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The yellow items on your Vehicle Health Roadmap — the ones that aren't urgent yet. Here's roughly when each one comes due, so you can plan it and budget for it instead of being blindsided by one giant bill.
Read this bit first. These are typical ranges, not MDC's prescription for your vehicle. Your owner's manual may say something different, and it wins. Severe use — towing, short trips, mountain grades, dusty roads, a lot of idling — pulls almost every one of these numbers shorter. Around here, mountain grades alone are enough to matter. Bring it in and Mike will tell you what yours actually needs. If it doesn't need something, he'll say so.
Conventional oil tends toward the short end of that range; full synthetic often goes 7,500 or beyond. Your manual and your driving decide which.
Usually done at the oil change so it costs you no extra trip.
Minutes, not hours. This is where the yellow items on your roadmap get spotted.
Sooner if you're on dirt or gravel roads regularly — plenty of folks around here are.
The one most people never know they have.
Pads, rotors, fluid condition. Inspection is not the same as replacement — often the answer is "you've got plenty left."
This is the one Mike will talk to you about properly, because it's his trade and because the interval swings enormously — some makes say 30,000, some say 100,000, some claim "lifetime." Towing, hills and heat all shorten it. If you tow in these mountains, assume sooner rather than later.
Modern long-life coolants often stretch well past 60,000. Old-style green does not.
Often quoted by time rather than miles — roughly every 2–3 years.
Varies hugely — some are due at 30,000, iridium plugs can run to 100,000.
Commonly 60,000–105,000 miles. Many engines use a chain instead and don't need this at all — worth asking which one you've got.
Typically 3–5 years. Testing is quick and free-ish; guessing is what leaves you stranded.
Age and condition matter more than a fixed number here. This is inspection territory.
What we won't do. We won't sell you a flush, a filter or a fluid change you don't need just because a chart says a number. If your fluid is clean and your brakes have life in them, that's what you'll be told. That's the whole point of the roadmap.
Bring it in. You'll get the roadmap — what's urgent, what can wait, and what's fine — so you can plan the rest around your budget.
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