Routine maintenance

[Chubbs765]

I'm sorry if this is a noon question or whatever you guys wanna call it but I just bought a 2002 Lincoln LS sport with v8 and I was curious of all of the routine maintenance you guys did to your cars? It's my first actual car worth giving a :q:q:q:q about so I wanna make sure everything is up to date. Btw it has 68,000 miles

 

[BlackLS06]

I'd suggest you search around first and you will find your answer. Look at the sticky threads.

 

[Chubbs765]

Yeah I looked and didn't find anything about maintenance.

 

[nelliott500]

Do you know any of the service history?

Assuming you know absolutely no service history on it, with that mileage, I would have the transmission flushed with a filter change, check the brake pads and rotors, do an oil change with good 5W20 synthetic (or Motorcraft 5W20 semi-synthetic) and a quality filter (no FRAM bull:q:q:q:q -- Purolator or Motorcraft are good), change out the fuel filter (probably never been done before), and you might want to replace the spark plugs with Motorcraft SP-468 or NGK Iridiums (I believe). If you want to go with Motorcraft for plugs, look for the thread I made recently with an eBay link for the plug pretty cheap.

If you inspect the brakes, I would pull the caliper off and grease the slide pins. I found one of my front slide pins was completely seized and I had to tap it out.

Routine maintenance on these cars isn't really any different than other cars.

 

[oddball]

Go to http://owner.ford.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Owner/Page/OwnerGuidePage, enter your car's details, download the owner's manual.

Done.