The first maintenance of a vintage senior car this year was in January, with a mileage of 186000 kilometers; in July, the mileage reached 196000 kilometers, and the second maintenance was carried out; today, on December 25, the mileage reached more than 205000 kilometers, and the third maintenance was carried out. Maintenance three times a year, this is the first time in nearly 17 years of use of senior high school:

The other car, 2.0T, has driven less than 8,000 kilometers this year. Although Aohu has more power, better control, and a stronger grip on the ground, it is still a bit boring to drive an automatic car:

The 2.0 senior year of high school, which was a household “small steel gun” in those years, has increasingly become my preference to experience the fun of using both feet and fighting with each other, so there are a lot of senior four driving this year:

Today, I sent the senior four to the 4S store of Yizhong FAW-Volkswagen in Kunming for maintenance. I joked with the pick-up staff (all old acquaintances) that the old car was maintained again. This is a car that has not yet been decided in terms of quality and reliability compared with my colleague’s Toyota Corolla at the same time. Ha, we should take good care of it, strive for golf, win for senior four, and win for FAW-Volkswagen. Specific maintenance content I told the technician, can be changed without asking my advice, just replace it, and specifically pointed out, can I change the three-way catalytic converter, the technician said that your car exhaust gas is good every time, which one? I said, then change the clutch plate for me. The technician said that your car clutch does not skid. What is it like? I said yes, listen to you, then will not change; I am not reconciled, I also proposed physical cleaning throttle, intake manifold and fuel injection nozzle carbon accumulation, the technician said, you only cleaned 150000 kilometers of maintenance for the first time, at that time, the carbon accumulation is not very serious, now there is no need for omni-directional cleaning, just clean the throttle. I said, let’s do it according to your opinion. By the way, check the air filter, air-conditioning filter and brake pads, and change what needs to be changed. As a result, as soon as I opened the throttle, the front was very clean, and the back was only a little bit of carbon accumulation. The technician said that there was no need to clean at all. I said that since it had been removed, let’s clean it. The latter maintenance will take some time, so I went to the sales hall of Yizhong 4S store and took a look at the newly listed high eight to pass the time. To tell you the truth, when Gao Ba first appeared on the market, when I first saw his shape on the Internet, I didn’t like it very much, but after the thunderous “boom” of the media, I slowly accepted the appearance of Gao Ba. Golf belongs to the beauty of the second eye, my senior high school car. When I first saw it on the market that year, I didn’t like its shape. I wondered why it was so ugly, and my front face was silly! See too much, especially to see the honest materials, solid workmanship, household small steel gun performance (at that time, not now), slowly accept and like its shape. My colleague who bought 1.8 handsets of Bora (which is still on hand) told me not long ago that your senior four is more dynamic and neat than Bora and can stand the test of time. Sitting in the exhibition hall into the eighth car, the interior workmanship is not as exquisite as the fourth and sixth grade, the plastic feeling is too heavy, and the electronic shift handle of “orchid finger” is not very fond of, there is no sense of existence. I will not sell high four to buy high eight. Maybe after a year or two, when the most powerful weapon of golf, High 8R, is introduced into domestic sales, I will gradually accept its interior decoration and the shift handle of “Orchid finger”. Maybe I am old, and I still feel that the interior of the fourth year of high school is good-looking and textured, and the golf-shaped shift handle has a good grip and is easy to use:

After watching the eighth grade, I went back to the maintenance workshop, and the fourth year of high school has left the station, and the maintenance is complete:

The maintenance contents are as follows: first, the replacement of 4 litres of full synthetic oil dedicated to FAW-Volkswagen 5W-30; second, the replacement of four spark plugs; third, cleaning the throttle; fourth, the aging of a vacuum tube next to the engine intake manifold that absorbs oil steam (this is free); fourth, the night light of the ashtray is off and repaired free of charge.
Air filter, air-conditioning filter is not too dirty, only blow cleaning, indicating that the air quality in Yunnan is relatively good; brake pads are still thick and do not need to be replaced. The total maintenance cost is 939 yuan.
150000 km ago maintenance, has been using FAW-Volkswagen 5W-40 special semi-synthetic oil, 4S store requires 7500 km one maintenance, but I still follow 10, 000 km one maintenance, oil consumption is slightly larger than the current 5W-30 full-synthetic special oil, just finished maintenance (plus 4 liters), the oil level is slightly higher than the upper and lower limit of the oil ruler, 10, 000 km later, the lower limit is slightly higher Now using 5W-30 special full synthetic oil, just finished the maintenance (also add 4 liters), the oil level is also slightly higher than the middle of the upper and lower limit of the oil ruler, 10,000 kilometers later, dropped to the middle of the upper and lower limit, oil consumption is minimal.
After completing the maintenance, fill the car with gas (an old car with a mileage of more than 17 years and a mileage of more than 200000 kilometers can still easily run more than 800 kilometers without calling the police, which is similar to the fuel consumption of a new car):

This senior four is very plain and doesn’t have any structural components or exterior enclosures to modify, because I don’t like modified cars. The only change is that the halogen low light lamp was changed to Osram LED double lens headlamp a few months ago, and from then on, we bid farewell to the “candle” lighting of the senior four:

Maybe some drivers will ask, isn’t it too troublesome to inspect a car that is more than 15 years old? Here we need to talk about Kunming’s car environment. Compared with harsh areas such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, where car purchases require lottery numbers and car use restrictions, Kunming is a city with a very friendly environment for car purchases. Without lottery numbers, as long as you have rice, you can buy as many cars as you can; there is no limit to travel; car review is the old standard for old cars and the new standard for new cars. For me, who likes cars and “playing with cars”, I like Kunming very much. In addition, this senior four car is in top-class condition. Every time I go to the inspection, the exhaust gas test will pass easily in one go, and I don’t need to find a “scalper”. However, the two trials in one year are really a bit annoying. But I have an idea now. I handed the car to the owner of the car wash shop near my door to help me inspect it and paid a hard fee of 100 yuan (the boss is very familiar with the inspection station. He said that as long as he went for the inspection, he could pass it no matter what. He has a classic Toyota Camry, which is 30 years old and has a mileage of more than 400,000 kilometers. It is in superb condition). The car review fee in Kunming is also cheaper than that in many other cities. The inspection fee for imported cars is 100 yuan, and the fee for high-tech joint venture cars is 160 yuan. Among them, the inspection fee for half a year is 125 yuan, plus the 100 yuan hard work fee given to the owner of the car wash shop, which is acceptable. I am also happy and too lazy to queue up, so that I can use the classic car without worry.