The cheapest mid-sized SUVs to service in Australia

While mid-sized and large passenger car sales have dropped off, mid-sized SUVs are doing big business here and have become the de facto family car for many Australians.

In the first eight months of 2023, the medium SUV segment was Australia’s most popular according to VFACTS sales data, with 176,062 sales.

Below, we’ve looked at the cost of servicing every mass-market mid-sized SUV in Australia over the first three years of ownership.

We’ve also included the Tesla Model Y as, though it’s pricier than many of these models, it’s a massive seller.

We’ve included links to the manufacturers’ servicing information, where available, for those looking for an in-depth list of what is included at each service.

BYD Atto 3

BYD Australia offers eight years of capped-price servicing for its Atto 3.

Pricing varies depending on how many kilometres you accumulate over 12 months.

Drivers with lower mileage are offered five years of capped-price servicing for $189 per year. For eligibility, we recommend contacting your local BYD service centre.

Below is BYD’s standard service plan for the first three years. Servicing is required every 20,000km. The first service is free and is required after three months or 5000km, whichever comes first.

12 months/20,000km24 months/40,000km36 months/60,000kmTotal$189$370$189$748

BYD doesn’t offer a service breakdown for its Atto 3 on its website. If you require this information, it’s best to contact your local BYD service centre.

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Citroen C5 Aircross

Citroen Australia offers five years of capped-price servicing as well as prepaid service plans available at the time of purchase.

Customers who purchase a pre-paid service pack for three years will pay a total of $1100.

12 months/20,000km24 months/40,000km36 months/60,000kmTotal$481$867$481$1829

Citroen Australia offers a list of what it performs at its services, which can be found here.

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Cupra Formentor

Cupra Australia offers buyers a choice of three- or five-year service packages. The three-year pack is priced at $990, while the five-year pack is $1990.

If you opt for the five-year package, you also get access to Cupra’s Concierge Service, which covers pick-up and drop-off of your vehicle for the five scheduled services provided your address is within 10km of an authorised Cupra Service Partner.

Variant12 months/15,000km24 months/30,000km36 months/45,000kmTotalVZ$487$782$556$1825VZe$469$659$537$1665V$474$649$718$1841VZx$487$645$732$1864

Cupra Australia doesn’t offer a service breakdown for its Formentor on its website. If you require this information, it’s best to contact your local Cupra service centre.

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GWM Haval H6 and H6 GT

GWM Haval Australia offers five years of capped-price servicing for its H6 and H6 GT.

Service intervals are every 12 months or 15,000km, whichever comes first. Pricing differs depending on whether your vehicle is front- or all-wheel drive.

Variant12 months/10,000km24 months/25,000km36 months/40,000kmTotalHaval H6$210$280$380$870Haval H6 AWD$210$280$480$970Haval H6 GT$225$250$400$875Haval H6 GT AWD$225$280$500$1005

GWM Haval Australia provides a breakdown of its servicing for the H6 and H6 GT on its website.

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Honda CR-V

Honda Australia offers five years of capped-price servicing across its range including the new-generation Honda CR-V.

The CR-V and ZR-V are the cheapest SUVs to service within this segment.

12 months/10,000km24 months/20,000km36 months/30,000kmTotal$199$199$199$597

Honda Australia offers a breakdown of what it performs during its services on its website, which can be found here.

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Honda ZR-V

Honda Australia offers five years of capped-price servicing across its range including the ZR-V.

The CR-V and ZR-V are the cheapest SUVs to service within this segment.

12 months/10,000km24 months/20,000km36 months/30,000kmTotal$199$199$199$597

Honda Australia offers a breakdown of what it performs at its services, which can be found here.

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Hyundai Tucson

Hyundai Australia offers lifetime capped-price servicing for the Tucson. Every 12 months if the Tuscon is serviced at a Hyundai dealership, it will also receive 12 months of roadside assistance.

Servicing varies depending on the variant. The cheapest variant to service is the front-wheel drive petrol. Servicing is required every 12 months, but intervals differ between variants which we have included below.

Variant12 months/15,000km24 months/30,000km36 months/45,000kmTotalFWD petrol$350$350$350$1050AWD diesel$395$395$450$1240

Variant12 months/10,000km24 months/20,000km36 months/30,000kmTotalAWD petrol$359$359$359$1077

Hyundai Australia provides a breakdown of what it performs in its services for FWD petrol, AWD petrol and AWD diesel variants on its website.

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Kia Sportage

Kia Australia offers seven years of capped-price servicing across its range including the Sportage. Kia provides seven years of roadside assistance if the Sportage is serviced at a Kia dealership.

All Sportage models require servicing every 12 months or 15,000km, whichever comes first, except for the 1.6-litre turbo which has shorter 12-month/10,000km intervals.

Variant12 months/10,000km24 months/20,000km36 months/30,000kmTotal1.6L turbo petrol$329$578$428$1335

Variant12 months/15,000km24 months/30,000km36 months/45,000kmTotal2.0L petrol manual$321$512$389$12222.0L petrol auto$321$512$389$12222.0L turbo diesel auto$346$537$416$1299

Kia Australia provide servicing information for the Sportage on its website.

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Mahindra XUV700

Mahindra Australia offers the XUV700 with four years of capped-price servicing.

The first logbook service is required in 12 months or 10,000km, whichever comes first, whereas the rest are required after every 12 months or 15,000km.

12 months/10,000km24 months/25,000km36 months/40,000kmTotal$357$357$563$1277

Mahindra Australia doesn’t offer a service breakdown for its XUV700 on its website. If you require this information, it’s best to contact your local Mahindra service centre.

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Mazda CX-5

The G20 and G25 petrol models within the Mazda CX-5 range require servicing every 12 months or 15,000km whereas the D35 diesel models requiring servicing every 12 months or 10,000km, whichever comes first.

Variant12 months/15,000km24 months/30,000km36 months/45,000kmTotalG20 petrol FWD$334$509$396$1239G25 petrol AWD$341$515$402$1258

Variant12 months/10,000km24 months/20,000km36 months/30,000kmTotalD35 diesel AWD$368$542$566$1476

Mazda provides a breakdown of what it performs in its services on its website.

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MG HS

MG Australia offers seven years of capped-price servicing across the HS range. Pricing differs between the 1.5-litre and 2.0-litre petrol engines.

Alongside its petrol models MG Australia also provides seven years of capped-price servicing for its HS Plus EV plug-in hybrid.

Across the entire HS range servicing is required every 12 months or 10,000km, whichever occurs first.

Variant12 months/10,000km24 months/20,000km36 months/30,000kmTotalHS 1.5T$279$345$332$956HS 2.0T AWD$295$602$349$1246HS Plus EV$279$399$279$957

MG Australia includes a breakdown of its services on its website.

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Mitsubishi Outlander

Mitsubishi Australia offers 10 years of capped-price servicing across its entire range including the Outlander.

Servicing is required every 12 months or 15,000km, whichever comes first.

Pricing varies depending on the powertrain.

Variant12 months/15,000km24 months/30,000km36 months/45,000kmTotal2.5L petrol$299$349$299$9562.4L PHEV$349$399$349$1246

Mitsubishi provides a service breakdown for both the petrol and electrified Outlander which can be found on its website.

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Nissan X-Trail

Nissan Australia offers six years of capped-price servicing across its X-Trail range. Pricing differs depending on the vehicle’s powertrain.

Servicing is required every 12 months or 10,000km, whichever comes first.

Nissan offers pre-paid service options at the time of purchase for customers who want to pay a once-off fee. Pre-paid servicing is available in three-, four- or five-year service packages.

If you purchase a three-year pre-paid service package it represents a saving of between $133 and $136, depending on the variant, compared to purchasing each service separately.

Variant12 months/10,000km24 months/20,000km36 months/30,000kmTotal2.5L$363$469$504$13362.5L AWD$363$469$532$1364e-Power$365$472$534$1371

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Peugeot 3008

Peugeot Australia offer five years of capped-price servicing with 12-month/20,000km intervals.

Customers can add a service plan at the time of purchase. More information can be found on Peugeot’s website.

Variant12 months/20,000km24 months/40,000km36 months/60,000kmTotal1.6L$448$851$448$1747PHEV$479$820$479$1778

Peugeot Australia provides a service breakdown for the 3008 on its website.

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Peugeot 5008

Peugeot Australia offers five years of capped-price servicing with 12-month/20,000km intervals.

Customers can add a service plan at the time of purchase. More information can be found via its website.

Variant12 months/20,000km24 months/40,000km36 months/60,000kmTotal1.6L$448$869$448$1765

Peugeot Australia provides a service breakdown for the 5008 on its website.

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Renault Koleos

Renault offers five years of capped-price servicing on its Koleos.

For the first four years of servicing, provided it’s done at a Renault dealership, the company will renew the 24/7 roadside assistance provided with the vehicle.

Servicing is required every 12 months or 30,000km, whichever comes first.

12 months/10,000km24 months/20,000km36 months/30,000kmTotal$429$429$429$1287

Renault Australia provides a limited breakdown of what is included in the first six services on its website.

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Skoda Karoq

Skoda Australia offers the Karoq with six years of capped-price servicing. Logbook servicing is required every 12 months or 15,000km, whichever comes first.

Pre-paid service plans are available for purchase with a new Skoda Karoq: a five-year, 75,000km plan or a seven-year, 105,000km plan. The five-year plan costs $1850, while the seven-year plan costs $2800.

Skoda also offers a three-year, 45,000km plan.

Variant12 months/15,000km24 months/30,000km36 months/45,000kmTotal1.4L $309$412$457$11782.0L$334$437$603$1374

Skoda Australia provides a limited breakdown of what is included in the first six services on its website.

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SsangYong Korando

SsangYong Australia offers the Korando with seven years of capped-price servicing.

Logbook servicing is required every 12 months or 15,000km, whichever comes first, and the first seven services are capped at $295.

12 months/15,000km24 months/30,000km36 months/45,000kmTotal$295$295$295$885

A breakdown of what’s included in these services can be found on SsangYong’s website.

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Subaru Forester

Subaru Australia offers the Forester with five years of capped price-servicing.

Logbook servicing is required every 12 months or 12,500km, whichever comes first. Subaru does offer three- and five-year service plans but these work out to be the same price as paying for each service.

Variant12 months/12,500km24 months/25,000km36 months/37,500kmTotal2.5L AWD$370.91$636.98$379.36$1387.252.0L Hybrid AWD$374.70$640.77$383.15$1398.62

Information on Subaru servicing can be found on the company’s website.

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Tesla Model Y

Tesla doesn’t require its vehicles to be serviced each year like a traditional internal-combustion vehicle. Instead, it requires some items to be replaced at set intervals. These are:

Cabin air filter (every two years)HEPA filter (every three years)Tyre rotation (every 10,000km)Brake fluid test (every two years)Air conditioner desiccant (every four years)

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Toyota RAV4

Toyota Australia offers the RAV4 with five years of capped-price servicing.

Logbook servicing is required every 12 months or 15,000km, whichever comes first. The first five services are capped at $260, regardless of which engine you opt for.

Variant12 months/15,000km24 months/30,000km36 months/45,000kmTotal2.5L FWD$260$260$260$7802.5L Hybrid FWD$260$260$260$7802.5L Hybrid AWD$260$260$260$780

Toyota provides an overview of what’s included in its services on its website.

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Volkswagen Tiguan

Volkswagen Australia offers the entire Tiguan range with five years of capped-price servicing. Logbook servicing is required every 12 months or 15,000km, whichever comes first.

The company also offers three- and five-year pre-paid service plans. For a full breakdown on pricing for these, click here.

Variant12 months/15,000km24 months/30,000km36 months/45,000kmTotal1.4L 110TSI$473$714$460$16472.0L 132TSI$502$934$502$19382.0L 147TDI$491$965$491$19472.0L 162TSI$490$921$490$1901Tiguan R$497$792$497$1786

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