how far a yaris can go before it blows?

[elementalist]

Originally Posted by Kal-El

It's a combination of factors.

No, don't ever go a year and a half between oil changes even if you only drive 4K in that period. TIME is almost a bigger factor than miles. This guy drives 5K in like 2 weeks. It actually isn't necessary for him to change oil every two weeks. He could safely go 7-10K between changes as that happens in less than a month. Climate, road conditions, ect. play a role too.

It's very difficult to compute oil life. Most modern cars (above econo class) actually compute oil life based on all of it's conditions and tell you when an oil change is required.

Doesn't the Fit do oil life monitoring? I know my friend's CSX does. I thought it was a nice feature to ensure proper maintenance.

[Black Yaris]

I have seen some hondas and toyotas with over 600,000 on the clock when I used to work in the shop

[GeneW]

We have a magic dust that the State puts on the road to prevent high mileage in cars. It's called "Road Salt".

Glad to see that Toyotas and Hondas can get 600,000 miles plus on them. Some day American manufacturers will get the point that people don't necessarily want "planned obsolescence".

Gene