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How often do you grease/lube your car?

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GDawg

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I don't think I ever have and it's at 46K...

Where are the grease fittings?
 

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Does anything on our car have grease fittings?
Ford likes us to buy replacement parts
 
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Maybe lube the suspension bushings once in a while..........anyone know with what?

My LCA's have spherical bearings on the chassis side, I don't know if I can lube them with anything.
 

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Most modern cars have grease-for-life. The service hours of todays greases can exceed the life expectancy of the bearings so many of them are maintenance-free. Its not that Ford expects it to break, its that you really don't need to do anything.
 

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The mustang is sealed. No grease fittings.
 

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Aaron 4.6 said:
Most modern cars have grease-for-life. The service hours of todays greases can exceed the life expectancy of the bearings so many of them are maintenance-free. Its not that Ford expects it to break, its that you really don't need to do anything.
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Cool... I started thinking about it the other day and since I do my own oil changes figured that maybe I dropped the ball on that one.
 

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Aaron 4.6 said:
Most modern cars have grease-for-life. The service hours of todays greases can exceed the life expectancy of the bearings so many of them are maintenance-free. Its not that Ford expects it to break, its that you really don't need to do anything.
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... Tell that to my tie rods which needed to be replaced.
 
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With all this I'm hearing about people and tie-rods going bad, I think I'll give mine a look over. Loose = bad?
 

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GinoGT said:
With all this I'm hearing about people and tie-rods going bad, I think I'll give mine a look over. Loose = bad?
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mine were squeeking like a mofo when I turned
and since no grease fittings, had to replace them
(inner tie rods)
 

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JonJon said:
mine were squeeking like a mofo when I turned
and since no grease fittings, had to replace them
(inner tie rods)
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My daughter has a '94 v6 Mustang and I was backing it up the other day while turning and I noticed it made a horrible sound. You think it might be her tie rods??
 

JonJon

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GDawg said:
My daughter has a '94 v6 Mustang and I was backing it up the other day while turning and I noticed it made a horrible sound. You think it might be her tie rods??
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Could be... Mine was intermittent for a while and only when I turned left. Then one day, turning left AND right would squeek (REALLY LOUD) so when I brought it to Ford for an oil change they told me it was the inner tie rods.
 
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