”
For complete replacement in the power unit oil requires 8 liters. The “officials” for the Shell 1 litre BMW Quality Longlife-01 asking an average of 1 600 rubles. This means that only one oil you need to put 12 800 rubles. To this must be added the cost of the filter oil (1 500 roubles), air (about the same), the cabin (approximately 3 300 rubles) plus the cost of the work — about 4 500 roubles. It turns out, in the event you will have to spend about 23 600 rubles.
Clearly, the BMW brand is expensive, and nursing content, the X5 can be quite expensive. But still, the price planned the “official” looms high.
If you load up the original oil and filters yourself, you can save 3-3. 5 thousand rubles. God knows what amount, but it’s nice.
A different picture emerges, if we turn for help to non-original components. For example, oil Castrol EDGE 0W-40 in the automobile worth about a thousand rubles per liter, the filter will cost about 2 500 rubles. Thus it is possible to get 10-11 thousand. Well, plus the price of the “officials” — 4 500 rubles. Total: 14 500-15 500 rubles. The money to give more pleasure than a conditional 23 and a half thousand.
Nice to save on various bulbs: interior light, instrument panel, trunk, headlights and so on. If the “beacon” suddenly burns out, you don’t need to buy it from “imprint”, the more is it there to change.
For example, take the same elderly but still fighting X5. Authorized dealer “gabarito” in the rear headlight will cost about 900-950 rubles. Its replacement — another 700-800 rubles. The same bulb in the shop will cost 400 rubles, analogue — and at 200 “wood”. And as usual the service replacement will take 2-3 hundred.
And, of course, the sore spot — the cost of fuel. Many motorists spend a lot of money on gasoline or diesel fuel, because to have to go a lot. According to statistics, every year the car pulls 20 thousand kilometers. You can not even consider the “appetite” of the car, and the cost of fuel to understand — the numbers of costs in any case are great.
In this direction of saving options a little bit. You can start a less to use the car, often resorting to the services of public transport. But an avid motorist is unlikely to be able to bring four-wheeled friend. There is another radical way to sell race car and buy a runabout. But who voluntarily want to feel like a vegetable on the road? No one, yet the financial situation did not push.
