60K Mile Maintenance

[firemachine69]

I don't know for you guys, but a transmission drain and fill service is required for us Canucks at 96000km's. (aka 60K miles).

[R2D2]

Originally Posted by firemachine69

I don't know for you guys, but a transmission drain and fill service is required for us Canucks at 96000km's. (aka 60K miles).

And in my opinion you will be better off for it. IIRC my manual doesn't even mention checking the fluid until 100 or 120k. I checked mine 4 miles up the road from the dealer the day I drove it off the lot..

I will do relatively frequent drain and fills. They are very inexpensive insurance for the DIYer. "Lifetime Fills" have more to do with marketing than engineering and anyone in their automotive relationship for the long haul would be well served by a little service once in a while.

R2

[YarisSedan]

Originally Posted by R2D2

And in my opinion you will be better off for it. IIRC my manual doesn't even mention checking the fluid until 100 or 120k. I checked mine 4 miles up the road from the dealer the day I drove it off the lot..

I will do relatively frequent drain and fills. They are very inexpensive insurance for the DIYer. "Lifetime Fills" have more to do with marketing than engineering and anyone in their automotive relationship for the long haul would be well served by a little service once in a while.

R2

You cant do drain and fill on our transmission. They specifically state that the new type of transmission fluid in our cars can not be mixed with used/new has to be 100 percent replaced IE use a transmission flush machine.

Also draining the transmission only gets out about 3-4 quarts. The torque converters on our cars probally hold another 9-10 more quarts. So you are just diluting it. Its still going to be dirty. Put it this way. Take a cup of water. And put some mud in it. Its going to look brown. Then drain only a quarter of the water out and fill it with fresh clean water. Its still going to look brown. You wouldnt want to drink it until its 100 percent poored out and refilled with fresh clean water.

[SilverGlow]

Originally Posted by firemachine69

I don't know for you guys, but a transmission drain and fill service is required for us Canucks at 96000km's. (aka 60K miles).

For what years Yaris?

[firemachine69]

Originally Posted by SilverGlow

For what years Yaris?

Mine's a 2007, in Canada. The specs stay the same up to 2009.


It would be interesting if the US and Canada have different specs, yet relatively the save climate (save for far South, or far North).


A proper flush, with a car lift, is easy to do. They have to hook up a "dummy" electrical current to engage the transmission pump, to flush out all the fluid (along with the pumping of the flush machine itself - this is per the shop manual). You can drain and fill it yourself, but you're only getting a little over half the fluid out at a time. Even if you do your own disposal in someone's dump fluid tanks, it'll take roughly twenty one quarts to flush the majority of it out. For that price, you may as well just get it flushed by the dealer. I'm sorta on the fence in regards to pan drops. Yes, there is a mesh filter in there that theoretically needs replacing, but the likely stripped hex bolts that result from trying to drop the pan, as well as possibly warping the pan, or worse, the interference surface of the pan, makes me think it's just not worth the risk. As always, that's something up to you to decide.

The only extra advice I can add is that once the fluid is flushed by the dealer, make sure he checks the level while the fluid is warm: Once again, all the info is available in the shop manual, which is available for download somewhere on YW.