Yaris Oil Filter

[Sam Bailie]

hi everyone

i am looking some info on the following

1...where is oil filter fitted on 1.3 petrol engine

2...how much oil is reqd

3.....which type of oil is reqd

hope u can help me

A T B

[Lenry]

Hello Sam,

I've got no answers for you on this one, what I can say is that I'm pretty sure that all the information you need is in the Yaris Manual.

I hope someone else comes along and offers some help, or you find it in the Manual. :D

Lenry

[armoredfist2002]

my oil filter is on the bottom left when you are standing in front of the car facing engine bay

[litrikur]

If you look under the car you can see the oil filter on the right side. Most of the time ist black and screws uppwards to the engine from below, it is rather small compared to many other filters.

How many liters it should be in the owners manual, else I would start with 3L.

It's probably best to use fully synethetic or semi synthetic oil.

[Sam Bailie]

If you look under the car you can see the oil filter on the right side. Most of the time ist black and screws uppwards to the engine from below, it is rather small compared to many other filters.

How many liters it should be in the owners manual, else I would start with 3L.

It's probably best to use fully synethetic or semi synthetic oil.

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Thanku for your help,but is filtre on rh side at front or back of engine

Once again ty

[armoredfist2002]

the engine is small you will easily see it, it's black and it sticks out from the engine

[Red Yaris 54]

It would be a good idea for you to get a Yaris Haynes Workshop Manual

[Bee]

hi everyone

i am looking some info on the following

1...where is oil filter fitted on 1.3 petrol engine

2...how much oil is reqd

3.....which type of oil is reqd

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Have you got it, Sam?

I have the 1.0L 1SZ-FE engine, yours is the 1.3L 2NZ-FE engine. The location of the oil filter is different in both. What I can see from my Haynes Service Manual is that yours is much the same as in these pictures:

http://www.msnusers.com/Sorensonbrian/oilchange.msnw

In the 2nd picture, which is the view from under the front bumper looking back at the underside of the car stretching to the rear end, you see the black (highlighted) oil sump, in this case (?Australian) called oil pan. The oil filter is just off the Rt. front corner of this pan, in a sort of recess directly above the letter "N" of "OIL PAN". It is of the size of a coffee mug, painted in black, the long axis of which is pointing vertically down just missing the Rt. front corner of this oil pan.

Please note I call this Rt. because we are looking at the car from in front of the vehicle. In fact, *by convention*, in car manuals, the Lt. and Rt. senses are determined from *inside* the car, looking out sitting in the driver seat. So, by convention, the oil filter is to the Lt. of the pan. (If you are outside looking back to the car in front of the bumper as is the view of the picture, of course, the filter is to the Rt. of the pan!). I hope this explanation will clear up the confusion.

After draining the pan and replacing the old filter with a clean new one, the total amount of oil to fill up to the Max. mark on the dipstick is 3.7L. If you don't change the filter keeping the old one in situ, just changing the oil, then the amount reqired is 3.4L

Any mutigrade engine oil will do provided it is of SAE 10W-30. This is the preferred grade (please refer to your Car Owner's Handbook p281). The regular ones are mineral oils. You can go one step better to give your car the superior synthetic oils (fully synthetic or part- or semi- synthetic). These are more expensive and are of 0W-30 or 0W-40 grade (technical writers call it 'weight'). Both are good. In fact, I have been told that Toyota dealerships are using Mobil-1 in servicing your car. Mobil-1 is a fully synthetic oil.

Hope this helps.

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Bee.

[Ryan1985]

I have the 1.0L 1SZ-FE engine, yours is the 1.3L 2NZ-FE engine.

No it's not because Sam's car is a phase 2 hence it has the same looking engine as the 1 litre which means it looks the same as the 1 litre but has a different displacement. What armoredfist2002 said still stands and you can't miss it if you look at your engine with your head under the bonnet.

[Bee]

I have the 1.0L 1SZ-FE engine, yours is the 1.3L 2NZ-FE engine.

No it's not because Sam's car is a phase 2 hence it has the same looking engine as the 1 litre which means it looks the same as the 1 litre but has a different displacement. What armoredfist2002 said still stands and you can't miss it if you look at your engine with your head under the bonnet.

Aha....so it is a 2SZ-FE engine. If it is like mine, which is also a SZ, then it is easy. The black coffee-mug-sized oil filter jutting out from the front of the cylinder block above the oil sump, just missing the exhaust manifold, which is to the Lt. of the filter (the 'by convention' Lt.), pointing at an angle of 45° to the ground, is unmistakable: there is no other structure fitting this description here.

Still on the subject of engine oil change, has anyone had experience of using a 'quick change' drain plug? This is the one I first came across:

http://www.difflock.com/drainplug/index.shtml.

Then I discovered there were quite a few similar devices. They do look promising in providing a neat solution to a potentially messy and hazardous (hot oil) operation! If you do an oil change twice a year, or perhaps even more frequently, would you use one?

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Bee.