2nd Service - 5400 Kms

The 2nd service went off smoothly as the first. Once again, Suzuki offers the first 3 services at home, so the service van came for this one as well.

Customary checking of the engine oil, transmission fluid (mine is an automatic transmission) vacuuming, washing, topping the battery electrolyte with distilled water, adding some coolant, brake fluid and the car was done. There were no issues to report except the weak performance of the air conditioner unit, also called the HVAC, in peak summer. I will cover more of this in another post since that is not a service issue at all.

The 3rd free service will be around 10,000 kilometers, which will also necessitate changing of the engine oil, for the first time. Almost all vehicles require first change of engine oil only after 10,000 km and some like VW even more than that.

This is unlike the earlier requirement of changing after the first 1000 km. The reason is that the engines are now primed pretty well during manufacture. So running the car for the first time does not deteriorate the engine oil. However, you are still required to be careful with your driving during the first 1000 km or so and avoid quick accelerations, heavy and sudden braking and high RPMs.

All in all it took about 1 and half hours for the entire process. And it got done at home.

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