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Daihatsu YRV turbo 130 (off to pastures new).


Joey spud

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The little Daihatsu has done a tank of fuel now at around 38mpg i am happy with that and continues to scare me,not with its acceleration but with its brakes and wayward cornering antics.
I do seem to be creating an impressive amount of brake dust though.

The auto box so I'm told is useless because it's made of chocolate and wont last till Easter so i thought it best i gave it its first fluid change.

It holds over 5 litre of dexron 3 but you can only get half of it out so i did one change today and will go again after 50 miles or so.

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On the stick this stuff looked clean honest..

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That's better.

I gave it a good tonking around the new Amazon / Ikea warehouses that have popped up on the peninsula and it don't seem any slicker but maybe it is a bit quieter.

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Update / tinkering.

While hitting the interior with a hoover a while back i noticed some redundant vacuum pipe dangling behind the centre console.

At first i thought it was for a once fitted boost gauge but there were two pipes and one of them went back through the bulkhead and connected to nothing so not for a boost gauge so it must be for one of these...

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A cheap 'n' cheerful manual boost controller no less.

It was a doddle to fit too and blue silicon vac pipe will make it faster too.

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T piece bit goes on the Wastegate pipe.

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And the adjuster goes wherever you want.

It was £10 and works perfectly,the turbo spins up much quicker and stronger but if i vent the turbo actuator too far i hit the ecu's in built fuel cut and i kangaroo down the street.

On the very busy Daihatsu performance facebook page there is a diagram for making a cheat box to fool the ecu into moving the fuel cut from 0.5 to 0.7 bar.

I think thats the next step.

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Despite my cronic bout of manflu i gave the YRV another transmission fluid change today.
Doesn't seem to have made any difference but at least i know that it's fairly clean now.

I also spent a whole ten pounds on a bit of boy racer bling and nailed it to the dash as required..

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On the subsequent road test i was producing a whopping 0.5 bar of boost.
So now i need to make a cheat box from a couple of resisters and a potentiometer to get up to 0.7 bar to stop the ecu's fuel cut stopping my fun.

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Despite my cronic bout of manflu i gave the YRV another transmission fluid change today.

Doesn't seem to have made any difference but at least i know that it's fairly clean now.

 

I also spent a whole ten pounds on a bit of boy racer bling and nailed to the dash as required..

 

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On the subsequent road test i was producing a whopping 0.5 bar of boost.

So now i need to make a cheat box from a couple of resisters and a potentiometer to get up to 0.7 bar without the ecu's fuel cut stopping my fun.

Don't go blowing it up. Fuel cut is there for a reason.

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The little YRV had developed a bit of a quirk where if you start and drive off straight away it gets stuck in second gear and flashes the D symbol on the dash but if you start and let it idle for a minute then drive off it's always ok.

 

When it gets stuck in second gear switching off and restarting always restores all the gears,this got me thinking it must be electrical rather than mechanical and i had noticed the battery was getting weak if the car was left unused for a few days.

 

Recently after having the radio on for a few hours listening to the very entertaining H+J show on Talksport while cutting the sill off the Brat the battery didn't then have enough grunt to start the engine when i needed to visit the Chippy that evening (big disaster obviously).

 

Now due to my old job i haven't needed to buy a new battery for years so after having a ring around the local factors and nosing online i spent £35 on a Hankook battery with a 4yr warranty (yes i only thought they made tyres too) from Battery Megastore which turned up next day as promised.

I could of got a Lion branded 054 locally for less but from experience they are lucky to last 13 months and are usually under specced in the required amps dept.

 

With the new battery now fitted the gearbox woes have gone so i guess with the old battery the voltage on starting was dropping too low and confusing the fuck out of the gearboxes ecu.

 

Happy days..

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  • 10 months later...

Shamefully i haven't really done much with my Daihatsu since getting it sorted and back on the road again.

I doubt if i have done 500 miles since then and now the mot has lapsed my lack of mojo means it is sitting outside waiting for fresh test.

Plans for when the weather dries up are to re do the front arches in the correct shade of black and fix a really annoying chirping drive belt and obviously mot it again.

The nose of the car is a bit battle scarred with lots of stone chips on the bonnet and bumper (previous owner did 80 miles a day for four years up and down the motorway) but they give it a large dose of character.

I am still looking for a good sensibly priced n/s fog light but then again the corroded one now covered in yellow tint sort of looks ok.

I am probably going to try and move it on come the summer and will post an add on here to see if anyone wants to take on a 114k mile turbo charged small car with a proprensity to shit its gearbox with in days of you taking ownership.

It's a little car that is just so dam good at doing small car things and it makes me smile when i walk up to it in a parking bay but also a bit sad that i don't use it more.

One YRV sulking behind the gates.

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Done some Daihatsu tinkering last week.

The annoying chirping noise was the drive belt and a new one has 100% cured it.

Although the one i took off was fairly new it was the one that was fitted to the car when the alternator was seizing up and when i removed it and looked a bit more closely there was melted bits stuck inbetween its ridges stopping it sitting snugly in the pulleys groves.

A while back i quickly painted the front arches with some cheap generic black paint just to protect them through the winter months.

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To be fair it only really noticed it bright sunlight.

The paint is a mica black and the exact same colour as my Avensis and shonky Hiace and i had a can already.

I never seem to have much success with metallic and lacquer finishes but picked a nice hot day with little breeze and gave it a go.

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No masking tape so my best gaffa tape was used instead. 

I gave it three light coats of colour keeping quite tight to the arch then three full coats of lacquer over the top that i sort of dusted out towards the middle of the wing.

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After a couple of days hardening i gave them a gentle compounding with G3 and G10 and to be honest they have come out far better than i expected,it won't win any prizes at Pebble Beach but looks fine when compared to the rest of the car.

And i finally joined the 21st century and spent out on a new smart battery charger.

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It's the kiss of death leaving a battery standing idle and the YRV one is only rated at 300 amps so can't afford to loose any of its modest capacity through suphated plates.

I thought £23 was a fair price i for a soft start,pulse charge battery conditioner/charger.

Just need to get it mot'd again now. 

 

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  • 4 months later...

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The latest is it still needs a Mot and actually using but the Subaru Pick up and new boy Boris the Morris (and two caravans) have seriously left me without any spare space so it is now residing at my Sister in laws house.

I aim to get it Mot'd in the next week or two and sadly sell it on to free up space and funds..

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1 hour ago, Tubbo said:

Are you going to sell it through the forum?

Once it's Mot'd and i have given it a good run around to make sure everything is still all good i will offer it first on here be it an outright sale or a roffle if there is any interest.

My only worry is some one buys it and the next day the gear box that the internet tells me is made of chocolate then craps itself.

Edit. The gearbox is absolulely fine and is a bit of a laugh when operated on the steering wheel shift buttons.

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On 22/02/2019 at 18:17, Joey spud said:

The little Daihatsu has done a tank of fuel now at around 38mpg i am happy with that and continues to scare me,not with its acceleration but with its brakes and wayward cornering antics.
I do seem to be creating an impressive amount of brake dust though.

The auto box so I'm told is useless because it's made of chocolate and wont last till Easter so i thought it best i gave it its first fluid change.

It holds over 5 litre of dexron 3 but you can only get half of it out so i did one change today and will go again after 50 miles or so.

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On the stick this stuff looked clean honest..

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That's better.

I gave it a good tonking around the new Amazon / Ikea warehouses that have popped up on the peninsula and it don't seem any slicker but maybe it is a bit quieter.

I have no idea of the 'chocolate quotient' assigned to Suzuki slushboxes.... But, nonetheless, I'm preparing the ground for a drain/refill/drain again loop.

The car is 22 but I've no proof the fluid has been replaced.... Might have 'only' done 28k.... but the fluid (pink, but a bit dark) may have a timelimit - dunno 😕

Bit of wax injection around the extremities, prior to frosties + Antifreeze slosh through, is in the plan too ;)

Grand stuff...

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After sitting unused i have got my arse in gear and got it mot'd

While it was left idle the exhausts main silencer box decided to rot out so i cut it off and boshed a patch around the flaky bit and welded it back on again.

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Then a few days later the offer of a free YRV exhaust popped on Facebook in nearby Tunbridge Wells.

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I was going to fit the whole lot but the fixing bolts in to the cat/manifold felt like they would snap before yielding so it was a cut'n'shut job once again.

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What with Boris,the Subaru and the sister in laws caravan taking up all my entire stock of ramps and axle stands i had to go old skool and use high density blocks.

The Mot man advised me of smeary wiper blades and slightly binding front brakes.

The wipers were replaced with cheap ebay ones and they seem ok but i doubt if they will last six months before deteriorating again.

The brakes i have never been happy with the pads are Ebc green stuff and they are crap when cold,create shed loads of dust and start to judder badly when you repeatedly brake from 70mph untill they cool down again.

Maybe they can only be fitted with new discs or i didn't bed them in right but either way for twice the price of a decent OE pad they are not for me so i have boxed them up and put them in the boot for its new owner.

So this time i have replaced the pads and discs with Mintex stuff which i have always been happy with.

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It was only when i removed the discs that i realised just how shagged the backs of them were.

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That's much better.

And a quick road test reveals the little car stops just as well as before but without the judder, once back home i jacked up each side to see if there was any brake bind and also used a cheap infared temp gun to see if one brake was running hotter that the other and all seems good.

All that's left now is to look in to an annoying vibration at 60 to 80 that i think is a wheel balance concern so i'll take them to work with me a borrow a balancer while i am attended a tyre depot somewhere.

That now leads to getting it advertised and sold.

Everything works on it the rusty bits are gone and its been well coated with sealant and wax underneath.

The not so good is the paint work across its bonnet and bumper is heavily peppered with stone chips (the paint on Daihatsu's is really thin),the n/s front spot lamp has a corroded reflector and the cheap rear tyres are cracking inbetween their tread.

 

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