GR Yaris 👎 Negatives - what annoys, disappoints, puzzles and generally irks you about the GR Yaris?

corroded said:
I must admit, I feel like nearly every car I've ever owned has not allowed that as an option. I figured there is some kind of reason to do with how the ducting works?
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Maybe you are right, I might be going mad! Will have to check it out on our other car (Volvo)
 
Both my current cars can do this. The Audi has a full range of screen/face/feet vent options on the touchscreen, you have have any, all or none selected.

The Up has an old-fashioned rotary dial with four positions that allow any combination except all at once.
 
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corroded said:
I must admit, I feel like nearly every car I've ever owned has not allowed that as an option. I figured there is some kind of reason to do with how the ducting works?
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Ford Fiesta can, Dacia Sandero can't

My gripes,
No logical phone location with sufficient grip
No wireless apple car play

I shove the phone in glove box with cable dangling out, ideally wireless car play would solve the cable issue.

Dream would be USB port in glove box, allowing charging apple car play and no unsightly cable

Big blind spot at 5 and 7 o'clock so cars can hide, I swing wildly forward and back and left and right to check in mirror no one is there.
 
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Mintmansam said:
Ford Fiesta can, Dacia Sandero can't

My gripes,
No logical phone location with sufficient grip
No wireless apple car play

I shove the phone in glove box with cable dangling out, ideally wireless car play would solve the cable issue.

Dream would be USB port in glove box, allowing charging apple car play and no unsightly cable
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A coiled cable and a sticky rubber pad works for me.
Mintmansam said:
Big blind spot at 5 and 7 o'clock so cars can hide, I swing wildly forward and back and left and right to check in mirror no one is there.
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Definitely a plus with the convenience pack is having the blind spot alert. Y-junctions can be a pain still.
 
A few things like the seat height (I am 182cm so with helmet I lay the seat back more that I like on the track) and the mirror (which gets turned on the track) but the one thing that is a miss for me is the seat support. We cannot change seats so easily here and to replace an airbag seat means another airbag seat and few will sign off that the new seat meets the same criteria as the old. On sprint days the GR is right up there until the track heats up then if drops back. The main reason is staying in the seat with the grip levels. I WILL get me a harness but having a few issues getting anyone to sell me a Quickfit Pro and then the cost of shipping from the good old boys in the US is more than the harness. Work in progress.
 
Blind spots in the small side windows
No way to store a setting for no start stop/ no lane assist option. Always disabling everything before i go is a massive pain in the ass.
Also because i sit pretty far back i smash my elbow in the doorcard sometimes 😅
No wireless car play
 
It's so sad to see the negatives thread a lot longer than the positives thread.
 
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Pappyjohn said:
It's so sad to see the negatives thread a lot longer than the positives thread.
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no need be sad as with all things ppl typically are keen point out negative stuff while taking good bits for granted. bit like ppl giving restaurant only a 2* review because 'there was nowhere to park'

the positives of this vehicle far far outweigh the neg stuff
 
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No heated seats.
No heated steering wheel.
Stupidly expensive wheels.
Mirror blind spot
1 USB port (I mean...FFS)
Not much storage.
No Sat Nav
Rear access
No boot light
3/4 visibility compromised
No rear wiper
The fact the Lane Assist defaults on
The fact it beeps sometimes when I open the door, sometimes it doesn't. Haven't fathomed out a logic to it.
The phone connection dies when I turn the engine off, as does the radio/infotainment in general. Can't it wait until I open the door?
Door elbow card flimsiness. Can't see it lasting 10 years.

All of that said, I just seem them as quirks and character. It's all forgiven once second gear is clunked into place. Not going to see another car like this. Ever. Enjoy it while you can.
 
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As I like to drive with really forward tilted seat I have started thinking that my head is too close to the roof.
It seems it doesn't help even I slide the seat backwards so might need to investigate options how to lower the seat.
 
Darren said:
The fact it beeps sometimes when I open the door, sometimes it doesn't. Haven't fathomed out a logic to it.
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Yeah I hate that, you have to turn the engine OFF first before opening the door or it beeps at you... :cautious:
I sometimes like to open the door for fresh air and tick over for a minute on the drive before switching OFF my cars but this one beeps at you!! o_O
 
Kaxe said:
Yeah I hate that, you have to turn the engine OFF first before opening the door or it beeps at you... :cautious:
I sometimes like to open the door for fresh air and tick over for a minute on the drive before switching OFF my cars but this one beeps at you!! o_O
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All new cars seem to do it. Our 2019 Cupra does it & it's fecking annoying, way more than the GR. The GR beep doesn't seem that bad in comparison :ROFLMAO:
 
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Martin GR4 said:
The flimsy front grill that I've nearly broken myself whilst cleaning the car! Absolute waste of time. Why Toyota didn't come up with a better solution, is beyond me 🤔
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What he said

As per my rant yesterday after finding out it had broken without me knowing about it.

I have to hope that I've just been unlucky, but if bits break off every 1700 miles then I hate to say it but I might have to get rid.
I'm all for weight saving, but the grille takes the piss. Compounded by the one piece design which means you have to swap out the entire thing if just a bit of it breaks
 
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griff said:
What he said

As per my rant yesterday after finding out it had broken without me knowing about it.

I have to hope that I've just been unlucky, but if bits break off every 1700 miles then I hate to say it but I might have to get rid.
I'm all for weight saving, but the grille takes the piss. Compounded by the one piece design which means you have to swap out the entire thing if just a bit of it breaks
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FWIW I have emailed some feedback to Toyota GB on this, just to see if there is anything they can do.
In my opinion the grille design is defective, which could be addressed in a number of ways:

- Thicker plastic
- Modular design (so at least if one part breaks it would save swapping out the entire thing
- Smaller mesh - to help save intercoolers etc
 
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As someone that likes to keep their car pristine the thing that bugs me about the Yaris is the amount of water/dirt ingress into the engine bay, in heavy rain and even when cleaning the car the amount of water that gets into the engine bay is more than I have ever seen before with other cars.
 
GRWoody said:
As someone that likes to keep their car pristine the thing that bugs me about the Yaris is the amount of water/dirt ingress into the engine bay, in heavy rain and even when cleaning the car the amount of water that gets into the engine bay is more than I have ever seen before with other cars.
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I haven't noticed this. Maybe not driven in a hard enough rain then.
 
GRWoody said:
As someone that likes to keep their car pristine the thing that bugs me about the Yaris is the amount of water/dirt ingress into the engine bay, in heavy rain and even when cleaning the car the amount of water that gets into the engine bay is more than I have ever seen before with other cars.
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Yep, need to clean mine as it's gone almost orange / rusty shitty brown on some of the plastic, more so the guttering & by the bonnet latch.
 
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