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  1. Dealer's advice is that it might only be a problem on a long run and not worth worrying about for smaller journeys. The job will get quicker when they have found the files and don't need to download afresh. Takes them about an hour to pull down files they need. The good news is that it doesn't lose any of the customisation such as changing the reverse beep to a single beep.
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  2. See: http://blog.toyota.co.uk/bob-old-and-his-435000-mile-hybrid
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  3. Hello All, Just thought I would share this 'get out of jail' solution for a strange problem that I had. I have a Toyota Avensis T180 2006. When I touched the brake pedal the dash board light dimmed, the 'lights on' light came on on the dash and the side lights came on. They would flicker on and off and sometimes pulse in an almost regular way. If I turned my side lights on all this disappeared and all systems seemed to be working fine. A few months ago I had replaced my rear light bulbs (by the way if these BOTH go then all your auto braking warning lights go on VSC etc so before you go spending a shed load of cash on diagnosing brake problems just get someone to stand behind the car and check your brake bulbs are working) and snapped off a locating tang so the bulb holder rattles a little. I wondered whether this had caused any chafing so a short was occurring between the brake light circuit and the side light circuit. All wiring looked OK, so in desperation I took out the dual filament (21W/5W) bulb and checked resistance between the two soldered connections to see if there was a straight short there and at 0.2 ohms (contact resistance) there was. I checked this against a spare bulb which had about 13 ohms between the two connections. So the bulb had failed in a way I have never seen before and the lighting circuit was getting power through the bulb from the braking filament. Changed the bulb with a spare one from my store of 'I will keep that as I will need it sometime' parts and all is good again. Hurray! Cost: £0.00 Hope this helps. Cheers, Large Badger
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  4. A family friend with a doctorate in engineering asked me if we leased the batteries in our Prius. When I said, no, of course we don't (it's not some cruddy French leccy car, after all), he looked very concerned and tried to claim we were in for some massive bills when it goes wrong. Yeah...right... :)
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  5. When stop/start was introduced in the second generation Yaris, think it was the only mainstream supermini to have it, aside from economy versions (eg Bluemotion, etc). When the third generation Yaris came out, Toyota did cite cost as the reason behind dropping stop/start from the new range. However the Auris 1.33 has always had stop/start as standard and I think the new 1.2T continues the same theme - though don't know whether it is the same system.
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  6. Minimum thickness on front discs of a french built Current Yaris is 20mm
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  7. Once you've fixed the problem try adding 200-250ml of low ash mineral 2 stroke to each tank of diesel to stop the egr clogging up in future.
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  8. Hi I've just had the same warning lights too. My Maxiscan MS509 OBD2 scanner was not able to read the ABS fault so changed the rear brake bulbs (as I had some spare) and this didnt sort the problem. I then took it to my very trusted garage and it turned out to be a faulty Yaw Rate Sensor, which they had to order from Mr T at £220 plus vat! On my 2004 1.8 tourer the sensor is located under the trim behind the handbrake lever, between the two front seats, and was a pretty easy swap. I imagine mega bucks could be saved sourcing from a breakers and fitting yourself.
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  9. Isn't it silly/confusing Toyota to make so many warning lights turned on just because of faulty bulbs.Its reasonable to put just one separate light "Check Bulbs" ? Obviously the purpose is to send you strait to their garage...
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  10. New bulbs mounted. It was not as easy as the owners manual showed. I had to loosen the 3 nuts the rear combination lights are mounted with. When I had the combination light house off it was easy to change the bulbs. Now there is no warning lights lit on the panel.
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  11. I have been at Toyota today. They checked the battery and also if there was any fault codes. They found a fault code that said that both stop lightsare broken. I will change those bulbs this afternoon.
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  12. Thanx for the answers. Pete, I tried to have the battery disconnected for a while (5- 10 minutes), but it didn't change anything more than the clock and the audio settings in the car. It is a petrol car I have. Valvematic, the lights came on Monday afternoon/evening when i started the car. I checked the voltage of the battery this evening. It seems to be ok. I had 12.44 V on the multimeter with nothing on and when the engine was idling I had 14.0 V. If a cell is down it should have shown when I meassured the voltage, I am right. It is a modern battery and you can't open up the cells to check the acid in the battery. By the way nice picture you have. I have been searching my workshop manual and I found that you are supposed to read faultcodes from the abs box with a connection between terminal Tc an CG in the obd socket. I tried that too this evening. The ABS light was flashing steady (4Hz), that means no fault codes. I also tried to reset by breaking more than 8 times during 5 sec with those terminals connected. As there was no fault codes I could not reset anything. I still have those three lamps lit on the panel and those safety systems is not working. Does anyone have any other suggestions?
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