14’ IS 350 future reliability
should you flush the coolant prior to the 100k mile suggestion if the car passes a certain age? my car is a 2018 and and has about 55k miles on it. i've had the dealership do a ton of preventative maintenance so far (complete transmission fluid drain and refill, diff fluid replacement, regular oil changes, spark plugs replaced, brake fluid changed, battery replaced, etc.) but haven't touched the coolant yet. thoughts?
At any rate, the interval is like 5 years / x miles, so if you're at the 5 year mark, then you change it regardless.
The poster is from Namibia, I don't know if their cars come with manual transmissions or not but he stated he had his "clutch fluid" changed. I just took that at face value.
Older model IS300's had manual transmissions and changing the fluid in the clutch system is not unheard of, why would you think this is trolling?
Older model IS300's had manual transmissions and changing the fluid in the clutch system is not unheard of, why would you think this is trolling?
Period.
All the "clutching" is done via clutch packs internal to the tranny and those get actuated with actuators and pressure supplied by ATF WS fluid. Manual transmissions often do use brake fluid (DOT3) to drive the clutch, but since it was stated that it was a gen3 is350 RWD 8-speed, it is definitely NOT a manual transmission. Also Toyota does not have an 8 speed MT.
Another way of explaining this discrepancy would be that whoever did the service either misquoted or simply lied about it.
And yet another way to explain it would be - Someone just put DOT3 in the transmission. In this case, they were not lying about the "service" but the tranny might be damaged now.
Given that it is Namibia, I would be super-worried about quality of technicians there, and I use "technician" very loosely here. In the best case he was overcharged for the stuff they did not and could not have performed. In the worst case - they literally added unapproved oil into the tranny.
Last edited by sunamer; Jan 9, 2023 at 10:24 AM.
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