The importance of servicing and maintaining your Honda at a Honda dealership

With household budgets under more pressure than ever before many motorists are tempted to cut corners in terms of vehicle maintenance and servicing or look for more affordable options. This can lead consumers to question the benefits of servicing their vehicle at an OEM dealer.

At the same time the automotive aftermarket is putting a lot of effort into trying to attract motorists to service and maintain their vehicles at non-franchised dealers.

While skipping a vehicle service or having your vehicle serviced or maintained at an independent workshop may seem like an easy way to save some money, it could cost you in the long run.

OEM parts such as those supplied by Honda dealerships or fitted in Honda workshops are guaranteed to be the same parts that your vehicle was fitted with when it left the factory and fitment of such parts will ensure that your vehicle continues to function as it was designed to do.

Having your vehicle serviced or maintained at a Honda dealership means that it is in the best possible hands. High tech diagnostic equipment allows technicians to identify current faults accurately and locate and potential problems before they become major issues.

The technicians doing duty in the workshops at Honda dealerships are specifically trained to work on Honda vehicles, with regular training on the latest models. They know your car best and have access to the correct equipment and tools to ensure that your vehicle is properly repaired, serviced and maintained.

Honda workshops will only fit genuine parts and fill your vehicle with approved fluids. These parts are subjected to stringent testing processes by the same engineers that designed, built and tested your car originally to ensure that they meet Honda’s high quality and safety performance standards under a variety of environments. These components are the same specification with which your car was built and are covered by their own warranty.

The work and parts fitted to your car are covered by a warranty so in the unlikely event of any issues occurring after work was carried out on your car at a Honda dealership, the dealership will sort out any issues related to the work done as a priority.

A well-developed booking system and sufficient stockholding of parts ensures that in most cases, Honda dealers will be able to carry out required service and maintenance within one working day, meaning less time without your vehicle.

Honda dealers will also assist with shuttle services, that drop you at home or work and collect you again in the afternoon, ensuring a completely pain free experience.

Occasionally manufacturers discover problems with specific vehicle makes, models or model years and will issue a special recall notice and repair solution for that issue. Honda dealerships will have all the information about these programs on hand and will carry out any fixes or updates free of charge when you book your car in for a service. If the issue is safety critical, owners will be requested to book their vehicle into the workshop as a priority.

The majority of new Honda vehicles are sold with a service plan, which is time and mileage based, meaning that for the prescribed period service parts and labour will be free of charge.

A full-service history at a Honda dealership will also be a provision of maintaining the validity of your warranty. A full-service history at the OEM dealer will ensure that you get the best price for your car when it does come to sell as this record will showcase to potential buyers that your Honda was well cared for during its life

The best way to make sure that your Honda continues to perform the way it did when it rolled off the showroom floor and that it gives you many years of hassle-free service is to have it correctly looked after by the experts that do duty in the Honda workshop environment.