Abbas

I would expect the coolant to certainly be part of a service.

Stav

I will ring the garage first thing and ask them... If it was fine at the service then i have a slight problem.

Cheers

Have a look around the circuit for any sign of leakage first mate, see if theres anything obvious.

And Welcome.

Stav

I have looked around for any leakage but cant find anything.

Thanks for the suggestion, i am guessing the coolant loss has happend over a long period of time...

Abbas

Im having a little coolant issue at the moment, it seems i have a slight leak from the bottom hose.

it should be fairly easy to locate if you have a leak as coolant will stain, when getting a new car you wanna keep and eye on levels weekly (you dont know how well the old owner looked after it)

Top it up and see how thirsty it is.

After pouring in approx 0.25-0.5 ltrs the coolant started to appear in the little window on the back of the rad. So i guess it was just below the minimum. I have now filled it to almost full and will monitor it daily till i am happy there is no problem.

Yea i agree you never know how well the last keeper looked after the car so its best to check everything out. I took it for a full service 2 days after purchase and the garage did not mention any coolant loss. Then again its prob not part of the service so they would not have checked it.

I hope you get your issue sorted

Abbas

Hi,

I thought i would check the oil and water today on my IS200 and was worried when i opened the rad cap and could not see any water yea if i put my finger in, it was wet but i am sure last time i checked there was a lot more coolant floating on top in there. I checked the window on the back of the rad near the belts and i could not see any sign of coolant in there as its red i thought it would be highly visible! I opened up the coolant lid situated on the left hand side as if you are facing the car where you would fill the coolant and that looked very dry.

I am worried why it appears the coolant has dissapeared, i will purchase some toyota red coolant tom and fill up.

I have owned the car about 6 weeks, looking at the service history it had 5L red coolant put in it approx 60k ago when a new water pump was also fitted apart from that there is no other history for the coolant.

Anyone experienced anything similar or has any thought/comments?

Regards

Abbas

Thanks for the warning i knew there always was a chance they might not be that bright... Will find out soon enough! If they aint good enough i will be looking for something better.

Hi all, i have just noticed that the 90-110 on my speedo is no longer lit up.

I am guessing that the bulb has gone. I have printed off the tutorial for how to remove the dash but just want to check which bulb is the correct one.

Is it the 5mm or 10mm? Can you get them from halfords? Is it orange or white?

Thank you for any help.

Hi,

I used 501 W5W blue LED bulbs and T5 W1.2W wedge LED bulbs for the dials (speedo) from eBay.

For the AC and heater section i have ordered Neo Wedge LED Instrument Panel bulbs 8mm & 10mm (type a & type b.) also in blue from http://superlumination.com/74.htm.

So far i have fitted the speedo ones and they look good just waiting for the AC/Heater ones to arrive from the states....

Regards

Abbas

Mine is a 1999 T with 134k

Yea that makes sense i think doing it in stages will be good as i will slowely feel the improvements and it wont be a huge hit on the wallet... Thanks for the info as all this is totally new to me.

But ultimately, the front upper strut brace is the easiest to fit - but as above, you will notice handling improvements more with ARBs.

Regards,

Jamie

much much more!!!!!

Okay guys so how much would i notice better handling with the strut brace and then the same question with the ARBS's...

Hi I am a newbie... Bought my IS200 a couple of weeks ago. Have been thinking of adding a front strut brace and have seen this one http://www.japspeed.co.uk/is200-front-uppe...brace-437-p.asp £79. My understaning is that i would just attached this to my car and would see an improvement in road handling (around corners would be great) , am i correct in thinking its that easy?

Hello matey welcome to the club :D

If you want better cornering i'd try and find a set of uprated ARBS's (anti roll bars) to stiffen up the car as they reduce body roll quite a lot and improve the handling ? :D

Thanks, I will do some reserach on the ARBS's and see how much i can get them for and fitted...

Hi I am a newbie... Bought my IS200 a couple of weeks ago. Have been thinking of adding a front strut brace and have seen this one http://www.japspeed.co.uk/is200-front-uppe...brace-437-p.asp £79. My understaning is that i would just attached this to my car and would see an improvement in road handling (around corners would be great) , am i correct in thinking its that easy?