Considering a CPO with 49k miles. Thoughts?

ThinkingPrius · Jul 19, 2012

ETC(SS) said: ↑

You've already pulled the trigger.
Now...just relax and enjoy the car for the rest of your ownership.

I'm in the middle of the two opposing sides of the Great Transmission Fluid Debate.
The way I see it, it's something I'd look into at the 100-150K mark.
I think for most drivers, 60k is a little gratuitous, but I DONT want to get into a long data rich, but fact poor debate from the folks in the Oil and Lubricants Lobby of North America about it.
If you're in doubt, you can always yank a sample and have it tested however (comma!) by doing this, you're doing 60-percent of the work that would be required to go ahead and replace the fluid.
The only caveat I'll make, and I originally wasn't going to bring this up, is that 50k is veeeeery early for brake pad replacement, unless you're a moron or you drive like one. I've never replaced brakes before 100k, and most of my cars are trucks. Yeah....I know.
LA traffic is a sonofagun.
People drive at 80mph and use their accelerators AND their brake pedals like on/off switches.
This might nudge me into replacing the transmission fluid in a car whose first 50k miles weren't driven by me.
YMMV.
It's pretty easy to do it yourself from what I've read, but I haven't done this procedure for this car.
I'm thinking that a dealer should be able to do it for about two hundred bucks---all in, BUT...Toyota and I have a veeeeeeeeeeery uneasy relationship when it comes to the folks that swing wrenches in their service department, which is why I'm (currently) a Prius driver, but not a Prius owner.

I've owned a number of cars that I've put lunar mileage on, and my maintenance policy is working for me.
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I will say that I honestly have no idea if the brake bads actually needed to be replaced or if the dealer did it as part of their routine 130 point inspection or whatever the hell it is.

I may just look into changing the fluid at 60k miles

Judgeless · Jul 19, 2012

ThinkingPrius said: ↑

sorry i didn't spell out "Certified Pre Owned" for you
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NP, Everyone should know every TLA. I do not recommend an EW on your CPO G3P. GL on the NC.

ThinkingPrius · Jul 19, 2012

Judgeless said: ↑

NP, Everyone should know every TLA. I do not recommend an EW on your CPO G3P. GL on the NC.
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lol, hardly how I typed my original post but whatever

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