u/Kugelblitz5957

So I just got my exhaust done today. Borla S-Type, and I wanted to put down some first impressions. Firstly, tone and pitch. I love it. Awesome sound. However, the cold start is super loud. And it is much louder than I thought it would be in general as well. I was expecting maybe a 50-60% increase in volume from stock, but it's more like double the volume or even more. That's a bit much for me and I'll probably be adding a muffler or resonator at some point in the future. The "sweet spot" is cruising at 2,500-3,000 rpm, you can almost forget the exhaust is there. I just drove it about an hour to get home and it's definitely set off my tinnitus now that I'm in the quiet so be warned. Cabin noise levels are much higher when accelerating but about the same when maintaining a speed as stock, and honestly the couple times I floored it, it was only a little louder inside as just driving on a poorly maintained concrete road with stock tires.

So I picked up my 2024 BRZ used last October. At time of purchase, it had ~6,500 miles. As of right now, it's sitting around ~20,200 miles. Other than typical maintenance, oil and tires every 5k miles, differential fluid, coolant, transmission fluid and all the other various fluids and filters at the standard intervals, what is expected to fail first in this car and is there any type of preventative maintenance I can do? Has anyone put a ton of miles on the new generation to see how it keeps up after a couple hundred thousand? It seems to be burning a little under half a quart of oil across an oil change as well, but that's in the "normal" levels.