Today's Maintenance

[06YarisRS]

Originally Posted by tmontague

either get the long life pink stuff from Toyota or buy the OEM brand from Canadian Tire and you can buy it 50/50 or concentrated for a bit cheaper. Same ingredients as Toyota's stuff. I personally run it at a 55/45 coolant to water ratio and use the OEM stuff from CT in both my cars. It's good stuff.

I find the Yaris burps decently on its own. elevating the front of the car can help but typically I fill the rad until it's full and then turn the car on and continue to fill until it is full again. I then over fill the overflow reservoir and drive around for a day and let the engine get up to operating temps. I then re check the coolant and typically the overflow tank is almost empty. I'll top that up to the F line and then fill the rad if there is any space there.

This has worked for me now over 3 times without issue

Just got back from Canadian Tire with a jug of the Toyota OEM concentrated coolant. Also, dropped by the grocery store and picked up a gallon of distilled water. I have several old commercial plastic ice cream containers, one of which I have graduated with 1L increments. It's very easy to mix the concentrated coolant and water in this. I'll do a full drain and refill, run it around a bit and then do a final partial drain and fill. I think I'll pull the lower rad hose if the drain plug gives an resistance.

Hoping to get this job done later today, if I complete the rear brake job.