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Great, glad I could help. I'd love to know why the coil packs always seem to fail in pairs though !

What about how the oil looks (inside the filler cap) and the coolant tank (as Gord suggested) ? As you say, if it is burning oil then that's not good news

The RS200 and AS200 are the main two variants of the Altezza. There is also the AS300 (estate). My point was that you may need to check a lot more detail just than whether it comes out of an Altezza, i.e. which model of Altezza with which transmission.

I don't know, but bear in mind that the Altezza is not just one model, e.g. there is the AS200 with the same engine as the IS200, and then there's the RS200 with the 3S-GE engine. And also manual versus automatic transmissions (don't know if that makes a difference to the diff).

Don't know, but a bit of electronics like that seems a lot less likely to me to be available via the likes of Blueprint and similar, as opposed to relatively simple items like brake discs etc. Looks like the sensors are of the order of £100 from Lexus/Toyota. Might be worth your while joining LOC as a Gold member just to get the appropriate parts discount :winky:

I haven't taken my washers apart yet, but it would sound like a blockage in the pipe would be a good candidate for reason why one washer isn't working - obviously the motor is ok, and I think it's just water pressure that makes the washer pop up and work.

Can someone tell me more about this event please ? I've been to JAE but not this one. Sounds like this is more track-oriented, is it more a case of watching cars on the track ? Can our cars go on the club stand or does it not work like that ?

Sounds like your motor isn't operating since mine makes a distinctive noise when I press the switch. Hopefully it is something simple, e.g. someone's had the bumper off in the past and has removed/dislodged a connector. There are some troubleshooting suggestions here. Let us know how you get on.

Thanks, have left him a voicemail.

Thanks. Maybe I should have Google'd that myself . Thanks though. Actually I did some Googling specifically on HIDs on the 306, and couldn't find that much, mainly people just putting upgraded bulbs (not proper HIDs) into their cars, so I wondered if there was any kind of issue, or just perhaps not a car that gets modified much ? My friend finds it really difficult driving at night with it, so HIDs should help. Although I'm going to check the headlights aren't just badly aligned.

Agree, it will be great to hear about bringing this car back to life ! :D

It shouldn't need doing again unless you knock it out yourself via potholes etc. When WIM first started doing the service for the IS200, I think they had a check-up they booked you in for after a while. When I had my car WIM'd I asked about this, and as I recall Tony said they found there was no point in the check-up so they stopped doing it. I took mine back to WIM to check after I thought I'd knocked the alignment out, and sure enough it was a bit out (and also slightly out from having uprated ARBs fitted).

It'll be cheaper to get an OEM replacement battery from Toyota/Lexus, try calling them for a price :winky:

You might have disturbed/broken the ABS sensor wiring down by the wheels. It is quite fragile.

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If you give Toyota the part number then they shouldn't have any problem supplying you with the part.

Does anyone know how easy it is to fit HIDs (i.e. a proper kit with ballasts, not just HID-alike bulbs) on a Peugeot 306 ? I may be helping a friend out with this. I've already checked and it looks like it takes H7 bulbs, so kits are in theory available. I can have a look under the bonnet to check how easy it is to take bulbs out etc, but wondered if anyone has either got one of these already or had one in the past.

Does anyone have a mobile number or similar for kris_t ? I need to contact him regarding an ongoing Group Buy. Please PM me if you can help. Thanks.

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You need to move the closed square bracket from after the URL to after the first "img" to get your images to display properly :winky:

There are some guys here running 19" rims, they may be able to comment (I think you may need some arch rolling ?). Don't know if anyone is running 20s.

When you say "smoked", they weren't really smoked in the common use of that term though. Usually when people talk about smoked lights they mean the plastic outer lenses being darkened, which isn't what happened on the IS200, it was just the chrome inner that was coloured differently.

The diff is there because as you say the wheels need to go at different speeds around a corner (the outside one has to travel further). With a normal (open) diff, if you're cornering hard then what can happen is that the inside wheel is very lightly loaded due to weight transfer, so virtually all the power might end up going to that wheel since it can spin a lot faster, which means you lose the power because it doesn't get put down on the road properly. Your question is a good one and I can see your thinking. Unfortunately I don't know the specifics of exactly how the TRC works on the IS200 to be able to comment on that. For example, does it just work front-to-back (i.e. detects if the back wheels are spinning faster than the front ones, indicating wheelspin at the rear through lack of traction), or does it work side-to-side (as in your example) too ?Perhaps someone else might know more ?

That's pretty much the list price though, I wouldn't buy from there. TG Holdcroft have new items cheaper here.