Maintenance Costs Study
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itna deti hai? – that’s MAINTENANCE COSTS STUDY something everyone MAINTENANCE wants to know, but K how much do you PDI 90K 15K 75K 60K 30K 45K 7.5K 1.5K 1.5K Kms 120K 135K 105K 150K 37.5K 22.5K 67.5K 52.5K 97.5K 82.5K 112.5K 127.5K spend on the SN Operation 142.5K maintenance of your car? Service Months 0 2 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48 54 60 66 72 78 84 90 96 102 108 114 120 bills may only come every few Check Rubber months, but they can be big and Boots, Rubber 0-60,000 seat, Dust cover & they all add up. Bushes for dam- km age & replace if 7.5K / 7 required (Suspen- ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● So, to give you an idea of just 6M sion). Driveshaft - how much you’d spend maintaining Rubber boot, any cracks, Oil seep- your car, we’ve designed our first- age observed – ever Maintenance Cost Study. And Replace or rectify. Check for all bolts 7.5K / 8 ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● it’s not just the cost of spares or & nuts (Tighten). 6M one service alone that we’ve Engine (Diesel) analysed, but the total cost of Change engine oil 15K / 1 ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● service parts, their service life, the and Oil filter. 12M labour rates, as well as the service IN HOW MUCH? Drain water from 7.5K / 2 ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● intervals of each car, extrapolated Fuel Filter Bowl. 6M over 60,000km. Replace fuel filter 15K/ 3 ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● We bring you an exhaustive study on the overall cost of For most owners, this would cartridge. 12M come up at around the five-year Check AC & alter- maintenance of cars over a 60,000km, five-year period. nator belt condi- mark, and so this study will give 15K / 4 tion visually, re- ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 12M you a very good insight of the place if found damage. Saumil Shah and Sergius Barretto cost you’d incur over a typical crunch the numbers. # 60K / ownership period. 5 Change coolant. ● ● 36M Over the years, our ‘Spare Parts Study’ has compared the cost of # - Kms or Months whichever occurs earlier In the best interest of your car’s health, stick to the recommended service intervals. typically consumed parts across three baskets – service, mechanical BUDGET and accident repair, thus giving you a very good insight into the likely DATSUN HATCHBACKS RENAULT MARUTI expenses you would incur. But this REDIGO KWID MARUTI ENGINE ALTO* S-PRESSO* Maintenance Cost study will give 0.8P | 1.0P 0.8P | 1.0P you a real-world usage picture. COST OF PARTS 0.8P 1.0P Air Filter METHODOLOGY 190 190 Arriving at a model that is fair and Oil Filter 174 260 118 can be uniformly applied across 118 85 Fuel Filter 90 vehicles is quite tricky though. Some 256 NA Washer Drain Plug 292 NA vehicles may have a longer service NA 40 6 interval (in kilometres) but you may Spark Plug (for entire set) 6 381 381 be called in for a service periodically, Timing Belt/ Chain 315 330 irrespective of the mileage you’ve NA 215 NA covered. And even then, some Fan Belt/ Drive Belt NA 215 brands will allow you to extend the 206 NA Coolant NA service life of certain parts if the 884 1113 Engine Oil 338 270 condition is found to be okay. 858 845 1215 Thus, in a bid to keep things Brake Fluid 1305 275 193 uniform and reduce complexity, Pollen / HVAC Filter 355 355 the study takes into account the NA 320 NA cost of the service parts, the SERVICE INTERVALS NA 1 year or 10,000km 1 year or 10,000km frequency of their change and 1 year or 10,000km 1 y 1st Service Cost (parts + labour) ear or 10,000km the cost of associated labour for 1156 1193 2nd Service Cost (parts + labour) 1306 1401 the services undertaken up to 3245 1513 4335 the 60,000km mark, as per the 3rd Service Cost (parts + labour) 4362 3626 3580 manufacturers’ recommendations. 4th Service Cost (parts + labour) 3725 3820 3245 The back end calculations 3519 5258 were enormous, as was the data 5th Service Cost (parts + labour) 5094 3245 3199 collection, and here we’d like to 6th Service Cost (parts + labour) 3619 3713 3901 thank the Federation of Automobile 4152 4477 Total Cost (up to 60,000km) 4504 Dealers Associations of India 18,418 17,156 22,720 22,894 (FADA) for their assistance extended to us. We compiled this data over a period of six months and so there may be a few differences to current prices, but all the data has been sourced from Maintenance cost per km 0.31 0.29 the manufacturers themselves. 0.38 0.38 However, while Nissan did not ALL PRICES IN RUPEES, INCLUDING TAXES, EX-DELHI |*MARUTI SUZUKItake COSTS SOURCED FROM DEALERS; TO BE USED AS ESTIMATES ONLY. part, its Datsun sub-brand ◊ NOVEMBER 2020 AUTOCARINDIA.COM 111 MAINTENANCE COSTS STUDY ∆ did. Maruti also declined to take MID-RANGE part in our study, but we managed HATCHBACKS to source the data from various ENTRY- With the budget and entry-level dealer sources, and thus the prices hatchbacks offering petrol-only should be treated as estimates. LEVEL power, the mid-range hatchback We wish all the brands did take DATSUN HYUNDAI HYUNDAI TATA MARUTI MARUTI segment is where you will find GO GRAND i10 SANTRO TIAGO CELERIO* WAGONR* part, especially since we were very HATCHBACKS the most affordable diesel. And transparent about our study and ENGINE 1.2P 1.2P 1.1P 1.2P 1.0P 1.0P 1.2P while, in the pre-BS6 era, all the its aim. COST OF PARTS cars here had diesel power, it’s now only the Nios and Figo that BUDGET Air Filter 317 184 165 602 180 192 275 come with diesel engines. The HATCHBACKS Oil Filter 229 89 89 163 85 85 90 KUV100, Swift and the Ignis are Currently, this segment consists now petrol only. of just four cars, which doesn’t Fuel Filter NA 397 397 NA 265 310 265 l One year/10,000km is the indicate a lack of interest or Washer Drain Plug NA NA NA 22 6 6 6 standard service interval in market potential, but just how this segment. cost-competitive the segment has Spark Plug (for entire set) 562 282 NA 342 315 315 800 l It’s a close fight for the top become, especially with the more Coolant NA NA NA 848 338 338 338 spot between the Hyundai and The Nios and Figo are the most affordable, with near-identical maintenance costs; they are also the only two diesel offerings. stringent safety norms and BS6 the Ford, though the Figo comes emissions standards now in place. Engine Oil 990 1368 1140 1925 1163 1305 1395 out on top in both, petrol and service at a flat rate of Rs 2,620, service, which helps it tuck PREMIUM Mass-market specialist Maruti Brake Fluid 275 NA NA 218 355 355 355 diesel guises, narrowly pipping amounting to a total of Rs 10,480. below the Maruti Swift and HATCHBACKS Suzuki has two offerings in this the Hyundai. l The Mahindra KUV100 has a Ignis, the priciest cars to service Once a segment with a fair share space – the Alto and the S-Presso Pollen / HVAC Filter NA 394 198 232 NA NA NA l Ford charges a flat rate of higher number of replacement in this segment. of diesel offerings, the premium – each with a single engine on SERVICE INTERVALS 1 year or 10,000km 1 year or 10,000km 1 year or 10,000km 1 year or 15,000km 1 year or 10,000km 1 year or 10,000km Rs 1,926 for labour from the parts, but what balances the l The two Marutis share the same hatchback segment is now largely offer, while Hyundai has vacated 20,000km service, amounting Mahindra’s cost are its labour engine and other components, a petrol-only space, due to the this space with the discontinuation 1st Service Cost (parts+labour) 1219 1457 1229 3214 1254 1396 1491 to a total of Rs 9,630. Hyundai, rates. These are applicable but it is due to their preset labour advent of the strict BS6 emission of the Eon. Of course, there are no 2nd Service Cost (parts+labour) 3264 1820 1412 7132 4283 4425 4520 on the other hand, charges from the 30,000km service charges that there is a slight norms. Hyundai, Maruti, Honda diesel engines to be found here. for labour from the 30,000km onwards, averaging Rs 1,895 per difference in their total costs. and Volkswagen have all been ◊ l All cars in this segment have a 3rd Service Cost (parts+labour) 2989 4261 3825 8251 3673 3815 3910 one-year/10,000km service interval. 4th Service Cost (parts+labour) 4143 4440 3843 7132 4920 5384 6002 l The Renault Kwid and the Datsun Redigo are based on 5th Service Cost (parts+labour) 2989 4077 3660 NA 3567 3709 3804 MID-RANGE the same platform and share 6th Service Cost (parts+labour) 3264 5066 4373 NA 4425 4567 4662 several parts. MAHINDRA FORD HYUNDAI MARUTI MARUTI HATCHBACKS KUV100 FIGO GRAND i10 NIOS SWIFT* IGNIS* l Both are available with the same Total Cost (up to 60,000km) 17,868 21,121 18,342 25,729 22,122 23,296 24,389 choice of engines – a 0.8-litre or ENGINE 1.2P 1.2P 1.5D 1.0P 1.2P 1.2D 1.2P 1.2P a 1.0-litre petrol – but whichever COST OF PARTS one you choose, the service costs remain constant.