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Hi RAV4 AWD Excel Obsidian Blue placed my order 6th March picking up my car Wednesday 19th June 😄

I had the whole dash taken out recently, and it's not a hard job to do. First you need to remove the part in blue, wedge plastic trim removal tool, or flathead screwdriver wrapped in tape, push out, it pops out easily. Now you need to pull on the red part, you only pull from the side which is marked on the picture, i think that should be enough, as you only need some clearance to get the glovebox out. After this you open the glovebox, you take the small plastic tray which is inside, you have 2 screws, unscrew, take the glovebox out. This video should also be helpfull https://youtu.be/l1Cd1Ru7FD0?t=159

I have Techstream, but had sold sold my old '98 Avensis 3 years ago, so cannot test to see if it works. During my ownership of my Mk1 Avensis, any issues were diagnosed using the paperclip trick and list of codes. To think you can check an EML practically for nothing. The only advantage of using a reader that works over the paperclip method, is the speed of getting the codes, if there are more than one code stored. Vauxhall has self diagnostics which doesn't need a reader. I used that method on a friends car, and it gives the same code as using an OBD2 reader.

OBD2 was compulsory in the US from 1996, but unfortunately in Europe manufacturers were allowed to each go their own way until 2001 when EOBD became mandatory for petrol engined cars. Some earlier European spec cars are compliant with OBD2 but many are not and it can be very hit and miss. I had a similar issue with a 2000 Citroën that was built before EOBD and I ended up going for a £200 handheld scanner designed specifically for the make. For example this one is the equivalent, but for Toyotas : https://www.gendan.co.uk/product_FXNT520T.html

Thanks guys

Yesterday 15/6/19 my son was driving my SWMBO and I to a hospital appointment when I think something like a very long odds event occurred for around my part of the world. A deer leapt out into our path suddenly from the left through a break in the hedge. There was no time or chance to avoid a collision with it,even though the brakes were promptly applied..We were doing 40 MPH. The deer staggered across the road then turned around and walked back across the front of the bonnet and disappeared without so much as a limp. The car was left with a fractured bumper, damaged grill and nearside wing and punctured radiator and am now awaiting a visit from an assessor Fate I suppose! Luckily none of us were injured which was the main thing but at the moment shank's pony is very much on the cards Two cars stopped and both the drivers said they traveled to work that way and they had no idea the animals were about. 😍