Is mise.
At 5,000 Kms every 6 weeks you can save yourself a job and not worry the battery about charge.
An average driver does 15000 k’s / yr I suppose anything over that you get new oil.
We are trying to see the way clear for disability help with the NDIS

In the 60s I knew a bloke who had a part time job in a service station 3 nights a week doing driveway service. If he thought you were arrogant, or not smiling sweetly enough at him, he would leave you with one tyre at 15lb, but another at 60lb. I wouldn't expect he was that unusual, so if you trust driveway service, as the drink driving add says, "you're a bloody idiot".

The fact is we should never have let women learn to drive. I blame the rise of the horrible woman's lib type on this mistake we blokes made.

My lady has not opened a bonnet, or checked a tyre in the last 40 years. Fortunately I occasionally drive her car, & often find it way past it's service kilometres.

I did once find that my youngest daughter had done 25,000 kilometres since her last oil change. She had been topping it up at least. When I did an oil change for her that afternoon she thought I'd bought the wrong oil. Hers she told me was black, not that honey coloured stuff I'd got.

As it is a female trait to not look after cars, & according to statistics, they have less, or at least less damaging accidents than we blokes, perhaps this is not such a great problem.

The US new vehicle Standard requires tyre pressure monitoring on new cars.

A useful report,

http://www.maic.qld.gov.au/forms-publications-stats/pdfs/tyre-pressure-report-final.pdf

With a 4X4 and going to remote places I am probably more conscious of the seriousness of low pressure at speed, even approaching the speed limit set for built-up suburbs. A slow leak is an automatic lost tyre, expensive! Or a rollover. As well, not many lost tyres to be entirely out of spares and in the proverbial.

However slow leaks are likely in cities too, particularly where building work is being done. Traffic is faster. It only takes one accident to ruin a day, or a life.

Perhaps the only solutio is for new vehicles to come equipped with tyre pressure sensors. A vehicle should have sensors and warnings for all essential systems and tyres are critical.

If anyone is interested, this unit @ $670.00 ex GST [LSM Technologies / Doran RV360 Tyre Monitoring System] is about the best I have found and it has two spares,

http://www.lsmtechnologies.com.au/item.cfm?category_id=2881&site_id=17&product_id=123

$Dear but cry once. I have nothing to do with the company.

579,

I'd still like to know the brand of oil that is good for 12 months driving.
No problem keeping the battery fully charged all I have to do is push the female end of the lead onto the male connection in the car.
I used to have recurring battery problems with the Statesman because in my ignorance when the battery needed replacement I followed the maker's instructions, I now have a battery fitted that exceeds what they thought was sufficient, if there was room I'd fit two batteries in parallel as the NRMA does on their service vehicles.
I'd also like to fit a fuel filter that I can see into but there are major problems attached to that.
The current filter is just in front of the fuel tank and requires the car to be jacked up to get at it.
The last time that I got a heavy dose of contaminated fuel from a service station I had to keep stopping until sufficient fuel could seep through the clogged filter to allow me to do a few more miles, fortunately i was close to home.

NDIS? Not yet, I'm still able to get about and last Saturday at the pistol range I managed,in the Rapid Fire match, to fire 6 shots in under 5 seconds from a replica single action 1873 model revolver.
Score: 3x9, 2x8 and 1x7 for a score of 40 out of 50.

Every car owner needs to be responsible over his/her own vehicle. If not properly monitored, the physical condition of the car’s interiors will deteriorate over time if not serviced regularly which might in turn cause unnecessary breakdowns. Every incident then affects other road users causing avoidable inconvenience.

"Every car owner needs to be responsible over his/her own vehicle"

Agreed and no-one is disputing that.

The question is how to make that possible and practical for everyone to do and as often as it should be done.

"The annual economic cost of road crashes in Australia is enormous—estimated at $27 billion per annum—and the social impacts are devastating"
https://infrastructure.gov.au/roads/safety/