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Does the car have central locking with the key in the door ? if the tailgate has a physical lock, it will not have central locking on the tailgate
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I believe that they are so thick that would struggle in any form of employment. Steven Eagle have a particularly bad reputation
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You could, but it'll be difficult to drain it properly without taking it off, so it might as well stay off until needed. Even with the box that's at the lower extremity - a prolonged cold period could still freeze it all and crack that. And you're gonna need a bigger box 🙂
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You will find the most uneducated and most stupid people work either in car sales or as an estate agents. Those creatures are so dumb that it’s beyond imagination. They are only good in one thing- to talk nonsense. ⚠️😂👍
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£424.98p, even for a full service, sounds extremely excessive to me. I would try a couple of alternative Toyota dealers to see how they compare.
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If your key is kept within about 12ft of the car it will be in regular contact with the car. A Faraday box prevents this.
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Yes but if I understood correctly, we are focusing on the Battery Life here and disabling keyless was proposed as one of the methods to prolong it when the vehicle is parked 🙂
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Does anyone has experience with diesel injectors DAXTONE ?
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Yes, splitter definitely comes off for winter 👍, however, if I cover all of it with a well insulated box type thing, I could leave that in situ !!
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Assuming that's the house wall, so it's warm on the inside, then keeping the pipe short will help as heat from inside will come through it. Also consider changing the tap for a top entry one with the flange on the back to screw it to the wall - again it will help the warmth to reach it. Definitely should help. Also take that plastic splitter off for winter. I can't imagine you'll need it then and it's just more area to try and keep warm.
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Toyota Promotional £250 Charging Credit
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Somehow I got locked out of my account and they wouldn't let me back in so I've had to make this new account. Anyways, just to let you know at long last, after threatening them with legal action I received the £250 charging credit. 🥳🥳 Just need to find a working pod to use it now. -
if you are seriously concerned you can also get electric pipe heating cable/tape
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This offer maybe of use for someone here. MICHELIN car tyres
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Disabling the key does stop unsavory people using key-sniffers by your front door from relaying unlock/start signals though. As effective as a Faraday box, which I find to be easier to use as you can't turn the key off on my MX5 so it has to be in a box anyway. £10 Amazon, holds two key fobs. Tested by holding the closed box near the cars and no signal leaks.
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I had one of the Amazon tap covers above. I've also used an Aldi tap cover which is also very efficient and Amazon sells an identical one for £8. My outside tap faces NW so rarely sees any sun and it's never frozen.
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Cheers, it does have a isolation valve inside the house, and to be honest, I don't always turn it off and then turn the outside tap on to drain any excess water.... maybe that's my REAL problem😄. If it's REALLY cold, I don't wash the car, it's on those nice crisps dry sunny days that I like to do it. I just can't leave the car unwashed all winter, I also like to jet wash under the car etc. I let NOBODY wash my car, not even when it goes to the dealers and especially not to the various car wash places that are all over the place now. I'd rather buy my own sandpaper and ruin the paintwork 😂
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Hi Bobby,Cleaning the car in winter is never fun I can confirm that with my frozen fingers! We have an outside tap too, and it does freeze over when temperatures really drop despite the lagging etc. Honestly, if it’s that cold, I usually don’t even bother. If you don’t have a way to isolate the water supply to the tap, it will freeze. You can box and lag the pipe and tap, but that won’t always prevent it from freezing. If you do want to clean the car when the tap is frozen, try pouring some warm water over the pipe and tap; that should unfreeze it enough to use. You could of course take it to a car wash and you can keep warm.😂
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Just received a text from our Toyota dealer as our Auris is due for a MOT and a full service on Friday. They have quoted £424.98p for the full service and £54.85p for the MOT. I'm not sure how this compares to other dealers but is this average. I'm holding back feeling grumpy until I know.
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I need people to put their thinking caps on and think outside the box for a couple of minutes 😂 I like to wash my car all year round, even in the winter months (if possible). The usual problem is the frost. You can see from the attached photos my outside tap, my garden hose rail is just next to it. In the frosty periods, I unhook the hose rail and put it in the garage, so that the water still inside the hose doesn't freeze. The problem I have is the outside tap will freeze, I have tried all the usual caps and covers, but they don't work. It doesn't help that I have a bit of pipe also coming to the tap, rather than just the tap itself, I intend changing this, so that it's just the tap. So in the meantime, just for this winter, until I change the tap layout, I'm thinking of covering what you see in the photo with a plastic box of some kind with heavy insulation on the inside and just hook it to the wall so that I can easily just lift it off and on. Edit: I may give this a go ? Outside Tap Covers for The Winter - Protective Garden Tap Covers for Outdoor Taps Fits Most Garden Taps - Insulated Outside Tap Cover to Protect from Freezing, Frost & Burst https://amzn.eu/d/8mhJ1Ef Any better ideas ? Cheers Bobby
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Somewhere buried in the manual: ■ Turning the automatic mode on While the vehicle is stopped, pull and hold the parking brake switch until a buzzer sounds and a message is shown on the multi-information display. When the automatic mode is turned on, the parking brake operates as follows. When the shift position is shifted from P, the parking brake will be released, and the parking brake indicator light will turn off. When the shift position is shifted to P, the parking brake will be set, and the parking brake indicator light will turn on. Operate the shift position with the vehicle stopped and the brake pedal depressed.
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P is Park - as in not Drive, Neutral or Reverse. So, it's the 'gear' you leave the car in when you are not using it. (P) is the handbrake (or electronic parking brake). If you set things up correctly, the handbrake comes on auto-magically when you put the car into Park and releases when you select Drive, Neutral or Reverse. So, it's an almost redundant switch and I will never use it! (I must go and check that mine is set-up correctly!)
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Gemini is an AI system that gathers its misinformation from nonsense it finds on the Interweb - it will be wrong more often than not ... 😉
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You are doing it wrong ... 😉 ... look for Michelin tyres for your car - by registration number or model spec - and it will show you what is 'good' for you. I had 225/60/R18 Cross Climates on my 2020 HEV (and they were wonderful!) 🙂 Today they come back with: