20k mile maintenance
 

What maintenance is required at 20,000 miles? Im coming up on it soon and I want this car to last for a good while. I would imagine oil + filter and rear differential fluid change, anything else?

At 20k just engine oil/filter is all you need. You should inspect your engine air filter and the cabin filter and replace only if it looks used up and top off any fluids that are low. Rear diff fluid does not need to be changed until 30k along with your transmission fluid according to the manual.

I suggest you consult the service mileage points outlined in your maintenance book. Main service points are 30k, 60k, 120k etc.

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8374

The first link will get you what you need (maintenance schedule). There is also a copy in your glove box...

Does ANYONE other than me read manuals? It's shitter reading material if nothing else. I'm not even that old.

I like to read them while shitting



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I do. It's fun!

it's 22,500 miles, not 20,000.

CLICK HERE--> https://www.toyota.com/t3Portal/docu...FRS_WMG_lr.pdf

No, no differential fluid change. Someone said this in the BRZ forum too, mentioning 20K diff fluid. It lasts much longer than 20K. You only inspect it.

I see you have been schooled on the use of the maintenance guide for your car, so, I won't :slap: you - this time - :D

For average driving, the maintenance manual is a good guide for maintaining your car, so it will "last for a good while".

:)

humfrz

As a delivery driver I average about 500 miles / week. I would imagine that means step up my oil/filter replacement to about every 4k miles?

Actually, with that kind of driving, I would suggest you just stick with the recommended frequency. If you did a lot of short distance (lots of cold starts) driving you may wish to reduce the interval.

Some feel that it would be OK to increase the oil/filter change interval up to 10,000 miles if using synthetic oil and if the car was driven long distant trips.


humfrz

There are lots of pictures in the FR-S manual...makes going through the pages seem fast :)

It's a mind blower.

I blame the lack of male role models, or a father figure.
Now a days these 20 somethings can't find themselves out of a paper bag.
Ironically there is shit tons of YouTube mechanical info, yet I don't see these people looking up info.

Also most of the hellastance ***s don't know what a spark plug is. :popcorn:

Most likely that's what our grandfathers or great grandfathers said about us:

Damn kids these days, couldn't hook up a team of horses if their life depended on it!


humfrz

Don't tell me you forgot how to hook up horses?

Well, I only had to help hook up a team once, when I was a kid, back on the farm.

It was a hot day in July after about 2 weeks of solid rain. We had about 150 acres of knee high corn practically underwater and was starting to "fire" (turn yellow then brown because it was drowning).

Too muddy to get a tractor in the fields (besides it would have knocked down too much corn). So, after about two days of shoveling out the ends of dead furrows, my dad had the idea of borrowing our neighbor's (Mr Brown - I kid you not) team of horses to plow out the dead furrows (ditches in the fields).

Welp, we hooked up the team and I rode them over to our farm. My father was not real patient with horses, so I spent the next two days on foot, leading the stupid, lazy animals through the muddy corn fields, while my father struggled with the plow and cussed the horses.

Yes, I have forgotten how to hook up a team of horses - :sigh:


humfrz

He lost the stone tablet with the instructions etched onto it.

Twas not on a stone tablet, it was on parchment and it was tacked on the barn wall.

See - I read the manual even back then - :D


humfrz

Piff so you where rich enough to barrow horses?
Try plowing with a pair of asses. :cheers:

Yep, we were upper class farmers.

:D


humfrz