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TIPS
AND ADVICE
Maintenance
Your vehicle has
been
designed
to help
keep maintenance requirements
to a mini-
mum.
However,
a certain
amount
of regular main-
tenance is still necessary to assure your ve-
hicle's safety, economy and
reliability.
dil:-,
By regularly maintaining your
~ vehicle, you help make sure that
emission standards are
maintained,
thus minimizing adverse effects on
the environment.
For
detailed vehicle maintenance
consult
your Maintenance booklet.
See Booklet
1.1
.
Under difficult operating
condi-
tions,
for example at extremely
low out-
side temperatures,
in
very
dusty
regions.
when towing a
trailer
very frequently, etc
..
some service work
should
be
performed
between
the
intervals specified.
This
applies
particularly
to:
•
Oil
changes,
and
cleaning
or
replacing
the air
filter.
Important considerations for
you and your
vehicle:
The increasing use of
electronics.
sophisti-
cated
fuel injection
and
emission control
systems, and the
generally
increasing
tech-
nical
complexity of
today's
automobiles.
have
steadily reduced the
scope
of mainte-
nance and
repairs
which can be carried
out
by
vehicle
owners.
Also, safety
a
nd
en-
vironmental
concerns place ve ry strict
limits
on the nature of
repairs
and adjust-
ments
to
engine
and
transmission
parts
which
an
owner can
perform.
1
Maintenance. adjustments and
repairs usu-
ally
require
special
tools.
testing
devices
and
other
equipment
available
to
specially
trained
workshop personnel
in
order to
as-
sure
proper performance.
reliability
and
safety of the vehicle and
its
many
systems.
Improper
maintenance.
adjustments and
repairs
can impair
the
operation
and
reliabil-
ity of
your vehicle and even
void
your ve-
hicle warranty.
Therefore. proof
of servicing
in
accordance
with
the maintenance
sched-
ule may be a condition
for upholding
a pos-
sible
warranty
claim
made
within
the
war-
ranty
period.
Above all, operational safety
can
be ad-
versely affected. creating
unnecessary
risks for
you and your passengers.
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