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Again, I fail to understand all this hoopla over changing fluids in a yaris before the factory recommended service intervals. This car is suppose to be an economy car in order to reduce costs and provide reliable transportation. The factory manuel says to change the transmission fluid at I believe 100 or 120 thousand miles, why incurr the expense of changing it early. Being in my mid 50's I've run cars well over 100000 plus from new and have had no problems following the factory recommentations. I've done this with my 2007 yaris, 80000 miles on her and going strong. All I've done is change the oil and filter every 5000 miles, the air and cabin filters as necessary, and rotate the tires. All other items are checked at the factory recommened service intervals. I still have 2/3rds of my front and rear brakes left and have put one set of tires on her.
Again I say why incurr expense when you don't have to?? Seems like a waste of money and bad for the enviroment. It seems most posters are living in the past where cars needed this type of maintance to last, todays new oils and all don't need to be changed as much. I don't think Toyota would recommend leaving the tranny fluid alone for such a long time if they didn't have confidence it would last, if it didn't last they would have warranty claims up the whazoo.
Just an old timers two cents worth.
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03-18-2010, 08:19 AM
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