European Yaris 2000 Ecomodding

[MetroMPG]

Congrats on the personal best, Jyden!

PS - I really like the look of the car (the album pic with smooth wheel covers and partial rear wheel skirt).

[Jyden]

Thanks Metro - but also only possible because of this website....

The car may look appealing to us ECO-modders, but after mounting the partial rear wheel skirts, I now get a lot of "stupid looks" and funny remarks.

My son for instance: " Dad - why do you do those ugly things to your car?"

Neighbour: "You are fiddeling with your car again - is there somthing wrong with it?"
(too polite to make remarks about funny looking body work)

[Jyden]

Just came home from our vacation trip to Brittany in France. We did all in all 4.140 km (2.570 miles).

The best two tankfull's both shoved more than 48 mpg. The best was 48.64 mpg with the car loaded with two persons and lots of luggage.

The two 48 mpg trips was on the way out and on the way home, both part of an 10 hour drive mostly on highways and some mainroads.

Warm wheather no doubt constibuted to the good results, but I also noticed that the car benefitted greatly from the trip, as it has become much more responsive, as all parts of the engine, transmission and exhaust system has been running at max temps for a long time. I suspect, that my normal shorter trips (in comparison) had somewhat clogged up parts of the system, maybe the catalyc converter?

I also hit the limit as the engine temps (and my grill blocks) in the mountains of France and Germany, where I had to keep the speed down to not more that 65 mph, in order not to overheat the engine going up 8 - 10% steep slopes in the warm wheather (30 deg celcius).

Well - all in all I'm impressed with this littte 10 y.o. car performing flawlessly on the whole trip, and the very good milage we got, contributed signifigantly the keep the cost of the vacation down.

[euromodder]

Nice result

[Arragonis]

Originally Posted by Jyden

Well - all in all I'm impressed with this littte 10 y.o. car performing flawlessly on the whole trip, and the very good milage we got, contributed signifigantly the keep the cost of the vacation down.

That Yaris is a great little car. Also very impressed with the little 1.0 dealing with the full family duties. I agree, a good blowout every now and again must help.

[Jyden]

Yes - one just has not to expect too much of it. You couldn't go 140 km/t on the highway all day - it would wear it down, considering the load we were carrying, but with som patience it went very well. Had I chosen to go flat out to keep up with the folks in the fast lane, I belive it would have had developed problems.

But a good blowout one in a while is not bad

[Arragonis]

Did you do any further updates ?

[Arragonis]

Bump - Any further updates ?

[Jyden]

Update.....
Hi everybody - time for an update.

A lot has happend during the past years. Fist I got a new job with a company car, so we didn't use the Yaris much.

Next I got fired and was out of job for some time, where we used the car as litte as possible.

Now I'm back in a new job, near by, so I hope to some more biking, and for that I bougt an E-bike.

As for the Yaris - we mostly use it for trips round town and shorter local trips, which means a lot of cold starts, and thus a rather bad FE.

As for the areomods:
- Rearwheel squirts blew of when driving at the highway in a strom where we passed a big lorry..... Gone forever.
- Sealing og gaps needs to be renewed cause wheater made the tape go to pieces
- The hubcaps got damaged, and I had to get some new ones, which are not as good in areo.....

When the wheater get warmer again, I'll start to remod the car again, but this time I'll will do it with better materials, and make the changes using better methods og attaching them (less glue and tape - more srews and bolts).

For the time beeing with winter temps and winter tires, combined with short trips, We'll have to live with some pretty poor results.

[Piwoslaw]

Good to see you back

Lots of things have happened, but it all seems to be going in the direction of using less fuel. Even if the Yaris' fuel log isn't ideal, you are still spending less on fuel