Why Do You Buy Toyota?

[wooverstone8]

My primary reason for buying Toyota is for reliability. I had a 94 Corolla that ran trouble free until it was involved in a collision @ 122k miles. I had the car fixed, but it never ran the same and had problems. I drove the Corolla up to 129k miles and gave it to family who needed a car and I bought a new 2009 Yaris. I was originally going to buy a new Corolla, but the car was too big for my taste and I didn't need all that excess material to drive to work and back, so that was the reason why I choose the Yaris Liftback over the Corolla.

My Yaris turned out to be unreliable. I had the water pump and water pump belt replaced @ 16k miles. I had to bring my Yaris back to the dealership three times after the water pump replacement due to coolant lost. I have to refill the coolant reservoir once a week. The dealership have not been able to fix or explain the problem yet. After my forth visit to the dealership I've been carefully documenting everything and I've kept all of my service papers from my previous visits.

[fnkngrv]

Originally Posted by wooverstone8

My primary reason for buying Toyota is for reliability. I had a 94 Corolla that ran trouble free until it was involved in a collision @ 122k miles. I had the car fixed, but it never ran the same and had problems. I drove the Corolla up to 129k miles and gave it to family who needed a car and I bought a new 2009 Yaris.

Sorry to hear that a collision took out your ride. My parents had an 86 corolla, baby blue, auto, no options at all. The car had 426,000 miles on it in 98 when they let a friend borrow it. He was coming home from a bar at sun rise and while cresting a hill smacked into a moose. My dad was devastated...he wanted to be able to send pics and a story to toyota corp about him hitting the half million park still going strong. The only thing he did was change air filters, oil, and spark plugs twice. In an interesting twist the motor and trans were fine so he sold them to a guy that lived a few miles down the road. The guy installed it in his 86 toyota 4x4 truck that he uses as a lumberjack. I shit you not...the guy is still running that truck with that motor today. He has put another 300,000 + miles on it in the northern maine woods. I just think that it pretty cool how at least part of a car can live on and have a deep history. Just another reason to buy a toyota.