have a 2003 sxt soch auto. is it true you don't have to change timing belt until 100,000? i have always seen where 60,000 is the general rule. my son now drives the car in another state and i can't remember what i read in the manual. it has 57,000 on it now. as long as i am here what other things are due? coolant, tranny, fuel filter? thanx in advance.

 

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U don't have to change your timing belt until 90-100 thousand miles. U can go a bit longer but the miles I just stated is safe. I believe people say u should change your coolant every 50 thousand miles. I believe the tranny is suppose to be flushed around 60 thousand if I remember correctly. If u do those things around that milage, the car will be well taken care of.

 

Wow that time is completely wrong. My time is 10:00PM not around 7pm.

 

Yea my book says 100,000 for timing I couldn't believe it. As for coolant 50,000 and tran 60,000. I'm at 56K with a SXT so I'm looking change the tran fluid soon. Hope that helps. I have my book so if you have any other maintance questions you can PM me if you want.

 

Thats because the DF servers were moved to the West Coast. All you have to do is go into your profile settings and adjust to +3 off of server time and your all set.

 

When you do the belt Goodyear makes a kit with all the pulleys.
A lot like to change the water pump and thus the coolant.
Fuel filter is in the tank so don't worry about that.

ATX might as well do that.
Power steering would be a good change too.

 

this will help when its time

 

thanx for the info everybody. great blow up view of timing belt. i got to say this is , i think, the first car i heard of going 100,000 k for a timing belt. i also own a 2007 scion tc. i'll have to recheck the book on that car.

 

Even if it's a 5-spd I'd go ahead and change the tranny fluid with new... I did mine at 36,000 miles and it actually was a little burnt, not much but a little bit... so I imagine that at 60,000 it'd probably be due MTX or ATX.