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Here you go - best deal I can find with free postage as well:- http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261070237650?

Hi Guys and Girls. Just wanted to share my Auris with you. 2007 T180 with just under 60000 Miles on the clock. She's been lowered 30mm at the front, 40m rear on PI Springs. HID front lights, Led side lights and number-plate lights. Rear window tints and spoiler added (genuine spoiler, I was one of the lucky few who found a written off Auris with one), New stereo and because I am a self confessed delinquent, a subwoofer. Also some logo projectors for when I open the doors, featuring Batman ;-) Future mods I have planned are 18" wheels all round, front splitter, Lexus IS200 seats (maybe), piano black wrapped surrounds that are grey/silver around the interior. I keep telling myself I will stop there, but I also said I would stop at lowering and the spoiler. Let me know what you think! Cheers.

Well done! Nice to see that ECP are good for something.

Mine will........................................................... if I can find a 15 mile long straight downhill stretch with no traffic and a strong tailwind

Do you mean that the starter motor does not respond to the turn of the key? If so then the problem will be a faulty ignition switch.

Hi Guys I finally got around to fitting my Lukas 7950 and it is very, very good. I picked the Lukas 7950 for a number of reasons.I wanted a high quality Duo front and back set up. Although I will rarely use the parked feature it may prove useful in the future. The Lukas can be switched On, Ignition only, or park. It takes standard CPL & UV filters which protects the lens. Built in vehicle battery cut -off, super-cap, GPS and a wi-fi dongle to an APP, on a smart phone. I was also aware that many Dash Cams cause DAB radio problems but Lukas appear to be well screened. Last but no means least, price. I bought mine from Calgary Dash Cam and saved £130 on the UK price. At £200 with CPL and 40GB it’s a bargain. The installation in a Toyota Auris Hybrid (Corolla in some countries) was not too bad once I found the fuse box. Toyota hide it upside down behind the glove box, at the bottom of the box. The only way to see it is to lay on your back, feat in the air, in the passengers foot well (RHD). Not a position I am comfortable with. The fuses do not relate to the hand-book and are not normal mini fuses but new flush fuses. The good news is the fuses I wanted to use were at the very end of the fuse box, marked P/ Outlet, 1, always hot, and Cig,17, ignition on. The handbook says the P/ Outlet is for the luggage area but on my Hybrid Auris that outlet only works with ignition on. I wanted to use fuse taps “ add a circuit” and I needed A “Hot” and Ignition to use the camera in park mode. At first these new flush fuse looked too small to use fuse taps. After a visit to an auto electrician I was told they were the same pitch but while you can use standard mini fuses in the flush fuse holder, you cannot use mini flush fuses in the fuse tap. As the fuse taps need two fuses (one replace the used circuit and one for the added circuit) you need two mini 15Amp and two 3Amp fuses. The Lukas glass fuses are not needed so these were discarded and the bullets soldered. The Front camera was installed behind the mirror, the screen clip allows it to be slid out to get at the chips and I do not want any visual distractions, lights,voices or LED’s, while driving. All these features can be switched via the AP or the viewer. The cables tucked out of the way under the headliner, across the top of the passenger A pillar and the top of the B pillar to the back. These look to be above the air bags.The power cable runs down under the weather strip into the void behind the glove box. The rear camera is much smaller and is fitted to the high stop light cover. Access to the headlining can be gained by removing the three studs and the weather strip around the tailgate. The stop light plastic cover just pulls off and the cable can then be fed through the gator. The end of the gator in the tailgate is easy,but the end under the roof- lining is tricky to re-seat. The hard white plastic saddle needs to be released and pushed out of the hole upwards, from under the headlining. The rubber gator fits over it and it then needs to clip back in the hole to form a tight seal. A piece of stiff wire and string may be a better way, in hindsight, but either is a bit of a fiddle. Once into the tailgate it is all very straight forward, a slot in the cover for the cover to fit flush over the cable and job done. I could not avoid the heater wires completely but they hardly notice.

Mine certainly hasn't either as it was one of the first to be installed. It's just a dedicated 3 pin socket.

Linky?I know mine has an O2 sim card to report usage and I guess that could be used in the other direction to remote control the unit but some tin foil would sort that out.

I too considered swapping my gen 3 Prius for an auris estate with a glass roof. But I couldn't do it. No matter how hard I tried to convince myself it was sensible. (the Missus has an Auris HSD). You see every time I got in one I just felt I had got out of a 21st century car and got in a 20th century one. Which boils down to the cockpit and dials really. I was worried about my Prius warranty expiring, but I solved this with Toyotas offer of 2extra years for the price of one.

There are good analogue dials and then there are Toyota's...

I had a Honda Insight hybrid until it was hit by a truck six weeks ago. I need an economical automatic capable of high mile ages and don't quite trust the sainted DSGs yet. I loved my Insight but an Auris Hybrid came up significantly cheaper. No regrets. The Auris is a lovely car to drive. I've put five tank fulls into it and checked the mpg each time. Worst was 63, best in the high sixties. I particularly like being able to go into pure EV mode when driving through a village. It's true that the boot is small but we can get a folded wheelchair in with the parcel shelf removed, and with the seats down it's pretty spacious - getting a bike with the front wheel removed is no harder than with the Honda and the higher roof line makes it more comfortable for rear seat passengers. Comments about screaming engines from professional road testers are ludicrous - that's what CVTs are like, and you'll hear that noise about once a day for five seconds unless you're a complete ned. Ordinary humans will find the car very pleasant, with tidy, safe handling. I'd go as far as to say it's something of an enthusiast's car, if you're enthusiastic about innovative, quality engineering. Jeremy Clarkson wrote a scathing review of the Insight. Chris Evans did the same with the Auris Hybrid. Anyone see a pattern here?

I wouldn't if it has analogue gauges.