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

nails84 said:
Really like it. But don't like the price. Your bay looks great 👍
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Yeah, even with the same 25% off as the exhaust, still wasn’t cheap. Can’t even justify it tbh, but at least it keeps the original in new condition? 😆
 
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In the morning I pulled alongside another GR Yaris and said hello to the driver; I complimented him on his car and he me on mine.

In the evening I misjudged an overtake so ended up having to go a lot faster than planned towards oncoming traffic to clear the front car of a 3-car "train". All praise to the Fiesta driver coming the other way for clocking the situation I'd got into and easing off to make some space. I'm old enough to know better though appear to be a slow learner.
 
Gyp said:
Not to but in...

In the morning I pulled alongside another GR Yaris and said hello to the driver; I complimented him on his car and he me on mine.

In the evening I misjudged an overtake so ended up having to go a lot faster than planned towards oncoming traffic to clear the front car of a 3-car "train". All praise to the Fiesta driver coming the other way for clocking the situation I'd got into and easing off to make some space. I'm old enough to know better though appear to be a slow learner.
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It happens, it’s difficult to do a multi car overtake. As your overtaking the equilavent of 10-15 car lengths, not just 3 cars.

Doesn’t help that no-one (when driving) allows you to hop overtake. Even though they have no desire to ever overtake. So you get stuck into sitting there or overtaking the lot.

Overtaking in the UK, honestly it’s the worst, a good proportion of overtakes I’m glad I’ve done it in the Yaris and done it in a low gear as the car I’m overtaking accelerates.

Although maybe a tad silly or ill judged, credit to you for posting it, it’s why the forum works, frank and honesty. It’s different to most forums where other users make 0 mistakes in their lives 😅🤣
 
Back in my old civic, I had a similar situation. We were going to a marriage 400 km away. On a long b road section there was a truck with some cars behind. It was going 60 km/h instead of allowed 100. One hour I tried to over take because time was coming to get very close. But there was never an opportunity.

Finally on a long straight I saw a opportunity and shifted down to second, VTEC kicked in and I accelerated. Half the way a small truck came from a side road and turned in on the opposite lane.

Why the hell wasn't he just waiting till I am past?
But it was my mistake because I didn't expected a car would possibly come from that side road.

Holy cow that guy did not even found his brakes and so it was a f***ing close one and my heart was beating as fast as my engine was running...

Could have come to a fast end there for my two passengers and me. Better coming late to a marriage than not coming at all...
 
Finished running it in and got a dent in the bonnet with some paint removed for good measure :mad:

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Mirror riser now fitted. I can see what I didn’t see now. And yep it makes a huge difference for anybody questioning it! As per my previous post I thought as my height was good it wouldn’t change anything but it opens up so much more of the view just due to the location of the pivot point.
 
Dav1d said:
Mirror riser now fitted. I can see what I didn’t see now. And yep it makes a huge difference for anybody questioning it! As per my previous post I thought as my height was good it wouldn’t change anything but it opens up so much more of the view just due to the location of the pivot point.
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They are all out of stock :(
 
Mintmansam said:
It happens, it’s difficult to do a multi car overtake. As your overtaking the equivalent of 10-15 car lengths, not just 3 cars.
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Indeed. There are a few places that I do what might appear to be brave or ill-advised overtakes, but that's generally because I hang back quite a long way to get really good visibility and it also means that I'm accelerating well before the actual overtake starts, minimising time on the other side of the road

Where it can go wrong is where there's someone coming the other way also making progress and enjoying a country road.

Great that in this occasion the driver coming the other way spotted the problem and eased off to reduce the risk rather than try and punish me for my mistake.

Mintmansam said:
Doesn’t help that no-one (when driving) allows you to hop overtake. Even though they have no desire to ever overtake. So you get stuck into sitting there or overtaking the lot.
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Yes, so frustrating. If I cant, or just don't want to overtake then I drop back and make a gap.
Of course inevitably someone overtakes into that gap but can't make the next overtake.

Mintmansam said:
Although maybe a tad silly or ill judged, credit to you for posting it, it’s why the forum works, frank and honesty. It’s different to most forums where other users make 0 mistakes in their lives 😅🤣
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I like to learn from mistakes, and the only way that's possible is if I admit that they are mistakes in the first place.

One of the things that really winds me up are the YouTube videos where people are showing their dashcam footage of other people's bad driving, and 9 times out of 10 the driver of the camera car has done things to make the situation worse rather than better.

If someone's cutting in there are two options; get angry, forcibly try and stop them, and post the footage of your victory, or ease off when you can see that it's going to happen, chill out and carry on with your day as if nothing has happened.
 
Conversely I switched it off and thought it was too quiet so I put it back on again; I need an exhaust methinks.
 
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