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BlindAngel:
Good morning Nairalands

After my never ending fuel gulping battle with my Toyota Camry, I later ended up buying a 2012 Toyota Corolla.

I went with my mechanic to a car stand to get it, when we got there we saw different kinds/types of corolla. My mechanic told me some are 1.8l engine while others are 2.0l and a lot of the corolla uses venza engine.

I wanted to buy any of the corolla of 1.8L engine but my mechanic told me that they're old model, that I should get a recent corolla with Venza engine, but I refused when I heard the word "venza engine"

I told my mechanic that over my dead body will I jump from frying pan to fire, from Camry to Venza. I said so because since the corolla is using Venza engine, it'd surely gulp up fuel like Venza, which would be a lot worst than a camry.

But my mechanic assured me that what I said is very false, that it won't. That a corolla is a corolla and corollas doesn't eat fuel.

His words really calmed me down and I bought the 2012 corolla.

So I bought 8k fuel to test the fuel usage and see how long it'd last, I know I should have bought more, but I needed to get a faster result.

Well, it turns out that my mechanic tricked me and I'm in so much pains right now, my 8k fuel only went for 31km before the fuel got exhausted, I later realized that I was very much right and shouldn't have listened to my mechanic that a corolla is a corolla, venza engine or small 1.8L engine.

From my observation, it seems the 2012 corolla is gulping up fuel like a venza. Yesterday, I took it to a mechanic and asked them to fix anything that'd make the car to gulp up fuel, they changed the plugs, cleaned the filter, I will be testing it today with another 8k fuel, I pray and I hope that it won't be as bad as it was yesterday, because I'm so depressed right now, after what my camry did to me which made me went for a corolla, now I'm having same issue with my corolla. I'm really so down right now.

Serubaw0n:
How many kilometers you want make 8k fuel at 868 per liter carry you go??😂😂

hisgrace090:
Very ok at the current price of fuel.

highchief1:
my matrix almost killed me before I attended to it.car was consuming fuel more than a tundra.All I did was change the exhaust sensor and that’s it.the two cost me 30k.Car is so efficient now.

BlindAngel:
It has extremely dark soot, very dark.
Where can I locate the thermostat in a car?

moderatedguy:
Bro how do we calculate the distance driven ..i need to know if my fuel consumption is on the high side or not

BadBradley:
no corrola uses venza engine.

The 4 litre venze uses Camry's 2.5 or 2.4 litre engines and it gulps fuel due to the size of the car.

The V6 venzas use the same engine with a v Camry as well..

Corrolas use a smaller 1.8 litre or 2.0 litre engine and these engines are not installed in any venza.

Your mechanic is either a quack or a thief.

BlindAngel:
This is what the scanner man told me needs to be changed, my mechanic has gotten price from the seller and it's 93,000 naira, we're going to get it today. I'm going with him so I will confirm it myself at the shop, if it's truly 93,000.

BlindAngel:
It's venza engine sir, 100% venza engine.

GerogeI:
First, you should understand that every engine is identified by model number. Not street Mechanic slangs like Venza Engine. Use your car VIN to get detail of your car including engine model and trim online. That will also tell you if the engine has been swapped out, by crosschecking the physical engine.

2. Stop getting mechanics to fiddle with your car, yo will end up with badly tuned car.

3. Nothing wrong with your bank 1(front) and bank 2 (back) oxygen sensors. If your catalyst is missing, engine ECU or computer will be seeing it as faulty bank 2 oxygen sensor. This affects how much fuel your injector sprays into the engine. Infact, most mechanics will even cut the wires to bank 2 oxygen sensors once the catalyst is removed, leaving you ECU running in default setting.


There are several tables or guides stored in your ECU computer which tells it how much fuel to use based on reports from rear O2 sensor. Whenever it is not seeing sensible report from this sensor it assumes something is wrong and uses a default table which will run the engine in an inefficient fuel rich mode, but with enough power such that you may assume nothing is wrong. It's like operating your car with carburettors, and loosing the efficency brought by computer controlled injectors. The only way to fix this problem is to replace your catalyst. If you can't, drive the car as it is because the only other way is to re-programmed the ecu with your own tables which will not be efficient and cost way more than a catalyst. Note- that your scanner guy cannot reprogrammed ECUs. Yankee peeps who do sell them as costly custome ECUs on ebay. And it will still require a catalyst.

So go buy a replacement catalyst. No modern car using computer controlled injection and ignition can run fuel efficiently without catalyst, it is just impossible.
To scan your car yourself, buy a Bluetooth ELM 327 OBD2 scanner, download the app on your smart phone and scan your car. Some guy based in a plaza in Ikeja Ogba sells it on Jiji.

id4sho:
Agbado topic

ThePundit14:
Did you also include Catalyst after changing sensors? Or just sensors

BlindAngel:
868 per litre
I bought 1350 per liter, at a filling station.

LtChisom:

You didn't see where he said if there is?



Nonexisting1:
Venza is V6 and should be 3.5 engine, not 2.0. I'm not sure there is venza with 4 cylinder and even if there is, it should be around 2.5 engine.

Eljay9233:
Well I don’t really know about corollas but even in this present dispensation @1100/ltr my Kia-rio 2013model covers minimum of 80km+ with 5k fuel. I live in kubwa and work in area 1, to and from my office covers over about 70km. Before now, @660 I was sure of at least going to work twice on 5k. Despite the fact that my engine have being ringed before. That car is indeed a savior in this economy.

BlindAngel:
I would have bought the catalyst long ago, but some mechanic I have net told me that it doesn't matter on fuel consumption, while some said that it does matters.

Another reason I'm scared is that I don't know how it looks like, I really wish to get the original, but the mechanic and seller must surely combine to cheat me, that's my other fear. If not, I'll ready to get and fix it today.



Sir, is this scanner okay?
So I can place order right away.

BlindAngel:
Just wait, I will snap the engine this morning and tag you. You'll see for yourself that it's a venza engine.

GerogeI:
Look for ELM 327 scanner
https:///ikeja/car-parts-and-accessories/car-scanner-elm-327-wI1YKAxV67ymVsMXCC7Nr2vK.html?page=1&pos=8&cur_pos=8&ads_per_page=18&ads_count=24&lid=q7XOGBxIxueZj-yl&indexPosition=7

Get your catalyst from a reputable auto parts store with warranty.

BlindAngel:
I met a man today at where I went to fix my car mirror, he made calls and told me the catalyst would be cost 70k

Is it possible for a Belgium catalyst to be that cheap?

Judolisco:
u dey do transport business arbi?

TechCapon:
10k fuel every week? Bro unless you're not in Lagos. In Lagos pray that 20k fuel lasts 2 days

PAQ:
Bros your mechanic is a quack Kazim, better one sef. The bay of a Corolla can not carry a 2.4l engine that the Venza or Camry has. There is simply no space in a Corolla or else its custom fitted by cutting out and welding stuff.

What you bought is a 2.0 Corolla that comes in the Asia, Dubai, South Africa Spec Corolla. Only USA spec doesnt come in 2.0. Take your car to a proper mechanic for diagnosis.

BlindAngel:
I would have bought the catalyst long ago, but some mechanic I have net told me that it doesn't matter on fuel consumption, while some said that it does matters.

Another reason I'm scared is that I don't know how it looks like, I really wish to get the original, but the mechanic and seller must surely combine to cheat me, that's my other fear. If not, I'll ready to get and fix it today.



Sir, is this scanner okay?
So I can place order right away.

tolue42:
Stop saying what you don't know, Lexus, Siena uses the same engine with venza, I don't know about corolla though