Creta Service Cost

The same eleven services, to 1,00,000 km or ten years, apply to the 1.5 petrol, the 1.5 turbo petrol, the diesel and the Creta EV. The 10,000 km and 20,000 km services bill only the parts they replace; labour is charged from the 30,000 km service on.

Each figure is Hyundai's own price for the service, parts, consumables and labour together, at the labour rate it charges in Delhi, Mumbai, Gurugram, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad. Hyundai calls these prices indicative; the workshop's bill is the actual one. Cities on its other labour rates pay less for labour, and the parts cost the same everywhere.

On the 1.5 petrol, a paid service costs ₹6,985 to ₹9,583. The 1.5 turbo petrol, which the Creta N Line also uses, runs from ₹6,952 to ₹9,520, its costliest being the 80,000 km service, which Hyundai prices with new spark plugs (₹2,320), due every 75,000 km.

On the diesel, a paid service costs ₹7,653 to ₹10,075. Its engine oil costs ₹3,110 a change against ₹2,348 on the 1.5 petrol, and it has a fuel filter (₹974) to replace every 20,000 km or two years, so its first five years of services cost ₹5,438 more than the 1.5 petrol's. Each oil change fills the diesel with 4.8 litres against the 1.5 petrol's 3.8 (engine oil capacity and grade).

The Creta EV has no engine oil, oil filter or air filter to change. Its paid services cost ₹3,325 to ₹7,290, mostly labour, and its first five years come to ₹12,845, ₹16,734 less than the 1.5 petrol's. Its brake fluid is due every 20,000 km or two years and its coolant first at 1,00,000 km or ten years, then every 20,000 km or two years.

The first six services, to 50,000 km or five years, cost ₹29,579 on the 1.5 petrol, ₹29,385 on the 1.5 turbo petrol, ₹35,017 on the diesel and ₹12,845 on the Creta EV at that labour rate. All eleven, to 1,00,000 km, cost ₹69,700, ₹71,771, ₹81,849 and ₹36,503 in the same order.

Hyundai's Super Shield of Trust package prepays five years or 50,000 km of periodic services for ₹49,099 on the petrol and ₹52,499 on the diesel, prices Hyundai lists as indicative and says may vary by city category. Paid one by one at the labour rate above, the same services come to ₹29,579 and ₹35,017, so the listed package price is ₹19,520 and ₹17,482 more; the package also covers wheel alignment and balancing at each service and two value-added services, which those prices leave out. It can be bought within a year of buying the car or before the second free service.

Hyundai's maintenance schedule sets each part's interval in kilometres or years, whichever comes first. Engine oil and its filter go every 10,000 km or a year. The 1.5 petrol's air filter is due every 30,000 km or three years, the turbo's and the diesel's every 20,000 km or two years; brake fluid every 45,000 km or three years on the petrol and diesel engines. Coolant is replaced first at 1,00,000 km or five years, then every 40,000 km or two years on the petrol engines and every 30,000 km or two years on the diesel. Hyundai prices each service at its kilometres and years together, 10,000 km a year, a pace at which a part's years run out before its kilometres, so it bills brake fluid at the 30,000 km service (three years) and coolant at the 50,000 km service (five years). A car driven further in a year can reach a part's kilometre limit first and need it at a different service.

The AC filter costs ₹492 on the 1.5 petrol and turbo, ₹477 on the diesel and ₹370 on the Creta EV. The air filter costs ₹352 on the petrol engines and ₹386 on the diesel; the Creta EV has none. Both prices are the parts' own, inside the service bill.

Hyundai charges labour at five rates by city, from ₹3,480 a paid service in Delhi, Mumbai, Gurugram, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad down to ₹2,927 in cities it does not name. With the parts priced alike, the 1.5 petrol's first five years cost ₹1,659 more at the highest rate than at the lowest, a labour gap of ₹553 a service.

The first service falls at 1,500 km or two months and costs nothing. The second and third, at 10,000 km and 20,000 km, carry no labour charge but bill the parts: ₹3,013 and ₹3,505 on the 1.5 petrol, ₹3,577 and ₹5,414 on the diesel, ₹370 and ₹966 on the Creta EV. The 30,000 km service is the first with labour.