The car does not know it's going for a 1,000 mile trip - it has no memory, no will, and no intelligence.
If it misbehaves, give it a sound thrashing a la John Cleese, but since it's a Toyota, not an Austin 1100, I think you are quite safe.
FWIW I drove 700 miles yesterday, most of it on the wrong side of the road. Despite the two hour hold up at Antwerp, the car didn't complain.
Check the oil and water before you leave, and the tyre pressures.
PS my car has done 190,000 miles...
Edited by oldnotbold on 21/04/2008 at 15:27
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your car is extremely reliable,if you want extra peace of mind why not join a motoring organisation?
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Kind of similar to what I was going to say oldnotbold. My car does about a thousand miles a week, every week and it has 145k on it. My friend who similarly abuses his car has 227k on his. The wee Yaris is barely run in by comparison, it'll be fine. Just make sure you do the usual fluid and tyre checks before setting off. Have a good trip!
Edited by shoespy on 21/04/2008 at 15:34
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We have a 54 plate 1.0 and I wouldn't hesitate to drive that, other than it is a small car and rather underpowered for motorway cruising so it won't be the most relaxing drive, but relaibility wise, no problem.
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I used to be concerned about doing long journeys in one of my previous cars, but that was 12 years old, worth £500, had done over 100k miles.
My current car has 145k miles on it and I wouldn't think twice of driving to Scotland and back in it tomorrow.
Was going to say what shoespy says, check oil, fluids and tyres and off you go!.
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Yes. One would mention checking brake pads too before a longish trip, but if the car has just been serviced they should be all right too. But beware! A car can pass the MoT when brake pads are nearly but not quite worn out. So it might be worth asking whoever does the servicing to replace them if they are going to need it soon. That way you can be quite sure you won't have to have them done en route.
Apart from that, I wouldn't worry unduly about driving a nearly new, famously reliable Japanese car a mere thousand miles in your own country. Go carefully of course.
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I wouldnt take it but not through reasons of reliability, purely becuase a Toyota Yaris will be intolerable on such a trip. It is built for taking old people to the shops, not long Motorway journeys.
Do yourself a favour and book a train ticket in advance. If you book far enough in advance you can travel First Class for a not insurmountable fee. It'll be a far more relaxing and hassle free journey.
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Yaris was fine, but we did break the journey over 2 days, but given the choice then nice big powerful machine would be nice, but it depends on your circumstances as the wife needed transport whilst out in France for 6 weeks, so cheapest option was to drive.
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