GR Yaris What did you do to your GR Yaris today?

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Used it as a van to take all my stuff to a festival.
 
Mark said:
When I saw that picture, It looked like the wife had kicked you out for buying a Yaris, then I thought you had to sell your home to get the GR Yaris
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Congratulations, you gave me my 100th thumbs up. Sorry there is no prize as all my money has gone on my new car . LOL
 
I had my car complimented twice today by passers by. One was the bin man who declared it the "best car of the last 10 years" and the other was the Tesco delivery driver who just kept going "wow".

And I drove it a bit.
 
nails84 said:
I used same oil.......but I had a lot less left in the bottle than that I think.
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Oil capacity is 4.3ltr. Didnt change oil filter and checked quite many times that stick says full but need to redo. With lightweight oils reading dipstick is a pain.
 
6k service with puncture repair thrown in.
 
Booked in my service
all oils + filter, brakepads and adjusting the handbrake since it's going quite high 😅
 
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Went to Alton Towers and quite enjoyed using the lane keep assist on the 90 min journey. The car was reasonably nice to do the long journey in and the seats are lovely. Got 39mpg average to boot

Our road markings need sorting out though otherwise this lane keep stuff is useless.
 
Duke said:
Don’t stress, it’s crap even with good lane markings!
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seriously, i don't get the assist crap. i mean sure emergency breaking and blind spot monitoring do a good job in avoiding fatal errors, especially with getting smaller windoows and bad view because of safty regulations. but lane keep assist and road sign reading? what the hek? i prefer to look at the road and drive conscious and not in a semi comatose condition. Isn't it better to drive envolved and concentrated? most assist do make the driver loose concentration to some degree, so they need to use assist to not crash, so... and so on. i don't think thats a good direction, is it?
 
When we’ll implemented, these systems can be very useful in some situations. On my old Superb they were just that and made blatting across France much easier.

The lane keeping was very good and didn’t wander or punt you into verges, the radar cruise was not constantly on and off the throttle like some cars I could mention, and the GPS+camera road sign assist was a useful aid in places like Germany where they like to change speed limits every 200m (seriously guys, what’s up with that?) and it’s easy to get caught out.

Unfortunately they are all too often pretty crap. My F-Pace was okay, but my current A6, despite having presumably very similar hardware to the Skoda, just isn’t as good, diving into gutters etc. if you forget to turn it off, so like the Yaris it’s a reflex to turn it off at the start of every journey.

In particular the RSA on the GR on non-GPS cars is garbage, missing half the signs and not having the map-based speeds to fall back on. You just can’t rely on it, so you learn to just ignore it. Waste of money. Maybe on Convenience Pack cars it’s more useful?
 
Duke said:
When we’ll implemented, these systems can be very useful in some situations. On my old Superb they were just that and made blatting across France much easier.

The lane keeping was very good and didn’t wander or punt you into verges, the radar cruise was not constantly on and off the throttle like some cars I could mention, and the GPS+camera road sign assist was a useful aid in places like Germany where they like to change speed limits every 200m (seriously guys, what’s up with that?) and it’s easy to get caught out.

Unfortunately they are all too often pretty crap. My F-Pace was okay, but my current A6, despite having presumably very similar hardware to the Skoda, just isn’t as good, diving into gutters etc. if you forget to turn it off, so like the Yaris it’s a reflex to turn it off at the start of every journey.

In particular the RSA on the GR on non-GPS cars is garbage, missing half the signs and not having the map-based speeds to fall back on. You just can’t rely on it, so you learn to just ignore it. Waste of money. Maybe on Convenience Pack cars it’s more useful?
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RSA is pretty reliable in my ConP car, and of course there's the extra benefit of it appearing on the HUD so you don't have to take your eyes off the road to see it.
 
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