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We had several instances where the acceleration with our automatic transmission iQ would suddenly stop. You could push the throtle to the firewall, but the engine just would not accelerate. I took it in one time to the dealer, but they examined it and found no fault. Several weeks later, the same problem appeared again, so I again made an appointment to have it evaluated. This time, the problem continued all of the way into the dealer, and as I entered a parking lot enroute to the dealership (this due to having to take a short cut because of our one way highway access roads in the Houston area, the traction control light and the check engine light came on at the same time. (Previously, the car had not thrown a code.) After accessing the code, the determination was made that the accelerator unit (the pedal and the dual rheostat device that sends the throttle signal) was defective. A replacement was ordered, and it is due to be installed tomorrow. Stay tuned.

Toyota 1N Engine Repair Manual 1N Engine Manual.zip

Silly question, but isn't oil already millions of years old?!! Dave

Alex I've been on DW since its early days ..

Good luck. Im having the same issue getting the motivation back. I can do my friends cars but just cant in the spirit to do my own Alex

I did my under-bottom (of the car, sir) ... with a combination of thick Zinc-spray and an "Unterbodemschutz" witch is made of a bitumen material... I noticed a lot of "powder"-rust on all metal things, during the time I was busy painting the disc-calipers... This was done on 08-04-2011.. so on the 8 of April in 2011... I had the car just a year at that moment. Been to Belgium sometimes where there was heavy salting of the road during wintertime. But my Smart (that's from 2001) does not have anything like this... It surprised me! Here some photo's: http://s676.photobucket.com/user/realbutcher/slideshow/Wiel-remklauwen-roest-iQ

Checking mine when I get home from me hols! A fully paid up member of the paranoid rear door bump stop club.

Cannot agree further with Charlie above.......being the hot headed Gael what I am, I would get the service manager aside and tell him you intend to take the job elsewhere......I bet his uppity attitude would change. His dealership gets well paid for this, and any dealer would normally treat you with some civility. You are also due a proper and concise explanation of what they are about to do to your far king property, Jon. I would hate to be the person who had to explain to Toyota GB why the job number had been allocated to another more communicative dealer. I am normally on here almost fighting the dealer's case, so cannot be accused of being a downer on him or them. 8 days.....whit? A respray too.....?

Yes but it relies on the box changing down on hills or overrun. Some cars coast to a stand in a high gear.Got to go and see a doctor now about being traumatised by an unkind Scot. Can ah have yer winter wheels if it's bad news at the doc, min......?

This can only be what Toyota call the 3/4 engine. Unless there has been a huge policy shift in dealing with this issue... What somewhat concerns me is the regard your dealer is treating you with.. This can only dilute the fantastic way the company Toyota have in dealing with the engine problems.. Your dealer could have and should have sorted your questions within hours of asking Toyota to rubber stamp the job which we here on this forum know to be a very straightforward process... Consider paying for the clutch parts which are always fitted free of labour costs simply because there is no extra labour charges due to no extra labour needed.. Budget circa £300 for this. I mention this as if your dealer carries on as they have been they will be to remiss to ask if you would like the clutch replaced... Engine changes are normally completed in 2 days possibly 3 at the most.. Dealers are allowed 14 hours to complete the job and most can do it in half that time.. 8 Days ???

Will all the negative press re the IQ EGR valve issue, perhaps Toyota now can accept that they have made a mistake not making this a re call item, the more we post about it the more likely this message is going to hit home !

I've called Mr. T again this morning, and they have now said that they are "In talks with Toyota to get me a new engine". That's all the details they would give me for now, but hoping for a call back shortly....

The thing about the low Viscosity Oil is that Toyota made a big deal about it at the launch of the iQ and that was part of the Great Claimed MPG's. Light car, ECO Tyres, efficient VVTI engine with Low Viscosity oil, Low Emissions, & Great MPG. Well real life drivers found like all other Manufacturers, there MPG's were fiction. So Toyota change the Recommended Oil Viscosity. Costs more to buy, but might decrease fuel use. ECO tyres Might reduce fuel used, but cost more to replace. That is how 'Green Technology works' Published Figures, keep weight down , no Spare Wheel or Jack etc. They are great cars, it just that Toyota could make them even better, they went Euro 5 Emissions, increase the Warranty to 5 Years. Tough luck on the Paying Customers that had the first re-calls and acted as Paying Road Testers to help Toyota Develop the car in the first 2-3 years. Gesture made sometimes a bunch of Flowers or Boxes of Chocolates. (it should have been an Extended Warranty Free Gratis from Toyota IMO.) george See 'How Green is it?' at the time of launch in 2009. Toyota iQ review (2009 onwards) - MSN Cars UK.htm

scimberk, what i considered silly was the suggestion that vehicles registered in Scotland and Northern Ireland would not be included in UK figures. I think most of us know that figures are not accurate. I own 2 cars that are on SORN where the Government and other sites show there are none on SORN. (must be because the Registered address has a Scottish Post Code on the DVLA Database!!, seems unlikely though.) Also forum members that have not had an iQ with problems that seem to think that raising and then repeating again and again on a problem is exaggeration. The Threads i bumped show that reports of problems go back 2 years and before, Toyota reacted very very slowly. All around Europe. Clearly cars can not get to 2 year old until they are 2 years old. Now these cars are 4 years old, so why would the problems be something anyone working in a dealership would expect to see in the past 4 years. Dealers and Sales people appear to dismiss things because 'they have not seen'. Well often there are 'None as blind as the man who will not see.' If a trained Mechanical Engineer or Technician wants to explain why the problem is just 'all in the drivers mind' and show that as true, then some might listen. Usually when you say you drive it daily and see if its an exaggeration you get a different story. The EGR fault is no problem to those that do not have it, Its rather more important to those that are suffering the Faulty EGR and need to pay to Replace parts with their own 'Cash Money'. george

Marcis - I will check the receipt and repost as the Toyota dealer identified another code to the one posted. The fix seemed to work. Flakmann - The fluid to use is TIII on the 2.0 (the 1.8 may be OK with DIII but please check the owner's manual if you can) - I looked in the owner's book (mine is the later 2.0 VVT-i) it says not to use DIII in the 2.0. I am not sure whether the TIII is mineral or synthetic. The fluid I have meets the TIII spec and also DIII so figured this was OK. The fluid make is Amsoil - expensive but as I noticed a big difference in function it seems to be worth it.

BTW.... .. Yesterday I went to the Toyota garage cause of the older model EGR in my iQ from 2010. The car shows sometime some slower accelleration at a trafficlight. They looked it up and found the problems with the EGR in there Toyota database. I have an appointment next week. I will keep you all informed what happens. In Holland we do not have an iQ club anymore so I do not know what is going on with the other iQ's. Thought that this problem was more in England... Or they handled the problem better in England. Enayways .. He recognised the problem and said that this is all a warrenty thing. And I have an extended warrenty till 2015. I bought 2 years extra....when I bought the car it was standard 3 years.

My posts about this are being deleted (imo for no reason). The only way for Toyota to do a recall is by people giving attention to this life threatening danger. If nobody mentions is Mr T will be laughing all the way to the bank in Tokyo. This is the only way it works. Like the way they 'never heard about it' . Yeah sure.

I am not a spammer but I own a 4 year old IQ and am a member of the Dutch (n9w down) and German IQ forums, The EGR problem is a serious problem, not just one made up by this '/spammer'. Read the german forums about the EGR as well. I still believe that this is a very serious and dangerous thing! And that Toyota should take action!

I agree with you 100%.

Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ie the UK. UK Registration figures and vehicles on SORN. . Why would that not include Scotland and Northern Ireland.? This is becoming a bit silly now. The Member that posted in each thread the other morning did it as i was posting and reading his posts. He said nothing wrong, just really bumped each Thread. The Oil post was a bit silly IMO. The subject of EGR problems is not an Internet Myth. Long term Members here have had the problem. Euro 4 engine vehicles. 1.0 litre. george

My point was to put the situation into context. More importantly - look at post number 101. Several of you have been victims of a probable spammer, who, on one morning, has resurrected several old topics, posted contentious remarks about recalls intended only to inflame TOC members, and who moved on to somewhere else on the same morning. Leaving behind some members who, having posted comments since 10th August, have unfortunately fallen into the spammer's trap and been quite effectively wound up ......

And your point is. How many of the 2009 cars that have had problems are members on here.? How many need to have problems before you think it is a problem? Count iQ 1 & 2 manuals 2009-2010, Euro 4 engines. on howmanyleft or from where ever. You do not seem to have a faulty car and appear to not have been told by a garage that there was no problem to discover there was and that Toyota were aware and can rectify the problem, but that was too late for some owners now out of Warranty. Nobody is ganging up on Toyota just getting the word out to those that were mislead. By Dealerships originally. No need to defend Toyota, if they feel Defamed they can take action if they feel they have a defence and anything untruthful is written. Do the Mods see any thing untrue yet, One person who appears to work in a Toyota Dealership says they might have seen 4 cars with the problem. You count 12. Maybe i can give details on some more that are not from the 4 or the 12. I see quite a few iQ's as well, not just count numbers on a forum. george

Personally, I think the Toyota Customer Service explanation, while accurate as far as they are concerned, is nonsense if they don't list what was not fitted at the factory and therefore excluded. I bet when they advertised the car for sale, as well as pushing the fact it was a Toyota Approved Used Car, they promoted the fact it had reversing sensors ?! A slight aside, but kind of related, when I bought my Celica quite a few years ago, it was an official Approved Used Car, and it had a Toyota Alarm fitted, but the dealer stated that that was excluded from the warranty as it was an accessory (so up front I knew), however it started playing up going off at random times immediately after I bought the car and the dealer STILL looked at it FOC and gave me a car to use for a few days in the meantime, and in the end replaced the alarm. It is THAT kind of service that makes people come back again, not quoting the T&Cs to their loyal clientele to avoid doing a bit of gratis work.

If you google Toyota Bluetooth compatibility this will get you to Toyota's tested phone information, select your car, nav set up and then phone and it will list what does and doesn't work

The technical service bulletin is not headed faulty brake discs on an IQ is it ? It is a warranty support bulletin reminding dealers who may not be applying proper diagnostic processes how Toyota expect brake corrosion claims to be handled the photos are there as examples showing what Toyota do and do not consider to be warranty issues and is applied to all models. If your car is under warranty an exhibiting one of the issues Toyota do say is a warranty fault get onto your dealer, other wise pay to replace your brakes as you see fit.

I have checked the Toyota parts catalogue and seal kits are available if you PM me your chassis number I can give you the correct part number to order from your local dealer

I was the original person who discovered the Bulletin number. Bob's letter is the definitive one, its first class David

I have been wondering whether to look out my receipts and count up how much the car has cost me in the last year. I dread to think. But I do like my car. :)

Hi All Booked car into William A Lewis in Telford to get EGR valve and mpg readout changed, gave them the TSB details etc. They said they would need the car for testing for a day maybe two. On the allotted day i took my car in and they gave me an Aygo ice to use. At the end of day one i called them to see how things were going and was told that they were still assessing the car and it will be ready the next day. At the end of day two i called again and was told that they had a couple of parts on back order for the car and it would be ready next day. Result they had tested the car and repaired it all at the same time no problem at all. Next day i got a call telling me the car was ready so went to pick it up. The difference once the work is done is amazing the car pulls better and has more power all round. It is amazing how you dont notice the gradual fall off of power with the old valve tho i have not had the car that long. Top marks for William A Lewis (Telford) for a first class service.

Press the down button and at the bottom, when it stops keep the button depressed for a few seconds, Release and do the same upwards. This how my 2001 does it.

that would be most likely be the throw out bearing, you can try the same procedure, it may fix the problem for awhile, u should use the brake cleaner first, that may even be enuf.