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I'm Darcy LaPointe and I own Watkinsville Service Center. Okay, Darcy, if somebody is looking to save money and get more life out of their car, what is the best thing for them to do? You get on a proper maintenance plan. Obviously, under 30,000 miles are still considered new vehicles. Anything above that, they'll have a 60-90,000 mile service. You want to get involved with that. You want to get involved with someone that you can trust to bring your car to for one. And you just want to let them maintain everything. You want your fluids maintained, the tires maintained, your brakes maintained. You just want to keep an eye on everything so it doesn't get catastrophic. You just want to stay ahead of it. It's just as important as taking care of your house with this car. This car is getting you from work to vacation to wherever you need to go. It needs to be a n What are some of the things that Well, mainly with customers, It started a couple of weeks ago. They put it off. They put it off. Put it off. And the next thing We've seen cars where the brake pad is completely falling out of the car. Now the caliper itself is rubbing against it. I mean, it's just totally dangerous. If they would look into that, getting that noise looked into the first couple of days to here, you're going to be ahead of the game. You'll just be a standard brake job or whatever the case may be. Standard brake job runs about $130 to turn your rotors and new pads and lube everything correctly the further you let it go when it gets metal on metal. And then you've got rotors to replace. You have a caliper that's been, Then it could be a three or four or $500 job. It depends on how bad it is. So that's an example of how regular maintenance is going to save you money in the long run? Absolutely. When you have someone that you can trust and work on your vehicle and you go on a regular maintenance schedule, If you've got guys that are looking over, they're going to have all the records. They're going to see what they've done, what we haven't done. We do see something. We doc This is what you want to keep an eye on. We'll have it doc So the next time we see the car, we'll double check that problem and see if it's persisted or is it still fine. Don't worry about it. We'll monitor it next time you come. That's the easiest thing to do.
