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Given that you are a new owner and you may want to do a few bits yourself. Please take a few minutes to read this before you attempt changing the cabin filter behind the golvebox. This may be useful as well Incidentally, I have 6 CD's full of Mp3's loaded in my player and they work fine. As you found ... DVD's full of Mp3's do not. Enjoy getting to know your car. I think they are quite excellent cars.

If I was going to hazard a guess.... I'd be thinking the previous owner or the garage broke this when changing the cabin filter. It's most important to put the air into Recirculate mode before attempting to change the cabin filter. When in Recirculate mode the lid covering the filter is raised. This enables easy removal of the old filter. If the lid is forced up to get at the filter then that plastic lug can be broken. Have you taken out the cover piece at the rear of the glovebox? This is where you can inspect that lid to see if it is stuck open or shut. This post will give you a guide If the lug is indeed broken you can do a repair. There is a good walk-through for a DIY repair on the US forum...it's here. All photos were lost a while back (after the photobucket fiasco), but they are re-instated now. Link Hope that helps and good luck.

Not my cup of tea at all ... sorry.

I don't have any first hand experience of Yuasa batteries myself. But a fair amount of people on the MX5 forum rate them as being very good. If all the specs for the Yuasa are the same or pretty close..including its physical size and most importantly ... the terminal positions then it should be fine. I changed my battery last year but opted for the Bosch S4 which was pretty much identical money.

Is that your new battery in that photo? If so... It does not look the right one to my eyes. I'd expect to see something like a Bosch S4 026 068. The Halfords one looks quite a lot smaller.

This link may help you. Take a look at the photos a fair way into the post. There are some showing a blown fusible link. https://www.clublexus.com/forums/is-2nd-gen-2006-2013/692433-diy-fusible-link-removal.html and here https://www.my.is/forums/f221/anyone-had-problem-starting-is250-after-new-battery-replacement-564050/

Do you keep the old original EGR valve? If you did have a play with it and get to understand how it works and how easy it is to clean. There are quite a few good videos on Youtube. It will benefit you to do that. That piston inside needs to seat well when in closed position. When I had a 220d, way back when, I used to remove and clean the EGR every 8000 mls or so. Whilst the EGR is out of the car clean the main port into the manifold with a screwdriver and suck out all the old crud with an old hoover, if you have one. Opinion is divided on additives. But I will say from my own experiences, I used Archoil (AR6200) diesel additive at about 5-6 ml to a tank of fuel and found the amount of soot in the EGR was much reduced. Seemed reasonable to assume that the amount of soot going into the DPF will be reduced too.

Quite likely. Had that happen on a IS200 many years ago, when a friend connected his jump leads wrong way round. A right PITA to get the offending (bolted in) fuse out (think it was something like 30 or 60amp??) it was a large 20mm square or so with a clear view window on the top, from where I could see it was fried.. Bit like this I've cadged from t' web The snag was it was bolted through from underneath with a base fixing much like you can see in the background of the pic. If I remember correctly had to virtually remove the fuse box in the engine compartment to get at the fixings for the fuse. The fuse could only be sourced from Lexus back then. I was spitting feathers for many days after!!!

+1 for the Dodo juice kit. I have cream coloured leather too. A stiffish nail brush bets the best results as it gets right in and removes the dirt. You can also use the wool detergent method as that works well too. As has been said the final finish should look matt and not feel slippery (as shiny tends to) Do it on a nice warm day in the summer. Pull the seat belts right out and anchor/tie it back somewhere and give them a right good scrub too. They can come up a treat. Do them first and they'll be virtually dry by the time you've done the seats.

Sounds to me.... and this is just conjecture based on a bit of experience of working on the rear brakes/drums. My guess would be the rear parking brake shoes were binding...possibly not releasing correctly or adjusted up too tightly. This can produce a heck of a lot of friction which then causes high temperatures at the hub. The bearing grease gets cooked and before long the bearing is shot. Had you ever noticed any hot metal smells at the rear of the car or been aware of the wheels being hotter than normal? Thats bad luck that it was pulled by an MOT tester, hope you get it sorted soon.

Try looking at the little L.E.D right by each switch. Cup your hands around each L.E.D to try and see if its blinking slowly. If it is ...your windows need initializing (or sometimes referred to as Syncing) by the method outlined above. Once done the light should be solid.

Linas ... found your original post. Had a link saved on my pc at home.

I can't find it either Linas. But I did archive your detail and save it as a pdf on my pc at work. Figured, you never know, may need it one day!! Here ya go. How to Replace Windscreen Washer pump is250.pdf

This type from ECP will fit ECP Plain filter Crosland also do a charcoal type which I have found very good. Wait for a decent sale discount to come up or look elsewhere. Last time I bought these from ECP they were £8.50 and £11 respectively. The air filter was £12.20

Look here for instructions

We've had a bit of chat about this very subject in the 250 forum. I have a couple of the faraday bags for my keys...works a treat for me.

I used these on my puddle lights about 4-5 years ago, still going fine. T10 5smd led but no longer than 25mm overall length. Ebay usually has loads.

My 2 were from a seller in China on eBay. No brand as such ... I read the sellers feedback for a few different ads and chose one based on good reviews. They were so good I could leave my spare in the car in its pouch when we went walking in The Picos, N.Spain this summer. My daily key set goes in the pouch every night when I get home from work. I do, periodically, go out and walk past the car with the pouch in my pocket just to see if it’s stopped working. I’m looking to see if the puddle lights come on ....... and they have not once. My two were £4 delivered!!

Bought 2 from eBay months ago. Still working perfectly.

ACC ... Adaptive Cruise Control Us old school fellas tend to often read it as ACCessories point on the ignition barrel ... ie relating to turning the key to different points before the actual igntion of the engine.

Sorry to hear you've had a bad experience. I can understand that you feel aggrieved at this situation. I have purchased some items from Rockauto in the recent past and found them to be excellent. Like Lee, I cross referenced everything I was considering just to be as clear as possible that what I was ordering was correct. I too was concerned about LH and RH orientations especially as their market is LH drive vehicles. You are quite right when you say .... Be careful what you order Hope you manage to get the car problem resolved in the not too distant.

If you can't operate any windows then you need to resync the windows to the switches. This needs to be done when the battery has been disconnected on pre- facelift (oct 09 I believe) vehicles. When you change the battery you MUST re-initialize each window in order to be able to control each from the drivers door switches. In order to do this you perform this operation at each window using the switch on the door for the window you are at. If you look closely at the small led on each switch you will see it is blinking - this indicates the windows need initializing. 1. Open the window halfway using the door switch. 2. Fully close the window by pulling the switch and continue to hold the switch up for 4 seconds or so. 3. Do this at each door. When complete the blinking will change to being a constant glow ie 'on'. Your windows will now fully function again from the driver's door control set.

I had this a few years ago and put it down to radio interference. In my case it seems to have been a wireless doorbell ....weird huh!! The only way I could get the car to respond was by removing the fob battery and re-inserting it. I've also heard of folk at places like boatyards or social clubs, where there is a wireless mast feeding a large area, having fob problems.

This is sounding similar conditions to a/c compressor seizing. Hope you get to the answer quick.

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