What's next on maintenance list?
chriswanson
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My 2002 Legacy Wagon L has:
New head gaskets, seals all around, timing belt, spark plug wires, spark plugs. Obviously valves were adjusted during head gasket replacement.
Right now the car has 110,000 miles.
What is the next thing I should pay attention to? How long do transmissions typically last?
New head gaskets, seals all around, timing belt, spark plug wires, spark plugs. Obviously valves were adjusted during head gasket replacement.
Right now the car has 110,000 miles.
What is the next thing I should pay attention to? How long do transmissions typically last?
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The ignition coil may be next in terms of electrical stuff. If you start getting misfires, that would be the first thing to change since you're done the plugs and wires already.
110k is great, keep it running! We have a Forester owner with 311k miles, something like that. Crazy!
About a 1000 miles from now (or sooner), change the engine oil again. A certain amount of coolant ends up in the crankcase when they did the heads, and you want that gone.
As our years still have a serviceable fuel filter, I'd change that as well if it hasn't been done in a while.
concievable to go lifetime of car without major tranny work? are there parts within that need replacement, like clutch plates? sorry for ignorance..
The center differential (housed in the tranny tail section) also uses ATF, and is run by an electric clutch. Changing the tranny fluid often can extend the life of this component as well.
The only thing that I hear of occasionally as a low level problem is a delayed engagement when shifting from neutral to drive. This is caused by an internal seal failure that unfortunately cannot be serviced without an extensive teardown.
Thanks
Michele
The brake job is just ludicrous, though. If it needs all that, you would be feeling the front end wobble when you apply the brakes or be hearing the screech of metal-on-metal. On my '96 Outback, with many highway miles, I replaced the first set of front brake pads at about 125,000 and the first set of rears at 192,000. I did not replace any rotors and I drove it to 220,000 miles.
Do a 60,000 service now, basically.
Change all the fluids to get a baseline.
Bleed the brakes, but check the rotors and pads before you replace anything. A simple clean up and bleeding of the fluid may be all it needs.
amazing to use one set of pads for almost 200,000 miles. in L.A. we use more brakes than you do, i guess.
Rotors can be machined if damage is minor, but doing so removes some of the material and makes them somewhat more susceptible to warping thereafter.
Also, with regard to the miles on my '96 Outback's brakes, I brought that up because the miles I put on that car were skewed toward the highway. Since you said the previous owner had a similar bias, I would expect wear to somewhat approximate my experience. Of course, if it was bumper-to-bumper traffic on a highway, that blows that theory out of the water.
go to a trusted garage to do the listed, no need dealer.
Even working slowly, the rotors and pads shouldn't take more than 3-4 hours.
As far as hearing or feeling something, I disagree. I had a customer that had a rear brake pad fall out of the caliper so the only braking on that wheel was done by the piston/caliper bracket, and they had no idea.
Now as far as the price quoted is concerned, the dealership is asking way too much as most have already said.
We've been doing subie brakes in NY/NJ for the past 10 years. On average you get 30-40k miles out of the pads and 75-90k out of the rotors.
-mike
Subaru Guru and Track Instructor