You didn't say how far your trip is or exactly when its coming, but I
probably wouldn't do any preventative maintenance before leaving in your
situation.

To put a number on it, let's say... you might want to drive 20% of your
road trip distance between the last mechanical work and the trip.  Taking a
500 mile trip?  Put 100 miles on it before hand.  Taking a 3000 mile trip?
Put 500 miles on it.  Obviously there are limits to this kind of
one-size-fits all rule but the basic point is that I want to have waited a
long time, relative to the length of the trip.

Of course, if you have some problem or known bad part you are trying to
address that is a different situation.  But if everything is already
working great this is a way to prevent yourself inadvertently causing
yourself headaches down the road.

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:01 PM, marc rose <mrose1028@gmail.com> wrote:

> We are taking our first road trip in a a few weeks and was looking for some
> input on what might ruin my trip that i can fix before we leave.  All in
> all "Rosie" a 91 Carat auto, runs great for getting around town and for
> driving to work.  However, I would still ike to know what i should look at
> closely before hand.  I have recently replaced the tires, (RA08), new
> muffler, starter and headlight relay, new fuel lines and rails.  I was
> thinking of changing all the hoses, does anyone recommend a kit or vendor?
> Any advice on this would be great!!
>
> Thanks
>
> Marc
>