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Posted by Boris Bubbanov [Email] (more from Boris Bubbanov) on Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:21:04 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: Things to look at for 60k miles, Kenneth, Wed, 19 Apr 2017 06:59:29
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60,000 miles is not a lot of miles for these 9-5s.

Buy the Airtek Wells SEM Direct Ignition Cassette through Rockauto - I get them for $ 150 each and they're Factory Source - you might order two. Keep using the one you have until it pulls a CEL, then replace.

Change that 4 quarts of ATF you can easily drain now, and repeat every 20,000 additional miles going forward. I get it at a Toyota or Lexus dealer - T-IV.

Replace all those small rubber hoses under the hood. Ten years is about all you can count on.

Think about having an alternator and a water pump on hand in case of failure. I've done 3 alternator R + Rs so far on my fleet of 4 9-5s, and still haven't done a single water pump. If you think the car has set up often, maybe order the fuel pump and hoses and have them ready at hand; otherwise you're fine for now.

You can order a spare serpentine and have it on hand; replace sometime in the next 20,000 miles. Pulleys can wait, Tensioner even more so.

Big radiator hoses are fine - unless a porcupine has been nibbling on them, they last basically the life of the car. Way too soon to worry about them.

Make sure you have a heater system bypass valve on hand. This GM part is prone to failure. Prophylactic replacement of the Crankshaft Position Sensor is cheap and easy to do on a cold motor.

In summary you're doing easy to do things that won't mess with the car as a system - you don't wanna cause more problems than you address.

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