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As said above, it is THE best thing you can do for the handling of the car. You can buy all the best gear, fit it and if the Geo is wrong you have wasted a load of money. You will be smiling all the way home, the WIM guarantee :D p.s Tony if you use that I want some dosh

Don't matter mate P0 codes are universal and P1 codes are Toyota specific. Posted by Bazza a while back HERE and the list is pinned in the Lexus General Maintenance section.

Ahh right, cheers, won't bother then - it's fine normally, but seems as soon as you start using data it really chews up the battery......... Thing you need to do is make sure that you exit applications and not just shut them down, if you got loads of apps running in the background it just kills the battery.

Hi and welcome to LOC :D Good luck with the drive south.

Changing the pads should make no difference to the handbrake, did you change the disks as well? The handbrake is mechanical and works by a cable pulling on shoes inside a small drum in the centre of the discs so no need for bleeding. Handbrake shoes need adjusting to reduce travel.

Top job well done mate Like you say most of these things are pretty straight forward to do and you can save a fortune.

Couple of questions. What exactly are the symptoms? Do you have a CEL on and have you had any fault codes read? How was the throttle body diagnosis made. From the little said above it does sound like an idle air control problem and cleaning the TB and MAF sensor would be a good place to start plus check for air leaks in the inlet tract. Replacing the entire TB seems a bit drastic to me.

Hi and welcome to LOC :D Very quick and nice one for sale HERE

Just make sure that the mating faces on the hubs are nice and clean. I would not put copper grease there as you really want the discs to be clamped tight between the wheel and the hub.

I'd get rid of the Lexus badge and just replace the L in the middle with a Toyota logo to match the front. Always meant to do that on the Tezza just never got round to it.

Looks wicked mate, great looking car. You do need to sort out the badges though, Lexus? V300 arse and Toyota front?

Looking very smart, nice job. Just noticed your sig, is it Scarface's (Ahmet's) old car by any chance?

Hi and welcome :D

You are correct the 5AT has 2 sensors as in the picture below. One sensor is for cylinders 1 & 4 and the second for cylinders 2 & 3 and they are located before the exhaust branches joint into 1 pipe. If you only had one sensor installed in a 6MT exhaust it would sense for all cylinders but only make adjustments to the mixture for 2. Plus you would have check engine light on for the missing sensor unless you put a simulator on the other plug. So in short I would not do it. You could get a 6MT exhaust and get bosses welded into the pipes where the sensors are on the 5AT and just plug the redundant one.

As said above, how it will perform is depandant on the line you have. BT Openzone provide the line from the exchange so all providers will use the same connection apart from your local cable company. So in all likely hood if speed was bad with BT and Tiscali it will be with any other ISP using the Openzone line. Also I can offer up to 100Gb and if you only get 56K I didn't lie :D

Hi and welcome to LOC :D

That's a right mess, how dim are some people?

I've bought from them in the past with no problems, box comes with discs and pads only. And the copper stuff you have will do the job OK, I've used a thin smear of it on caliper slides before and I do put it on the back of the pads as well and between the anti squeel shims.

I would say go with Mintex, I have them all round now and no problems. As for grease, I would not put any grease on new piston seals, they should clip into a groove on the piston. Before putting the pistons back in use CLEAN brake fluid to ease the piston in. For things like the caliper slides use copper slip. This is the stuff I use Antiseize Compound

Hi and welcome to LOC :D If you have something like the thing with the pulley in the pic below You got a charger, they are not fitted as standard.

Stand corrected :D Basically any other symptoms?

Yup I got a call from Kwik Fit insurance once and though yeh why not I'll give them a try. Thinking brokers they will give me a quote like any other, wrong, they are a call centre that connect you through to some random insurance company/broker and you end up in the normal call queue, though maybe you get a direct line to a person, wrong. And yes you guessed it one was Allen & Allen "specialise in modified and imports" I was told. Effin useless. Kwik Fit tries again last year and I told them "get me straight though to a person and I will give you one more try". "Yes Sir no problem, we have number of companies that can help", "who are they" I ask?, well the list was the usual list of brokers Adrian Flux ............... and Allen & Allen! "Forget it pal, In can phone them all direct and cut out your commission on the brokers commission on the underwriters quote. Sorry rant over :D Anyway there is only one way to get the premium down and that's to take on a higher voluntary excess then be sure that you don't hit anything as you get the bill. You could try TPF&T but probably no good as the risk is the damage that you may cause not the damage to your car.

Is it just the TRC light?

Welcome to LOC :D Sounds like front parking sensors activated by one of the switches to me. Can you contact the previous owner and ask, name and address should be on the V5.

Only if it was registered on or before 16th Feb if after that it is still only 14, Happy Birthday?