Simple Answers from Traditions Auto Service in Scarborough : Severe Service

Question:

What is a severe service maintenance schedule?

Traditions Auto Service Answer:
When I was a kid in, Sunday meant having a bath, getting dressed for church and then hanging up my Sunday clothes as soon as we got home. Mom didn’t have to wash those clothes but once a month or so.

Now, Saturdays were another story entirely: catching lizards, splash contests in mud puddles and crawling through the brush. Those clothes went straight into the laundry basket. My Sunday clothes, easy use. My Saturday clothes, hard use. They required a different laundry schedule. Severe service maintenance schedules are kind of like that for Scarborough drivers. “Normal” driving has a regular schedule; “hard” driving has a severe service schedule. Service intervals are shorter on the severe schedule.

Most owner’s manuals will describe severe service as:
Stop and go driving
Short trips
Low speed driving
Extreme hot or cold
Dusty conditions
Carrying heavy loads
Towing

For most Scarborough people, some “severe” driving is part of their everyday routine. You can talk to your Traditions Auto Service service advisor about how you drive around the Scarborough area and see if your routine is closer to the regular or severe definitions and adjust your service intervals for things like oil changes, transmission and cooling system service.

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Traditions Auto Service
550 Warden Ave
Scarborough, ON M1L 3Z3
416-691-5397
www.traditionsauto.com

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