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I do a mixed urban/motorway commute each day of about 18 miles - I have owned the Yaris T SPirit Hybrid for about a year. Cold weather mpg is around 60mpg but when its warmer the Spirit can hit 70mpg mostly aided by the very slow speed on the motorway. At optimum a few weeks back with the car able to run on electric for most of the ay and aided by the traffic freeing up each time the battery got low allowing me to rebuild the battery power I managed to get a staggering 82mpg out of her. As time has gone by the car has increased its mpg - early on 64 was about the average but over time she has loosened up a bit. I drive gentle, seldom exceed 50 mph due to the roads being clagged up. I tend to try and maintain a constant speed and gently glide as much as is possible and try never to stop completely which sometimes means gliding up to traffic lights and hoping they change before I get there :) On the whole the more I drive the Yaris the happier I am with it - I find it quite calming to drive and seldom get stressed in the car. When the traffic is looking bad I can resort to hypermiling games. Love the electronics in it which are so well designed. Still loving it very much.

I had been noticing for some time that the spray pattern from one of my washers was poor. Poor then became more of a "gushing torrent" that barely reached the bottom of the screen. There was no lack of water, just no fine spray pattern. A visual inspection showed nothing, and these plastic nozzles are not like washers of old with their metal inserts that you could clear with a pin. The spray pattern was so poor I really did wonder if some piece had actually been dislodged, however...... I wondered if it could be lime scale... and so I undid the pipe at the nozzle and tried feeding some bathroom cleaner into the jet. No good. I contorted to try and blow down the pipe... that was no good either ! Abandoning the problem for the moment I suddenly thought... compressed air... and I had one of those cheapo cans (poundland) of the stuff. Without even raising the bonnet I held the cans straw as close to the jet aperture as possible and gave it a good blast. The force of water that shot out of the "good" washer on the other side had to be seen to be believed. The washer bottle made a strange gurgling sound, and I just knew this was going to work. Quick turn of the key and try the washers. Absolutely brilliant, in fact I'd go so far as to say I never remember them being that good even when it was new... well they probably were but the deterioration has been gradual. So a perfect fix. That was around 3 months ago... and I've been meaning to write it up ever since.

Hello and welcome to the Fun House. Hope you have many a happy mile driving your iQ

Hello Ian - welcome to Toyota Owners Club

Given the number of variables involved and the inherent inaccuracies in the measure of the same, any computation is going to be +/-. Probably best to treat it as a comparison of your driving style from time-to-time, rather than an absolute measure. Incidentally, it may be worse than you think: http://www.theaa.com/newsroom/news-2012/petrol-pump-accuracy.html

I had this when I used the IPA for the first time. I turned the steering to the left until it was on full lock and then did the same for the right. Worked OK after that.

http://www.toyotaownersclub.com/forums/topic/131254-new-avensis-2009-front-door-alignment/ The issue of the front doors cracking on Avensis T27 is an old one, as you can see at the link from above. I experienced it myself .The front doors were replaced with new one on warranty basis.

Tanks for the pictures. Great.

Naaaice... I once bought such a book with big drawings.. "Where is Wally" .. for my brother in law.. And it is all about colors.. you know.. He was NOT amused.. You see : He is colorblind... ha ha .. I laughed, but I think he had toothache ... sort of... :-)

Pleasure mate David

Ohh David Finally it's working brother Thank u Thank u Thank u