500,000 miles on my Yaris.

[bronsin]

I guess it was important that the car start and last a long time because it was for his business so maybe that's why he did it. If Im Walmart Im not replacing a good battery for free though so it must have been bad somehow.

I agree though 5000 miles with constant driving on a synthetic oil change seems like overkill.

[nookandcrannycar]

I'm assuming that that they replies above using the past tense should be using the present tense. I'm thinking he still has the car. IIRC, a member asked him (soon after he hit 500,000 miles) if he planned to keep the car and he replied yes, and that he had no plans to get rid of it anytime soon. I think his original plan (when he was still driving so many miles) was to try to make it to 1,000,000 miles. If he was still keeping up his early pace, he'd be reasonably close to that right now.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by bronsin

If Im Walmart Im not replacing a good battery for free though so it must have been bad somehow.

Yep. My 3rd Battery overall/2nd replacement was from Wal-Mart (OEM = 2yrs 11 months and 138k miles, 1st replacement = Sears 1yr Guar. = 3yrs and about 87-88k miles). Just shy of one 1 year I took the car in...thinking the battery would fail and I'd get a new one for free. Unfortunately, the battery passed the test Wal-Mart put it through . I replaced it about 4 months later (only 48-49k miles on it) with the NAPA Legend (the model in CTScott's Yarii) at 274k on the car. What a great battery (for many reasons). Corrosion appeared fairly soon after install on both previous cheap replacement batteries, but not one bit on the NAPA Legend. Overall cost re the Legend = almost the same to the penny as the Wal-Mart and Sears combined (about $130), but well worth it, IMO.

OR....Perhaps (my wild imagination) Trini had a friend there who just marked it as not passing the test ().