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The good thing is that Toyota has been selling hybrids for over 20 years. You still see the older generation 2 Prius cars on the road. The generation 2 are over 10 years. 300,000 miles have been clocked up by some before the batteries were needing replacement. Out family has bought 3 second hand hybrids. All have felt like new. Until electric cars are practical enough for then I’ll stick to hybrid. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A bit unrelated but damn, 2008 Avensis, petrol, and a clutch replacement is enough to scrap the car? I know cars in UK are cheap but damn, my T25 needs new injectors and new left-hand side driveshaft, and clutch in near future, and it still kind of makes sense to repair it and drive for at least 7 more years.

Icon + would have 15" alloy wheels the Trend was higher spec and had 16" alloy wheels with low profile tyres the bigger wheels & tyres reduced fuel economy

You should go for it, just make sure you have free tow service included in your insurance 🙂

Probably targeting the US market - where autos are the norm. Without co-development with BMW, it wouldn't exist and using the same engine for the Supra/Z4 makes economic sense for the volumes involved. Llkewise with the GT86 which was co-developed with Subaru, and uses a Subaru engine.

Obviously you refering to the HV battery. If you have the service some at Toyota they do a free hv battery test every year which carries a 12 month warranty, this goes on for 10 year. If you have a hv check before the end of the 10th year the warranty goes for another year, effectively 11 years. If you choose to have service done outside Toyota then the cost of hv check is £40. The actual battery is made up of cells which are replaceable, so if one or two cells go down they can be replaced individually. There are now businesses specialising in replacing individual cells, either new or 2nd hand, so to keep costs down. however, when I was doing my research into Toyota hybrid cars, I never saw a car for sale that said “new battery fitted recently” like you do when you replace an exhaust system, fit new brakes all round, 4 new tyres etc; never. And some of my research was on American sites where 250k miles was not unusual, add that with the fact batteries generally don’t like excessive heat (nor cold) meant to me hv batteries are long lasting. Obviously someone is having failures of whole lot or individual cells, or else those specialists businesses would not exist, but failure is not a “common” thing like clutch, alternator, starter motor etc, all of which Toyota hybrids don’t have. Some othe manufacturers hybrids have those things, Toyota doesn’t. the fact Toyota hv batteries have effectively a 11 year warranty (with annual checks) shows they have full confidence in their hv batteries. Remember the Prius hv cars have now been on the uk market 20 years, the hv parts seem to have been well engineered in the first place. Obviously there will be differences in design of the Prius hv system and aYaris hv system but the same ethos will be behind the systems I would think - I never yet heard anything bad about the Yaris hv system like I not heard anything bad about the Prius and other model hv systems. hope it helps.

With respect Glenn, that's what you should have done first. I did ask that on 24th Dec. Never totally rely on what should have been done during a service.They should have checked the wheel nuts torque during the service anyway. Checking tyre condition and pressures is part of what any car owner shoud be doing regularly along with other rourine checks of fluid levels. Buy yourself a pressure gauge rather than rely on Tesco.

vibration through the floor is from the rear wheels have the rear wheels balanced at the same time they will check the condition of the tyres