Gareth wrote:TheInsanity1234 wrote:the Yeti makes a fair amount of unpleasant noise at any engine speed over 2500 rpm
Maximum power is at, maybe, 4400 rpm but you won't use it?
I will happily accelerate up to about 4500 rpm, but what I meant is the noise/vibration is intolerable for any sustained period of time. It's okay for 30 seconds while I'm accelerating to 40 in second, but any more than that and it's just nasty.
Gareth wrote:TheInsanity1234 wrote:and it's got no power below 1500 rpm.
The power you are missing has been located further up the rev range
I'm fully aware of that, and I've used it more than once. I'm saying that the car just won't accelerate in any gear over 3rd if you're below 1500 rpm, very unpleasant and is what forces me to constantly change between 3rd and 4th.
akirk wrote:stick something over the gear-change light - that is set for 'economy' or sluggish driving, not real driving
It's not a light, it's a gear indicator that tells you your current gear, and if it thinks you should be in a different gear, it tells you what gear it thinks you should be, alongside a irritating little white block with a black arrow in it telling you whether it's a "change up" or "change down".
Like this:
Incredibly irritating...
waremark wrote:TheInsanity1234 wrote:Yes, that's all well and good, but the Yeti makes a fair amount of unpleasant noise at any engine speed over 2500 rpm,
That's quite unusual. In my experience most diesels are not unpleasant until above 4,000. How do you know and why does it affect you?
It's mostly just excessive noise and vibration. It's tolerable if you're accelerating really quickly in a low gear to jump into a higher gear, but it's just something that becomes wearing when you're trying to sustain it for any length of time. I'll happily rev up to 3000 rpm in daily driving, and often reach 4500 rpm when I need the acceleration, but my parents disapprove of it, and think I'm being mechanically unsympathetic (which might be a psychological contribution to not wanting to sustain higher revs).
Having said that, I found my ex-instructor's Micra nasty to rev, and didn't take it over 3000 rpm very often. (1.0 petrol).
akirk wrote: one of the biggest eye openers I had when receiving some coaching was being encouraged to use the full range of the car's engine - why do they build it if it is not to be used...
Precisely what I said to my instructor/parents whenever they questioned my "excessive use of the rev range"...
Apparently the instructor didn't have a student who dared go over 2500 rpm in the past
The other irony is, my parents said it would be useful for me to have the gear change indicator because I "can't hear the engine, so wouldn't know what gear I needed to be in", because of course, you need to "listen" to the engine to choose appropriate gears...
I've happily driven the Skoda Citigo (on my under-17 driving lessons) which had no rev-counter and I had no problem with choosing gears.