dyn4mik3

Alright - I'll try some of these things in the next couple weekends. Never performed any maintenance myself, so wish me luck.

Is there a way for me to check the caps/rotors? Thanks for the links.

So I had a mechanic do a tune up, oil change, replace the timing belt, drive belt, water pump, spark plugs, and ignition wires. The car is running smoothly again. Forgot to tell them to change the distributor caps/rotors.

Anyone have recommendations as to where I should go for this service? (as you can tell, I'm not too knowledgeable about these things) Should I goto a local mechanic or should I take my car into the dealer? I haven't found any toyota specific local mechanics in my area - would something like a sears/goodyear work?

I have a 1992 LS400 with 160K miles on it. Other than changing the oil every 3k miles, I haven't done anything else to maintain the car. (Unless something breaks like the air conditioning). Lately, the car hasn't been running as smoothly as before. It feels like it is stuttering or the engine is misfiring. What should I do to get the car to tip top shape? In addition to taking it in to get the engine misfire fixed, are there any other maintenance things I should be doing? I always thought that it was time to buy a new car, but now that I've found this forum - it looks like this car should last another 100K miles!