Places to get Skyline Serviced

[Guest Lojikl]

Howdy all,

I have been getting my GTST (and my old 180SX) serviced by a friend (mates rates 'n all) up in Osborne Park for a while now.

Problem is its damn far from where I live now, can anyone reccomend some places around the Vic Park/Bentley area that are good to get imports serviced at reasonable prices.

Cheers,

[adam 32]

your backyard. you should learn to change your own oil as it needs to be done every 5000ks and will save you alot of money

[Nizmo]

Vic Park is probably C-red which is in Welshpool 9356 3000

[Guest Lojikl]

Yeah, how about slightly more serious servicing.

Keeping in mind that I am a mechanical moron.

[Nizmo]

C-red is also a performance house - their website is on the net somewhere and Jeff Ash whos owns it comes on the forum every now and them under - GTAAH so u might want to ask him but they have a really good rep and they are close to where you are.

[Boostzor]

Yeh i must admit i was a bit uneasy when i did my first oil change. But for the amount u save its definately worth it.

Waht exactly get done in a big service??

as far as i know its just, oil, filter, check timing, gear/diff oil, and if its a big 1 fuel filter.

The best way to find if something is broke is to break it and fix it later. No point replacing something that had 6 mnths left in it anyway.

[adam 32]

if you want to take it somewhere for servicing take it to a normal service centre/garage. a skyline is not a spaceship, normal mechanics do know how to service them so it isnt neccessary to take your car to a performance tuner for an oil change.

[Guest Lojikl]

Cheers all.

[Boostzor]

If u do take it to a normal shop just be sure to tell em what u want so they dont go putting crappy oil filters from ryco in and stuff like that.

Any consumables should be supplied and they do the work

[adam 32]

nothing wrong with ryco filters...

[ix9]

yeh, nothing at all. ryco are tops.

just make sure to re-iterate you want synthetic oil in your car...

[bully]

Ryco filters are ok nothing wrong with them at all

[Guest aw11]

yeah, i have Ryco

<--- fan of Ryco

[NO_RSPECT]

i just bought one from nissan when i bought the iridiums cos i was feeling lazy

hehe

$90 for the plugs and filter i thought that was okay, but i am not forking for those plugs again,

how much are the plug gapping tools??

cos i got a cooler getting picked up tomorrow and i bought a bleed valve and the exhaust is sorted so i am hearing i should be getting the plugs gapped differently

can the iridiums be gapped differently??

[GTS-t VSPEC]

All plugs can be re-gapped, need a set of feeler gauges from Bunning's etc, $5.

See'ya:burnout:

[deesh]

dont buy expensive plugs, just buy cheaper ones more often, change them with your oil.

One thing to make sure is that you get the right oil grade if you take it somewhere like a local shop, i think most cars take 20W50, and it should be 10W40 or something, correct me if im wrong, but its something like that.

[Gradenko]

Originally posted by adam 32

nothing wrong with ryco filters...

Except that genuine Nissan filters are cheaper (suprisingly). and presumably made by an oem that has good quality assurance procedures in place. Toyota oil filters are also cheaper than Ryco equivalents.

NO_RSPECT, how much for the plugs alone? Cheapest I found for NGK Iridiums was $15.50ea from Auto One Cannington, so sounds like you got a good price.

deesh, changing plugs on a stock plenum'd RB25 every oil change would get tedious very, very quickly Damn that cross over pipe.

[adam 32]

its the bloody stock BOV which makes it a pain. get rid of that and it aint too bad...

[rev210]

deesh,

Regular changing of plugs is not really necessary if they are functional. However they ought to be checked every oil change. They can reveal some good information about the engines state of tune.

[Cake]

Lojikl, speak to Jash on these forums from C-Red,

Jash what sort of pricing are we looking at for minor and major servicing?