althanis

I have a question about scheduled maintenance. This is what the manual says: It then goes on to say that under normal use (which qualifies for me) I can expect the prompt to appear between 12,000-16,000km. If they light doesn't come on, I shouldn't exceed 16,000km or 1 year. Now, we bought the Edge brand new last summer, and my wife took it in yesterday to take off winter tires and decided that since it was at 14,000km we'd have the scheduled maintenance done even though the light hadn't come on. So we took it to the Ford dealership at Thorncrest Sherway and they were really nice. However, they put a sticker on saying that we should have the oil changed again at 22,000km (that's after 8,000km of driving) or in October (after 6 months). So finally, the question: why are they saying we should have the oil changed so quickly? Is it the type of oil they used this time? Did we totally misunderstand the schedule and we shouldn't have waited for 14,000km to have it maintained?

I think something that needs to be considered is that vehicles are becoming more and more complicated. This means it's more likely that something will go wrong, and repairing them will be more expensive. Comparing costs to repair something five plus years ago, or failure rates five plus years ago, isn't the same if you're buying a brand new Edge today with all the cool tech stuff.