What other maintenance( and at what mileage )have you done in addition to CVT fluid change at 60k?
I've done spark plugs, brakes, pcv valve(60k), differential fluid, coolant, swapped out brake and power steering fluid last week at 79k. I've been changing oil every 6 to 7k and air and cabin filters every other oil change. Mechanic says to do serpentine belt soon. Is there anything else that you recommend? My goal is to get 150k miles without a major repair.
I'm gonna roll the dice on the CVT fluid and believe their "lifetime" claim.
I did everything according to the manual except the serpentine belt, differential fluid, and CVT fluid. I went 90K on my original serpentine belt which is actually what I believe caused the idler pulley to go. Make sure you change your tensioner (roughly $45 at Rockauto) at the same time as the belt and you will be fine.
I’ve done brake fluid flushes at home every 2 years regardless of mileage and while I’m in there, I clean up the calipers and regrease the slide-pins. Preventative maintenance seems to be working as the car is still on all of its original pads, rotors, and calipers at 140K.
The differential fluid was very dark by the 5K mark and so I switched Royal Purple which turned opaque silver by the 25K mark; ended up with AMSOIL severegear fluid which looked new at the 100K mark with 75K on the fluid. The car currently has AMSOIL in the diffs and I’m not planning on changing it until the 200K mark.
AC started struggling a bit at about 100K so I topped it up with some refrigerant with stop leak (I know, sacrilege, but it worked!) from Walmart and it’s now it’s blowing ice cold and holding pressure 40K/5 years later without concern.
I hadn’t done the PCV valve until 130K when it started guzzling oil at 1qt/1000miles and changing the valve stopped the oil consumption completely.
As for oil change intervals, the FB20 is super easy on oil and I did several UOAs on M1EP and AMSOIL Signature. Both showed very little wear metals and plenty of TBN left after 10-13K miles. Given that yours has direct injection, I wouldn’t push the OCIs without some UOAs but seeing how cheap oil
Is nowadays, it just makes sense to stick shorter intervals.
I never rotate the tires yet they always wear very evenly and I always manage to exceed the advertised warranty on whatever tires I run. My last set had to be replaced because of a chunks out of the sidewalls of two of the tires (Pirelli P7 A/S+, with 75K miles on them, still had 5/32” all around). Now I am running Continental PureContact LS which seem to beat the Pirelli in every way so far, especially in the rain and smoothness/quietness of the ride; too early to judge wear.
