Lexus: Schedule service based on time or mileage?

I drive less than average -- about 10K miles/year. I recently moved to
a new office that is even closer to my home, so I will probably put
even fewer miles on the car.

The LS400 manual recommends an A service every 4 months/5K miles. That
seems based on averaging 15K miles/year. I average much less than
that. In 4 months, I probably put only 3K miles on the car. It would
probably take me closer to 6 months to put 5K miles on it.

What's my best strategy for both the A level services and also for the
more B, C, and D?

I'm thinking that I will do the B/C/D services at the mileage marks,
regardless of time, and just do an extra A service in between based on
time. For example:

4 mo 3700 mi A service
8 mo 7500 mi A service
12 mo 11300 mi A service (extra)
16 mo 15000 mi B service

etc...

So that instead of two A services in between the more major services,
I will have 3 most times.

Is that a good strategy?


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Owner of a 1999 LS400, purchased certified in 2002
and a 2001 RX 300, purchased certified in 2003
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:17:43 GMT, "Douglas Kaip"
<e_a_r_t_h_l_i_n_k> wrote:
 

That definitely could be a factor. My old office was about 1 miles
away -- all freeway. My new office is about a mile away on city
streets. But I am self-employed. I only go to the office to see
clients. About 60% of my work is paper work which I do in my home
office. So, clearly my car does not get a good warm up on a daily
basis. It never even leaves the garage at least 2-3 days each week.

However, we do occasionally go for longer trips -- drives of 1-3 hours
on the freeway. These are probably about once a month or so.

However, I doubt that I would ever go 8 months between oil changes. I
think the longest would be 7 months with the average being 5-6.

--
Owner of a 1999 LS400, purchased certified in 2002
and a 2001 RX 300, purchased certified in 2003
For email, use Usenet-20031220 at spamex.com