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  1. Picked mine up today. First ever Toyota so I have nothing to compare it to but it is very nice so far and more than enough power for what I need
    16 points
  2. Sneaky peak 😉 Picked it up today. Sensible conversations were had with the sales manager about my experience and all appropriate apologies and understandings were given. So well done Jemca Croydon for making it right in the end
    10 points
  3. Nice pictures, thanks for the review. Given my user name I must be the only one feeling any sort of satisfaction that it still has the Mutley battery 😉
    9 points
  4. You won’t necessarily start having problems again, we have reason to believe that there are bad Mutlu batteries out there that fail to recover if they’ve been left low in charge. It might have been addressed now. I had a mate who’s Yaris was regularly letting them down but after fitting a Yuasa has never once done so after quite lengthy stands.
    8 points
  5. Your car doesn’t have brakes??? 😉
    8 points
  6. update, i brought it to a bodyshop new bumper ordered and my neighbour has paid the bill already just shy of £900.
    7 points
  7. Well chaps, after much deliberation over the Avon, Dunlop and Goodyear, I thought I'd stretch my budget and I just bought 4 x Goodyear Efficientgrip Performance 2 tyres. 🙂 I liked the B and A rating for fuel and wetgrip and the very good reviews on it. Best deal I found was National Tyres/Halfords with their 15% discount, so I paid £321.37. I added front wheel tracking for £44.99 since I recently bumped the car over a kerb and it tends to veer left a little. Booked to be fitted on Monday morning.
    7 points
  8. Hi, fuel savings between different tyres is negligible, 2-3mpg , however the comfort and safety are day and night difference. Go for minimum mid range tyres like Nexen, Kumho, Hankook or preferably get premium tyres like Goodyear efficient grip performance 2 or similar, these are so good , last long and withhold characteristics with age and mileage where cheaper tyres loose grip as soon as one year old or less than 10k miles. If you look for promotions you can get premium tyres for the price of mid range. https://www.blackcircles.com/tyres/205-55-16
    7 points
  9. The Insurance quotes have started to expand this morning!! (at last...)😁 £601 so far from 5 other companies...
    7 points
  10. I swear that The Red Baron knows he's going to new home in a few days cause he just keeps on out performing all that went before! Pulled into the driveway just now after a 100 mile run and there it was on the clock... 74.5mpg!!!! Now he starts to perform after 14,500 miles... 🤩 He just keeps a tuggin' at our heart strings! 😢 We'll be sorry to see him go...
    6 points
  11. On LTA, get in the habit using the indicators. This handy gadget performs two functions, it warns other road users that you are intentionally avoiding or aiming at them. Another possibly unknown effect is to mute the LTA and even stops trying to pull you back. I haven't tried driving with the right indicator permanently on to see of it permanently mutes the LTA as the incessant clicking is annoying. ⁶
    6 points
  12. Good one ☝️ Let us know how you find the new tyres. Also double check pressures tomorrow morning before driving off to make sure they are correctly set because no tyre filter ever do these right and every driver should check and adjust next day.
    6 points
  13. Ok, that will be us picking up the Blue Demon on April Fools day!! (not sure if that's good or bad 🤣) Eventually went with Admiral Gold for £606/yr. With the £255 refund from this car, that means our next year's insurance will be costing us £351/yr effectively. 🤩
    6 points
  14. It depends what are classed as budget tyres. My point was that some of the lesser known makes on sale in the UK, are owned by majors and their technology, manufacturing, etc, etc will benefit from the owning group sharing expertise, unlike some other standalone brands. For example Dunlop tyres (which is just one of Goodyear's brands), being owned and manufactured by Goodyear, will benefit from Goodyear's expertise. Similarly with other brands I mentioned.
    6 points
  15. Your tyres are the only thing holding your car to the road. Buying the cheapest tyres you can find sounds like a dangerous strategy to me.
    6 points
  16. Finally got insurance but had to do it through Adrian Flux. Couldn't get anything reasonable online despite the bulk of insurers quoting today. More than I wanted to pay but got sick of filling in insurance details and seeing no results so just needed to end the stress. Dealer sent me an ultimatum to get it sorted today 🤔 I'm hoping that there'll be a customer satisfaction survey to complete as that will be so much fun to complete and they won't like the comments 🙂 Picking it up on Monday
    6 points
  17. Assuming the route is relatively flat and there aren't loads of up-hill parts, the car should do it fairly easily. I'm more worried about you!! After long journeys my lower back and shoulders are usually aching like heck, and motorways are *really* boring to be on for a long time. It's much nicer when there's someone else in the car (Esp. if they can also drive ) Just do all the usual checks - tyre pressures, fluid levels etc; Consider bringing bottles of oil, coolant and washer fluid or making a note of places where you can find such things en route.
    5 points
  18. One of the only days in the year when the showroom cannot open............Easter Sunday, open for the rest, although a lot of showrooms are now closed on Sundays
    5 points
  19. Kids say thanks from Yorkshire wildlife park
    5 points
  20. Not really driven it anywhere yet to test it properly but it's more eager off the line than my 155hp Puma was so I'm very happy
    5 points
  21. I wondered why the wife suddenly stopped talking to me…
    5 points
  22. Not that one!! That's the ejector seat!! 🙂
    5 points
  23. My C-HR has 17 buttons on the steering wheel alone, most of which I never use. I bought the car on the basis that it satisfied me “as a normal car” - not a technological toy. I very rarely use the horn, to the extent that I sometimes give it a toot just to confirm it still works. The best design car horn control (I had one on a 1956 Hillman Minx) was the horn ring. If needed, all that was necessary was thumb movement anywhere around the steering wheel. Regarding driver ability with technology - mostly it is the young drivers who will handle it the easiest. But, unfortunately, that alone will not make them better or safer drivers. Much of a car’s technology, as far as the driver is concerned, is twofold. It introduces distracting “entertainment” that can reduce proper attention to the road and surrounding activity, and the actual driver aids can encourage over-dependency on these, rather than physically paying attention. One example is the door mirror warnings of passing traffic from the rear. I still constantly check all my rear view mirrors, which I believe is the only way to stay safe from the rear. Often, when I pass a stationary object (it could be a pillar box), the car will sound a warning and, if I am approaching a stationary car on my side of the road, and I wait until last minute to pull out (which may be due to a closely parked vehicle on the opposite side), the MFD turns red a shows BRAKE. So I treat my car as a dumb instrument, and use my driving experience and discipline to make it behave in a manner that all other road users expect of it. Simples!!!
    5 points
  24. Thanks for your help an suggestions, folks. I put it on marketplace earlier..... it has already gone. Got £4k for it..... and yes, the guy who bought it was fully aware of the issues, but he was a mechanic and reckoned he could fix it!
    5 points
  25. I don't think it's just one thing - My current theory is that a lot of the batteries were marginal to begin with and not in great shape, probably due to being sat around during covid or something, and when they got to people, those that didn't drive much (IIRC one poster immediately went on a 3 month holiday after taking possession of the car! ) didn't give them a chance to recover so they just continued to degrade and eventually fail, while people like me who immediately put it to work gave the battery a chance to recover with a good strong charge. Likely some of the batteries weren't so bad, so even with the low usage, were able to keep them going for a bit longer. I think the Yuasa is still the way to go though as it seems to just have better degradation resistance than the OE battery. That said, mine's coming up to 3 years on the OE battery with no issues, but I do drive a lot! (Or I should say, am stuck in slow moving traffic a lot )
    5 points
  26. Just be careful that you don't turn up and it's only a 1/18 model 😉
    5 points
  27. Diesel PHEV sounds good in theory, but it turns out diesel engines are terrible for the sort of low-duty stop-start use-cycles that hybrids use. The french tried it and it was pulled for being too unreliable, which says a lot if even they thought it was too unreliable Diesels are actually horribly inefficient until they get to operating temperature (I know this from experience ), and given the petrol engine in my Mk4 struggles to stay at operating temperature sometimes, a diesel engine wouldn't have a hope! Plus with all the emissions control junk bolted onto them, the reliability would be awful - The DPF would block up in months since the engine will have such trouble getting hot enough regularly to purge it. Maybe if it was a really small diesel engine, or if this fabled ducted injection diesel every comes to market, as eliminating the soot would help a lot, but with the sun setting on IC engines I don't think anyone is willing to put in the R&D investment, as short-sighted as that is...
    5 points
  28. Toyota should take responsibility, I bet the number of people affected by this not fit for purpose scandal runs into the many thousands, many older people, maybe a TV consumer programme should investigate, like watchdog?
    5 points
  29. That is a neat solution but a lot of people dont see why after spending £25,000 on a car they should have to go through this every time they are going to park for a few days and rightly so.
    5 points
  30. So after almost 3 years of ownership, I’ve learned to put the Stoplock Pro Elite I have on correctly at the 10 to 3 position ! Thanks Rigsby. A much easier fit and far better than how I was using it in the past - which was often a struggle 😀
    5 points
  31. @Susanjones sorry to hear of your plight. I am 70 and was in a similar position with my 22 Yaris Cross as I do about 3000 miles a year. The only solution is to put the car in ready mode for a couple of hours a week or use a smart charger to charge the battery I have a garage so Toyota fitted a lead on to the battery for me which pokes out from under the back seat. I drive my car into the garage, turn the car off, open the drivers side back door, plug in a Ctek 5 smart charger (Halfords c£80) into the lead and close the door. The door seal is big and very soft so doesn't damage the cable. I leave the car on charge for anything up to a week. When I want to use the car I simply unplug the charger and put the lead on a hook on the garage wall. I don't bother to turn the charger off, I just unplug it. Click on the photos below to enhance each image and you will see what I mean.
    5 points
  32. I gave a look to my one ( MY20 ) and there's no difference
    5 points
  33. Good afternoon, everyone! My name is Asen and I own a 2015 Toyota Aygo, which recently just hit 150k miles. I have had it from almost brand new and for 6 years, and have used it for work mainly, doing 80-100 mile trips on a daily basis. It has never ever been to the garage for anything else than tyres, breaks, pads and servicing, not even once. Never had any advisories on MOT or services either, it has just been absolutely rock solid. I am relocating to my home country soon and I have already sent my luggage, but I need to travel by road, because i have a couple of parrots and flying them is extortionately expensive, so i intend to go with my beloved car. It will be just me and my birds, so will not be loaded or heavy, but I am a bit concerned about the distance, age and mileage. I have just replaced all tyres and brakes. I will fully service it before I go and get European breakdown cover. I will try to get the best one there is out there, so i am covered properly in the event of breakdowns. I intend to drive around 300-400 miles, before i take a couple of hours break, to try to prevent overheating, with 5-6 hours of sleep during the night, meaning that I should get there in around 3 days. I would really like to hear your opinion about my plan and I would like you to be honest about it. People around me have been telling me that the car would never make it, because the engine is too small and the distance is big, but I would like to think that I know my car better than them. I know that you can not predict anything like this, but do you think that I am being naive or stupid, as I have been called by some of them? Looking forward to hear your opinions and thank you in advance.
    4 points
  34. I am personally in no hurry to get there, but it needs to happen within 5 days, because there are certain requirements about importing my birds into the EU, in relation to their Export Health Certificates and Avian Influenza testing that will be carried out on them just before we leave. That being said, i intend to take my time, but not waste it, because i do have deadlines that i have to comply with. Thank you for your reply and advice! Your words make perfect sense, so i guess that i should stop panicking. I think that it might be best if i got the coolant drained and replaced, and i will purchase some for the road too, along with oil and windscreen liquid. Thank you for your reply and advice! My parrots are African Greys and they are rather used to travelling. They have never been on the road for so long though, so i understand that i need to be very cautious about them. I normally cover their cage with a black sheet, so they do not get scared by moving objects and i only let them have visibility in my direction, because me and my voice calms them down very easily. Thank you for your reply and advice! I have driven this route a few times and although i am aware that it is very long and tiring, i pretty much know to expect, so i am not that worried about myself. The only difference is that I have always done it in an SUV, so i would simply just drive non-stop for a couple of days, with several hours of sleep during the night, but i understand that i will have to approach this very differently. Thank you for your reply and great advice! I do have the factory tire repair kit, which i have never used, so i will most certainly look into it, as it is another great back-up option on the go! I already have everything in place to comply with the legal requirements of the EU countries that i will be passing through.
    4 points
  35. The UK is continuing to follow EU regs as regards vehicle safety. Ireland, Republic of Cyprus and Malta are in the EU, and are RHD markets.
    4 points
  36. Hi, that sounds like a great adventure and interesting journey. As others said there is no worries about the car but you need to be more concerned about the birds. You need to make sure there is plenty of fresh food, water, fresh air and keep them away from direct sunlight or heat from the car heating system. Try to maintain room temperature inside the car. Do more frequent stops. You will need to think about having sun shades or something to make birds more comfortable and relaxed. I also have two budgies and had taken them twice on a short half an hour journeys, but nothing as so long for days. For the car, don’t worry. As long as is serviced and all fluids topped up , brakes and tyres are new you will be alright. Don’t push it too much, drive safe and sensible and don’t try to keep up with the rest of the drivers. Remember to have an extra bottle of engine oil, windscreen wash, and plenty of drinking water. Enjoy your travel. One day I will need to do exactly the same. 👌👍🇧🇬
    4 points
  37. Exactly. Current mpg is only 18 but as it's only done 6 miles the figures are meaningless at the moment
    4 points
  38. So when I bought my Elite Pro I didn’t read the instructions… key goes in, steering is difficult, job done ! Or so I thought… How ive been [lazily] fitting my Elite Pro: How I will do it now after monitoring this thread: Thanks to this forum I’ve learnt how to do it properly. Many thanks @Rigsby ! 😁 I always thought it was far too big and loose to be ‘recommended’, now I’m using it properly it’s the perfect fit ! 💪🏻 User error 😂
    4 points
  39. And who knows where they'd fly 😉 (sorry) The car will probably be the least of your worries. If it has done 230,000 km by now, doing another 2000 km will unlikely be a problem. Unless there is already a problem with the cooling system, it will not overheat. The car will go for as along as there is fuel in it. The most important factor is that you are well rested and that the birds are calm. As Bob said, take it easy and take time for some impromptu sightseeing. It will be an adventure in itself. Best of luck and safe travels!
    4 points
  40. Hah, yeah, the partsman at Jemca was very friendly and helpful. But as far as Halfords/National Tyres, I cancelled the wheel alignment booking. I must have called them about ten times since Friday and they never answered the phone. Well they did a couple of times, then immediately put me on hold and then never came back to me. I went into the branch today (different centre from the one that put my tyres on) to complain. I told them how appalling it is that I'd not been able to speak to anyone there after many attempts. He said "well we've got 4 phone lines sir" in a slightly condescensing way, and I said "well why don't you use them then?" I cancelled the booking and told him I'm getting it done today somewhere else. So he refunded me. Glad I did as it only cost me £40 at a small independent tyres and alignment garage instead of £45 with Halfords.
    4 points
  41. Every time I type in your name it is deleted by the spelling police
    4 points
  42. Well after 7 years of amazing service I have swapped my wonderful Prius 'Percy' for a Lexus NX 350h 'Lester'. I have been looking to change for a while now, not because there was anything wrong, but just fancied a changed. I have been dithering over a UX for some time now, but the fact that it is quite an old design, just stopped me as the last thing I wanted was to order one and then I start seeing spy shots of the 2nd generation. That would be just my luck 😆 Test drove the BZ4X as they had amazing incentives on them, but I did not find it very comfortable due to its high floor. Thought about the 5th generation Prius, but as that would be over £40.000 for the Excel with metallic paint, I was not happy about paying 'Luxury' car tax on a non luxury car. Obviously I am paying it on the NX, but I accept that as it is what I would class as a luxury car. I have to say the price I got for the Prius is amazing, after 7 years I got 56% of what I paid for it. It was immaculate had only 23,000 miles and garaged every day from new. Every dealer who appraised it, could not get over the condition of it for a 7 year old car. It was a very emotional goodbye. See you over on the Lexus forum 😃
    4 points
  43. Sorry, just my weird sense of humour. We get lots of posts saying how much is the reserve tank and why doesn't the car run out of fuel when the "range" is on zero. Just put fuel in the ruddy thing 🤣🤣🤣
    4 points
  44. It never got to fisticuffs. But this is Croydon so anything is possible 😃
    4 points
  45. And insuring it will be a pain in the proverbial, plus you won't get any dealer support for parts or servicing if you wanted to, and you'll have all the minor annoyances that come with having a LHD car like ticket barriers will be on the wrong side, drive-through kiosks will be on the wrong side etc. It's not worth the hassle when they are so common on the 2nd hand market here...
    4 points
  46. In my previous prius I've run 70 miles from when range said zero
    4 points
  47. Further update. I phoned Toyota CS to explain that I now have the evidence to show that the service (and hybrid health check) was carried out within 12 months of bringing in the car. They 'couldn't get it to show on their screen' and asked me to send in screen grabs which I have done. Why am I the one having to prove/disprove everything? It's simply beyond belief that the dealer would deny this has been done, 'mix up' the dates, etc. I've decided against collecting the car (which they wanted me to do), it can stay at the dealer until this is resolved. This is really inconvenient for me to say the least but it feels like the right way to handle it. Whatever happens, I'm going to insist that the complaint is followed through and maybe look at the Motor Ombudsman.
    4 points
  48. Can't wait for mine! Ordered in the exact same colour😀
    4 points
  49. Toyota have a very conservative 'reserve' because they really really don't want you to run out of fuel, which can be particularly bad in a hybrid as if you run out of fuel and the traction battery gets so low (Because it can't charge itself with the engine), that it can't start the engine then, you're in big trouble as the car will need to go to a dealer and sit there for months while they petition the Mythical Keepers Of The Legendary Toyota Super Traction Battery Charger to lend it to them so they can jump-start the traction battery. If it's any consolation, my Yaris supposedly has a 36L tank but usually the most I get into it is 28L. It always makes me laugh a bit that that gives me 400-500 miles - It's ridiculous! All my previous cars would need 10-20L more for the same range!!
    4 points
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