Cars doing a low mileage still require all the specified items carrying out at the specified time interval, if you don't you will invalidate your warranty.
Cars doing a low mileage tend to do more short journeys from cold, these contaminate oil faster and short urban trips tend to require more brake usage as well.
Look at the maths, if you do 5000 miles a year at 40 mpg you will spend about £750 on fuel, your RFL will be £125 and insurance a minimum of £250, total cost £1,125 minimum. On top of that there is the depreciation you are suffering as well. What are you going to save by skimping on servicing, £100 a year if you miss certain checks, £250 a year if you miss a service entirely. Unless you go to a Kia dealer every year the body checks will not get carried out and your 5 year paint/12 year body warranties will lapse.
Sorry Skidlid,
I fear my posting cannot have been all that clear. I tried to ask if an actual car mechanic when working at my four year old Pro Cee’d looking at my low yearly mileage would possible ignore Kia’s “Must Do “servicing instructions and use his common sense. As Wry Cuda points out in his informative entry it does make sense to ignore changing spark plus after only ten thousand miles. I would presume the Kia guarantee, generous as it is, took into account all the options and chose methods to service their cars thinking of more like twenty thousand miles per year.
My thoughts are possible clouded by my passed sixty years of motoring and always using my one year guarantee, then servicing my cars myself to save garage costs. In those days money was tight so I changed my oil more regularly to keep the engine and gearbox in good heart, changed the filters more often, watched what I knew to be important, such as steering and braking and kept my cars for an average of nine to ten years.
I think my last sentence explained I fully realised in no way would Kia ever make allowances for my low yearly mileage. I was quite happy to pay the full costs and help balance their books.
Immediately after my first Mot examination full pass at my Kia agency I troubled myself to examine my brake disks due to an assumed fall off in breaking efficiency. My brake disks were badly worn and corroded to the point where I would assume less than two thirds braking surface area was left. My mileage at this time was well under twenty thousand. I skimmed the disks back to a clean surface, changed the shoes and at my next service went to a garage I was sure I can trust. My idea with the Kia and its seven year warranty was, at eighty one years of age I would no longer have to get out and get under my car. It was a mistake that I acknowledge and I hope your agency practices what it preaches and you will be happy to remain with them.