They seriously have "fuel system treatment" that involves a bottle of magic juice as one of the scheduled tasks? I'm not personally a believer in that stuff, but a bottle of Techron is what, 10 bucks?
Techron is known as a good fuel injector cleaner, and cheaper than having them professionally cleaned with the proper equipment. Techron around here was $8-$9, and I don't mind throwing one in the tank every so often. Using
Top Tier gas also helps, and in Michigan, that is available at most major gasoline chains except
Greedway Speedway. (Avoid the no-name crap, in other words.)
Most things have 100K coolant now, and honestly have for a bunch of years now Check the owner's manual, the maint schedule is in there. If this uses standard green antifreeze ~30k is about right though.
I think my two newer CR-Vs are 100k, then 50k thereafter. They are timed so that when the coolant is drained via the bottom of the radiator, you get out some, but not all, of the old coolant. It's all calculated to keep the coolant "fresh" without having to drain or flush out all traces of it. I only use the Honda coolant, right from the dealer. It's pre-mixed, and it's the right stuff that won't damage the internals of the engine (as the cheaper coolants are known to do).
My buddy is a mechanic at a fairly large Honda dealership, and 90+% of all of the CVT transmissions that they replace have failed due to improper "service" at one of those places. It is so prevalent that they stock spare trannies on the shelf--rebuild is not even an option--just chuck in a new one. Of course, the improper service voids the warranty, so open your wallet and dig DEEP.
I don't know if anyone has had any luck suing the quick lube shops over this. I've read this same thing
so many times. Those grease monkeys at the lube shops grab whichever hose is available to "top off" fluids. Some
still don't know the difference between auto tranny and CVT. Others just grab the wrong hose out of habit. Hell, they did it to one of my dad's cars, topping off the power steering with the wrong fluid, ruining the pump. Thing is, he'd been to a few shops and couldn't tell which one had done it.
I was able to find Toyota documentation on what the authorized repair should have taken in hours and the unauthorized repair showed 1 hour of labor (in parentheses was the notation CTR 1.0 next to the charge).
Public service message: all of the automakers have this information. Ford calls it SLTS (service labor time standards)--this is how they determine the "book rates" for warranty work, to reimburse the dealers. (My ex has worked with it on and off since the late 1980s.)
Brake fluid, IMHO, is more of a safety issue....being hygroscopic (it absorbs water), it`s not a bad idea to change/flush it every 2 to 3 years....
I think it should be part of scheduled maintenance. Nobody notices that their brake pedal gets softer over time, but they do. I'm due to do this on our cars here. It's a messy job and requires two people, so I prefer to handle it all in one day. The power steering fluid probably could be drained and filled as well.
I've just been setting my alignment with carpenter's tools and getting about as good results as I had been getting at shops, sometimes better.
When we were in the economic pinch a decade ago, my tires got torn up by poor alignment. When I got the new tires (worst ones I ever bought, BTW), I held two yardsticks together with rubber bands and used them to check the inside distance between the front wheels, at the front and rear of the wheels. I adjusted the tie rods, got 'em to measure equal, and those miserable tires lasted way longer than I wanted them to.
Since the tire dealer offered a free alignment check, I had them run it when I got the nitrogen topped off, and my front wheels were within spec. (They were way toed-out previously, which tore up the inside edges of both tires.)