How to Maintain a Car at 50,000 Miles

Video Transcript

"I'm Dave Erb from Dave's Ultimate Automotive in Austin Texas and we're going to be talking about how to maintain a car at fifty thousand miles. To maintain a car at fifty thousand miles really depends on if you know any history about the car. If you've owned it up to fifty thousand miles and you've maintained properly then at this interval, more than likely, you'd just be looking at physical aspects of the vehicle, the brakes, and the CV boots, and all the wear items associated, tires and all those kinds of things that you'd naturally look at. The next interval, major service interval, for all the fluids and whatnot, would really be at sixty thousand miles but if you've just bought the car and you had fifty thousand miles on it and you have no history then I would start with a good maintenance plan. I'd go ahead and do all the flushes that are available to do, transmission, cooling system, power steering, brake fluid, fuel induction, oil change, get it right and balance those tires, check the alignment. Get yourself a good starting point and then start from there and do that every thirty thousand miles, that's really the way to extend the life of a car. At fifty thousand miles, physically check everything, take care of everything that needs to be done that's physically wrong with the vehicle, if you have history on it, you know what's been done, base your maintenance plan on that. If you have no history, you just bought the car, it's at fifty thousand then do all fluids, do all the maintenance, start yourself fresh so you know where you started from, so you know when is the next time is to do it. That's what I'd do at fifty thousand miles."