How often are the cars fluids to be changed?

[DezertEagle]

Hey guys how often do things like motor oil, gearbox oil, power steering etc have to be changed *noob*

Thanks in advance!

EDIT- R33 GTSt that is.

[Lepperfish]

motor oil every 5,000km minimum.

[red900ss]

I think the book says engine oil - 5000k, filter - 10000k; brake fluid, gearbox, power steering, coolant - 2 years; diff - n/a.

I do the engine oil and filter every 3000k or so, bleed brakes every service.

Changed g/box and diff recently and coolant is due next year.

[JimX]

The book says oil/filter 10000km for turbo, 15000km for non turbo. This is assuming you use average grade mineral oil. If you use high grade synthetic and halve this interval, you should be more than ok. I don't think you'd ever need to go as far as doing it every 3000km for street use, if you're doing a lot of trackwork you should be changing the oil between races regardless of how many km you've done.

Bleeding of brakes is not a normal service procedure. If it needs to be done there's something wrong with your brakes. Unless you just mean changing the fluid. But using a good quality dot 4 or dot 5 brake fluid it should last at least 30000km, probably 60000. Doing it 10-20 times as often than that is serious overkill. For brake fluid I like Caltex GP600, it's got the non squishy properties of a good dot 4, but with a temperature rating as good as many low-end dot 5's. Best of both worlds.

[carlo]

I do my fluids quite often as I need the car to be reliable and I track it alot.

Oil - 5000

Oil Filter - 5000

Fuel Filter - 10000

Brake Fluid - Every few track days or once a year. If you cant remember when you last did it then its been to long.

Coolant - Once a year

Gearbox Oil - Once every 18 months for me, but you can get away with once every 30,000k's or more

Diff Oil - Once every 18 months again but you can get away with once every 60,000

Ignore the manual guys. Its full of lies, it says you dont have to do the Diff Oil but my god you should have seen the crap that came out of my one when we did it. It was putrid, you should definatly change it to keep your LSD working nicely.