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My 2002 SC430 just reached 222,222 miles. Got her new back in 2001.
Best, all round, daily driver I've ever owned. Goes out every day, come rain, snow (less than 4 inches deep), and is still fun to drive after 19 years.
Minimal additional work needed beyond routine maintenance.
Radiator replaced this year due to leak
Brake rotors replaced x 1
Timing belt & water pump x 2 (Q 90K miles routine)
Replaced battery x 3
Replaced trunk lift air struts x 1
She's still fantastic on road and even better now that I reworked with new super Pro Poly sway and steering rack bushings, and ISF rear sway bar.
Already cornering flatter and tracking truer than when she was new. Grins going through twisty curves instead of rolling side to side.
Still up next month are front Figs swaybar, coilovers, and front end suspension refresh of all components. Lower caster arm bushings have been shot for probably 15 years and never even got clunks. Dealership somehow never noticed the bushings are mostly airgaps instead of rubber. Refresh of front suspension will take care of that.
Seattlesc, I'm driving around Seattle in my sc all the time but live a bit south currently in tacoma.. have done similliar maint but threw knock sensor code the whole vsc / vsc off blah blah.. did enough research and I really believe it's just the sensors so will be tearing into that next weekend.. anyway pnw sc430 here you'll be seein cut through the snow here soon
Yup! It's pretty funny blasting by 4x4's stuck on icy hills with my SC430. They look at me like.... WTH is that doing out here?
So long as it's not deep, it's amazingly well behaved with snow tires and spike spyders.
One the other hand, my all season Pilot Sport's are useless with just the least bit of ice. Once temps go below 50 degrees, my snow wheels go on. 17 inch rims with higher profile winter tires. Put them on a few weeks ago.
Good for you. That’s quit an achievement, I have never driven one car for over 100,000 miles. I have a 2007 SC and am hoping to make this my first over that mileage. I live in upstate NY and do not drive mine in the winter so it could be quite some time before I hit 100,000.
Dennis, those are my QuickJack BL-5000SLX. Best addition to my garage tools I've made in quite a while. Absolutely love them. They hydraulically lift (via car's 4 factor lift points) 21 inches. You can lock them in two positions (mid-lift and full up). When locked, they are mechanically solid and not supported by hydraulics. You can even detach the hydraulic hoses to free up the work space. When done with them, I just hang the Quickjacks on the the wall behind one of my rolling cabinets. You wouldn't even know I have them.
Still need a creeper to work under car, but it is fantastic to decide I want to work on the car and have it fully up and locked in ten minutes of deciding to do so. The lift itself is about 60 seconds. Most of the time is my verifying all the lift points and adapter blocks are perfectly engaged. It's way faster and more solid than my old jack and jackstands process. Faster and more solidly supported when up. You can still position extra jackstands as an additonial safety measure, but the car is basically up on two huge, rectangular jack stands when the QJ is locked.
I use Byenins Large Slotted Universal Magnetic atop the QuickJack's large blocks to protect my pinch welds. Originally used some rubber adapters, but I prefer the Byenins.
Down Sides I've Found Using it...
1. The lift moves car fore/aft radially due to the parallelogram geometry. That makes is a bit more difficult to land wheels onto scales.
2. Some very minor hydraulic fluid leakage can occur during usage. It's not a problem on an epoxied floor, but would stain uncoated cement.
3. You still need a creeper to work under the car, but you get a couple more more space than I had with jackstands.
Full up position is enough to attach PACO Alignment Hubstands with about 2.5 inches clearance below the stands.
I think the lowest cost place to get the QuickJack is via Costco.
This little combo has made mounting and unmounting wheels an effortless affair. A Motorcycle lift + wheel roller lets me position wheels onto studs with near zero effort. Rolls into place, rotate the wheel easily and lift into perfect position to fall onto the studs. Way easier than even my stud guide tubes. No more straining to lift wheel to exactly correct position.
Apextreme 1100 LB Motorcycle Lift Center Scissor Lift Jack
Grand PitStop Motorcycle Wheel cleaning stand (The roller thingy)
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Casters and lift platform of Motorcycle lift yield effortless x y and z motion with wheel atop. Wheels stand erect by themselves upon the cleaning stand roller. The wheel cleaning stand's rollers allow spinning of wheel into correct clock position. I used to struggle at times holding up wheels and getting the studs to align. It was even worse with the old dish plate wheel covers where you basically cannot see the studs.
Now it's super simple and uses minimal muscle to put the wheels on or take them off. I can do all the maneuvering with just finger strength. No more grunting or worrying I will damage a stud if I partially miss with the wheel. Slip on / Slip off with full support of the weight being done by the positioner. Once two lug nuts are loosely on, lower the positioner and roll it away.
Figs Front and ISF Rear Sway Bars
New polyurethane sway bar bushings
New Bosch Quietcast rotors and Akebono ceramic pads
Brake fluid flushed
Replaced Power Steering Fluid
Replaced Transmission Fluid
New PCV valve and grommet
New NGK spark plugs
Cleaned throttle body
With the above, she's more driveable than ever before, even when new.
Next week, she gets a front suspension rebuild with the Figs Engineering front suspension refresh kit. The original struts are getting swapped out for BC coilovers. In consultation with Fig's regarding how I want the ride altered, mine are 10Kg/mm front and 10Kg/mm rear units specially built to maintain OEM ride height. (I need the clearance for my Spyke Spiders)
Coilovers took about seven weeks to be built with longer shocks. The goodies finally arrived.....
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10-27-20, 09:51 PM
Whoo Hooo! 222,222 Miles
