Oil Change on the Turbo Yaris

[06YarisRS]

Covid-19 isolating has given me time to work on my car, and do lots of posts including such basic things as oil changes. :rolleyes: Hopefully. it's not too boring. :laugh: Getting the car ready for spring. Although there was probably less than a couple thousand kms on the oil, I figured I'd change it out. I live on the edge with this car, so it does get extra maintenance.

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After reviewing tmontague's posts on oil, I decided to go with the 5W20

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While doing the oil change, I checked all connections: turbo piping, turbo manifold and downpipe bolts/studs, oil feed, drain, turbo coolant hoses and all connections and hoses for the transmission cooling tubing, sensors and cooler etc for leaks as well as checked piping clearances etc. I did a lot of rustproofing while I was under there too.

One minor thing I found...

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[Kaotic Lazagna]

Nice. I took this time to change the coolant on my Yaris yesterday since it's past 100k miles.

[06YarisRS]

Nice. I took this time to change the coolant on my Yaris yesterday since it's past 100k miles.

Ah ha. That reminds me. I should do that too. I think my current coolant only has a couple thousand kms and about a year on it as well. It's probably fine, but I do like fresh fluids in the spring. Brake fluid flush is slated for tomorrow, unless I get diverted onto restoring the new (used) set of wheels I picked up today.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Ah ha. That reminds me. I should do that too. I think my current coolant only has a couple thousand kms and about a year on it as well. It's probably fine, but I do like fresh fluids in the spring. Brake fluid flush is slated for tomorrow, unless I get diverted onto restoring the new (used) set of wheels I picked up today.

Yeah, I wouldn't bother with the coolant if it's that new still. :laugh:

Brake fluid is something most people don't ever change or even look at. What do you use? I like DOT3/4 (Amsoil brand for me). I've tried Torque RT700 (DOT 4), but it didn't last long before starting to absorb water...but then again, I think the shop I went to botched it up (actually, a couple years later, admitted to it, but that's another story). Figure, the one time I let someone else work on my car...

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Good job but sir, please get a pair of proper jackstands, infact get 4x of them, they are cheap - reliable and small enough to not take too much space.

[06YarisRS]

Good job but sir, please get a pair of proper jackstands, infact get 4x of them, they are cheap - reliable and small enough to not take too much space.

Thanks. Actually I do have 4 jack stands. A couple of them are 5 ton stands. My car lived on them while I did the swap and then the turbo kit. For quick jobs like oil changes, inspections and trans fluid drain etc. I just jack up and block under the tires with 4 x 4s. Normally, I would crib two levels of three blocks for a total of 6 per wheel, but this time I only used 4, each side. Even if the jacks failed, the car would only drop a couple inches.

[06YarisRS]

Yeah, I wouldn't bother with the coolant if it's that new still. :laugh:

Brake fluid is something most people don't ever change or even look at. What do you use? I like DOT3/4 (Amsoil brand for me). I've tried Torque RT700 (DOT 4), but it didn't last long before starting to absorb water...but then again, I think the shop I went to botched it up (actually, a couple years later, admitted to it, but that's another story). Figure, the one time I let someone else work on my car...

Sorry, I missed this. Yeah, I've seen some pretty dark fluid in cars that come into our school shop. I'm sure that a lot of brake jobs (caliper replacement) could have been avoided even with very occasional brake flushing. I just use SuperTech (blue bottle) DOT3.

I totally get doing your own work. It's not always that techs are not skilled, but probably a little more cavalier as it's not their own personal vehicle. Even dealerships I've talk to will often use un-approved fluids. I'm still surprised when speaking with dealerships that they don't even always use their stocked OEM fluids. I was speaking with Kia and VW about what's involved in their transmission fluid replacement and they use a universal fluid, Wynns or something. I would actually have to 'request' that they use OEM fluid.