I kinda liked logging my car maintenance and gas fill up’s when I owned the Lexus and will do the same with the Camry.
Jan 2022 - $900 - 90k Service
I like to do preventive maintenance so I paid $900 to do whatever was needed.
3/8/22 - 27.7 mpg
9.8 gallons on 271 miles. Did a partial fill-up as prices are going up daily and have easily gone up a $1 in just a few days!
Had I filled up a few days earlier I would have saved $8 on 10 gallons of gas.
3/13/22 - 31.4 mpg
9.45 gallons on 297 miles. Did a 260 mile road trip on the weekend. Most of it was highway miles so was expecting better gas mileage.
3/23/22 - 26.8 mpg
8.2 gallons on 220 miles. At this pace I’m using a full tank every 10-20 days or about 15 days. At that pace I need to fill-up 24 times a year.
That’s 408 gallons of gas (17 gallons x 24). At $5 a gallon that’s $2,040/year or $170/month on fuel cost.
To save some money, I’m gonna cut that down by 25% to 306 gallons or 18 tanks. That’ll save me $510/yr.
It’s feasible as that is about 22 miles/day. I drive half that for work and rest are all weekend miles or for errands.
3/29/22 - 26.4 mpg
10.1 gallons on 267 miles. I did a lot of driving this past weekend due to the Omega x Swatch drop, all for nothing.
Gonna try and stretch it to 10 days before next fill-up.
4/3/22 - 28.2 mpg
4.86 gallons on 137 miles. Did a quarter tank fill up as I also needed to wipe my windshield and get some air for the tires.
4/10/22 - 23.4 mpg
8.6 gallons on 202 miles. Very poor gas mileage. Will monitor what’s going on?
4/17/22 - 27.1 mpg
5.85 gallons on 158 miles. I did more long distance highway driving this time around and this would indicate mileage is still poor as I should be getting above 30 mpg.
4/23/22 - Brakes, Tire, Bumper - $600
$600 for repairs and car is barely 3 months since I bought it in January. So what’s the damage?
- Rear Brakes - $280
- Rear Bumper (rattling) - $280
- Rear Tire (plug) - $40
$600 smacked in the face. For used cars so long as the brakes measure at least 3mm they don’t need to replace them when sold used. Sadly, I didn’t check and it was likely at 3mm and dropped to 2 mm in just 3 months…
- Brake Fluid Flush
- EFI Injector Cleaning
Also needed a brake fluid flush and EFI injector cleaning. Normally those each are $250-$300, but they forgot to do those when I bought it in January and paid for the 90K mile service. So good news me coming in 3 months helped catch those and get it remediated without charge. But still, those should have been done already.
4/24/22 - 25.5 mpg
262 miles on 10.28 gallons. Downright awful and a lot of that was highway miles so I’m thinking it’s partially due to the bad tire. I can also evaluate how the EFI, brake fluid flushes and new rear brake pads factoring into the equation, but I’m thinking the better tire pressure and EFI cleaning will do the most to help improve gas mileage.
But it’s been all over the map past few months so hard to say really.
4/30/22 - 30 mpg
525 miles on 17.5 gallons. I was expecting better gas mileage as I did mostly freeway miles going at a steady 75-80 mph most of the way. I had 2 fill ups and combined the miles driven as I forgot to reset my counter during the first fill up.
5/7/22 - 23 mpg
208 miles on 8.97 gallons. Pretty awful gas mileage. Not sure what’s going on.
6/1/22 - 22 mpg
I missed logging a fillup prior to this one. This fill up was bad with 262 miles on 11.9 gallons. Probably the worst gas mileage on record thus far.
8/20/22 - TBD
It’s been a while and barely driving much. Filled the tank with 10.6 gallons and didn’t have a good read on miles driven.
10/1/22 - 22 mpg
12.6 gallons on 278 miles. Pretty poor gas mileage but then I drive barely 50 miles a week now so takes me a month to use up that much gas.
10/16/22 - 20 mpg
I barely drive now and did about 137 miles and figured it’s been 2 weeks and was at quarter tank so I added 6.6 gallons and added air to the tires too.
I do mostly do city roads so I was surprised it was so low and expected at least 22 mpg.
11/12/22 - 20.3 mpg
222 miles on 10.9 gallons. Still quite poor gas mileage.
12/16/22 - 21.9 mpg
266 miles on 12.16 gallons. I did a few long trips of 10 miles one way. Otherwise same short 3-4 miles kills the mpg,
1/19/23 - Car Broke Down! Oil Change & Drive Belt - $540
First time ever, had my car break down on me while driving in traffic. The culprit was the drive belt and spark plugs. In addition to an oil change, tire rotation and all that jazz repair bill was $540. I guess not so bad? But this is supposed to be a Toyota!
So after one year...this Toyota cost me $ 2,140 in maintenance!
2/22/23 - 25 mpg
Did 325 miles on 13 gallons so finally hit back but to 25 mpg. I think I can get closer to 30 when avoiding rush hour traffic.
Was it a bad drive belt causing poor gas mileage before?
3/3/23 - 27 mpg
306 miles on 11.3 gallons. I did a 100 mile drive so that can help explain the better gas mileage. Camry’s should do 35 mpg on highways so this is still below expectations.
3/19/23- 24 mpg
253 miles on 10.45 gallons. Even with the longer commute I’m doing about the same. Half my miles are highway. Quite marginal my gas mileage.
4/12/23 - 24 mpg
333 miles on 13.8 gallons.
4/27/23 - 25.6 mpg
328 miles on 12.8 gallons. Almost the same distance as previous, but +1.6 better mpg. Saving me 1 gallon of gas.
6/11/23 - 25.4 mpg
292 miles on 11.5 gallons. Still crap mileage. I drive mostly freeway miles.
6/25/23 - 27.2 mpg
280
miles on 10.3 gallons. I did one long drive on Saturday for at least
60 miles, otherwise same mileage and filling up mostly at Costco.
Trying to figure out why gas mileage improved this time?
7/29/23 - Oil Change & Tire Rotation - 98.5k Miles - $130
Did the 5k oil change early at 98.5k (supposed to be 100k) and rotated tires. Also due is the Transmission Flush and Engine Coolant and plan those on next visit at 100k miles, estimate those cost me about $600.
This car is approaching $3,000 in maintenance cost near 2nd year mark. But considering I’ll be driving about 6k miles per year, once I’m done with these major service interval items should be limited to oil changes 2x per year.
Future maintenance:
- 2022 - 88k - EFI Flush, Brake Fluid Flush, Rear Brakes, Oil x2
- 2023 - 100k - Drive Belt, Tran Flush, Engine Coolant Flush, Oil x2
- 2024 - 108k - Front Brakes, Oil x2
- 2025 - 116k - Oil x2
- 2026 - 124k - New Battery, Oil x2
- 2027 - 132k - Oil x2
- 2028 - 140k - Engine Coolant, New Tires, Oil x2
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