What does the research say?<\/h2>\n
The study itself was carried out by Heycar, in partnership with Honest John, and quizzed 2558 people about their cars. They found that one in five drivers (22%) have delayed or skipped their car\u2019s annual service over the past 12 months. What\u2019s more, one in ten drivers (12%) still plan to delay their vehicle\u2019s next scheduled service.<\/p>\n
No prizes for guessing why. Out of all the drivers who\u2019d skipped or delayed their service, 46% of them said it was because they were using their cars a lot less than usual. A further 13% said that they would have done, but hadn\u2019t been able to because of issues around shielding during the pandemic.<\/p>\n
The idea of 500 unserviced vehicles zooming about on Britain\u2019s roads is worrying enough on its own, but if you were to take Heycar\u2019s findings and apply it to the 32 million drivers currently in the UK, that could equate to something in the region of 7.3 million vehicles unserviced!<\/p>\n
That\u2019s just one potential estimate. Back in September of 2020, BookMyGarage.com<\/a><\/strong> suggested there could be as many as 12 million cars in the UK<\/a><\/strong> that had missed essential servicing.<\/p>\n Now, we know that at this point quite a lot of our readers might be thinking: big deal. It\u2019s not like drivers have skipped something legally mandated, like their MOT test. And that\u2019s true – while your MOT is compulsory, skipping a service isn\u2019t technically illegal in itself. However, it could leave you with an unroadworthy car, and driving one of those (knowingly or unknowingly) can definitely leave you open to prosecution.<\/p>\n Basically, one of the key reasons why servicing is so important is because it involves checking a huge range of fluids, mechanisms components that can potentially go wrong with your car, including oil and oil filters, spark plugs, fuel filters, tyres, and brake fluids. If even one of them is allowed to fall into an unsatisfactory condition, it could have a big knock-on effect on your ability to drive the car safely.<\/p>\n To avoid that scenario, the average car\u2019s service schedule generally recommends getting your car serviced once every 12 months or so, or once every 12,000 miles – whichever comes first. And of course, if your car\u2019s within its warranty period, sticking to its service schedule means you\u2019re not in danger of invalidating this warranty up until it expires.<\/p>\n But when all\u2019s said and done, we know that there are definitely still times when you won\u2019t want to shell out for a service – such as if you think your car is well on its way to giving up the ghost. The good news is; that\u2019s what we\u2019re here for at Scrap Car Network. You can count on us to get you the very best price when you choose us to scrap your car<\/a><\/strong>. All you need to do is\u00a0enter your car reg and postcode\u00a0into the fields on our site, and we\u2019ll get you an instant online quote before you can say cash for cars. It only takes a few seconds. Curious to find out how much your car is worth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Servicing a car is one of those many quite tedious but necessary costs involved in owning a car. Most of the time it doesn\u2019t give you any immediately noticeable benefit (provided your car was in broadly good shape while it went in). That means for the majority of drivers, it essentially gets grouped with MOT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":4358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n![\"Car](\"https:\/\/www.scrapcarnetwork.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Car-servicing-1.jpg\")
<\/p>\nWhy is servicing your car so important?<\/h2>\n