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

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I got the summer tires fitted to my white rims 😁 fantastic day here today!
 
Onehp said:
Had a friend in the car and decided to demonstratively yank the handbrake shortly while cruise control was on. It cut all power, gas pedal completely unresponsive and esp light flashing.

WTF.

I switched off esp and instantly I could accelerate again.

So don't do this.... on the motorway with traffic behind 🤦
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Bet the car thought you are doing emergency braking with hand brake, totally understandable. limiting anything else than trying to get car stopped.
 
Took advantage of a break in the rain to burn half a tank of V Power. Spent a very enjoyable 30 mins playing with a couple of guys in an Exige and an Elise, joined by a Taycan at some point. Let’s just say he wasn’t as much of a fan of the roundabouts as we were 😁
 
Duke said:
Took advantage of a break in the rain to burn half a tank of V Power. Spent a very enjoyable 30 mins playing with a couple of guys in an Exige and an Elise, joined by a Taycan at some point. Let’s just say he wasn’t as much of a fan of the roundabouts as we were 😁
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Monitoring the weather closely in your wider area, as I'm looking for a "break in the rain" for a road trip anywhere between 7th & 14th April. Getting across the channel from the UK should be straightforward, but not sure where to head to from there.

Not looking for proper mountainous drives this time, so I was thinking of exploring:
  • Parc Naturel Régional Scarpe-Escaut
  • Parc naturel régional de l'Avesnois
  • Parc naturel régional des Ardennes
Should be nice in spring, unless you advise otherwise. Also, any other suggestions welcome, as is any advice on how enthusiast-car-friendly these areas are (the car looks boy-racer enough anyway and with foreign plates sometimes attracts police attention for no reason).
 
They’re not areas I know, unfortunately. Rural France is generally great for driving though, no-one gives much of a toss as long as you’re sensible near towns, farms etc. The only thing is the speed limit which in some Departments is still 80 km/h. Not sure of the current situation in those areas as it is a shifting picture as more and more areas, particularly rural ones, get pissed off at the lower limit.

I can recommend the north of Luxembourg and the Eifel in Germany though. Still part of the Ardennes region so the same kind of terrain, but the roads are generally perfect tarmac in Lux, which isn’t always the case in France or Belgium, to put it mildly 😬

It also gets you close to a certain famous racetrack…
 
Day 17 without the car...
Still at mechanics, waiting for bumper to be painted.
Some other stuff being done on the car as well:
- finally finish IC Water spray (been dragging on since August)
- swap skid plate for vented undertray
- install ITCC vent
- install Cusco throttle pedal
- turn off ESE and ANC
- swap PS4 on new summer wheels
Soon to be 1y of ownership, and I'd like to get my mods done by then. Only a few minor ones remaining, I hope :LOL:
 
Went out shopping for a car, with/for a friend, in a snowstorm. Only other customer at the rather big place was someone shopping a car for his grandson. So what? Well, we both drove a GRY*!

Perfect shopping car (Jeremy C voice) ... in a snowstorm


*first fellow owner also I get to meet in the wild
 
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kinboshi said:
Is it, but what's up with it?

I use it going through average speed check areas, and also occasionally in heavy motorway traffic.

I use the radar cruise-control, the lane centering, and ensure the distance setting is down to the lowest.

Works really well I think!
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Worked technically fine for me, I just didn't like it
 
Compared to other radar cruise implementations I've used it is uneven and slow to react in its throttle applications. Approaching a slower vehicle, even one only going a few km/h slower than you, gives a very obvious lift-off instead of an almost imperceptible backing-off. The transition could be a lot smoother.

In general, the cruise also doesn't transition well between very small throttle openings and coasting so when, for example, going down a slight slope it will pulse the throttle leading to a subtle but noticeable surge effect. This is something most cruise control systems nailed decades ago.

It's also slow to react, so if you are holding a speed, set the cruise target and lift off the throttle, it will generally lose up to 5 km/h before the cruise control kicks in.

It's cool that it (mostly) reapplies the same cruise setting after changing gear, but again it manages to lose a lot of speed in the process - much more than doing it manually - which is disconcerting if attempting to restore a previous set speed after, say, leaving a lower speed zone in a tunnel, town etc. as there may be other cars around and the drop-off can be noticeable. This means the ability for it to hold a cruise speed between shifts is best ignored.
 
Duke said:
Compared to other radar cruise implementations I've used it is uneven and slow to react in its throttle applications. Approaching a slower vehicle, even one only going a few km/h slower than you, gives a very obvious lift-off instead of an almost imperceptible backing-off. The transition could be a lot smoother.

In general, the cruise also doesn't transition well between very small throttle openings and coasting so when, for example, going down a slight slope it will pulse the throttle leading to a subtle but noticeable surge effect. This is something most cruise control systems nailed decades ago.

It's also slow to react, so if you are holding a speed, set the cruise target and lift off the throttle, it will generally lose up to 5 km/h before the cruise control kicks in.

It's cool that it (mostly) reapplies the same cruise setting after changing gear, but again it manages to lose a lot of speed in the process - much more than doing it manually - which is disconcerting if attempting to restore a previous set speed after, say, leaving a lower speed zone in a tunnel, town etc. as there may be other cars around and the drop-off can be noticeable. This means the ability for it to hold a cruise speed between shifts is best ignored.
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this is really bizarre as none of those issues appear on my car, I'm finding the radar cruise to be smooth in all conditions speeding up or slowing down when tracking other vehicles
 
Spent a little while looking at recommended tire pressures, then just set them to what the manual says they should be. Didn't realise the rears were supposed to be 29. Fronts been at 32 for ages, but thought it was the same all four corners.
 
mjscall said:
Used the radar cruise for the first time ever

Used the radar cruise for the last time ever
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My habit is still to turn off lane centering and long-press the cruise control button to get non-adaptive cruise control.

But I've recently started to embrace them both in a narrow use case. On longish highway (meaning motorway/autobahn) slogs with moderate traffic, and especially if there are a lot of speed cameras (I'm looking at you, Karlsruhe!).

If there's little traffic, I sometimes don't notice when the adaptive cruise slows down on approaching a slower vehicle. If there's too much traffic there's constantly someone popping in front of you and the car slows aggressively and abruptly, and it's really too much traffic for regular cruise control, too.

But with moderate traffic, and especially if the pace won't stay consistent, it's nice to be able to set it aspirationally and let it sort out the rest. On a long highway slog, that and the lane assist save just a little bit of cognitive load.
 
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