Putting together a small tool kit to keep in my 2009 hatch...

[firebird1999us]

Originally Posted by bronsin

In general its pretty unusual for a good running car to suffer a show stopping breakdown, even if it has 200,000 miles on it. Especially a Toyota. Its even pretty unusual to have a flat tire.

Better than carrying a tool kit is running the 30,000 miles inspection as found in the owners manual once a year on a regular basis. Once a battery is three years old checking the voltage drop while starting the engine (replace the battery if voltage drops below 10) every so often should keep a dead battery from stranding you.

I’m at 360k now and drive 75 miles to and from work 5 days a week... also about 250 Miles back to my college campus during football season. So I drive a good bit! Also very diligent with my maintence as is... being on desolate stretched of road where phone reception may be a problem makes me like to also have a backup plan!

I periodically run a battery tender at the house and check the battery about once every 2 weeks to once a month too!

Fuses and mechanics wire I hadn’t thought of though!