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How many of you have actually racked up all the miles you have on your car, or you bought it used and put less miles on it to where you are today. I have putten 75k original miles on my car, bought it in august of 02 brand new with 6 miles on it.
Have you guys wil high miles done all the maintenance? Has anything happened like mechanical stuff? How do you drive...flooring it or like a granny?
Only mainatance I have done is 1 coolant flush, 10 million oil changes, 1 tranny fluid drain and refill, had it flushed out with torque converter at about 50k, then changed it at 65k, and alot of brake changes. Only other thing is had a new throttle body installed when I sucked a shit load of water in. SO I have done very little mainatance and my car runs great.
Bought my 01 LX 5 speed sedan new on 12-13-2000 , car has over 102,000 miles on it. Still has the original battery and replaced front brake pads at 98,000 miles - still had plenty of life in them. Replaced front struts at 92,000 miles. Engine runs great!
__________________ 2001 LX SEDAN
5 speed
Clover Green
Bought my 93 new now has 132,000. All i've done recently do a valve adjustment and i change my oil every 30,000 mi.
WTF? change your oil every 30k miles. Are you sure you didnt mean 3k miles. There is no way your oil would last 30k miles. Well it could, but over time it turns into base oil, which means there are no additives.
I switched to Amsoil 5W30 at 90k miles. Drained the tranny at the same time, and added Amsiol ATF to it.
Changed the front pads once.
Thats it. I only floor it when needed, so maybe a couple of times a month. Most of my miles are highway.
Need to do the timing belt, water pump, drive belt change, but I'm just trying to push it some. The drive belts look good as new, so I don't see why the timing belt would be any worse. Also waiting for a Chilton book to come out, may do it myself.
__________________ "A B16 is a hard working minority - makes the most of it's time and is very efficient. ... While a B18C is a rich lazy ass white guy, who doesn't have much work to do at all - it's all done for him."-Katman
