Toyota Avensis 2.0 vvti T Spirit - My first shed
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Top shedding thread, thoroughly enjoyed reading your journey with the Avensis. I bought a 52 plate 206 1.4 for £250 last October, mostly for the missus to have as her first car but also to enable us to pay some stuff off. Anyway, it has had a service and mot, had the cambelt done, had 2 new front springs and a new rear exhaust box...still less than £1000 all in including purchase price!
Missus can have it in October with another year's mot on it, and finances allowing I will be in the market for a bigger engined £1k Japanese shed as a daily driver. Having read this thread, Avensis 2.0 petrol is now number one on my list!
Missus can have it in October with another year's mot on it, and finances allowing I will be in the market for a bigger engined £1k Japanese shed as a daily driver. Having read this thread, Avensis 2.0 petrol is now number one on my list!
Bennyjames28 said:
Not too shabby for a two litre petrol.
In other news I checked my pollen filter last night, I don't think the mechanic changed it when he gave my car s full service. Will cost me a tenner for a new one.
I'm going to check the air filter on my days off. I've done about 600 miles since service so it should be clear of it's new or not.
I'm going to use him again before my mot, if I think he's up to no good I will put a hidden mark on the filters he should be changing.
If I coukd do my own oil change I wouldn't need to use anyone to service the car. Only filter I couldn't do myself is fuel filter, or the plugs.
Oypla 4 Litre Oil Fluid Extractor... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00VC6HIJW?ref=yo_pop_...In other news I checked my pollen filter last night, I don't think the mechanic changed it when he gave my car s full service. Will cost me a tenner for a new one.
I'm going to check the air filter on my days off. I've done about 600 miles since service so it should be clear of it's new or not.
I'm going to use him again before my mot, if I think he's up to no good I will put a hidden mark on the filters he should be changing.
If I coukd do my own oil change I wouldn't need to use anyone to service the car. Only filter I couldn't do myself is fuel filter, or the plugs.
Get yourself one of those ^^
Makes oil changes simple as you like. I have that same one and used it to do my e class. Few weeks ago, it seemed to get virtually all the oil out.
Oil filter strap wrench (or similar) would also be useful.
toyota offer seems rather cheap for a main dealer!
just priced up parts only from ECP with a 35% discount code and again its £90 for parts, not sure on labour rates at your usual garage though as £60/hr seems a bit excessive for a local indy in south yorkshire
no idea how close to you they are but I've always used JS Services on meadowbank road for jobs i cant do myself, good honest no nonsense blokes.
for a shed i'd be tempted to just go straight to unipart, 2 discs and a set of pads is more like £45 but they do list the front discs as being out of stock for your car online.
just priced up parts only from ECP with a 35% discount code and again its £90 for parts, not sure on labour rates at your usual garage though as £60/hr seems a bit excessive for a local indy in south yorkshire
no idea how close to you they are but I've always used JS Services on meadowbank road for jobs i cant do myself, good honest no nonsense blokes.
for a shed i'd be tempted to just go straight to unipart, 2 discs and a set of pads is more like £45 but they do list the front discs as being out of stock for your car online.
Edited by andburg on Wednesday 8th August 11:45
I took up Toyota for work on my old old Avensis (7yrs old at the time of taking it in).
They did the work as promised and led me to the counter where they said "the price will be this as you need this, this and this changing".
The wording was almost like they were guiding me to agreeing without offering "no problem if not".
I said just do the work I paid you for as it passed it's not only yesterday and I know the tyres are all fine.
Just be careful.
They don't use top parts either.
They did the work as promised and led me to the counter where they said "the price will be this as you need this, this and this changing".
The wording was almost like they were guiding me to agreeing without offering "no problem if not".
I said just do the work I paid you for as it passed it's not only yesterday and I know the tyres are all fine.
Just be careful.
They don't use top parts either.
Bennyjames28 said:
Just checked my rear discs which looked fine, there's quite a lip at the top of the disc. I got a feeling I'm going to have to replace those too. For f
k sake.
Got a feeling this mot is gonna cost me over 500 notes. Tempted to start looking at other cars. Sell this one and maybe get a MK4 Mondeo petrol. In my budget of 3 to 4k tho one of those will still need little jobs like pads and discs doing. Can I really win?
A mk4 mondeo will give you more grief than the Toyota. k sake.Got a feeling this mot is gonna cost me over 500 notes. Tempted to start looking at other cars. Sell this one and maybe get a MK4 Mondeo petrol. In my budget of 3 to 4k tho one of those will still need little jobs like pads and discs doing. Can I really win?
You can only win at shedding if you are prepared to wield your own spanners, if you start paying labour the savings over a lease start to evaporate rapidly.
Just keep it then, I don't see what difference having the mondeo will make, both boring practical saloons. You know the foibles of the Toyota, you won't if you get a new car.
I sold my petrol accord for a diesel one to save fuel, turned out it was a dog and I ended up £300 down. Bought a £900 octavia with amazing history, but already had to change a few parts, I'm committed ted now so I will keep it and hope for the best.
I sold my petrol accord for a diesel one to save fuel, turned out it was a dog and I ended up £300 down. Bought a £900 octavia with amazing history, but already had to change a few parts, I'm committed ted now so I will keep it and hope for the best.
InitialDave said:
Can add that the the Avensis head unit, I did it to my mate's one last month.
I have a Yatour (?) unit in my 2002 Audi A6, cost about £70, plugs into the cd changer port in the back of the standard head unit. Won’t win any ICE competitions but I can stream music, make calls, etc, a great piece of kit 👍Bennyjames28 said:
Your right. The Mondeo has a few advantages, been able to stream my music.
What model Mondeo are you looking at? I've got a 59 plate Titanium X with the Sony unit and all it comes with is an Aux input in the glove box. For £3-4k I'm guessing you're looking at a similar age? Steering wheel controls don't work on it and I had to dismantle the dashboard to hide the lead to my phone. It also doesn't like me using Spotify whilst Bluetooth is paired with the car so I have to use my other phone for calls.
If music streaming is one of your criteria, unless it's got an uprated head unit then I wouldn't get too excited by a Mondeo!
The kit I used was from a place who are on ebay as incarconnections - there's a couple of types you can get depending on the exact model of head unit you have, so worth checking first. Dead easy job to do, unclip the trim across the dash and around the gear lever, four small bolts to remove the radio and climate control unit, plug it in and stick everything back together.
with regards to swapping and saving money for a house, if the avensis blows up and dies you have £5k to buy a mondeo. If you buy a Mondeo of unknown quantity and it blows up you no longer have a car or £5k to fix/repalce.
If the avensis keeps running without major incident you have £5k towards the house.
the value of shedding is running until it dies and only then replacing it, with what you've saved you can cheaply hire an interim car or get a taxi.
If the avensis keeps running without major incident you have £5k towards the house.
the value of shedding is running until it dies and only then replacing it, with what you've saved you can cheaply hire an interim car or get a taxi.
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