Toyota Yaris MkI seats/carpet

pinkneonmartini

fatpiggy wrote: »

Excuse me!!! My Yaris carries all sorts too. I can fit in 3 bales of horse bedding, or hay, 60kg of feed no problem, it also trundles anything and everything to the dump quite happily including those huge sand/gravel sacks full of garden waste. I have also come home with a display cabinet and a bookcase in the back, plus taken a fridge freezer to the tip. Not a load lugger my a**e!! I am lucky I suppose that the loads haven't done any damage to the interior, although I do try to protect the seats, but at the end of the day, my car is a tool not an item of beauty, and I spend the money making sure what goes on under the bonnet is in tip-top order. I only get rid when they are not economically viable and they go off to the scrapyard. It gets washed twice a year - once when my mum visits, and once when I visit her!

The trouble is, as the OP is finding, they don't turn up in scrapyards very often as they are so reliable, unless they get crashed, they are all still going strong. Mine will go through the 129000 mile barrier tomorrow morning - and that is on the original clutch.

LOVE IT!!! see yarises are just too damn good!!!! i suppose i shall just have to persevere with the scrap yards and ebay and hope something turns up

anewman

fatpiggy wrote: »

Excuse me!!! My Yaris carries all sorts too. I can fit in 3 bales of horse bedding, or hay, 60kg of feed no problem,

I could fit over twice the amount in my motor vehicle = a few less trips than you if you're carrying lots.:beer: A van would be better still.

goldspanners

fatpiggy wrote: »

Excuse me!!! My Yaris carries all sorts too. I can fit in 3 bales of horse bedding, or hay, 60kg of feed no problem, it also trundles anything and everything to the dump quite happily including those huge sand/gravel sacks full of garden waste. I have also come home with a display cabinet and a bookcase in the back, plus taken a fridge freezer to the tip. Not a load lugger my a**e!! I am lucky I suppose that the loads haven't done any damage to the interior, although I do try to protect the seats, but at the end of the day, my car is a tool not an item of beauty, and I spend the money making sure what goes on under the bonnet is in tip-top order. I only get rid when they are not economically viable and they go off to the scrapyard. It gets washed twice a year - once when my mum visits, and once when I visit her!

The trouble is, as the OP is finding, they don't turn up in scrapyards very often as they are so reliable, unless they get crashed, they are all still going strong. Mine will go through the 129000 mile barrier tomorrow morning - and that is on the original clutch.

i hope anything you put in it is secured properly and loaded evenly over each axle,and also not over weight. serious amount of points and fine if not.

mikey72

I once had an entire concrete fireplace in a Skoda favorit, well half in, it was too heavy to get in all the way. It may have been overweight, as the back suspension was on the bump stops all the way to the tip. Front was sticking up in the air to make up for it though.

goldspanners

mikey72 wrote: »

I once had an entire concrete fireplace in a Skoda favorit, well half in, it was too heavy to get in all the way. It may have been overweight, as the back suspension was on the bump stops all the way to the tip. Front was sticking up in the air to make up for it though.

if it was on the stops then it was definatly well over weight.

i remember my old boss asked me to empty my van when i was an apprentice i had to fit a huge peice of cast iron into my van,it did fit but unfortunatly the part weighed over 2 ton and my van could only carry 1 ton,he thought it would be ok for me to carry this 200 miles if i took it easy,the van was also sitting on the bump stops and tyres were really struggling. obviously i never took it.

xxlaurissaxx

Everyone used to be sooo suprised with what I could get in my Yaris ans all the extra compartmets were great especially the drawer under the passanger seat. It was my 1st car and still by far the best. I too had done well over 115,000 and still on the first clutch but I later found it thats its due to being hydraulic(sp?)
They are amzing and suprisingly roomy oh and tall too. My nephew called it the monster truck haha.

OP - how did you get on? have you tried ebay? or gumtree for an actual car in good interior condition but very cheap? xx

anewman

mikey72 wrote: »

I once had an entire concrete fireplace in a Skoda favorit.

The great thing about them is the rear seats can be taken out easily (rather than just folding forward) and if needed the front passenger seat can come out with 4X 6mm allen key head bolts - great for beds or those tall wardrobes. The estates and pickups had stronger rear springs.

mcjordi

nobody has suggested it yet but what about a professional valet first?