The dealer will do more maintenance than necessary if you let them. They're
trying to make money off you. The most famous overkill maintenance item is
to tell the customer that oil must/should be changed every 3000 miles.

Not so. Trust your manual.

On the other hand, unless your car is using synthetic oil, 10k miles is on
the high side. So, is synthetic oil used in your car's engine?

"Jerzy" <javaguy1974@hotmail.com> wrote
> I own Civic LX 2005. According to the Honda service book the first
> service is after 10k miles or 1 year and the subsequent service is
> after 20k miles or 1 year. In both cases the engine oil is replaced.
> Today, I had my first car maintenance (~9500k miles) and the oil was
> replaced (first time), tires rotated etc. However, they want me to come
> back to change oil again after 12500k miles, which is way before the
> second maintenance is due. Is that normal? According to the service
> book the next oil replacement is not neeed until 20k miles or 1 year
> whichever comes first. I'm confused. Thanks.
>