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01-14-2014, 11:46 AM | #1 |
Drives: 08Yaris2D, 88LandCruiser. Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Alameda,Ca.
Posts: 476
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Got a tight engine!
I've owned my 08 for year and 14 days. I just changed the oil after close to a year and 15,000. miles. The oil was still Yellow! Dark Yellow, but still pretty clean.
Toyota makes some nice engines! Oil used is Mobil1 Extended performance 5/30. with a filter change at 6 months, with a half quart top off.
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01-14-2014, 12:29 PM | #2 | |
Drives: No more Yaris Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Montana
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I'm older than most of you guys; I got my license in 1975. Bought my first car in 1976. Right now, my winter-beater car is a 1996 Tercel. Eighteen years old now, with 240,000 miles on it. About half its life it was in South Carolina, so it got a delayed start on rust; but even so - it's remarkably tight and reliable. Back THEN...say, 1976. An eighteen-year-old car would be a 1958. Now, sure, there were the pistonheads running Tri-Five rat-rods; and there were some early 60s Chevys running around (fewer Fords; a five-year-old Ford was an old Ford; Fords rusted faster than the time-payment book went down)- but those were the exception. Old in those days was six years old. Ten years old was junker territory - and smoke and stalling were the order of the day. The Japanese engineers, led by Toyota, changed all that. Back when I was a kid, we looked at either styling or perceived engineering advantages. Of the sort that MoPars (which rusted fast, TOO) offered. Hemis versus Mustang flash. TODAY...I'm a loyal Toyota customer. I may like their styling or even the total package; or I may like it less. I may not like how the electric-power-steering drives (I don't like it). But I KNOW I'm getting VALUE! I will never buy another brand until/unless things drastically shift. |
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01-14-2014, 01:15 PM | #3 | |
Drives: 08Yaris2D, 88LandCruiser. Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Alameda,Ca.
Posts: 476
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I'm not new to Toyota, as I bought my 85 4x4 PU new in 86, put near 500,000. miles on it, and Drove it to the junk yard(three years ago). That truck never once let me down! I did the rubicon trail countless times, rolled the truck countless times. Once I got it back on all fours, I'd turn the key, and it would just start, as to say, is that all you've got?
I like the electric PS! Quote:
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