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Hi robin Would this be cash on collection from wednesbury?

you won't use the whole 5, but understandable you need to ensure you have enough. I did also top up again as there is some in the torque converter i wanted to ensure i change as much as possible,

shame you are not near me as I have 3 bottles of Toyota WS on my shelf, but posting fluids is a pain.

There is a an official toyota manual for this somewhere for this job. we had a PDF and downloaded it and read the step by step how to change the fluid properly. i will ask my friend if he still has it.

this guide will help on the non-hybrid system, but 90% everything else would be relevant

The reason the car is not exceeding 40kms is because it is in limp home mode. The check engine light (CEL) would make that happen. By utting on a new battery probably reset the CEL. The battery may of been the issue in this case. To preserve the connections on the battery, add a dab of Vaseline on the connections.

@Sorin I would be interested to know the answer to this problem as well. did you sort it? I know a year has gone by

LPG always kills old lamda sensors, get them swapped, 20 min job for a mechanic to get his hand in the engine bay and change. Had the same issue with the bank sensors and know of others.. usually just the one. But both can go. If you look at a live OBD reader you can check the live readings and compare with each other, will will see one will be out compared to the other. new sensors should be fine after that

They are great cars indeed. Perfectly practical, powerful, gracious and expensive on fuel lol. But a 1st class ride was never the cheapest.

@andyc Do you roughly know what gear the car is in at the time it judders? ie. count the gear changes? i am wondering if the car is in it's overdrive gear and it changed down to it's driving gear, these can be clunky. Also, you have tried this in to gear 2 as well? i used to get it when the car was rolling doing 30, come off the gas and then get a jolt while it changed in to an overdrive gear. this was some time ago so trying to remember the sensation, but never felt good.

Sorry Andy my reply was for the original poster as his shakes and not judders. Lack of Transmission oil will make the car shake I did respond to your thread earlier.

have you checked the transmission oil? it may be low and not enough getting round the torque converter when hot. This will cause it to shake going up hill.

Hi Andy, see you are local to me. I cannot see why driveshafts or CV's would make the judder I have owned a 10 series and used to get juddering from the transmission and particular times which was weird, never did work it out but never affected the vehicle as such, and yes that had all new transmission fluid and filter. I always used to wonder if the speedo conversion affected the way the transmission worked but never got to the bottom of it. I also think it is a common thing with 10 series as have seen complaints similar, but never many failures.