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I got my Gen2 new in Jan 2007, and 12 years & 107K virtually trouble-free miles later have just handed it on to my newly-married daughter. I say virtually as a couple of years ago the ABS warning lights came on, but this turned out to be a problem with the sensor and not an ABS fault. I've replaced the 12v battery once and the exhaust system once. There's no way I would give my daughter a car that I didn't think was totally reliable. No technical info to share, but for what it's worth in my view if you've got £5K to spend on a 2nd hand car, you could do a hell of a lot worse than a Gen 2 Prius.

Enjoy,I ordered a 2 wheel drive Excel dealer quoted same delivery date

i wish you many years of reliable & enjoyable motoring when it comes.

Muhammed, there are a few LED reviews on Youtube, many are Rebranded Generic Chinese brands, Philips have an H11 LED but it is expensive. Three times the price and only rated for off road use. Depends on how hard your traffic officers are. I have one in my motorbike main beam and it is good, though with a strange light pattern. Many have a fan to cool them (unreliable), the Philips has a large heatsink. The extra length is difficult to fit the bulb in many housings. The other problem with the high brightness of LED and HID is the sharp cutoff (if you lucky) of the dip beam, gives the impression of more light but the shadow areas are harder to see. Take you standard bulbs out and see if they are basic standard bulbs or poor makes, if they are you will see a good difference with an uprated halogen like the Osram and Philips.

How my Goodyears are performing. Update on the Toyo tyres , yes I did chuck then in the end, I don't know how Toyota approved them for OEM fitment. I did consider offering them to anyone but thought better of it, killer tyres! I fitted Goodyear Vector 4 seasons gen2 and they are much quieter and more important they grip! Last night Sunday they were tested to the limit, I was driving from Stoke to Buxton (one of the highest parts of the Peak District) in freezing and snow conditions on my way to see a show in Buxton Opera House. The road so far was clear, light snow either side of the carriageway and the road was well salted, I passed Flash Bar Stores (Flash Highest Village in Britain) and the road was clear. As I crossed the boundary between Stafford and Derby the road gritting stopped. The road had light drifting and slush, I checked the brakes to see how much adhesion there was, ABS kicked in but I slowed without incident, I continued much slower. Up ahead I saw hazard lights, I found a group of cars at the top of the long descent into Buxton. Several drivers were debating whether to continue, they were having trouble standing up! The road in the headlights was ice. Further down the hill, a car had gone off the road, a tractor was coming up the hill towards us very slowly. The farmer stopped and said he had just pulled that car back on the road, it was an ice sheet, the tractor was just coping. There were about 10 cars now behind me, several were turning round with difficulty. I pulled back and turned on the A54 Macclesfield Rd, the tyres never slipped. They closed the road after that and it only reopened near midday.

Looks like you have H11 dipped and HB3 main if two separate reflectors. Fog H11. Osram Night Breaker or Philips X-treme Vision are among the best, nearly always at the top of their game. https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/accessories-tyres/76760/best-car-headlight-bulbs-2018 although the test is for H7 this is a very similar bulb to both yours. Avoid Chinese LED conversions, unreliable, dazzle and often poor light, same goes for HID conversions, please consider those drivers coming towards you. Lots of people rate PIAA, these very expensive bulbs nearly all rate poorly on test, and are beaten by the likes of Osram and Philips. PS Blue bulbs look fancy but give poor light.

Hi Scott & Pete, just been in touch with Toyota & yes they are having problems with the MyToyota site. However, I've been sent a link which seems to be working & im currently downloading the zip file. Hopefully the internet will remain stable & the whole file will download. Just in case anyone needs that link it's, https://www.toyota.co.uk/tme#/my-toyota/eStore/purchased Scott & Pete thanks for your help & concern with this problem.

Thanks DeTomato I'll give one of those a go, I think I installed one of those many years ago to reduce an electronic interference coming from a laptops 3.5mm output, had it on a wire to another jack it removed this annoying whine of a sound. I don't know whether to consider another shark fin antenna since my signal is very poor with the new standard ALCO 55cm antenna installed. Signal is very weak or I have no signal where as before with the shark fin it was very good unless I was down at almost sea level.

I found my post, but in the Yaris Owners Club of all places. It was about my Avensis T22 interior light - My interior lamps look the same but the electrical tracks are different. My older fitting had spring type contact/bulb holder at each ending. One of the contacts was loose and shorted against another part of the car and/or fitting. The replacement has one fixed end and the other spring contact. I believe this is a more durable. The following picture shows the replacement fitting with the bulb, and the older faulty fitting. The light fitting on the left is the replacement, and the right is the old. Still not found the cigarette post yet.

The dome light housing needs replacing. I changed mine when i owned my Mk1 1998 GLS. The plastic moulding melts, so the light does not work, and in my case blew the 'Dome' fuse, as it kept shorting. The replacement housing can come off any Toyota so long as it is a similar shape and the screw and plug fittings are the same. Toyota tend to use the same parts across different models. The housing I installed was from a car a couple of years younger. The bulb was held by one sprung connecting instead of two on the old version. I cannot remember if I replaced the bulb for the cigarette lighter, on the Mk1. I will need to search the archives. I did replace every bulb in the dash, including the heater controls and the dash warning or function bulbs. I will post, if and when I get ore info on the cigarette lighter.

Don't know if this vid helps where they show the special tool for those plastic filters. Sounds like another reason to keep the simple old corolla going https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqZrjUYVohU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm-VMIkTw6k

Hi everyone , update got my 5 alloys refurbed

You'll need to fit a ferric core rfi emi choke over the live wire to remove the radio static noise. A new aerial won't resolve it completely. These are cheap enough at only a few £ on eBay for example but get one the right size for the live wire diameter. Hope this helps you out.

Dear Jack, you have my sympathies over such a terrible dilemma... i.e. to have a new car with a panoramic roof or BSM and RCTA... I would be losing sleep over such a dilemma I must say! Perhaps you should be agonising over the 20 tons of CO2 pollution your new car will create to build, along with all the other new cars being built for such frivolous reasons! Lets not agonise over contributing to global warming, melting ice caps and all this freak weather (check out what’s going down in the mid-west, USA), bursting mine dams in Brazil causing death and destruction and toxic chemical pollution while scavenging for minerals… partly caused by the desire for unnecessary new vehicle build. Let's destroy the rain forests to satisfy our lust for a panoramic roof, blind spot monitors and motion sensors and the latest digital toy. D’oh!