I purchased an 04 TL (5AT, Nav) about 2 weeks ago and I don't know the maintenance history.
Currently, it has 102k and was wondering what service should I perform?

I was thinking the following items, but didn't know if I should do more? (Was going to make a day and night of it to get it all done at one time.)

105k service purchased from here: timing belt, drivebelt, water pump, hydraulic tensioner, bearing tensioner,

Also: thermostat, coolant flush, spark plugs

In addition: cabin filter, AT drain/fill, AT filter change, air filter

Thoughts?

 

sounds like a great plan of attack.

break fluid?

 

Congrats on your purchase and welcome to AZ! How are the brakes?

 

You might want to add power steering fluid change. My car had 45kmi and the fluid was black even more than my AT fluid.

 

I will check on the brakes, they passed a recent inspection.

As for the power steering fluid change, just looked that up in the service manual and it seems simple enough. Will add that to the list!

I have the power steering whine when it's cold and found on here that it's the O-Ring, so I'll be changing that out too.

 

All of the above and you may want to check motor and transmission mounts as well. I just recently replaced all the mounts, 3 motor and 3 tranny. I think my front mount went first and that took out all the other ones.

04 TL AT

 

Air filter if it needs it.

Add in the 3rd and 4th gear pressure switches for your transmission. ...and a total of 3 drains and refills on the transmission fluid.

I am going to change the idler, front main and cam oil seals too, but most people don't do this from what I can tell.

 

how do you know if the mounts are bad?

 

Excessive engine vibration, "thunk" noise going over a speed bump or when shifting from park. Now other things give the same symptoms so if you have those symptoms then you will have to locate your engine mounts and then have someone you can trust put the car into "D" and hold the brake pedal at the same time while giving it a little gas. On the front and rear engine mounts you should see the engine lift off the mount a little but not enough to where it hits the top of the mount guard and also if it's shot you will see it cracked.The side does not have a guard but it too will lift and if you see any cracks then your side is shot too.

 

when i first purchase the tl i did all fluids under the hood and made sure i was feeding it premium gas only (shell). go to firestone and get a full lifetime alignment. rubber ain't cheap, hope this helps. i'm sure other ziner members will chime in gl buddy

 

Thanks to everyone that has contributed! This definitely gives me a direction to go in and hopefully other members can benefit also.

 

We have one of these threads a week. If you search you will find there are some very specific things that need to be addressed if you have a 5at. Not everything has been mentioned here.