What's ur longest drive in a Yaris without stopping(cept gas)?

[Yawesh]

Planning to move to San Fran one day and was thinking about driving nearly 3000 miles without stopping.(cept gas)

I once drove from new york to orlando without stopping(cept gas, but no break - get gas and go), my longest drive which is about 16 hours with traffic. (however, not with yaris)


my question is would the yaris engine survive driving 3000 miles almost constantly?

[aca72]

Originally Posted by Yawesh

my question is would the yaris engine survive driving 3000 miles almost constantly?

It will survive.

Check out trini_per4mance's 320,000 mile Yaris in exactly 2yrs 8months.

[mryaris]

Cruising for long distances at a constant speed is much easier on an engine....any engine....than daily stop & go commuting. I have driven many different cars 1000-3000 miles non-stop (except for gas) and all held up just fine (even my 50-year old Austin-Healey), so I wouldn't worry too much about messing anything up.

[blacksandiegovitz]

Originally Posted by mryaris

Cruising for long distances at a constant speed is much easier on an engine....any engine....than daily stop & go commuting. I have driven many different cars 1000-3000 miles non-stop (except for gas) and all held up just fine (even my 50-year old Austin-Healey), so I wouldn't worry too much about messing anything up.

^^^ SO true ! I've done 8.5 hours none stop (2 gas stops) from san deigo to San fransico and everything was cool @ 85mph average speed.

[DefStarYaris]

Portland OR to Fresno CA. About 13 hours if I recall correctly.

Second would probably be Fresno to San Diego, forgot how long of a drive that was.

[goku87]

In yaris: KC, MO to Sandusky, OH
In "my other car": Pensacola FL to Anchorage AK <--Lots of gas

[Loren]

The engine won't care. It's made to run, that's what it does. As long as it has good oil in it and the cooling system is working properly, it will won't know the difference between this trip and a trip across town.

YOU, on the other hand... don't be stupid. Even your 16-hour stunt was on the dumb side. 10-12 hours is the most anyone should consider driving without a rest. Even if you manage to stay awake, you're not going to be anywhere near peak alertness, and that's dangerous.

3,000 miles is a LONG drive. The record for the 2900 mile Cannonball Run (NY-LA) is a touch under 33 hours (at an AVERAGE speed of 87 mph). Trust me, just maintaining an average speed of 65-70 mph on a long road trip without getting into trouble is VERY difficult. So, realistically, even if you don't mind getting a few speeding tickets and manage to keep a 70 mph average, you're looking at a minimum of over 42 hours of drive time. Be smart, make it a 4-day drive... budget some money for hotels rather than ending up spending that money and more on tickets or worse yet paying your insurance deductible.

I could go on, but I hope you get the point. If you have a driving partner, and the two of you switch off RELIGIOUSLY and ensure that one driver is SLEEPING while the other is driving, you can make it without stopping, but even that takes a great deal of dedication and trust between the drivers. (I've done the One Lap of America twice, that's 9 days and about 4,000 miles... plus another 3,000 miles for me driving to and from the event starting point... 7-8,000 miles in about 11 days. The car doesn't care, but that kind of mileage is hard on drivers.)

[Kaotic Lazagna]

From the North Bay to SoCal, stopping for gas once. hahaha.

[yaris-me]

Twelve hours, going from Anaheim to Oregon. No problems.

[jambo101]

Montreal to Tampa last month,20hrs was the longest single leg of the trip when i started getting the symptoms leading up to falling asleep at the wheel it was time to grab a motel and sleep.The car will make a cross country trip no problem and a lot easier than the driver will especially if testosterone is telling the fool to do it all without stopping for anything but gas.

[ashinyobject]

Talladega, AL to Rochester, NY
16 Hours
Stopped for gas 3 times

Rochester, NY to Bryn Mawr, PA
5 1/2 Hours

Bryn Mawr, PA to Chesapeake, VA
6 hours

Chesapeake, VA to Talladega, AL
11 Hours


All within one week

No problem at all

[schleppy]

14ish hours from MA to NC.

[41magmag41]

Manchester NH to Evansville, IN, about 1200 miles, in just under 16 hours. Did it in the yaris with no problems and only stopped for gas twice. Nice day trip. LOL

[tuckevalastin]

9 hours with heavy snow and accident related traffic... without a gas stop, barely.

7 hours with normal traffic, 6 hours without traffic once a month each way... 7/8ths of a tank of gas

[Shroomster]

Orlando TO Rockbridge ohio and back ONLY GAS and pee no problems

[firebob]

It will do just fine doing 2,500 or so with 10 minute stops every 325 to 375 miles I’m sure it will do more. That was 7 stops and we switched off every stop but it’s hard to get a good rest in the Yaris. The next day we were about useless.

We have found over the years that 1,500 miles in a day is all we can do get some sleep and be able worth a darn the next day.

[nerp]

Didn't do it in my Yaris, but I made it from RI to St. Louis in one sitting, slept on the side of the road at a rest stop for a few hours and then drove from St.Louis to Phoenix in the next sitting. Took about 30 hours.

[toad]

didn't that female-astronaut make it from houston to orlando in GREAT TIME with just some depends undergarmets and power bars? not recommending that approach, but it just goes to show that if you're p@ssed-off enough(or just crazy) you can do anything!