Originally Posted By: SteveSRT8
Originally Posted By: NJC
Originally Posted By: 01_celica_gt
Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack
The biggest maintenance expense has been an engine rebuild at 420K miles because of visible oil smoke.
I love honda and toyota engines...
Include me on the list too.
I like most of them, too.
But some very vocal owners do not agree. Honda's V6 with VCM comes to mind, as does the notorious Corolla motors that coke up and use oil like crazy.
Far from perfect...
those corolla engines, even after burning oil for 350k, a quick re-drilling of the piston oil return holes/increasing the quantity and the engines goes back to not burning any oil.
I have 5 in the family, as long as your not an idiot and run it VERY low on oil, there will be no harm done.
120k, 140k, 203k, 256k, 350k all of these 1ZZ-FE engines rebuild(all of this with the engine block still in the car) within a year and none, NONE burn oil anymore.
And they all get +3-5 above EPA estimated MPG too, and shift flawlessly.
Reliable? Oh I think so.