2012 Yaris SE

[sheekeebut]

Dishcloth type towels have a nice feel to them for interior trim cleaning.

As long as your car hasn't been mangled in auto incidents, your bumpers should stick back on just fine with new bumper clips. My neighborhood dealership sells them at outrageous ripoff prices of like $3 a piece. I grudgingly accepted their price, twice.

Interested in abovementioned heated debate myself, I'll gladly spread it here and tell you that you should at least try to change it with the manufacturer's suggested grade (or close to it) and interval. Most people are on the fence about whether to go with a different oil grade or synthetic, but they have already failed with the very point of changing oil: you have to change it, and regularly!

By the way, a quick glance at your oil's back label will say what standards it meets or exceeds. I believe that ILSAC one is hard NOT to find in most motor oil selections.

[D-Flo]

Oil: I just want to make sure I comply w/ mfg scheduled maintenance requirements when I use a non-dealer garage for the maintenance. Lease requires proof of maintenance at scheduled intervals. I wonder whether they'd accept my own signed report as proof if I changed my own oil, rotated the tires, topped the fluids etc.?

Rear bumper cover snapped free in high winds on the I-5 near the Altamont wind farm area. First dealer svc ctr I spoke w/ said they'd have to buy a new bumper cover and charge me over a thousand dollars. Second dealer took one look at it, grabbed a machine screw, screwed the seam shut, and said that solves the problem for no charge thank you very much. Between a disposition fee and the possibility that they'll charge me for the bumper situation, I could be spending up to 16% of the purchase price just to return it at end of lease. That weighs in favor of purchase, plus the fact that the buy-out price is under blue book right now.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by D-Flo

high winds on the I-5 near the Altamont wind farm area.

Yeah, that area rivals parts of 'The Grapevine' hundreds of miles to the south on I-5.

That weighs in favor of purchase, plus the fact that the buy-out price is under blue book right now.

Then you can enjoy it in the twisties without having 'residual value, 'what will they find wrong', etc.' on your mind. I'm thinking Castro Valley to Moraga................................the back way .

[Jcp123]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

Yeah, that area rivals parts of 'The Grapevine' hundreds of miles to the south on I-5.



Then you can enjoy it in the twisties without having 'residual value, 'what will they find wrong', etc.' on your mind. I'm thinking Castro Valley to Moraga................................the back way .

Morgan Territory Road.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by Jcp123

Morgan Territory Road.

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re isolation and setting.....but SO, SO MANY POTHOLES, etc. on that road (unless they've done a MAJOR repave (almost a reconstruction ) in the last 6 or 7 years).

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by sheekeebut

Dishcloth type towels have a nice feel to them for interior trim cleaning.

^^^^^ This. I bought a 2-pack of very short fiber, tightly woven towels (for a different non kitchen use) for under $3.00 at Kroger. I ended up using them instead to wipe the dash in my '14 Yaris. Worked pretty well.