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Originally Posted by lancer_rit hey vid, did you get the door painted ? How was the job ?
Looking at the issues you have faced in a sparingly driven, still almost new Altis, it is somewhat "un-Japanese" like. The throttle issues should be taken seriously by Toyota/A.S.S. and resolved - I mean what is to say that tomorrow it doesn't accelerate to a greater degree and cause an incident with the car in front ?
Also, I am quite sure your old Lancer wouldn't have had any rattles for a fair amount of time. Atleast mine didn't. Even today, it is largely rattle free though once a year or so, one may have to get some adjustment ...
OT, congrats on the Figo - when did you buy that ? |
I haven't got the doors painted yet, since it was raining and I was extremely busy with work. I'm also trying to get Toyota to order the grill from the diesel Altis but they are being hesitant and keep telling me it wont fit. Without even looking at it I don't understand why they can't try it out. I told them to swap the grill from the TD car and if there are no issues I'll pay advance and they can order a new grill.
The Lancer did not have any rattles. Even the Altis is not that bad. The dashboard rattle is common to many Altis. After that was fixed I can't hear any more rattles.
The acc issue was because of the nature of drive by wire. It's there in the Civic as well but the Altis' advantage of low end torque is actually a disadvantage. The civic suffers from poor low end torque, which means even if you press the acc a little more than required from standstill the car wont spin it's wheels and fly off. In case of the Altis anything more than a feather causes the car to shoot off from the signal and the rpm jumps past 2000rpm in no time. It's a pain in bumper to bumper traffic and takes a while to get used to. Yes it can be scary at times but it seems that this is a known issue and people live with it. I asked other drivers when I was at Ravindu and they agreed to it.
There is another issue known as rev hang. Again a drive by wire trait. When you press the clutch to change the gears, the rpm shoots up stays there for a while and comes down slowly. Reason: For euro 4 norms this has been done intentionally. Solution: when you change gears up or down you don't need to press the acc pedal to rev match because the car will do that for you. It's a pain initially but really easy to drive after that as the car is doing the rev match for you. Quote:
Originally Posted by carradio I just can't stand these fake wood inserts on the Corolla. absolutely spoils the look of the car. Just imagine if all those fake wood areas were replaced by the grey colour of the audio system / console or the dash. It would really look classy. The Toyota salesmen have been after me for almost 5 yrs, but one look at those fakes made me run away from them.. and the Toyota guys had the audacity to put those fakes on the steering wheel too...looks absolutely tasteless. anybody agree with me. I think I would bought a corolla long back instead of the Jetta. and by the way vid6639 what is your opinion of the Jetta? |
Yes the fake wood inserts are really an eyesore but after a while they don't bother you so much. The steering wheel one can be easily covered with good quality leather.
The Jetta is now old in the market and the reason I did not go for it was because of the seating comfort which was nowhere near as good as the Altis. Infact even the Vento has better rear space compared to the Jetta. Seating comfort and ground clearance was a higher priority than wood inserts for me. |