mike430

Well after now having owned my car for a couple of weeks, I've started my maintenance stage zero. My car being a 2005 with 67K miles I am having to try to find things to do. Oil/filter, cabin filter/air filter, and dropped the 3qts out the trans pan and replaced with fresh Toyota WS fluid while it was up on ramps. The trans fluid look very, very dark but did not smell burnt. I like my trans fluid to at least be alittle pink so I'll do this a couple more times and then actually drop the pan and change the filter in a couple months. Then I'll call it good for 30-40K miles. I even sucked the fluid out of my power steering reservoir and replace with fresh dextron III I will do this each time I do the trans to eventually have a good amount of fresh fluid there too.
I just filled my second tank of fuel today and each time I have added a bottle of chevron techron so I'm hoping the injectors are getting a good cleaning as well even though the car showed no signs of rough running. After this tank I'll won't do it again for 5k or so miles. I even have my fuel filter on my work bench ready to go, but my parts guy could not get the strainer for the pump which seemed weird but whatever. I ordered one from RockAuto along with some wix oil filters to make the shipping worth while. I'm fighting the urge to replace the sparkplugs really bad right now because I know it's way to early, but 100k seems like a lot of miles for a plug. I'm willing to accept that more than a "lifetime" transmission fluid though. I'm hoping with some extra care and on schedule or earlier maintenance this car will be trouble free for years to come.

bsl888

I just bought an 04 with 81K miles, and I just had my mechanic drain and refill transmission fluid with WS, change oil and filter, brake fluid, steering fluid, rear differential with Mobil1 synthetic 75W-90, and I changed out the engine air and cabin air filters. He also changed out the alternator drive belt because he noted some cracks. Next big job will be timing belt and water pump at 90K miles, I'll probably have him change out the plugs and coolant at that time and another drain/fill of the transmission fluid.

You might want to change the brake fluid and rear differential fluid to get all the fluids fresh.