manufacture suggested maintenance

archimedes8989 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-05-2007, 04:47 PM

I scheduled an appoinment to get my girlfriends 04 cadillac's 30k service done, and the people working there couldnt understand why I wanted them to do a radiator flush as well. They kept telling me that it doesnt needed to be flushed for 100k miles or 5 years. I'm old school, and am all about regular preventative maintanance. What do you guys think about newer cars and their long intervals between certain services like that. Do you abide by them, or perform them sooner. Another one that gets me is "life time transmission fluid"...maybe in ure car, but not in mine...no sir haha

Admin · #2 (**permalink**) 02-06-2007, 02:12 AM

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Originally Posted by archimedes8989

I scheduled an appoinment to get my girlfriends 04 cadillac's 30k service done, and the people working there couldnt understand why I wanted them to do a radiator flush as well. They kept telling me that it doesnt needed to be flushed for 100k miles or 5 years. I'm old school, and am all about regular preventative maintanance. What do you guys think about newer cars and their long intervals between certain services like that. Do you abide by them, or perform them sooner. Another one that gets me is "life time transmission fluid"...maybe in ure car, but not in mine...no sir haha

Not sure about the radiator, but as for the transmission thing, it's kind of true. I know my buddy changed his transmission fluid because it got real dark and mucky, he thought it would be smart to do a fluid change. Nope, not a good idear, transmission went. Car had about 50k miles on it I think...

archimedes8989 · #3 (**permalink**) 02-06-2007, 02:22 PM

sorry, I dont get it. What exactly caused the tranny to go out?

Admin · #4 (**permalink**) 02-06-2007, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by archimedes8989

sorry, I dont get it. What exactly caused the tranny to go out?

He's got an automatic like me, our power band is around 30mph. He played around in that powerband quite a few times, supposively that did a number on the transmission. That's what I heard.... I'm not a mechanic, I just go by what some of my buddies tell me. A lot of them are mechanics.