My Friend’s Daughter’s Philippine Market Toyota 2024 Vios - Observations:
It’s a plain vanilla Vios, know in North America as the Yaris.
However, there’s a few things about it that I feel leave the U.S. market version somewhat lacking:
#1. The Stereo. The tone control is a SEVEN BAND graphic equalizer, with Q(bandwidth) settings for each frequency slider! But no, that’s a bit overwhelming for us Yanks, so we’re stuck with the same unit, but just Bass & Treble, maybe midrange settings.
#2. The Tires. This car clearly was made entirely in Japan, for Eastern markets, except for putting the steering wheel on the left side for the Philippine Market. The cold tire pressure door placard displays pressure as kPa only: Front 220, Rear 210 (PSI 32, 30). But no: Toyota thinks Americans can’t handle staggered tire pressures, so 32psi it is, at all four corners on U.S. imports!
As for the factory Yoke’s themselves, NOWHERE on the sidewalls is there to be found a tire pressure of any kind (Max cold or otherwise). EXCELLENT! Because nobody should be setting cold pressures based on that info anyway.
Go to the driver door pillar or gas filler lid(IE: Mercedes) for the correct cold pressures.
Handling is acceptable, with reasonable weight buildup steering into the turns. It is electric, so kind of artificial feeling, but intuitive enough for the average driver around here.
All 3 of my Subarus specified different PSI for front & rear, and I also did not consider it to be a problem. I kept them inflated to 3 or 4 psi over the specification, while maintaining the correct inflation differential.
Because that’s the way I like it. After you informed us that you own 12 tire pressure gauges, I asked you why, and you angrily replied that it was “none of your consarned business”.
Well, I did explain that the pressures on the door frame placard account for 110-130%(depending on make or model of vehicle) of gross front and read axle weight, and that any more than 1psi over is unnecessary, and only personal preference.
Okay, now that you explained that (which most of us already know…), now it’s time for you to tell us what nobody knows, namely why you own 12 tire pressure gauges.
Great point db, I was just thinking that I would almost bet that more Americans know how to check their air pressure than how to replace a head gasket, or rebuild an engine, or gasp, rebuild a transmission (does Chris know how to do any of those things), but you don’t see us cramming how to do it down peoples throats on the forum almost every time we make a post…
Carolyn already cautioned him about his posts in which he implied that he is smarter than everyone else, but it seems that her warning has not been heeded.
Where do you think the information for those placards comes from? It comes from the tire makers. The final numbers are a collaboration between tire maker and car maker.
An example of this: The Corvette C4 was delivered with a placard stating 35 psi cold. The pressure was chosen for CAFE fuel mileage requirements. Corvette spread the word around that they tuned the car to ride best at 30 psi all around. And it did. All the limit handling tests were done with both pressures to insure the car performed properly.
It is also based on a safety margin above gross axle weight.
I ran the calculations myself for my 2010 Honda Accord EX.
With 32psi cold in its 225-50R17 tires, the front tires support 111% of gross front axle and the rears, 125% of gross rear axle. They are handling pressures.
Inflate them to 34psi or higher, and they become fuel economy pressures.
