Keeping your car for many, many years and driving it for 250k+ miles, and more really isn't as difficult as it may seem.

In this iDriveSoCal Podcast West Coast Toyota's Service Director, Shannon Eckel, shares;

--The simple secrets to your car's longevity.

--Why only factory trained techs should work on your car.

--How buying a new [West Coast] Toyota means only paying for gas for 2-years.

Click play below to listen and learn even more about maximizing the miles from any car!

***Transcription***

Recorded @ West Coast Toyota in Long Beach, CA

Toyota Vehicle Maintenance

Shannon Eckel: Bringing it to the dealership on its recommended maintenance schedule is key. A lot of people think that new car dealers only see the new cars that are still yet under warranty.

We're actually seeing vehicles well into the high two-hundred-thousand miles consistently here.

Make sure that your vehicle's safe for your family, and we're going to make sure, right along with you when you bring your vehicle in as part of our health check.

Tom Smith: Welcome to iDriveSoCal, the podcast all about mobility from the automotive capital of the United States, Southern California. Tom Smith here, and I'm excited to be at West Coast Toyota in Long Beach.

West Coast Toyota Long Beach is our newest partner of the iDriveSoCal program, and joining me is Mr. Shannon Eckel, who is the service director for West Coast Toyota Long Beach. Thank you so much for joining me and thank you and the whole team for joining our team.

Shannon Eckel: Absolutely. Happy to have you here and thank you for coming down today.

Tom Smith: Toyotas run forever. Everybody knows that Toyotas are everywhere in Southern California, and one of the biggest brands probably throughout the United States market by market.

"Bringing it to the dealership on its recommended maintenance schedule is key..."

The run forever thing is key for lots and lots of people, and one of the things that the podcast listeners love to know is, "How do I keep my Toyota on the road for hundreds of thousands of miles?"

Shannon Eckel: That's a great question right there, and Toyota's actually taken it and made it real simple for you. They've actually went ahead and put right into the owner's manual, the maintenance guide, of exactly what your vehicle is going to need to achieve exactly that goal.

Drive Your Car for 250,000 and More!

If you're sticking to that particular maintenance package then you're definitely going to get that out of it, out of your car.

Bringing it to the dealership on its recommended maintenance schedule is key to that. We're going to go ahead and give it a health check every time it comes in, a multi-point inspection, letting you know exactly what it is your vehicle is looking like, what you may be looking at in the future.

"...AdvantageCARE we call it for $119.95.  Three oil & filter cahnges and tire rotations."

We do that again with a multi-point inspection, and we're going to let you know if something needs to be done.

We're going to let you know, “Hey, this is red. It needs to be done right away.” If it's yellow in a caution zone, we're going to let you know this is something that we should be thinking about.

Either “Yeah let's get it done this time, or maybe the next service visit,” and also keying up a few things for you for the future, just letting you know what it is.

Tom Smith: And you mentioned red and yellow. Does that pertain to, kind of, coding that you guys talk about internally, or does that also pertain to the lights that pop on on the dashboard?

Shannon Eckel: I'm actually glad you asked that question. It actually pertains to both. We actually,