I'm going to be hitting 50,000 miles soon. and i dont know if i should bring it in to the "stealership for a maintenance or w/e. any one else know any good options?
i know i have to change my brake pads, transmission fluid, and coolant. should i bring it to the dealership? or can i go to a TiresPluss or some type of shop instead?

 

Transmission Fluid

I hope this will be the second time you will be changing it.

Thats somthing you should have change around 20,000 mile.

Poor syncros

 

lolz. woops? i guess ill definitly need to do that.

 

IIRC, the manual says to change the MT fluid every 30k. I did mine at 25k and again at 50k. I haven't had to change my brake pads yet, I just keep checking on them whenever I've got a wheel off. They're fine so far at 61k.

For the coolant, you can just go anywhere. For the timing belt at 60k, go to the dealer.

 

61k you drive to much

 

For real! I just passed 20k this weekend.
I bet PR MIVEC has less.....can't go too far on the island. Pretty soon you would need pontoons!

 

I just did my 30 k Free service and that was not performed, I check the service miles intervals and service to be performed by miles and it dosen't said to change the MT fluid , it said to check level and conditions.
Now this is not the manual , is the DEALER RECONMMENDED SERVICE INTERVALS

 

well is relative.. the island is 100 x 35 miles.... mine is 2005 and i have 22k miles on it so imagine if i lived up there..

 

HAHA--man you must drive laps around that place on the weekends!

 

. Well im still 2 months away from my first year and im almost at 20k.

 

im at 49k

 

well.... sometimes

 

im at 54,000 miles and ive changed the tranny fluid once, and ive had the mivec adjusted, when its cold out i cant get it into 2nd or 3rd gear.

i guess its time to crash and burn the car

 

if you do that be sure to send me the engine.. look at it as a donation to science

 

03' at almost 55k I drive too much..

As long as it's fun to drive though