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It adds about 25bhp, honest lol.

I used a tiny drop of super glue. Works fine.

saw a new TS (private hire car) & a hatch on Tuesday - first that I have noticed in a while. I think that hybrid Auris TS has been affecting Prius sales for a few years so I would anticipate the Corolla TS continuing to do so.

A lot of cheap ELM327 clones aren't fast enough. Some recommendations here: http://hybridassistant.blogspot.com/p/obd.html

That's pretty decent MPG. My GR-Sport gets delivered next month, can't wait now!! Alan

It's worth running some abrasive over the flanges and checking for run out with a DTI though. And while you're at it, check the run out on the new discs which I think you can do by spinning on the nuts without the wheel maybe with some washers just to nip them to the flanges. Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk

Any summer tyre in temperatures below 7c degrees will become harder and loose grip capabilities on any surface. Recent climate changes should also be considered, in the past few decades climate been relatively mild and wet through out the year but in the last 8 years we witnessed heat waves in the summer plus cold freezing temperatures and snow in the winter, weather is getting more extreme so all season tyres are becoming more suitable for our region. In Canada many manufacturers sells their new cars with all season tyres as oem fitted, make sense right. I will never buy a UHP tyres and fit them to a Prius or similar car, those cars are “ cold” cars, it’s all about energy recovery, heat and fuel efficiency, so tyres are part of the whole “green and efficient “ process. These cars are designed for easy and relaxing driving, components like brakes and tyres barely gets hot unless mad style driving been done. For drivers doing 10k miles or less per annum All season tyres are the best option without doubt. I do 5 times more and I have separate summer and winter sets of tyres, economically and safer in my case. The problem with summer tyres in winter conditions is not because they are not as good, but they are simply DANGEROUS. If more people prepare themselves better for the cold days there will be less comical situations on the uk roads.

Picked up my Awd Excel in Galaxy black today... Having unloaded my Passat I took my time attempting to pack my tools/etc back into the Rav and as a consequence its neat but I'm going to need some custom racking to make the most of it. I did have time for a 60 mile round trip on the A3 and managed a quite respectable 49mpg average having reset at the garage where I filled up. I'm impressed, so far so good.. Run up to London and back tomorrow with some "round town" driving too... Hopefully I can take the opportunity to familiarise myself with more of the on board tech. Chuft so far 😁

Personally i am not a fan of them, but it's yours and you make it your own 🙂 I get why you fit them as some people don't know how to park and just don't care about other people property. I tend to park the further point away as they are always the emptiest places. But I never take up two spaces... hate those people 😛

For my Rav4 2019 I had the side door protectors added for around £120. I did this on my previous model the 2018 as well, and I think they look nice and very practical. But I have never seen any other 2018’s or 2019’s with these on. Do people dislike them? Do people think they look weird on 2019 being non symmetrical with recessed profiles?

For the European market, the hatchback and Touring Sport are built in the UK, and the saloon is built in Turkey. Similar to the first generation Auris (2007-2010), where the five door was built in the UK and the 3 door in Turkey As regards the hatchback and Touring Sport, there is no priority for the UK market over other European markets.

I've also had an OBDLink LX for a few years and it works great with Hybrid Assistant and other apps. The cheap scanners are fine for just reading fault codes, but for Hybrid Assistant you need something that can reliably provide real-time data in a consistent manner, which is a lot more demanding. I didn't know about the firmware updates, and never use the OBDLink app - must check that out!

Firstly, thanks for posting this as I wasn't even aware of the app! Works great on my Yaris! You mentioned the OBDII adaptor. Well, since starting to use Torque a couple of years ago, I grew dissatisfied with the cheap eBay adaptors I was using at the time because they were so unreliable, even with Torque. The first "more expensive" one I tried was Carista and this improved things a lot. Still had the odd glitch but I could live with it. When Hybrid Assistant came out, I was still using the Carista and it worked well initially but as the app got more and more advanced, the shortcomings of the Carista started to become apparent in terms of its scan speed. Eventually and since I was using and relying on HA a lot, I bit the bullet and purchased an OBDLink LX from Amazon for £79.50 (got a -£6 promotional offer on the full £85.50 at the time) and I might add that this wasn't because of HA's recommendation, it was more to do with user reviews across a range of OBDII adaptors and I wanted the best available at the time. I am glad now that I did as the OBDLink LX has proved to be worth every penny in use and 100% reliable for what it does. One of the major advantages of the more expensive OBDLink LX is the 3-year warranty and the fact that it can get firmware/software updates from the supplier and because of these factors, I would highly recommend it for serious/continuous use (it also has a sleep mode when the car is off).