Oil Change on the Turbo Yaris

[06YarisRS]

Covid-19 isolating has given me time to work on my car, and do lots of posts including such basic things as oil changes. Hopefully. it's not too boring. Getting the car ready for spring. Although there was probably less than a couple thousand kms on the oil, I figured I'd change it out. I live on the edge with this car, so it does get extra maintenance.





After reviewing tmontague's posts on oil, I decided to go with the 5W20















While doing the oil change, I checked all connections: turbo piping, turbo manifold and downpipe bolts/studs, oil feed, drain, turbo coolant hoses and all connections and hoses for the transmission cooling tubing, sensors and cooler etc for leaks as well as checked piping clearances etc. I did a lot of rustproofing while I was under there too.

One minor thing I found...