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Check with your city first, but it may be OK to dump the antifreeze down the toilet for the waste treatment plant to handle. In some places that's OK, in others, it's not.
(Do not do that with a septic system. That would be the same as dumping it on the ground. A septic system works completely differently from a waste treatment plant.)
Whatever you end up doing with it, I would remove it from the Yaris immediately. If your luck is anything like mine...NOW is when one of those old containers will decide to spring a leak!
car 54--nah the antifreeze is up here in my apartment. wouldn't keep it in the new car. anyway i have a trunk bag that i cleaned and I just keep some essentials in it in the cargo area. jumper cables, tire caps, a portable auto vac, scrapers, collapsible shovel, etc
and i left the big protective towels covering the cargo area and rear seat from when i drove the car home. watch em' stay there for the entire life of the car...!!!
i recently replaced my old club with a newer one for my old tercel. when i use it on my new Yaris the fit is very tight as the wheel is a 3 spoke and the spokes are thicker than the 2 spoke wheel i had on the old tercel
the first night i clubbed the wheel but i was a little concerned that the fit was so tight that the club might end up setting off the horn or even defacing the vinyl on the wheel so i haven't used it since
do i even need the club now with the new key technology that will not start the car unless it's my key? are clubs a thing of the past now? they were popular in the 90's but now i don't know
last night i had the new car parked on a sidestreet.
this afternoon i parked it there in the same spot. 2 cars behind me i noticed an older Yaris with the Toyota emblem off and the car generally had that tacky cheap car look commonly associated with older Yarises (from what i have been reading many say the Yaris is an ugly car)
tho i never noticed if the older yaris was parked there before is it possible someone put the car there so they could plan to take some of my new parts and dress their older car up with it? or am i being ridiculous? it was blocking the driveway of a private house so it's possible the car belonged to someone who lives there or to a visitor(a common practice in some of the outer boros of NY City)
Assuming the antifreeze you have is the correct Toyota stuff, I say keep it as you will need it eventually. If you want this hoopty to last, you will change the coolant out about every 2 years. Likewise the brake fluid. I know space is at a premium in any NYC apartment, but these can be put in your closet or in a box in the trunk of the new car against the day you need them.
You know, I posted up many times about how if you buy new, you will experience grief as the car starts to collect "urban rash" as any car parked on the street in NYC will. Not sure what to tell you now, beyond grin and bear it.
I also have bottles of Mazda (got them from my parents RIP from their old 1994 Mazda 626) glass cleaner, fabric Cleaner and vinyl protectant from my old Tercel
would you recommend i hold on to these or dump them?
as you know i am a packrat so i could use some advice because we all know that the packrat's motto is always "when in doubt, hold on to it!!"
In this case, when in doubt, throw it out! You don't have the storage space in a garage, and don't need to live with chemicals in your apartment right now, etc. Anytime you may need the fluids in the future, you can purchase the products inexpensively, products that have not degraded due to age. You can easily get a container of glass wipes and fabric cleaning wipes/spray at Target to put in the trunk and periodically use to clean the car. For the vinyl parts of the car, including the dashboard which can get faded by the sun when parked outside, a bottle of Zymol will do much more to protect the car than the older products that you have from the old car. So, my vote is to clear house, buy a bottle of Zymol, and a container of glass wipes, and you should be good to go right now. You are under warranty, so if your coolant is low, go back to the dealership immediately because a new car should not be leaking a drop of coolant.
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