Anything else besides transmission and brake flush

ddvette9

Anyone do anything else around 50-60k besides brake flush and transmission flush? Besides obvious tires and brakes and oil and filters.

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Differential should be done first 5k then every 20 after that... IMHO

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ddvette9

And btw, ive been on this forum a long time i dont need links to a search tool or copies of the owners manual. I understand what is reccomended I wanted to see what some of the daily driver gear heads had to say. Not the once a week drivers who change their freaking oil every month lol and live and die by the owner's manual.

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The first time you empty the diff, beware, it smells like boiled fish heads and is black as sludge. I used synthetic (AMSoil 75w90) after that and replaced it again at 25,000 kms. The second time it looked golden and smelled fine, but I know that the diff heats up a lot and it is a cheap and easy fluid swap (with a hand pump).

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11Thumper

Technically the 7AT fluid doesn't have to be changed. Personally I would do it every 60k miles. If you don't plan to drive the car more than 100k miles before selling it just leave it alone.

Jsolo

Coolant too...Check belts/hoses.

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ddvette9

Yea I will probably do coolant and brakes and diff. Not gonna mess with the 7at fluid. Should be good with cooland and brake and diff.

Mt Tam I am

On an MT you'd want to change the clutch fluid too.

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bvl

Given 'lifetime' intervals of a lot of fluids these days, I still will continue on 30K intervals for tranny/diff. Has worked fine for 350+K accumulated miles in my past 3 vehicles. My weapon of choice has been Redline synthetics for this use case. Brake fluid is a bit of a meh to me, and is more about age then miles. Aggressive folks will change it every 2 years. For low mile vehicles, 4y works fine. People often forget about clutch fluid while at it, and to me that is more important as I have seen more slave failures in my lifetime then brake master.

Nissan OEM fluids, in my 2010, are not full synthetic IMHO. Recent cold spell on the east coast felt like molasses for the first 5 minutes of shifting...so MTL 85 will be going in next fall, well short of 30K

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anthonyy

no need for coolant change at 50k

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Brakes and clutch, +1

The stock fluid kinda sucks... I upgraded the lines and fluid just for peace of mind.

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ddvette9

Really? Ok cool

DEpointfive0

Agreed, same with the trans fluid, oh, I'd do a power steering fluid flush though!

Look, they are called "lifetime" or 105/120k IIRC fluids, so they should last that long
While a fluid change isn't "necessary" or "required", too much maintainence isn't really a bad thing


Like from now on I will always change my brake fluid with GTR fluid every year, maybe PS fluid too, why? Because for $120, it's worth it to me
Radiator I might do at 50-60k, just depends how lazy I am when the time comes
And I just changed my diff fluid at 30k, yesterday