A mate has a 10 year old Previa auto that is misfiring, running badly and doing about 5mpg. A mate of his changed the plugs with no effect (not me!).
Does anyone know a reliable independant mechanic in Surrey (he lives in Addlestone) that they could recommend. He wants to know if its worth chucking some money at it rather than scrapping it.
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Grosvenor Garage in Guildford are number 1 for Toyotas. They were the Toyota main dealer but are now Honda but I know that Toyota still use them for difficult to fix problems on older Toyotas.
Not cheap but the best and they won't rip you off.
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I'll get my mate to call them today. As it happens, he's starting a new job in Guildford on Monday, so it might be convenient for him.
Any others to try (including mobile units?)
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Sounds like the coolant temperature sensor or the oxygen sensor to me. Try a post over in Technical as Andrew Moorey posts over there and he runs a mobile tuning service in the South that should be able to sort this without recourse to having to do a bank job.....
Just checked his profile and he gives his website as www.uktuneup.co.uk
(Do I get a kickback, Andrew?? :-))
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RichardW
Is it illogical? It must be Citroen....
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Try a post over in Technical ....
No need. Moved it across instead.
DD.
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Hi Colin,
I have not used them personally, but I have only heard good things about Premier Car Care, Unit 19, St George's Industrial Estate, Wilton Road, Camberley, 01276 64212.
I believe they are also not the cheapest, but apparently very good when it comes to diagnostics. And by diagnostics I mean deducing what is wrong rather than replacing bits until it starts working.
They fixed a friend's MX-5 in under an hour when Mazda main dealers had failed on three occasions.
Good luck!
-Mark
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Thanks Mark, and pinging Andrew, your website doesn't seem to work and I have no other contact details for you. I tried a "whois" on your domain mentioned in your profile but no luck.
Will pass all details onto friend who will need to put some work someones way by tomorrow!
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Andrew Moorey CAE AMIMI lives in Southwater Sussex and that may be a bit far away.
His work number is 01293 533626 which is Crawley.
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Whilst I've been online trying to find a solution for this problem, my friend called the RAC who towed his car to an "approved" member garage. He told the RAC guy he'd had a recon engine 2 years ago and this was obviously passed on to the garage where the car is now. They rang him this evening, said they'd run a compression test and one cylinder was "a bit down" and said this didn;t surprise them given the source of his engine have quoted him £500++ for a head off job.
Given that low compression could be insignificant or caused by worn rings, I reckon he's opening himself to a huge bill leaving it with the "approved" place. Would it be reasonable for him to take his car for a second opinion (with one of the above suggestions)? It is just about driveable.
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