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Originally Posted by nick325xit 5spd
I'm not really clear on what impact maintenance has on gasket leaks.
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Same question here.
I bought my car from the original owner at 93k miles -- it was always promptly and properly dealer maintained, and I have ten thousand dollars worth of dealership receipts from the original owner (just from the out-of-warranty period from 60k to 93k miles). They didn't maintain it themselves, but they paid a huge sum of money to keep it maintained at the dealership about as good as it could be.
Yet I still have had massive amounts of failures in my ownership (only six years and 30k miles). Five window regulators, one door handle, continuous issues with failing bulb sockets, broken sunroof, all of the power steering hoses, the entire CCV system and all vacuum hoses, failed OFHG, failed VCG, and I am still working on the pan leaks.
I don't know how any maintenance routine would have prevented any of that.