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10-04-2016, 11:51 AM | #109 |
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I work in Gilroy I'm at around 315k, the list of repairs on this car has been minimal: Alternator, accessory belt, radiator fan, a few sets of plugs and fuel filter. Its got plenty of clunks and squeaks. My car has light mods, lowered since 1k (spring then coilovers), air intake and exhaust.
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10-04-2016, 11:57 AM | #110 |
Drives: 2007 Toyota Yaris S Sedan Join Date: Jul 2007
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In addition to my above repairs. I recently replaced my outer tie rod ends this wkd gone @ 558,675 miles. My next repair is going to be my valve seals in preparation for the turbo kit. I plan on running 6-7lbs on the stock internals and ECU and fuel system with 558,000+ miles on them.
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10-05-2016, 12:22 AM | #113 |
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he is alive please keep inspiring us with your thread sir :)
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10-05-2016, 12:26 AM | #114 |
Drives: 2007 Toyota Yaris S Sedan Join Date: Jul 2007
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Thanks for the support guys!
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10-05-2016, 09:27 AM | #115 |
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10-12-2016, 07:45 PM | #116 |
El Huevo
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Oh shit he is going turbo at 550K that's crazy awesome, cant wait to see this.
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10-12-2016, 07:51 PM | #117 |
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I have everything for the project. The only thing I'm missing is time. I simply don't have the time to install everything.
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09-18-2017, 08:32 PM | #118 | |
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Interesting observation: "I was stunned to find that a car with dozens of different drivers each with their own individual bad habits, each under pressure to be on time had managed to last just as long as the ones personally owned and cared for by my employees."
I'm interested in getting a 2017 Yaris L 4 door from Hertz Car Sales. I'm worried that as a former rental, it may have been abused - driver's door slammed too many times, aggressively driven when cold, missed oil changes, wrong oil from Firestone/Goodyear/Sears (Hertz tells me that those are their oil change/maintenance subcontractors), even stripped oil pan threads. Hertz says they schedule their rentals for 3,000 mile oil changes since they consider rental use to be "severe service cycle" and I'd be ok if they let it slide out to 5,000 miles and occasionally even 7,500 miles but I'm worried about them blowing it out to 12k miles. Any tips on whether a rental Yaris would be ok, and what to look for> A new Yaris L 4 door auto goes for about $18,000. A 1 year old rental goes for $12,500 - a huge difference, and most of the "fresh" (1 year or less old) rentals are under 15,000 miles. I think this is just due to Hertz adjusting its inventory due to the shift to compact SUV's in the general car market. At $12.5k the Yaris is very appealing. I have the iA, but that's really a Mazda2, and while Skyactiv tech is amazingly good, I don't think it's been proven the way the "lower tech" of the French Yaris has been. Also, I really like the rear room and seats on the "real" Yaris (the hatchback), they are higher than the front seat so the rear seat passenger has the ability to look out. Quote:
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09-18-2017, 08:40 PM | #119 | |
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I think if you can DIY it makes a huge difference to buying and ownership patterns. For example, it cost me $500 from a Mini dealer just to replace front pads and surface the rotors - no rear work, no brake fluid flush and replace. That's absurd. Even on a Mini the parts are cheap, the labor is high. So my usual habit is to change cars every 3 years or whenever the basic warranty runs out. I don't feel secure about "surprise repairs" and "repair bill shock" after that. Almost any of the repairs the 500k driver mentions would have been a huge repair expense for me, plus when dealers and repair shops think they can charge $300-$500 for a phantom "30k maintenance package" how much do you think they would charge for REAL work and how well would it be done?
The only ways to control repair and maintenance costs are to get cars with some free maintenance up front (Chevy - 2 years or 24k, Toyota 2 years or 25k, Mini 3/36) or buy from a manufacturers certified program with a "renewed" warranty. Or, DIY. Quote:
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09-18-2017, 08:55 PM | #120 | |
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I think the filter quality might be the limiting factor. An OEM Toyota filter was "designed" to go 7,500 miles between oil changes (because back then Toyota thought 7,500 mile conventional oil changes were ok). Now it's not certain what filter life Toyota has in mind - on older models with 5k intervals, I'm sure they didn't lower the materials or specs on their filters. Then again on newer models with full synthetic specified - with resultant 10k oil change intervals - I doubt they redesigned the filters upwards.
So in short I think between 7.5k and 10k with full synthetic should have been fine. But why experiment extending the oil change interval when gas is (relatively) expensive and jugs of full synthetic from Walmart are (relatively) cheap. What's funny is the "leftover" jug oil (or "quart" bottle oil, for that matter never goes to waste. For me, it's hard to store because I only drive about 8k per year. For him, pouring the leftover into one of his jugs will fill it up...before I even get to my next oil change. Amazing. Quote:
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09-19-2017, 06:44 AM | #121 | |
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I personally wouldn't ever buy a prior rental. Shoot, I've rented a couple of cars that had under 3k miles on them and the alignment was already off. Piss-poor gas was probably used in them, conventional oil instead of synthetic (which all new Toyotas use), etc, etc. |
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12-29-2017, 11:29 PM | #122 |
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This thread adds to my belief that the Yaris is the new VW Beetle. Is this car still alive? (Hope so).
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05-28-2018, 07:38 AM | #123 | |
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05-28-2018, 01:58 PM | #124 | |
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Gilroy Yaris Toyota east coast salt calcium chloride madness
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Took a couple weeks to close the deal, and only then did I first notice that about half the clear coat was gone from the roof and window pillars. (Got a bottle of green "Corrosion Block" from a Florida company and squirt all the visible seams on summer-winter wheel swaps...stuff might actually BE functional snake oil. It smells OK.) |
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05-31-2018, 10:44 PM | #125 | |
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To think my 06 has only just done 150,000. Any repairs since last update?
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06-05-2018, 05:47 PM | #126 |
Drives: 2007 Toyota Yaris Sedan Join Date: Mar 2013
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212k miles on a 07 sedan up here in the Northeast of the USA. Still passes inspection with the airbag and ABS lights on, and I have no intention of repairing either. The Airbag light mysteriously came on at 200k miles, and my ABS was acting funny (all signs point towards bad ABS sensor), so I just pulled the ABS fuse. Electively driving without either feature. Still on the stock clutch. Motor runs great, doesn’t burn a drop of oil.
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