Two simple questions. Please help.

[dannydavi]

yeah, my head gasket didn't blow until around 125k miles on it. but remember preventative maintenance is much cheaper and easier on you.

[Hiccups]

preventive maintenance? What do you mean? What exactly can i do?

[86.5 7MGE]

Originally Posted by Hiccups

preventive maintenance? What do you mean? What exactly can i do?

Don't worry what dannydavi means is that you can do it now you don't have to wait until later when you actually do have a BHG. And plus it will be a lot cheaper cause it's less things that you would have to purchase. Also, If you don't know much about the car cause you just purchased it sounds like...it would be very wise to do a full complete tune up on it so your Supra will run at it's best performance...remember if you treat your cars right they will be very dependible even though they're 23yrs old. Just think of it as an expensive gf.

[dannydavi]

Yeah exactly, they are expensive girlfriends :P and yeah what I mean by 'preventative maintenance' is it is always better to fix something before it is actually broken.. it's like tires... they give you a good time to replace them based on tread depth for safety reasons. The less tread on a tire the easier it is to puncture/ blow out while driving. Thus leaving you stranded on side of road when you may not have the money to fix. So better to get new tires when recommended time comes around hopefully that makes sense. And as far as the HG goes, same concept. you wouldn't want to be driving down the road and see your temperature gauge sky rocket into the red on your way to work! Not only are you going to be late to work and get written up, but you also just spent your last check on frivolous things and now can't afford to do an HG replacement. So do it when you can if you know it's going to happen. And with Supra's... we know it's going to happen.