Picture perfect maintenance?

I saw this on another forum. A 1994 Acura Legend owner who's put already 300,000 miles on his car and all maintenance on this car has been done at the dealership complete with records.







Pretty damn cheap if you ask me. What figures do you think a stock E46 or any BMW model for that matter would put up if all maintenance is done at the dealership for 300,000K miles?

I used to take care of my Acura Legend like that. Makes me miss my old Legend

I think I've spent about 6k in maintenance over the years... 3 of which was last winter

Not including the swap I've spent nearly $7.5k on my car just in maintenance. Only things I haven't replaced: alternator, fuel pump and CPS. Literally everything else has been replaced

That is mighty impressive though, if I had done everything through the dealer I'm sure it would have cost 2x as much.

he should have sold the car @ 148K and bought a new car. up until 148K he had only oil changes and regular inspections, after that the car became money pit.

this is what I've done on my car in 12K:
4 new tires - $700
brakes and rotors - $350
vanos seals - around $100 all together
2x oil change - $120
diff and transmission oil - not sure, let's say $60
wiper inserts - $11 for two sets
broken pass mirror (my dumbness) - $350 ouch
angel eyes - $160
front right turn signal (broken clip) - around $60
lost mirror cover - $20 (thanks to fellow fanatic)
clips that I bought just in case - $20-30
paint for mirror cover - $60-70
few times burned out light bulb - $150
brighter fog light bulbs - $20

it totals around $1800

damn, I didn't even know until now!

some of those oil and filters are changed weekly lol 5000 miles in a week geez

Miss my Legend too ... Mine was as realiable!

The first 4 years of our car (BMW) is free ...

Originally Posted by thatsonlyme

he should have sold the car @ 148K and bought a new car. up until 148K he had only oil changes and regular inspections, after that the car became money pit.

It always cheaper to keep her. A new car would have depreciated by more than his total maintenance cost within 5 years. Plus he still would need to pay for maintenance.

Wow thats great, I dont even wana add up how much ive spend, Mods, maintenance etc.

Oil changes every 3k miles. Ha, I wonder if you guys would still do that if it cost you $200 a pop (materials only)

i still have my legend and love it.. it might end up being my back up car if the e46 has a major delayed repair

Did you notice he changed oil EVERY month or every 2500 miles. that must be crazy

most of that 16.5K is for oil changes... ahaha

I've payed nowhere around that amounts on my car , and it's a -98 (barely got any rust either)

What i've done :

Aribags x2 : $500
Rotor rear : $200
Brake pads: $ 200
Bushings : $700 (engine,tranny,subframe,diff,trailing arms)
FCA+Bushings : $500
PS hoses : $80
Harmonic stabilizer : $200
Fan clutch : $ 300
Flywheel + clutch(&SSK) : $1500
ONE window regulator in 11 years : $100
Tires : $3500 (new winter rims too)
Oil : $200

Total : ~ 8k in maintnance since i bought it a year ago, most of these things aren't regular maintnace , but i count it as maintnance since i dont cosider it a mod(except for the flywheel)

Mods :
Bumpers : $ 600
S/C : $4000
Headers : $ 500
Sound : $ 1500

Wouldn't a legend use non-synthetic oil? That's probably why it was changed so frequently.

I've started a spreadsheet similar to that, but I've only had the car since june and only driven 4k miles

but I have all of the original owners records on it