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Our Sept 2014 Yaris Hybrid - Jennifer - four years old at the end of August - is booked in for her 30,000mile full service SnowsToyota Plymouth 15th August. Chatting to the service receptionist, it's £295 for the service plus £35 for the MOT = £330 for the full 3hr? visit (thankfully inclusive of the dreaded VAT) and they'll throw in a curtesy car if I want it. We've only had Jennifer for a year. Is this the cost of owning a still in warranty Toyota Yaris Hybrid? When the car is out of warranty this time next year, can I do it all myself? Mick.

your garage is speaking through their A@*e and dont know what they're talking about definately brake discs at fault,brake discs can warp / fail at any time regardless of milage they are classed as consumable items . regen braking doesn't use the brake pads / discs so how can they be causing the vibrations ??? basically mg2 starts to rotate in the opposite direction this charges the battery and slows the car down.

It sounds like a warped brake disc to me. I haven’t noticed any vibration in the Auris Hybrid.

Agreed. But they are not uncommon ( achieved it 2 / 3 times so far).When I did end up paying a modest interest rate I managed to negotiate a massive discount on list price . So swings and roundabouts. I wouldn't have proceeded without some sort of deal and I guess the dealers know that. Promotions happen all the time( the 0% carrot frequently dangled from many manufacturers) so I guess the savvy buyer grabs a deal when they can.

I don’t know if anyone else finds the interior (rear cabin) light a bit dim, but the one in my 2003 RAV4 3-door is. Replacing the tungsten “festoon” bulb with an LED type would have brightened things up a bit, but the location of the light source leaves a few dark corners in my opinion, so I extended the illumination by adding a strip of 15 LEDs taken from a broken kitchen cupboard downlighter which uses 12V DC. I used the existing holes in the original interior light holder to take my power feed from, so that I could return to the original setup if I ever wanted to. The long, lightweight flexible lighting strip attached to the roof lining with two 6mm “flat” cable clips, taking out the integral nails and replacing them with screws. Safety note: I removed the battery negative connector before starting any of the investigative work. With the circuit powered, I used a multimeter to identify the positive and negative terminals in the original bulb holder, marking my additional wires with a red and a black Sharpie pen so that the LEDs were wired correctly, because the strip connector had two plain white wires, but the printed circuit board was marked with + and - signs). Photos show the results of this DIY project. The picture of the original light fitting was taken at an intermediate testing stage.

The picture shows basically what you need to remove. The exhaust connection is top left and you can just see the turbo connection top right. The two impulse lines have been disconnected at the flexible pipes and you can see the connector blocks for the two temperature sensors.

Let the dealer sort it out, check also if there is a recall for your car. But do not allow them to wash the car unless they do not it properly, just car shampoo and a hose pipe will just take the sealant or wax of the paint leaving it unprotected.

Haha sure! I found it on Instagram, the owners profile is: @track_micromachine

As it is only six months old, it is well within its new car warranty, so get a dealer to look at it.

You probably wouldn't have to worry about the MOT either as your dealer would want you into a new car by then, there is always a deal to be had

I wholeheartedly agree. It can be right, but I found it wrong more often than not. It reads the speed limit signs on the back of vehicles. For example, here in the UK we get some European vans and lorries with the speed they're limited to on the back in KM/h. They look just like miniature speed limit signs, but they would always fool my car into thinking the limit was 100, or similar. It would also always pick up signs on the exit roads from roundabouts (a common place for new speed limit signs), which sucked if it wasn't on the exit you were taking. I turned it off.