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When you're ready to bring your vehicle in, our friendly experts at ATS Euromaster will provide you with a straightforward and reliable auto service. How Often Should You Service Your Car? Often, however, the paperwork associated with the servicing of a car can be missing. That can be for all sorts of legitimate reasons, such as losing it during a house move or being mislaid by an elderly relative who is no longer driving. However, if the car has been fully maintained by an official dealership, it’s a sign that the car is more likely to be mechanically sound. It’s certainly not a guarantee, but it’s a good start.

In this guide, we cover the importance of a car’s service history when buying or selling a used car, and how you can obtain missing service history records for a car. Why is car service history important? With modern cars being heavily controlled by the onboard computer systems that regulate almost every aspect of the vehicle, it also means that the software is kept up to date –just like your phone or home computer.It’s similarly common for servicing at main dealers to stop as a car gets older and is worth less, with those running older cars often saving money by taking them to an independent garage. Owners of new or nearly new cars tend to return to their main dealer when their vehicle is due a service. It's a sensible approach because you can be sure it'll be serviced correctly, receive the latest software updates or minor recall rectification work and - as a result - will gain that all-important main dealer service stamp in the service book. Fairly simply, a car with an FSH is one that has been maintained at every required interval since it was built, with work carried out either by a manufacturer directly or by an approved service centre. Only you know just how safe your position is and whether you could obtain another similar job should things turn sour. You should only consider paying extra money for a used car with a full service history if it has been done by the manufacturer official service centres. If the servicing has been done by a non-approved garage, it’s not worth any extra money –regardless of what a car salesman tells you. How much is a full service history worth?

If you’ve been looking at used cars, you may have come across the phrase ‘full service history’. It’s used throughout the pre-owned car market, and shows that a vehicle has been well maintained. But as a service advisor I have been asked to stamp the service books on the cars having these services as I would with a maufacturer's service, I am not comfortable with this so have been stamping them but hand writing that it is only and oil and filter service to which my boss has taken it that I am being "awkward" and told me "I am of no use to him as a service advisor if I am not willing to follow his command".The service history should include any invoices and paperwork from the repair centre as well as the service book, which must be stamped by the technician after every service. If the vehicle missed one service, was taken to a non-approved service centre or is missing a stamp, then it would have a partial service history.

Your service book is a document that every car comes with and should have for the duration of its life. It’s what’s used nationally to officially record – with a stamp – services, including details of any and all maintenance carried out along with the date and mileage of the vehicle at the time. Not only is it important for you to have it when you’re using the car on a daily basis, but it’s also a good thing if you’ve got it to hand when you’re trying to sell the car. Do Cars Still Have Service Books?You should always be given an itemised invoice whenever your car is serviced, which lists exactly what work has been done and how much each job cost. Make sure you keep this information somewhere safe so you can refer to it again later if needed and so that it’s there when you want to sell the car. This has come about for a couple of reasons. Firstly, customers are notorious for forgetting to take their service books with them when they take the car in for a service so it can be difficult for a dealership or garage to know what work has been done and when. If a car has not been serviced on time, every time, or has been taken to a non-approved garage for a service, then it would be considered to have a partial service history. Dates, this is the one where fakers trip up. When fakers, fake history, quite often they don’t due to maths involved for it to pass as legit. To keep your warranty valid, you’ll also need to ensure approved parts are used and the correct jobs are undertaken. While you can get your car serviced anywhere, going to a main dealer will ensure this is the case.