Brand new 2013 GT owner, what now?
09-03-2012, 08:18 AM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: New York
Posts: 2
Brand new 2013 GT owner, what now?
Hello everyone!
Just wanted to jump in and say hello, and look for advice. I recently bought a new 2013 Mustang GT Premium and this is my first Mustang. I was wondering, besides driving around and learning my car, what else should a new owner be doing? I'm trying to be proactive and joining these forums, buying Mustang mags to read up about their history and to better treat them and basic mechanics.
I'm wondering if there is anything else you could advise me to do. I want to treat my car like my baby, and I'd like to learn more about her.
Thanks in advanced.
Just wanted to jump in and say hello, and look for advice. I recently bought a new 2013 Mustang GT Premium and this is my first Mustang. I was wondering, besides driving around and learning my car, what else should a new owner be doing? I'm trying to be proactive and joining these forums, buying Mustang mags to read up about their history and to better treat them and basic mechanics.
I'm wondering if there is anything else you could advise me to do. I want to treat my car like my baby, and I'd like to learn more about her.
Thanks in advanced.
09-03-2012, 08:42 AM
#2
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Close Enough
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Congrats and welcome to the site.
Follow the break in procedure in the manual and enjoy.
The day I brought mine home I used a clay bar on it, then waxed it. You wouldn't think that the clay bar would be necessary on a brand new car, but they can pick up a lot of junk duriing shipping and sitting on a lot waiting for you to give it a new home.
Follow the break in procedure in the manual and enjoy.
The day I brought mine home I used a clay bar on it, then waxed it. You wouldn't think that the clay bar would be necessary on a brand new car, but they can pick up a lot of junk duriing shipping and sitting on a lot waiting for you to give it a new home.
Last edited by DK Pony; 09-03-2012 at 08:45 AM.
09-03-2012, 01:19 PM
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09-03-2012, 03:17 PM
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(Congrats, and cool!)
09-04-2012, 11:21 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
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subscribing to this thread
Rather than starting another just subscribing to this thread as I'm in the same boat.
Although I'm not completely crazy when it comes to detailing I did take the clay bar to it, then polished then waxed. After reading a million posts I did just order the JLT Oil separator. I baby my cars, it'll rarely go over the speed limit and sure as #$%# will never be on a track (although I do have open access to the Atlanta Motor Speedway...hhhmmm), so it's probably negligible on whether the JLT is really necessary but what the heck, it's only money.
I haven't changed my own oil in about 2 decades just because of the convenience of having it done and warranty issues. The fact is, it wont take me much longer to crawl under there and do it myself than it does to drive to the dealership and obviously changing it yourself, as long as you can document it, doesn't affect the warranty. I'm just tired of going to dealers and not knowing if it's done right. So to insure I don't change my mind I went to advance auto today and bought the ramps, oil filter wrench, drain bucket and recycle container along with royal purple 5w-20 oil ($10 mail-in rebate form on 5 quarts hanging by oil display) and a motorcraft filter. I only have 200 miles on the car so I'll be poking around the forums to see when people recommend the 'full synthetic' switch.
Any other suggestions? I'd like to change out all the fluids but I'd have to do a bit of research on how to go about that. My 82 Cavalier may have been a little different lol
Although I'm not completely crazy when it comes to detailing I did take the clay bar to it, then polished then waxed. After reading a million posts I did just order the JLT Oil separator. I baby my cars, it'll rarely go over the speed limit and sure as #$%# will never be on a track (although I do have open access to the Atlanta Motor Speedway...hhhmmm), so it's probably negligible on whether the JLT is really necessary but what the heck, it's only money.
I haven't changed my own oil in about 2 decades just because of the convenience of having it done and warranty issues. The fact is, it wont take me much longer to crawl under there and do it myself than it does to drive to the dealership and obviously changing it yourself, as long as you can document it, doesn't affect the warranty. I'm just tired of going to dealers and not knowing if it's done right. So to insure I don't change my mind I went to advance auto today and bought the ramps, oil filter wrench, drain bucket and recycle container along with royal purple 5w-20 oil ($10 mail-in rebate form on 5 quarts hanging by oil display) and a motorcraft filter. I only have 200 miles on the car so I'll be poking around the forums to see when people recommend the 'full synthetic' switch.
Any other suggestions? I'd like to change out all the fluids but I'd have to do a bit of research on how to go about that. My 82 Cavalier may have been a little different lol