Odometer Rewinding

[Al]

With turbo engines the oil is "abused" more, as it is used as a cooling fluid, thus is subjected to greater heat, which can break down the oil faster.

I have never owned a new turbo car so i have never seen the owners manual, but i would be extremely surprised is any manufacturer would recommend service intervals of less than 10,000km. At the end of the day they are only concerned about the car lasting for the duration of the "manufacturer's warrenty".

[Jackie]

I get mine serviced at every 10,000kms but i dont have any mods or anything. If i had some mods i'd get it serviced at every 5,000km.

Theres a decal under the bonnet that tells u most things like when u should change the air filter, oil and filter, fuel filter and what the gap size in the spark plugs should be.

I'm not saying you should do exactly what it says but use it as a guide line

[kralster]

Well i check my oil regulary, and will stick with 10,000 service intervals (that includes oil filter) and looking at the oil in there at the moment been in about 4000 k's and looks not to bad to me. Definietly not like new but not like soot either.

[noise]

I am constantly amazed that people think 10-15 year old cars have done less then 100,000 km.

Edited April 25, 2006 by noise

[wrxhoon]

I am constantly amazed that people think 10-15 year old cars have done less then 100,000 km.

Dont you mean less than 30,000 ? Plenty 10 yo cars in Japan with less than 100,000 but they dont come here, we mostly get higher k's cars here .

[noise]

Dont you mean less than 30,000 ? Plenty 10 yo cars in Japan with less than 100,000 but they dont come here, we mostly get higher k's cars here .

yeah plenty with their Speedo’s wound back anyway.

[JUNR34]

yeah plenty with their Speedo’s wound back anyway.

Im sure truely by now if you have/are going to import a car with low kms you would suspect that its speedo's might have been tampered with. Mostly people just turn a blindeye or ignore the speedo's readings. There are other ways to check the condition of the car like the condition of its interior (low kms+worn seats, steering wheel etc = speedo's been tampared with). You can also check the engine of the car (find a sticker where it state when the timing belt has been changed etc). Like most people have said in the above posts its not that hard to change electronic odometers.