New Honda First Service Visit - Maintenance Minder Lights In Your Dash Great, you have a brand new Honda car, truck, crossover/SUV or minivan! Now, stay on top of your vehicle's service needs. Don't worry, it's super-easy. But it's essential for a bunch of reasons. It keeps your car running smooth. Plus, it keeps you safe on the road. It saves you on gas and avoids costly repair bills down the road! Now, if you've ever wondered what happens to your new Honda during its first service then you're not alone. So my friend Ruben Serna, the head of Rock Honda's parts and service department invited me over for a step-by-step rundown of the process. Ruben walked me through a Honda Civic Type R's first service. (That's Honda's street-legal race car.) Continue reading or click play below for all the details. ***Transcription*** Recorded @ Rock Honda in Fontana, CA New Honda First Service Ruben: Usually Maintenance Minder is going to come on between four and seven thousand miles. The light will come on and it's actually going to have an oil life, so when you get down about 15%. We perform a multi-point inspection with a two-man team, they will inspect everything from top to bottom. It's kind of a parallel process to save time. We know our guests here want to get their car in and out. "Maintenance Minder is going to come on between four and seven thousand miles." Tom: Welcome to iDriveSoCal, the podcast all about mobility from the automotive capital of the United States, Southern California. Tom Smith here and I am joined by my good buddy Ruben Serna out at Rock Honda in the Los Angeles suburb of Fontana, California. And we're at Rock Honda right now. Ruben: Yes, we are. Thank you for having me. Tom: Thank you. Ruben: Excited to be here. Ruben Serna directing ServiceTom: Thank you as always for joining the podcast. Love you guys out here at Rock, your fantastic partners of the show. We love working with you. I love the name that you gave today's podcast, Behind the Wrench. Ruben: Behind the Wrench, yeah. Tom: Behind the Wrench. That was Ruben's brainchild. The premise of this podcast is that, you know hey our cars are really smart these days and we've done a couple of podcasts already as far as winterizing your car and summer-izing your car- Ruben: Sure. Tom: And while there are certain things that you can do to winterize or summer-ize your car. The cars are so smart these days if you point it out numerous times, they're going to tell you what they need and when they need it. Ruben: Correct. Tom: And those are called Maintenance Minders. Get To Know Your Honda Maintenance Minders Ruben: Yes, the Maintenance Minder. Tom: So, you know, the Maintenance Minder comes on. My car is new, I bought my Rock Honda and we've already gone through this process with taking some pictures. Type R Enters Service Bay And for those of you that are automotive enthusiasts, you're going to want to check out these pictures because we did the pictures with a, it was either 2018 or 2019 Honda Type R. Ruben: Yes. Tom: The Civic Type R which is a little Honda race car that's in such hot demand. But, so we want to go through the steps of what happens to the car when you bring it in for that first service. Right? I bought my Rock Honda, in this case it was a Civic Type R and you know hey that's a high-performance vehicle. Ruben: Sure is. Tom: Is that... is the maintenance of my first maintenance.
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