Difference between a small service and a full service?

[spaced]

Can anyone explain the differences? What is checked in one and not another, what is changed in one and not the other?

TIA

[Loosehead]

Depends on the car. The owners manual will have a table specifying what get's carried out when.

[boro1986]

Maybe im been stupid here but a service is a service aint it you cant ask specifically what u want or can u????

[Loosehead]

A service is taylored for the car concerned, there are different things at different intervals for different cars. There is a certain amount of commonality but I wouldn't say "a service is a service".

[spaced]

its an old minibus, and the service booklet was lost yrs ago

[stevie58]

a small service is when nothing is changed but all checked and topped up ie oil, antifreeze, brake fluid, scooshers and a general look over. but a full service is all of the above and new oil and filters wheels off and clean/adjust brakes new spark plugs. but all vehicels are difrent thats just a general description.

[clancyblob]

Stevie58 is right. Check your owners handbook, probably in the back pages. There is the basic top-up-and-check service about half yearly or 6000 miles, and the main annual service where filters, plugs, oil etc is changed. There are also items that need replacing/adjusting at longer intervals, probably new cam-belt every 60,000 miles, brake fluid every 2 years, etc. In my 35 years of driving, regular servicing costs money, but you generally have reliable and safer motoring, and I usually get 120 - 180,000 miles out of a car - usually second hand too - and still sell it as runner with MOT!