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    Grand Imperial Wizard Sarge's Avatar
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    Call yourself a gearhead do you?

    How often do you clean/inspect/change your:
    Air Filter
    Fuel Filter
    Trannie oil
    Rear Diff fluid
    Brake Fluid
    Power steering fluid
    PCV Valve
    Clean your MAF
    Torque your driveshaft and axle bolts
    Replace spark plugs

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    Senior Member Too Fast's Avatar
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    When its dirty, 'bout every 7-10k
    every 30k. More than that is overkill.
    every 50k.
    30k or so.
    every 2 years.
    once so far, my car has 62k or so.
    not yet....
    one time. It made no difference I could tell.
    Never. Still has OE torque.
    Changed them with a new set when I put the Hookers on last Fall. Love those double platinums!
    However, I inspect most of these things monthly or better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sarge View Post
    How often do you clean/inspect/change your:
    Air Filter- daily FIPK kit
    Fuel Filter- every other oil change
    Trannie oil- whenever I take the tranny out
    Rear Diff fluid- every other oil change
    Brake Fluid- sometimes
    Power steering fluid- sometimes
    PCV Valve- sometimes
    Clean your MAF- weekly
    Torque your driveshaft and axle bolts- weekly
    Replace spark plugs- every other oil change
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    Black 00 SS M6, vert, #0540 408ci

    DD 2014 Sierra All Terrain

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    I don't do any PM.....I just drive it.........as a matter O' fact, I don't even know what it looks like under the hood....All joking aside, about every oil change, I give it a good once over, so every 3k
    Last edited by superchargedblackgto; 09-16-2007 at 06:32 AM.

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    Some of these more often than others but I touch base with all of these plus other nuts,bolts, and hose clamps.

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    Detailing + Design third_shift|studios's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sarge View Post
    How often do you clean/inspect/change your:
    Air Filter
    Fuel Filter
    Trannie oil
    Rear Diff fluid
    Brake Fluid
    Power steering fluid
    PCV Valve
    Clean your MAF
    Torque your driveshaft and axle bolts
    Replace spark plugs
    i just put a check in the "Premium Service" box on the walmart form...they take care of all that for me.

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    every day

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    How often do you clean/inspect/change your:
    Air Filter - clean it every 2 months or so...K&N...last time was june
    Fuel Filter - haven't yet
    Trannie oil - haven't yet
    Rear Diff fluid - haven't yet
    Brake Fluid - haven't yet
    Power steering fluid - haven't yet
    PCV Valve - haven't yet
    Clean your MAF - cleaned it when i did the filter last...june
    Torque your driveshaft and axle bolts - haven't yet
    Replace spark plugs - haven't yet

    i've owned the car since may so many of the things that i haven't done yet i was planning on doing when i take the car out of storage next spring.

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    I change the bitch in the passenger seat as often as weekly

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    Quote Originally Posted by third_shift|studios View Post
    i just put a check in the "Premium Service" box on the walmart form...they take care of all that for me.
    walmart??

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    Senior Member KyleLs1's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by third_shift|studios View Post
    i just put a check in the "Premium Service" box on the walmart form...they take care of all that for me.
    x2

    jk

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    I won't let Wal-Mart touch my car.
    Air Filter - Usually at least once a month inspect. Replace about every year
    Fuel Filter - every 20K miles
    Tranny oil - every 30K miles just got changed about 7,500 ago
    Rear Diff fluid - Every year
    Brake Fluid - I personally haven't yet.
    Power steering fluid - just changed about a month ago
    PCV Valve - Enignes only got about 36K on it
    Clean your MAF - Don't have one hahahahaha.....Speed Density
    Torque your driveshaft and axle bolts - Got torqued about 7,500 ago when the tranny was removed
    Replace spark plugs - about 500 ago. Every 30K to 50K

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    i never change my pcv valves lol I've never encountered a bad one either. not saying its bad practice. they are cheap and MOST of the time they are pretty easy to replace. the ones that screw in however can become a nightmare if they break or get seized in there. the air filter i change/clean when they are dirty, the fluids i change maybe every 20k? but they do get done. the gas filters i do every 20k as well. the one filter people neglect is their gas filter. an old gas filter can cause all kinds of driveability issues/ lack of performance that people never realize. I have stick shift vehicles, which dont need there oil/fluid changed as frequently as an automatic. I recommend FLUSHING an auto trans every 30k.

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    2002 Z28 A4 NBM
    Sadly now demodded :(

    I do it on a regular basis at recomended intervals if not sooner. I usually just pay someone else to do the dirty jobs. Not that I can't, I just don't want to deal with the used oils anymore.

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    2nd last of the lt1s EVAR 94z28l's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sarge View Post
    How often do you clean/inspect/change your:
    Air Filter at each oil change
    Fuel Filterevery other oil change
    Trannie oil atleast yearly, been more often recently because of breakin shit
    Rear Diff fluid every 18 months
    Brake Fluidanually
    Power steering fluidanually
    PCV Valveevery 10k miles or so
    Clean your MAFsame as pcv
    Torque your driveshaft and axle bolts after each trip to the track and around december
    Replace spark plugsanually
    see in bold

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    I drive a thirdgen. So for all of those, choose:

    She's running, I ain't fuckin with it.


    Call yourself a gearhead do you?
    Since I voluntarily bought/drive my car, I prefer the term nuthead over gearhead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sarge View Post
    How often do you clean/inspect/change your:
    Air Filter
    Fuel Filter
    Trannie oil
    Rear Diff fluid
    Brake Fluid
    Power steering fluid
    PCV Valve
    Clean your MAF
    Torque your driveshaft and axle bolts
    Replace spark plugs
    Air Filter (i check that every time i check my oil...)
    Fuel Filter (change that with every 3rd oil change)
    Trannie oil (transfluid not much...)
    Rear Diff fluid (rear diff is getting checked often cause my rear is about shot)
    Brake Fluid (my brake fluid gets checked often, and is in need of change pain in the ass bleeding)
    Power steering fluid ( check this with the season changes...)
    PCV Valve (never)
    Clean your MAF (when i clean my filter)
    Torque your driveshaft and axle bolts (i check them before i go to the track... but not all the time)
    Replace spark plugs (with my fuel filter... every 3rd oil change... some times i'll let them go if they look good enough...

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    Slow'er'Ass Mr. Luos's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sarge View Post
    How often do you clean/inspect/change your:
    Air Filter
    Fuel Filter
    Trannie oil
    Rear Diff fluid
    Brake Fluid
    Power steering fluid
    PCV Valve
    Clean your MAF
    Torque your driveshaft and axle bolts
    Replace spark plugs
    Air filter gets fresh oil every 6 months.
    Fuel filter is in the car no longer than 10,000 miles.
    Tranny fluid got changed at 5,000 miles.
    Rear diff is going on 7,000, getting changed very soon.
    Brake fluid got changed at 6,000 miles after the swap.
    Power steering fluid is at 7,000.
    PCV valve is new once a year.
    MAF gets cleaned when it needs it.
    Driveshaft...routine checks. Axle needs a new bearing, getting that very soon.
    Spark plugs once a year, roughly 4,000 miles.


    I recently washed my car. It was Saturday night. Got dark. The car was on jackstands and didn't have a passenger front tire.

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    2nd last of the lt1s EVAR 94z28l's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Luos View Post
    Air filter gets fresh oil every 6 months.
    Fuel filter is in the car no longer than 10,000 miles.
    Tranny fluid got changed at 5,000 miles.
    Rear diff is going on 7,000, getting changed very soon.
    Brake fluid got changed at 6,000 miles after the swap.
    Power steering fluid is at 7,000.
    PCV valve is new once a year.
    MAF gets cleaned when it needs it.
    Driveshaft...routine checks. Axle needs a new bearing, getting that very soon.
    Spark plugs once a year, roughly 4,000 miles.


    I recently washed my car. It was Saturday night. Got dark. The car was on jackstands and didn't have a passenger front tire.
    hey shit happens right?

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