Been personalizing my Yaris...

[blackdog78]

Hi,

I'm the proud owner of a 2004 Yaris D4D which I bought second-hand in August 2006. I thought there's was no road hold to talk of, then I got to know about TTE parts. I remembered I drove a Yaris TS when I was out there looking for a new car (I finally took my D4D because it didn't have as much interior noise as the TS), and how fine she was handling the corners. I went to my garage I got myself the lowering springs! While I was at it I ordered the bodykit (front spoiler, side skirts and rear roof spoiler), which was quiiiiiiiiite expensive with the painting and the mounting, but I think it's going to be worth it... I'll get it next week, I'll drive my car to the garage on Tuesday and will have it back on Wednesday, hopefully! I will post some pics when it's finished, promise! (For all of you who haven't seen the TTE bodykit... not! )

Well, that's about it I suppose... keep your thumbs crossed for me.

[PetersRedYaris]

D4D, wish we got those here.

Cool car, looks like you have a vision for it. Welcome.

[blackdog78]

Well, this morning my Yaris went to the garage... it doesn't look like they're going to be finished tomorrow as promised... they didn't prepare the new parts, so nothing's sprayed yet! D'oh! At least they said they'd wash my car before working on it... it defintely needs a scrub (pollen fallout last week!)

I got a brand-new Yaris D4D (it's only run 100 km until now) as a replacement car... I think I'm going to exchange the engines in both cars! It looks like hell but it drives like heaven... 15 hp make a big difference in a Diesel engine!

By the way, has anyone got under the promised 4 l / 100 km fuel use yet? My best shot at it was 4,7 l /100 km, but now that I know my car better I never get under 5 l anymore...

[Doc Zaius]

Originally Posted by blackdog78

By the way, has anyone got under the promised 4 l / 100 km fuel use yet? My best shot at it was 4,7 l /100 km, but now that I know my car better I never get under 5 l anymore...

Most people in North America use Miles per U.S. Gallon (MPG) instead of L/100km. I guess in Canada, we use both, even though we're supposted to be metric. And its not super easy to do the conversion in you're head since they're inverse relationships. Here's a converter (if anybody is interested): converter.

Hope your car gets out of the shop soon!!

[blackdog78]

Yesssssssssss... I got my car back! I nearly fell out of the chair I was sitting in when they drove it up front for me to fetch. OMG, it's simply beautiful! I mean it's no snow plough, it's a very decent tuning but it just looks so cool.

I definetly don't regret doing it, but I still have some problems with the garage... When I'd asked for a price proposal they told me it'd cost about 1800 US$ (see? I converted), but today when I called to ask how much it'd come they told me 2600 US$! In my country they can't go more than 10% over the price proposal once you've agreed to it, so now they're renogatiating the price... ok, they "forgot" to add the new foglights in the price proposal but anyway... they'll call me tomorrow to give me the new price; I told them I wouldn't pay more than 2200 $... hope they'll agree to it. We've both lost on the deal in any case.

Photos will be coming soon, the first ones I took were just too shaky!