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

Scratched it gettin a bicycle out the garage. Almost fainted
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Had a mystery ticking noise from the car, first thought from wheels or brakes, several times per wheel revolution, no change with gears. But it was only there off throttle and when cold. What could it be?

It was in fact...
The heat shield between the fuel tanks going against the driveshaft. Off throttle rocks engine forward so pushing forward part driveshaft up (which had me looking at the front far too long) AND, back half down as it is supported in the middle, striking the heat shield. Heat from the exhaust then expanded the heat shield away from interference. No idea how it ended up there, haven't done any work in the area hence me posting.

Only took me a few weeks to figure it out :p


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After a simple pull down of the heat shield by hand
 
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Took it to RRG Toyota in Macclesfield for its first safety check. Nice run over the hills in the rain to get there and absolutely first class service, I was even welcomed by name into my parking spot by the maitre d! Richard popped down to introduce himself and all staff were fab.
 
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Onehp said:
Had a mystery ticking noise from the car, first thought from wheels or brakes, several times per wheel revolution, no change with gears. But it was only there off throttle and when cold. What could it be?

It was in fact...
The heat shield between the fuel tanks going against the driveshaft. Off throttle rocks engine forward so pushing forward part driveshaft up (which had me looking at the front far too long) AND, back half down as it is supported in the middle, striking the heat shield. Heat from the exhaust then expanded the heat shield away from interference. No idea how it ended up there, haven't done any work in the area hence me posting.

Only took me a few weeks to figure it out :p


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This is why this forum is Gold. Thanks.
 
GRunt said:
This is why this forum is Gold. Thanks.
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Agreed. I had this sound and thought it was the brake disk shield, bent it slightly, but then it came back so could actually be this instead. Hard to describe to somebody or a garage so this is ideal.
 
Fitted a lovely shiny Fujitsubo exhaust. Fantastic quality, piece of piss to install - less than 30 minutes with the car on a ramp. Quick delivery from Torque GT who were best priced too - £1260 to my door.

Good bit more bass to the exhaust in the car when driving now, and pretty subtle outside as far as I can tell. Needs a few miles to settle in before I decide if I love it or not.

I've had the fake noise off from day 2, turned the ANC off today to hear the exhaust but may turn it back on to see if it reduces the boom a little. Still have sound deadening to install in various places.

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I left the engine sound off as soon as I got the car home as it made the demo car door cards rattle but turned the ANC back on, I couldn’t really tell a difference so just left it on
 
I reach a thousand miles in mine and now have a song in my head. Just need to adapt the lyrics.

Any ideas?

On a such a sad day, it would be nice to bring some smiles to all
 
Got dizzy doing donuts in the rain. Track mode, TC all the way off, yark of the handbrake to start rotating and a good dose of lead foot. Great fun!
 
Took the long way home after a hectic day at work. Love this car , now 900 miles in and it’s loosened up nicely .
 
Realised I probably need to book it in for its first service. Nearly 9,000 km now, not bad in a little over four months.
 
Had it serviced at 12K miles - so the first full service (as well as the safety check and radar recall).
 
Fizzio said:
drive on Cefyn Bryn road at your suggestion - loved it . Then watched Llanelli play Swansea ( I’m big into my rugby - union or league ) , few beers after parking up the car ! Back home to West Sussex tomorrow. The GR is made for roads in Wales. Think I may be visiting Wales even more now !!
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Glad you enjoyed Cefyn Bryn. Gower is very busy these days (esp. in summer) and all 40mph now, so won’t be going for drives there much.

I’ve been in Wales two weeks now. I tried to reply to this thread back then but internet was playing up as 4G mast was down from a storm (country life eh?).

I’m loving the driving so far. I’m just heading off in random directions and finding great roads. Helps that you have them to yourself of course!

Yesterday I discovered this beautiful bit of singletrack that snakes up from Ammanford to the Black Mountains. Got to this car park at the top and it’s obviously driving Nirvana up here, it was performance cars and sports bikes everywhere and even guys waiting on the hairpins getting photos of oversteer moments. I had to disappoint here as a) had my doggos in the front seat and b) didn’t fancy being the English nobhead binning the GR in front of the locals.

There were sections of this road that the GR was made for, narrow twisting undulating tarmac where the 4wd was actually necessary, it felt so good.

I also really noticed this thing that many owners have mentioned, the suspension works better at a higher speed, it seems to just float over the bumps and ruts, feeling a bit lumpen and crashy at typical (stuck behind someone) speeds.

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Mountain Road Viewpoint car park, A4069.

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Zoomed in from the top of the black mountain.

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On the way back (whippet driving), this is a rare straight bit.

As this is the ‘What did you do to your GR Yaris today?’ thread, and I’ve gone massively off-topic, I washed it when I got back.

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Boring.

Any other owners in Swansea area/South Wales want to meet up? Are there any Caffeine & Machine type places around these parts?
 
Steve said:
Glad you enjoyed Cefyn Bryn. Gower is very busy these days (esp. in summer) and all 40mph now, so won’t be going for drives there much.

I’ve been in Wales two weeks now. I tried to reply to this thread back then but internet was playing up as 4G mast was down from a storm (country life eh?).

I’m loving the driving so far. I’m just heading off in random directions and finding great roads. Helps that you have them to yourself of course!

Yesterday I discovered this beautiful bit of singletrack that snakes up from Ammanford to the Black Mountains. Got to this car park at the top and it’s obviously driving Nirvana up here, it was performance cars and sports bikes everywhere and even guys waiting on the hairpins getting photos of oversteer moments. I had to disappoint here as a) had my doggos in the front seat and b) didn’t fancy being the English nobhead binning the GR in front of the locals.

There were sections of this road that the GR was made for, narrow twisting undulating tarmac where the 4wd was actually necessary, it felt so good.

I also really noticed this thing that many owners have mentioned, the suspension works better at a higher speed, it seems to just float over the bumps and ruts, feeling a bit lumpen and crashy at typical (stuck behind someone) speeds.

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Mountain Road Viewpoint car park, A4069.

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Zoomed in from the top of the black mountain.

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On the way back (whippet driving), this is a rare straight bit.

As this is the ‘What did you do to your GR Yaris today?’ thread, and I’ve gone massively off-topic, I washed it when I got back.

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Boring.

Any other owners in Swansea area/South Wales want to meet up? Are there any Caffeine & Machine type places around these parts?
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Head west to Sunny Pembrokeshire.
 
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