The list of works required for each maintenance, and the frequency of these works, are recorded in the service book attached to each vehicle sold. It is designed primarily for service workers who receive your car without knowing its characteristic features that have arisen during operation; they must prepare it for further reliable operation. Your task is to know the scope of work of the service department and make sure that they are carried out. It is too little.
From the very beginning, you must indicate in the application not only the maintenance, but also give a list of comments that arose during operation, tell about the nature of your «friend». In this case, service workers will already have a concrete idea of what they should pay attention to. And in order to know what happened to the car, you must record all these comments in your notebook - it used to be called a logbook.
Whenever it comes to our car service, it is associated with fraud, dishonest work and loss of money.
But we ourselves created this view. Firstly, when purchasing a car, we forgot to calculate the cost of its maintenance. And it can approach the cost of the car. Secondly, turning the steering wheel, we do not pay attention to everything else, in particular, to what our «Friend», and we can not clearly say about his illnesses.
At present, service stations are a whole range of different services, and the old service stations with their shortcomings are a thing of the past. They were replaced by diagnostic stands that allow you to find out the operation of almost any part of the car. This is a highly qualified service personnel who knows not only modern cars, but also diagnostic equipment. A modern car service enterprise provides the following services:
- pre-sale preparation;
- warranty service and repair;
- maintenance according to service book coupons;
- post-warranty repair, body work, body painting, engine overhaul;
- anti-corrosion treatment;
- installation of air conditioners;
- installation of gas equipment;
- installation and repair of injection systems;
- complete vehicle diagnostics;
- tuning hinged and electrical equipment;
- installation of alarm and audio systems;
- glass tinting;
- acceptance of used cars in exchange for new ones.
That is, if you purchased «top ten», then this company is able to service it with the most modern diagnostic equipment and, if necessary, adjust (tune) and repair it.
«Ten» warranty vehicle. According to the warranty regulations at VAZ, the factory warranty for this car is 12 months without mileage restrictions.
In law «On consumer protection» the buyer is deprived of the right to make claims to the manufacturer for the quality of the goods (both during the warranty and after) in three cases:
- 1. If the cause of the defect is force majeure (earthquake, volcanic eruption, etc.);
- 2. If the breakdown occurred as a result of the actions of third parties (hooligans, inept mechanics, etc.);
- 3. If the damage occurred due to violations of the operating rules.
When buying a car, the buyer may be asked to sign a purchase agreement «dozens», which may contain other reasons for which the buyer is deprived of the right to present claims to the plant.
If you have been illegally deprived of the warranty, contact the factory with a claim (registered mail with notification), demanding to eliminate the defect of the car free of charge and indicating that the warranty company refused to do this for such and such a reason (loss of service book, violation of warranty rules that you did not know about, etc.).
If after 20 days your claims are not eliminated, file a lawsuit in the court at the place of residence. It is better to entrust the protection of your interests in court to a professional lawyer.
Engine Diagnostics
In the previous sections, it was said about the advantage of the fuel injection system, it was noted that electronic injection made it possible to automate the diagnosis of engine operation, the data that the sensors give out go not only to the on-board computer, but also to the diagnostic device, where its parameters are compared with the standard laid down to the memory of the computer installed in the instrument. The result in a form convenient for analysis is displayed on the monitor display, the computer gives a list of possible malfunctions. The diagnostic tool does the following:
- processes information from the injection system control computer to the diagnostic connector;
- checks the operation of the ignition system; pressure value in the throttle space; composition of exhaust gases;
- controls the work of the piston group;
- operates in manual mode when it is necessary to analyze the control signal coming from the sensors. And the specialist decides on its result.