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Hi all, I've just bought an '02 Sirion 4Trak, I would appreciate some advice. I was looking for a nippy town car with 4 wheel drive and I saw this; yeah, why not, I'll try anything once! Just over a 100hp and Yaris reliability, just the thing. I hope it's good in the snow!
I've got a couple of problems. The gear change is terrible, I think the linkage bushes are worn, it's like stirring porridge! Is this a normal thing for a car with 70k on the clock?
Are there any bush kits available? I've spent many hours searching, no success! I think I'm going to have to go to the main dealers.
One other thing, are the cars OBD2 compliant?
Thank you for any advice.
Paul.
Sloppy gearchange
It's always been my impression from new that my YRVs gearchange was 'sloppy', and it is just the same at 63k miles. You can waggle the gearstick quite widely in neutral against the centralising springs. You get used to it!
The Sirion and YRV gearchange mechanisms are probably quite similar.
It will be most noticeable if you've come to the Sirion from something with a tight gearchange.
I think on the Rally 4 version of the Sirion, Trevor Levy, who designed and supplied the conversion mods shortened the gearlever throw on the Rally. It was certainly an option you could buy at the time. Maybe Daihatsu still stock the modified gear lever.
YRV Tony