I recently helped my daughter buy a repacement car, and as far as I could tell it was the same as the old (Yaris) car but newer, even the colour was
the same. It came with improved this and that but frankly I find modern cars a bit boring so I did not pay much attention. The deal came with 3 years
factory waranty and low milage, so fine, problem solved.
Having being driven by her recently I decided the engine was missfiring on one cylinder at low rev's and the engine noise appeared to improve at
higher revs.
I put my ELM 327 ODBII and Android phone app Torque on to it and no fault codes came up. So I thought I will check the spark plugs, when I tried to
find the plugs there were only three. No wonder it was missfiring on one cylinder the cunning designers had missed off a cylinder.
Just to confirm my worst thoughts I took it up the road, driving it like my Westfield of course, with the daughter in the passenger seat, she awas
horrified that her 1L Yaris could perform like it did. If you never let the revs go below 4000 all the time and keep selecting gears it behaves like a
normal car. The Yaris does hold the road very well I was quite impressed.
Later that night I was getting a lift to the pub in the same car and I remarked to my daughter that her car was exactly 1/4 of my V12. No wonder the
engine note sounded funny!
Suspect it uses a quarter of the fuel too! There is something inherently freaky about 3 cylinder engines isn't there!?
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Originally posted by coyoteboy
Suspect it uses a quarter of the fuel too! There is something inherently freaky about 3 cylinder engines isn't there!?
I love 3 cylinders, used to have a Laverda Jota many years ago and it used to wee wee on all the Jap stuff especially around the twisty's! Made
an outrageously good noise while doing it too!
First time I drove the new 3 cylinder Suzuki my stepdaughter bought it made such a odd sound I thought something was wrong with it. Felt like it had
some "boyracer" mod to increase the induction roar.
Cheers
Fred W B
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Originally posted by Strontium Dog
I love 3 cylinders, used to have a Laverda Jota many years ago and it used to wee wee on all the Jap stuff especially around the twisty's! Made an outrageously good noise while doing it too!
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Originally posted by coyoteboy
Suspect it uses a quarter of the fuel too! There is something inherently freaky about 3 cylinder engines isn't there!?
I see my Corsa as missing half its cylinders..........any proper engine has two banks of three , surely ?
My eldest has a Citroen C1 and I was well impressed on a trip to Doncaster and back recently; he loves it to bits.
Wife's got a fiat 500 twinair 2cylinder turbo now that little rascal punches well above its weight ... Great fun and sounds good 
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I see my Corsa as missing half its cylinders..........any proper engine has two banks of three , surely ?