My Camry just made a 1500 mile trip

[McTimson]

I just got back from North Carolina....I live in NY, so it's about 700 miles down, and 700 up, and I had to go to my sister's house first, so it was about a 1500 mile trip on my 18 year old Camry. My whole family was surprised that it made it, it's got 160,000 miles on it, but it's been running fine since I had it...

On the way down though, it was raining really badly, and some water must have somehow worked its' way into my fuel line, because all of a sudden, the check engine light came on, and pressing the gas started to do nothing. Pulled off the road (during the heaviest part of the rain) and popped the hood, I really had no clue what it was, so I was just looking for something obvious, but then I looked in my Chilton's book, and saw that it was probably water in the fuel line. Reset the EFI a few times by pulling the fuse, and after a few tries, it started going again...after that though, the car was perfect, made it down and back at about 80mph with no troubles.

So now I've got to figure out how water got into the fuel line in the first place...it was raining today and I drove a little bit just fine, but it wasn't as much rain as before, and I was driving for about 200 miles before....

[userlain]

Toyota reliability

[RichieRichJP]

Good thing you made it, it gives me hope. I'm going to have to go on a possibly a 9,000-10,000 mile trip in a month. I have to drive to Orlando, from Pensacola, FL, go home. Then drive from P-cola, to Great Falls, MT, which is like 5,200miles, there and back. Then NYC and back which is like 1,200 atleast going there alone..
I'm actually worried about doing it..
My Cam is 73,000M..think I can make it in 1 whole month?

[mobes]

Great Falls, huh? I'm originally from Fort Benton.

Edit: sorry ^ kinda OT

I just made a trip from Bozeman, MT to Portland, OR, then to San Francisco, then Reno, NV then back to Bozeman. Overall about 3,000 miles including the city driving. That's a 1994 with 170K on the clock.

[RichieRichJP]

Cool, I even have family in Reno!
Montana's kinda boring but it's just something to do while my GF is in the US with me. I guess if you can do that, I can take my trip with confidence

[fredk]

I gotta get my project 88 shook down in a month to go up to new york state, then onto ohio then back, if I dont get 5th gear fixed, its not going anywhere

[TOYOTA CARS]

All Camrys should resist getting destroyed on trips. We usually have an annual trip to Ontario every summer and it's 500miles there and 500 miles back. The last time I took one was in 2002 when the car had around 70K miles. It didn't fuss and pulled us into Canadian borders with ease. It was a bit underpowered carry 4 passengers and it's trunk loaded to it's gills. Probably over loaded it but it still worked fine.

As for the car getting wet. I drove in yesterday's storm and no problem was noted. Gotta love those Dunlops.

[Edmond]

I must admit that I wouldn't have the nerve to take my car on such a trip and my car has 163K+ on it's life.

Don't get me wrong, it hasn't failed me but for a car with so many miles, I would rather take someone else's car!

[GaviN]

Congrats My 93 just completed a 875 mile trip last month and broke 235k miles without a problem

[87Camry5Speed]

McTimson that's awesome...


I must say, I wouldn't have it in me to take my 164K Camry that far quite homestly... T-belt is now 64K old (will need to be replaced next summer, if I keep the car) and the clutch catches right at the top of the pedal. My rational side knows it'll go pretty far, but somehow I couldn't bring myself to do it. 100 miles in a day is a lot for me.

Steve

[ArmyofOne]

what the hell does a Gen I look like? i think i have seen them, anyone have a pic?

[fredk]

it looks like an old corolla with a flat hood and funny grille, a very boxy car, the rear bumpers align with the top of the rear wheelwell

[McTimson]

They're similar to gen2's...I put a picture in the photo gallery, it's here.

Heh...and I thought the car was doing so well on the ride back, I even let my girlfriend drive it for a while...that part was a little scary though

[fredk]

those wheels on that 86 are very rare, i hardly ever saw them at toyota in the late 80s, now the gen2 has an lx wheel thats honeycomb and your gen1 dx sometimes came with a 5 lug version of the corolla dx-lx 4 lug wheel

[mobes]

I saw a MINT gen 1 in traffic the other day. I didn't notice until I saw CAMRY on the back then I did a double take.