Anyone opt to doing their own maintenance on this car?

 

lexus has free service，why do ourself

 

^^^^If you have to ask, you're far better off NOT doing it yourself!

Lou

 

I do my own maintenance on my GS F. I just don't trust my local dealer. Maintenance like oil change on the GS F is an easy task. Here is a video that shows you how to change oil on an IS F, which have an almost identical engine to the GS F.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndu5...youtu.be&t=495

Cost of a DIY oil change for me is around $60. You can order the oil(9-10 quart of 5W30 Mobil1 or Pennzoil Synthetic) , oil filter(04152-YZZA4) and crush washer(90430-12031) on Amazon. At the end of the day it's a piece of mind knowing it's done right.

 

thanks BA777

 

only the first two services are free right? (which don't do much other than check stuff and change the oil?)

 

correct, i believe they give 5k and 10k service. 5k is useless, might as well skip it. 10k is mostly a regular oil change

 

Btw.. Correction. Our GS F Scheduled Maintenance is different than the GS 200t, GS350 and GS450H. The first scheduled maintenance is at 1,000 mile and is a quick inspection. The second and subsequent schedule maintenance is at every 5,000 mile. Only the first 1,000 and 5,000 mile schedule maintenance is free. The rest is out of pocket.

Below is the link to the GS F scheduled maintenance booklet.

http://drivers.lexus.com/t3Portal/do...-MMS-16GSF.pdf

 

It was the same with the ISF. Our GSF will go in for the 1k check, then I'm done with Lexus service, same as my ISF. This car will get the same UOA, and likely will run 12k miles on an oil change the same as the ISF has for a very long time now. The rest of it is too easy. Jack up the car, put it on stands and check all the chassis bolts. No rocket science here. Brakes are dead simple too. Punch out the pins, retract the pads and stuff in the new ones. I got plenty of practice with that when tracking the ISF. My only concerns are what mistakes have they made - did they use the right sealant on the valley plate? Did they get another batch of sketchy coolant pumps from Aisin? I already know the AA80E transmission is level sensitive, so I'll be checking/adjusting it every 20k miles knowing full well it shifts best when the level is right.

After that, it's whatever is unique to the GSF platform. Since this won't be a track car like my ISF (unless I get the green light from the wife for a track day with it), I really doubt it will be any kind of maintenance headache at all.

Yes, I have Techstream and TIS access. There won't be any surprises.

 

still that means the "free" service is at very minimal

 

5w/30 oil? Interesting, the GS 350 uses 0w/30.

 

All the 2UR engines use 5w-30 from the factory.

 

You mean 0W20 for the GS 350...

 

Toyota and Lexus are relatively easy cars to maintain.

For the GS-F:

Oil change is almost identical to the ISF. The oil filter wrench is the same as all the other cartridge type filter as found on the 2GR-FE V6. The best filter wrench is on amazon "Assenmacher Specialty Tools Toy 640 OIl filter socket wrench for Toyota/Lexus" I'll go to Mobil1 or Napa Synthetic 5W-30 after 10K. Napa had a sale and I bought a total of 30 cases of oil this summer. There is a good thread on the UOAs on an ISF that used the regular mobil1 5w-30 that showed good results.

Every 10K I pumped out the brake fluid in the reservoir only and refill.

Every 20K I change our the engine and cabin filter. Very easy on this car as I've already pulled them both just to see.

Every 30K I just drain the coolant and refill. Every toyota product I've had a small plastic plug to drain.

Every 50K I have the dealer do a full transmission oil total fluid exchange..

90K change spark plugs and all drive belts. All the toyota serpentine/drive belts I've worked on are held on my tension pulleys it seems. A long breaker bar to hold tension while you remove and add the belts usually does to trick to take them on and off... 20 minute job.
If I have the car still by then, I'll probably order the RSR coilovers so I don't have to spend any time compressing springs to change out the struts. Just unbolt and bolt back on.

Brake pads, I wait til they squeal and change them within 20 miles at the first squeal. Rotors, every bother brake pad change. "Lisle 29100 Quick Quad Pad spreader" will save you annoyance and 10-15 minutes trying to compress your pistions back with a screwdriver and other methods on youtube. $50 is well worth it. It take you less than a minute to compress the pistons with these.

Basically until 100K miles, I only have to take it in to the dealer for the transmission oil fluid exchange. Most Toyota, I can do all the maintenance under $800-1000 (without tires) up until 100K miles. This car it'll probably be more like $2000 since the pads and rotors are 4 times the normal costs..

None of this is complicated. I have the $100 socket wrench set from Costco... along with a few specialty tools you end up buying for each job. I've probably spent $600 in the past 8 years buying specialty tools so I've way ahead vs. going to the dealer.

 

thanks mdrx