I regret to inform you that my experience with my new corolla 2008 was disappointing.
I bought this car after long time comparing between many cars makings, then I decided to buy Corolla for its worldwide reputation and as granted automotive car, although it is expensive car and dose not have as many features as others.
I bought corolla 2008 (M-MT) made in south Africa with engine type 1ZR-FE Dual VVT-I that was 3 weeks ago
I discovered that the car performance is very poor, every time I drive the car I feel disappointed due to its very slow response to pick up speed in automatic mode besides engine stalling every time it changes gear in automatic mode in fact I feel very unsafe to overtake any other car in the road, that is sure not normal for this type of cars with this price.
To speed up in first gear to second and from second to third it takes very long time and the car never accelerate as expected and sometimes the gear does not accept to change from the first to second gear easily it goes to 3000 RPM and sure the car engine become noisy and in low speed the matter that enforcing me to change to manual mood.
Friend of mine reported the same problem and I advised another friend not to buy it for the same defect.
When I visited the agent to perform 1000km maintenance, I reported the problem there but it dose not seem to get more than temporary complains and simply he said it is the design of this engine ( IZR-FE Dual VVT-1) and it is generic and chronic problem for that model.
It is not at all what we expect from great car manufactures like TOYOTA.
I do believe it is a big problem and in this kind of problems we used to see great companies recalling the cars when failure pattern is there.
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