Toyota Yaris reliability

[goliath1812]

Originally Posted by Kal-El

What's the total cost of a water pump replacement?

Surprised to see a few reports on this. Hadn't heard that it was a possible issue.

It seems to be a common issure with the Yaris :( but I bought a new one at Advance, I think it was around $30, and put it in.

[brg88tx]

Originally Posted by Kal-El

What's the total cost of a water pump replacement?

Surprised to see a few reports on this. Hadn't heard that it was a possible issue.

i hate to say this, but frankly i don't believe these "yaris owners" who claim a failed water pump. my reasoning is i read all 371 reviews for the 07 yaris on edmunds and not one mentioned this. yet we have many "yaris owners" popping up out of the woodwork all claiming this all of the sudden.

one dude has over 400,000 miles on his 07 yaris on the original water pump.

[Kal-El]

Originally Posted by brg88tx

i hate to say this, but frankly i don't believe these "yaris owners" who claim a failed water pump. my reasoning is i read all 371 reviews for the 07 yaris on edmunds and not one mentioned this. yet we have many "yaris owners" popping up out of the woodwork all claiming this all of the sudden.

one dude has over 400,000 miles on his 07 yaris on the original water pump.

I don't believe it either. Sure it's possible, but I'm certain this isn't a common issue by any means but rather a rarity. There are a number of high mileage Yaris's that have reported no issues. Mine is at 85,000 miles and shows no sign of wear and is repair free.

[Hershey]

it's a luck of the draw .

[Lucas13]

I really like my yaris its very well designed and off course the benefit of the little use of gas Its great but I’m pretty sure I got a lemon,

This happened to my 2007 Lift back, it has 57k

-front seats started with a creaking noise on the back of the seat, it was gradually wetting worst and worst, I took it to the dealer for the repair and they messed up the car really bad, This morons even installed the passenger side air pointing my side! After 8 months the dealer replaced 80% of the seats they worked fine for 6 months and I ended fixing it myself when the noise came back.

-I got the really nasty sulfur smell when I needed to push the Yaris Mid exhaust section got replaced –

-At 56k the Water pump started leaking, the warranty took care of it

-Around 54K the left axle seal started leaking and the warranty replaced it

-Sub frame assembly got unadjusted the car was making a hard noise when braking hard after got adjusted it’s been okay.

-The front suspension still makes some noise supposedly many yaris have some noise in the front suspension because some friction made on the springs it sounds like a dry ball joint, but everything looks ok so I’m not sure what could be the cause

-Every day I enjoy the stinky A/C smell unfortunately the bumper to bumper warranty was done when I found TSB that takes care of it

-The A/C drain got clogged due to lack of air filter not installed from factory, I did some cleaning on the airbox with peroxide and I was able to remove some of the mildew plus all the stuff from the trees, after that I installed a filter it’s been ok

-at 57k the gearbox just started leaking, the dealer already has it for me but I’m waiting to for the arbitration process to be over, if I need to keep the yaris I will have them put the new tranny.

I asked my service advisor if he could pull a report of how many days I was in the dealer for the repairs, (I never take it to service since I do it my own) The car has been in repairs and out of service for more than 84 days, for me that’s a lot of time trying to fix my lovely Yaris!!!

[ChilliwackGuy]

In Chilliwack, BC, Canada - where I bought my new 2010 Yaris Hatch 5 dr - I was told that all I had to was bring it in every 8000KM - and it'd run perfect thru to 200,000 KM's. (I was also told to budget about 1.9 cents per KM for potential maintenance.)

[Lucas13]

I know is hard to believe that such simple part like a water pump will fail so soon, I almost don’t believe it either when this happened to my yaris, most of the cars know days can do more than 120K w/o replacing the water pump but on 1nz-fe its common, even the prius has the same problem, I was told by the mechanic at the Toyota dealer that they replace them all the time.
The yaris is not the first car I owned and surprisingly it’s been the one with more defects. When I traded my 350z for the yaris I did it for gas economy and good quality, the Z was amazing in quality but I needed a 4 seater.

Here are few pictures that show my WP leak and know my GB

[goliath1812]

I had that same pink crust on my WP, and the typical pink marking on the underside of the hood. I believe it had only leaked for a short amount of time and stopped somehow, as it was just all crust, not wet at all, but I went ahead and replaced it anyway. I also changed out the long life coolant to regular stuff. I hope I did the right thing there, as the long life coolant seems to be the problem for these water pumps...

[Kal-El]

What is the general cost of replacing the water pump on a Yaris at a dealer or typical shop (with labor)?

[bronsin]

Originally Posted by goliath1812

I had that same pink crust on my WP, and the typical pink marking on the underside of the hood. I believe it had only leaked for a short amount of time and stopped somehow, as it was just all crust, not wet at all, but I went ahead and replaced it anyway. I also changed out the long life coolant to regular stuff. I hope I did the right thing there, as the long life coolant seems to be the problem for these water pumps...

I think its pretty premature to come to that conclusion. The coolant you mention doesnt appear to be affecting the wp s of other cars.

[Lucas13]

The coolant may be a good reason for the WP to go faster, probably Toyota pink coolant doesn’t lubricate the pump the way it should, if that’s not the case the 1NZ-FE water pump is made with cheap materials and wear fast...

[goliath1812]

If that's the case, then great. But from what I have read on here with the W/P problems, that was the main thing that seemed to be the problem. This is all second have from what I have read.

[bronsin]

Its a mysterey to me why this happens. ECHOs had the same water pump/coolant and I NEVER saw a post about the wp going.

[mimelio]

Originally Posted by bronsin

Its a mystery to me why this happens. ECHO's had the same water pump/coolant and I NEVER saw a post about the water pump going.

+1

[STC]

Just turned over to 5,000 miles on my way to work this morning... almost six months old! Only a routine oil change so far...

*NO PROBLEMS*

Cheers!

[Vioz]

I'm hitting 60k miles never had a problem regular synthetic oil changes, used only premium 93 gas only since day 1. Have the NST pulley set as well on the water pump, might have to replace it soon since a nice groove is showing up on my pulley.

[Kal-El]

Originally Posted by Vioz

I'm hitting 60k miles never had a problem regular synthetic oil changes, used only premium 93 gas only since day 1. Have the NST pulley set as well on the water pump, might have to replace it soon since a nice groove is showing up on my pulley.

You're just wasting money on 93. The Yaris is tuned for regular 87. Running higher may actually have a similar adverse affect as running regular in a premium car.

[bkrownd]

"premium" (as in price) gas in a Yaris? Why on Earth?