Waterpump and Thermostat replaced..

Good God all three of mine have over 300k no mechanical water pumps I think original belts might be a replacement belt I have to go look and one broke last week just popped a new belt on and keep getting it.

 

Original stats as far as I know thermostats that is and most of them except the one I just replaced I think have original water pumps like I said the gold car the belt broke off of it the other day I just put it on this morning and drove the car everything is fine I also had a Passat where you have to spread the plate behind the timing belt to put the thermostat in a real winter that design was matter of fact that car is still out here has an Audi interior and it was every button and sensor you can imagine and it all works needs a thermostat pretty clean too.

 

Did you check the drive belt pulley?

I give it a spin when the water pump belt is off. If it spins smoothly and quietly I leave it alone.

If it sounds "dry" or rumbly (like antique roller skates or maybe an old garage door roller), then I replace it.

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That's wonderful stuff until you get up around 250K miles . None of this will pretty much matter. But it's good that people have been taking care of the car and putting on belts and all of that sort of thing excellent and you're at what 100 some odd K now. And if you're just a regular driving person not running a taxi cab or living in the car for Uber eats or whatever it should take you 20 years to get to $300,000 mi in this car just going back and forth to work and taking the kids and going to the grocery store.

 

On one of mine I put a thousand miles a week almost and then my other half puts about $1,500 on an '07 and I got the other two that basically sit and run and rotation one has a trailer hitch on it that we can move the trash with and things like that and the other one is the real clean car we take that out when we got to go somewhere where we don't want to look like a bunch of old hippies It's a very clean leather interior car that all one color hasn't faded or doesn't look crazy that sort of thing so we don't drive that one a lot so we can stay in nicer condition so when we have to go out amongst the wealthy folk that looked down on people that's fun to go to those things too when we pull up in our '07 that's all clean and blah blah blah people look at the car and they're pointing their finger and they're going high I remember I what it yeah 07 Prius buddy yeah thank you Just park it over there leave the remote in it thanks.

 

Generally without any lifting on stock tires and 15-in rims we're getting around 40 maybe a tad more this is all on the MFD display . All three of them average this mileage pretty easily The one car I have that's lifted has been knocked back to 37 mi to the gallon permanently I'm looking to change that here shortly I think I found the fix and that's just with lowering the front end back to almost stock lifting the rear about 35 mm and putting 205 60s all the way around I think that's the solution I should put the front end back down in the more aerodynamic position and what's happening now. And on thousand Mile weeks or every 8 days I still stretch the oil change out to about 90 days It doesn't seem to bother the cars I have a work vehicle generation two that I'll drive until it gets the timing code and then change the oil and that's about $16,000 mi and it's pretty dirty but it's a work vehicle we've been waiting for this one to fail for some time and it just keeps ticking away.

 

My wife also gets worse mpg than I do. Part of it is that she is one of these people who wants their right foot on the gas or on the brake at all times. When I drive my right foot is often on the gas but with little or zero pressure. She rarely coasts, whereas I do a lot.

Teenage boys like to zoom zoom, the 2nd generation Prius is not the car for that. The fifth generation Prius is, supposedly.