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Andybtsn

Andybtsn

Andybtsn

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Finally got the MR2 back from the garage today and it's running fine. You may have remembered my previous threads.

After my first ordeal of taking it to a garage and them spending short of £400 and not fixing the problem I was quite worried taking it to Toyota, but I was pleasently suprised. They quoted me £60 from the beginning and I walked out of the garage £60 down.

£60 to diagnose and fix the problem.

Whereas the other garage charged me £380 for naff all.

If only I took it to Toyota in the first place, but hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Anyway, it appeared to be the idling that was the problem :? Idled at 2k, they sorted this so it idled under 1k (which it should) and hey presto, passed the emmisions test ok, twice.

Strange fix really, they did test all the sensors etc, the ECU did bring up two faults which they corrected.

Anyway, here she is next to my girlfriends amazing car (lol)

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And I did take it for a nice drive tonight. Had it two weeks, not drove it for more than half an hour!! :) :) :)
 
pinkaardvark said:
Surely you must have noticed it was idling at 2k? and it beggars belief that the first garage did not notice this also when they had the car :(
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I didn't to tell you the truth, but I hadn't been in that much to be fair!

Strange one. All good now anyway.

Will hopefully get to a meet in it
 
andybtsn said:
I didn't to tell you the truth, but I hadn't been in that much to be fair!

Strange one. All good now anyway.

Will hopefully get to a meet in it
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Well not totally. An ecu fault will only show if the fault has been recorded during the last 3 ignition cycles of car, so if they were old ones the ecu would self clear them. Ok they may have been simply down to the fast idle but I wouldn't think all 3 would be. Defo worth checking it again in a month in case there is something else on the go.
 
Jez said:
Cant be...look at the rear bumper
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My knowledge of MR2's is limited i cannot tell the difference no doubt ill be come more wiser when i start looking for my next car as i am hunting for a RWD car next, the question is which one

thedazman
 
thedazman67 said:
My knowledge of MR2's is limited i cannot tell the difference no doubt ill be come more wiser when i start looking for my next car as i am hunting for a RWD car next, the question is which one

thedazman
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It has a hole big enough for a UK plate, they never made a turbo in the UK thus all the turbo's have small number plate holes. Unless the owner has changed the bumper of course. Also no raised vents on the engine bay on the non turbo's.
 
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