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Yes, because the steering wheel lock only engages when you turn off the car and the driver's door is closed.

It is normal for me Areas in which the electronic key is detected A - locking or unlocking the door B - starting or switching

Halfords sell a two tone horns for £15 or so, so I bought them. Since there is already a horn relay in the engine bay front of the driver, I didn't bother with another one for the new horns. The old horn is on holiday in my shed now, it's had a busy life with just me the last couple of weeks ;)

I couldn’t give any precise figures, but I always had my car serviced at the main dealer so it had the right oil. I also never had any reports of it having low oil at change time. I always checked my oil monthly due to the miles I did and had a litre bottle in the boot encase of top ups. The only time I had to top up was between 70 - 80k for some reason it used a bit, but never again.. I was having an oil change roughly every 4 months with doing 35k per yr. I hope that helps

That exactly the same as mine only mine cheaper but you get faster delivery... Which horns did you go for.

I took that cover off, not very professionally but what I see underneath disturbs me a little bit. I'll put a pic on here when my new clips arrived cos I don't want to take it off again ATM. Anyway while looking into the engine from the front, on the left (passenger) side, there is a hole where one of the plastic clips goes into. This hole is in a metal bracket and the metal bracket paint is all bubbled, I reckon cos there is rust underneath the paint. It does not look like the cover was rubbing against the bracket because all the blue paint is still there Surely this should not be, and could tis be a warranty claim against the paintwork? If not waranty claim then I will have to scrape it when the cover is off again, and put kurust on it and then paint it with a thick paint, or even push a foam piece between the plastic cover and the bracket,but as I said, it didn't look like it was rubbing.

Another example of just how cheapskate Toyota are was when I was putting the caps on all the doors and I realised that on the driver's door panel, all of the window switches are double action; so "auto" both up and down. Now, you'd think that on the top of the range car such as the Premiere Edition, Toyota would push the boat out and make sure that all the other door window switches were also double action yes? Not so for cheapskate Toyota! Good heavens! How much would it have added to the price of the car??!!

Hi Baz,The large D shaped closed hook under the engine is likely the towing hook designed for situations like this. It's typically the most secure point for towing. The towing points should be shown in the car's manual. Glad you got the car out.

Give it a week.

I've heard that sort of thing is a kink with some people... That reminds me we found a bottle of Castrol GTX 20w50 at the back of my dad's shed a few years ago; I'm pretty sure it's well past its useby date but the slugs and spiders seemed to like it. It's probably still there because nobody wants to touch it due to the aforementioned spiders and slugs...

Oh they do, but we get nagged so many times that one more is just as easy to ignore. Anyway, our point is you are now out if the door and have to get back inside, just as you do.

Hi Vimalajaya, have you plugged in a OBD reader to see if any codes come up.Fuel delivery issues are a possibility since the engine restarted after multiple tries. A partially clogged fuel filter or a slightly failing fuel pump could allow the engine to restart after some time as fuel pressure builds up. The stalling and eventual restart suggest the problem might be intermittent, which aligns with a partially clogged component or a pump that's starting to weaken. Fuel delivery issues are a common cause of stalling, especially if they haven't been addressed through recent maintenance like a fuel filter change. Hope this helps.

I ordered this one from Amazon. Now please seey new post I am just about to write about what I found under that plastic cover, it isn't good.

I have a 2019 Toyota Carolla with Wired apple Car Play. In the past year the carplay connection is regularly disconnecting whenever passing over bumps or if you even slightly touch the USB cable. It’s definitely the USB port as I’ve replaced the cables several times. I’ve seen a lot of posts online about similar issues with Toyota across the net. Looking to replace the USB port I took apart the dash trim where it is fitted to check for part numbers etc. I noticed when taking the trim off that apart from the single USB/Aux socket on the passenger side, there is a second cable that is attached to the plastic trim on the drivers side but not connected to anything. This cable looks like a square grey plastic block with four ports, which I understand from the internet is a Toyota USB port connection. The existing USB port uses a different connection. See images below of the two different connections. I’m wondering if anyone knows if i can connect a second USB port to this grey four port block and use that to attach a Carlink wireless carplay box and leave the existing port unused. This would allow me to use wireless carplay for this port and leave the other port for infrequently connecting devices. Anybody have any information on this? rear of existing USB/Aux port: spare unused cable:

Mine beeps very loud if I exit the car with the key in my pocket and close ANY door ... This could never happen to me. No idea why yours doesn't do that?!

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I bought the TPMS plug-in box for my 2019hybrid, it now shows all 4 tyres as one of the centre screens - only issue is it displays in kPa, but it's handy to see if there's a drop in any of the tyres For less than 35 quid, and an easy install, it was a no-brainer

Yes, the one in the centre under engine is a tow eye and jacking point.

Used the hook below engine which pulled the car out, and not just the engine! 🙂

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It's not a rant, those that had the MK3 (me) or halogen projector headlights unit knows what you are talking about. The only legal way to improve it is to get those 150% short life bulbs. I went the not so legal route, installed hid. Had the car for 5 years, no way would put up with those awful light units.

I believe in many cars the sounds come through the audio speakers now - for example indicators aren't relays they are a sound like it instead.

Stalled engine but could restart it, after trying numerous times? Restated about 10 mind later! Can anyone help with this issue. It’s happened twice now in 2 months. Thank you and I look forward to some help please.

1. Audio controls are 3 wire resistive based - not can bus 2. yes on a LHD car the instrument panel junction box is on the driver's side (the junction box is also the B-ECU (bcm) and internal fusebox) 3. the reverse input is 12v on an aftermarket radio 4. the factory camera is 6V 5. power the camera from a 12V reverse signal - 6v - camera 6. the factory camera is NTSC composite, so is 480p (640x480)