Aygo Platinum Quick Carpark Test.

[zen141]

Sat in it ..

The supposed Alcantara and leather seats were not actually alcantara. Alcantara is expensive and suede like, grippy. These were velour with holes in them. The rear seats don't slide like the Yaris, the heater controls look like the pointer on It's a Knockout to show how much dyed water has been collected by the Belgium team, the interior door handles did not seem designed to open doors, you could only see the front of the car whilst parking if you stood on the roof and the bonnet release is on THE FREAKING PASSENGER SIDE ! Who thought that up? The fuel filler is on the right of the car so the driver always has to walk half way round his car , there is no height adjustment to the seat and the rev counter does not work because it is not there...

I still bought the car though :)

Because we turned the engine on and it had the most mellow baritone 3 pot little song that captured my heart completely :love:

When something like that occurs then problems become mere foiables. I'm looking foward to sticking some 195/45's on 16 inch wheels and terrorising the whole of Kent ! Time to start perusing those Japanese web sites for "bits" ;)

So I'm not supposed to wash it either, oh well, I can live with that, I will just get the Polish guy down at Sainsbury's to lick it clean.

Regards

Andy

[Unklian]

Sat in it ..

you could only see the front of the car whilst parking if you stood on the roof and the bonnet release is on THE FREAKING PASSENGER SIDE ! Who thought that up? The fuel filler is on the right of the car so the driver always has to walk half way round his car , there is no height adjustment to the seat and the rev counter does not work because it is not there...

Oh dear !

You can work out where the front of the car is using memory.

Stand outside the car and look how long the bonnet is. When parking,

remember how far it finished from the bottom of the windscreen

and that's the gap you leave.

I once forgot this measurement. :(

The filler cap has to be where it is because if it was on the other side of the car

and you opened it, the pipe connected to the fuel tank wouldn't be there!

The lid is exactly over the top of the fuel tank filler. :D

The bonnet release is on the end of the cable.

If it was on the driver side, it wouldn't work anything.

You would have to pull the cable with pliers.

Seat height......

Eat loads of pies and trust me, you will be lower.

Eat like Kate Moss, sit higher.

On a more serious note,.....

You know you wan't to......

http://toyotaownersclub.com/forums/index.p...18&hl=tacho

It is a great little car for what it is.

We're driving to look at a couple of houses this Saturday.

Sheffield to Dunoon (Scotland) and back again.

650 mile round trip. No worries.

I have had some cars where I would have been less than happy.

Enjoy than engine note. It really is a good'un.

Ian.

[adilmon]

The exhaust pipe is placed to be away from the kerb, and the petrol filler is positioned to be as far away from the hot exhaust as possible.

You can usually tell what market a car was designed for by taking these positions into account

[walfice]

The bonnet catch lever on the passenger side is a cost cutting measure. It is there because a higher percentage of sales will be left hand drive, so they just leave it there on right hand drive models, renault do this too.

[rgvsean]

The filler cap has to be where it is because if it was on the other side of the car

and you opened it, the pipe connected to the fuel tank wouldn't be there!

The lid is exactly over the top of the fuel tank filler.

[Jan van de Wouw]

The filler cap has to be where it is because if it was on the other side of the car

and you opened it, the pipe connected to the fuel tank wouldn't be there!

The lid is exactly over the top of the fuel tank filler.

Funny... Would be nice if it were true :P In actuality there's quite

some length of pipe/hose going from the filer cap to the tank...

The bonnet catch lever on the passenger side is a cost cutting measure.

It is there because a higher percentage of sales will be left hand drive,

so they just leave it there on right hand drive models, renault do this too.

Even the bigger, more expensive cars like BMW have it on the left...

As you said, the market for RHD-cars is much smaller.

That's why the glovebox lid is more expensive too;

price in GBP is slightly higher than in EUR,

with exchange rates being allmost 1,3...

[Unklian]

Another reason for the bonnet catch being "over there"

Because it never gets used, the cobwebs & dust won't get on your clothes.

I've always done all my own maintenence on cars and I'm pedantic cabout

oil levels and checking stuff.

The Aygo maintence seems to be filling the screenwash.........nothing else

to do under the bonnet. The oil never moves a millimetre.

I have now found out when the screenwash is about to run out.

The jets on the right (driver's) side become lower than usual as the contents

are exhausted. When freshly filled, they are higher than the left-hand jets.

No checks at all under the bonnet then.

I just lift it up, sigh, put it back down again.

*bored*

Ian.

[Unklian]

The bonnet catch lever on the passenger side is a cost cutting measure. It is there because a higher percentage of sales will be left hand drive, so they just leave it there on right hand drive models, renault do this too.

Another example of this was the Ford Fiesta.

To save moving the braking master cylinder and servo,

(there wasn't really room to move them to the off-side).

Just run a great big bar arrangement across the car under the bonnet.

Loads of slack and lost movevent but hey,....saves a few quid on doing things properly.

(That was my first car with the bonnet catch on the left too).

Ian.