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Top news on the focus buddy. Really pleased for you. And getting one already modded should save you a few quid. Very good and reliable cars, my mates was a cracker! Dreamscience, cracking work and mapping. Can't go wrong! Shame regarding your T Sport as others have said as it was such a lovely and well looked car. But we all move on and you are going up in cars not down. Good luck and keep us posted mate👍🏻

Deffo a shame to see another go and a lovely one at that! I'd like a compressor sometime next year myself, rival that 225 no bother ;) Thanks for your help in the past, take it easy mate

Although, as an owner of a normal Mk1 Yaris, I think the Yaris Verso looks like the unholy offspring of things I can't even mention on this forum , there are a few people on here who think they are the best thing ever made so you've got friends here And since Capybaras, even disguised ones, are obviously the best animal ever, I shall still extend a cordial greeting to the forum

Hi Haitham Thanks I'm awear of this, but the actuator showed up on two different scanners , it seems that any issue with the EPB throws up an actuator alarm on a scanner , but its only after further investigation you can't see the actual problem .

I wanted one = so I borted it!! WTG Ma! Top dollari... You will love it 2sav

I understand that you might like more info, and TBH the technician in me would like more info too, but the plain and simple fact is, that CC does not hold my Yaris Hybrid at 30mph coming down Gunnislake Hill at all. Absolutely not. I've experimented quite a bit with CC over the past few weeks, and at normal speeds on normal roads, the speed is correctly and thoroughly adhered to. The A30 west of Exeter is a case in point. Some rather steep hills for a dual carriageway, and I can go up and down them solidly at 60mph. In fact I was very impressed! Some of those hills mean business. I wonder if the speed is the thing here? Gunnislake Hill A390 is a 30 limit ............ though you wouldn't guess it by the way some folk speed up and down there .............. and I wonder if it were a 50 limit, that the car would manage to hold it ok. 30mph in a normal car needs brakes most of the way down as 3rd gear won't be enough. Automatics have a terrible time hanging on to the footbrake, but at least we hybrid drivers can select B and use the engine to hold us back that works well instead of using the brakes alone. I wonder if in CC trying to hold it at 30, I could try selecting B? Would that disengage the CC like braking would do? Sounds like another experiment ...................... but it will have to wait as we're away for a week as of tomorrow morning. Mick.

This has been covered at length on previous threads. Prior to April 2016, Toyota operated a fixed price service scheme that offered the Intermediate, Full and Full+ services together with service options. Service options were things such as brake fluid change, which are supposed to be carried out every two years. So owners often had the situation where they were booking, for example a full service, and finding there were additional items to be done at additional cost that were required by the service schedules. See https://www.toyota.co.uk/owners/service-mot-maintenance/servicing.json In April 2016 Toyota revised both the service costs and the services - and the majority of the service options were included within the revised service schedules. Toyota also included a cheaper service regime for vehicles over 5 years of age called Essential Care. As regards the Hybrid Health Check (which is where the hybrid system and battery are checked for correct operation, etc), this is done free of charge at each service by a Toyota dealer. If owners have their car serviced elsewhere, they can pay a Toyota dealer to carry out the Hybrid Health Check. The extended battery warranty only comes into effect when the hybrid components/battery warranty expires (5 years/100,000 miles on new vehicles first registered from April 2014). See https://www.toyota.co.uk/owners/warranty/toyota-warranty.json Once one's vehicle reaches five years of age, one can take advantage of the Essential Care scheme provides a silver service (intermediate) for around £100 currently, and a gold service (full) for currently around £180. This is similar to schemes other manufacturers offer for vehicles outside the new car warranty - and cheaper than some. Toyota's service intervals are either 1 year or 10,000 miles, whichever occurs first - so by the sound of it your car has been correctly serviced on the time basis. Yes, as with any manufacturer, one can have one's car serviced by a VAT registered garage, rather than within the franchised dealer network. However, should a warranty issue occur for which correct servicing may have had a bearing on the issue, it would be down to the owner to prove that the correct service schedule and parts of sufficient quality had been used. Servicing outside the dealer network would usually deny the owner any goodwill help from the manufacturer in the case of major repairs, etc outside of the new car warranty - this is the case with any manufacturer, not just Toyota. Also outside the franchised dealer network, any required customer service campaigns or recalls won't be actioned - these would need to be done within that manufacturer's dealer network. At the end of the day, one would expect service costs to be looked at by the prospective purchaser before the purchase of any vehicle, and certainly with the 21 new vehicles I have bought from the likes of Nissan, Honda, Mazda, Hyundai and Toyota, I've checked the servicing costs before purchase. From my experience of other Japanese/Korean marques and ignoring service packs which Toyota don't offer (not service plans), Toyota's service costs are competitive despite last years cost increases and schedule changes. As always the choice is with the individual.

Well guys I've finally moved on and traded in my T sport for a Ford focus ST2 225. It was an itch I had to scratch, but I will miss the T sport. It was so reliable in the 2 and a half years we owned it, just had a few issues like needing secondary air pump replacing, oil leak from cam chain cover being sorted and a few other little niggles. The new ST comes with some mods like uprated front mount intercooler, Dreamscience exhaust, K&N panel filter and black Team Dynamics alloys and we are really enjoying the mountains of torque that it has compared to the T sport. Will still keep an eye on this site here and there and pop in and say hello☺