Michael Brown

Hello Richard, I used to drive Toyota Estima's. The second one I bought had lowered suspension and would bottom out on speed bumps. I tried to get a garage to adjust the thread on them, but they could'nt. So I got my local mechanic to replace it all. He had no trouble at all in doing that and replaced to original spec from his local Factor. The tyres I put on were Pirrelli P7's 215/60/16, it drove a lot better then

Driving my Hybrid recently when the sun was quite high, I found that I could not see this instrument cluster as well and the speed I was travelling at. Has anyone else found this and how do you rectify it. Has anyone put additional lighting inside the binnacle facing in to give more light. There is nothing wrong with my sight, other than glasses for distance driving with UV protection

Well done for completing your mammoth project, now go and enjoy driving

Thanks Roger, a quick charge so RAC man could meter the battery and its not holding its charge. He announces battery is US. Off he goes to get another, a Varta I will check out the model No another day. As for the previous one which only lasted a year the RAC said they had no record on file to that I had had one convenient for them. The new one today cost £170. I will check bank statements to see how much and when I paid for the last one to remind them.

I eventually had my trailing arm bushes done, about 2 months ago by my local mechanic Colin Campbell. He said they were a swine to do. I must find out where he got the bushes from. Total Job came to £555.. He made a punch to knock them out

I have had the misfortune to have spent a week in Warwick Hospital. Coming back to Mothers House in Stratford upon Avon, my Alfie will not start. No lights on dash at all. Battery fitted by RAC less than 2 years ago. Will just charging it up fix the problem and willl it charge up ? tempted to phone RAC in the morning and ask them. Must be under some kind of warrenty

I am looking to hard wire a Dash Cam

Very nice colour, I wonder if it was resprayed ? not seen any that colour about

That looks interesting, does come with a fuse in it and which fuse box did you plug it into ?

What amazes me is they all come over with low mileage. The Japanese chaps who drove them in Japan must clock up more. I did a BIMTA test on a previour Estima I bought back in 2011 and 79,000 miles had been wiped from clock. The 65,000 miles it was sold at did not look so rosy. Worth getting a BIMTA check done before you part with some money

I'd have thought once an import, always an import

Go for it, I have been buying imports since 2007, much better appointed inside

When the car tax change happened back in the early 2000's and some became cheaper because engines were more efficient, our imports stayed the same and go up with inflation. Having a Hybrid appears to make no difference at all, unfortunately

The garage I went to was Topsham Car Sales in Exeter, EX3 0QH. They had been advertising on Ebay and I liked the colour, Olive Green. I'd been staying at my Mothers house in Stratford Upon Avon and drove down to look at it. I was satisfied and left a £500 deposit and asked if they could deliver it to Stratford Upon Avon, They said yes they could. I then drove home to my house in West Sussex. A few days later I was back in Stratford to receive the 2.4 Alphard. I'd had the use of Mothers Toyota Auris as I am insured to drive it. I bought the Alphard on 27th August 2022.

I only used to listen to Radio 4 on DAB on my M2 Estrima, so finding I can only get Radio 2, I am now a convert and enjoy Radio 2. I occasionally have to retune the Radio 2 as I travel as its not on Digital and loses its signal