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I have recorded the steps I used to drain and replace the oil in my noisy CVT transmission. Hope it helps others. oil change.pdf

The second generation Yaris' auto gearbox option was only the MMT. However, the third generation Yaris went on sale in the UK from July 2011 had the Multidrive-S, CVT gearbox. So your friend could concentrate their search for late 11-plate third generation.

Just as an update:- I was working on another 13 plate Auris with the suspension creak. It was worse than the first one and was particularly prone to creaking whilst braking over bumps, even light braking caused it. No work had been carried out to cure this beforehand. The car had done 54,000 miles. I sprayed silicone oil over the suspension bushes located at the front of the suspension lower arms, one on each side of the car. This improved the situation but definitely did not stop it completely. A week or so later, I applied more spray to the front bushes, but the noise persisted. A week or more later I sprayed the silicone oil over the rearmost bushes on the front lower arms (these ones are a much more accessible rubber disc, lying horizontally). This has stopped the noise, I have not heard it at all in the last two weeks. I have not applied any oils or greases to the anti-roll bar rubbers or the rubber strut top-mounts. HTH.

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Hmmm, ended up using a paperclip in the end!

He didn't think very hard about the "logic trail" for the way that the EPB button works. If it worked the other way & you inadvertently pressed the button in whatever way/for whatever reason whilst sitting you would release the handbrake - this way you actually would apply it. Only the BMW-derived diesels have stop/start on the Avensis so I have no experience with it but he was manually setting& releasing the EPB - I wonder if he had let it auto-release it would have been OK? Being on my 2nd Avensis with an EPB I can categorically say that you don't need hill start with an EPB (2012 didn't have it, 2017 does - but I don't use it even manually releasing). Whilst I have had the collision alert flash red many times (mostly I understood why & had it already covered but sometimes I can't work out why it flashed) I have never yet had the car actually apply the brakes. If the car has satnav it has 2 different places it will tell you the speed limit (assuming that you haven't turned off the speed sign assist). He's obviously a bit of a lazy driver not prepared to change gears to drop into the power/torque band. & as has been said both by him & Chris (welcome to TOC 🙂 ) you can disable most of these things.

Well, no more noise. I drained old oil and replaced. Lovely once again. i have posted the procedure on a separate thread.