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To Canberra and back 5lts/100 K ==== 56.5 MPG. Fascinating to watch the Hybrid at work.. charging needle up and down like a Fiddlers Elbow , as the driving conditions dictated, on the fluctuation of the Road. Down Hill and on the Float Charging... Up Hill and on Power Battery, boosting the...

http://prius.ecrostech.com/original/Understanding/WhatsGoingOnAsIDrive.htm If you can understand this very, very detailed explanation of the intreciates of the 4th Generation of Toyotas Planetary Gear CVT please tell me !!!! Lots of things are a mystery to me in my declining Years !!!:o

And again I say, that no Automatic Transmission will work properly unless the Engine is in Tune. Just sorted another one for a friend by checking the Vacuum at the Inlet Manifold. Reading 14 , advance the Timing to max at idle 19 , retard 2 inches to 17 . Problem solved. But now the...

After a year of denials about Faulty Airbags in our 2010 C Class 204 . Mercedes replaced both Front Airbags last month. A welcome move, as I understand that Airbags have a reliable life of 10 years. Then they should be replaced.

Speaking to a Ford Engineer (ex UK) about the neutral handling of old British Cars in particular, he advised me to decrease the Camber and add pressure to the Front Tires of my "56 MGA. It lightened the Steering and improved the turn in when cornering. As there is no provision for Camber...

It has occured to me the reason why my old Transmission Shop founded in 1967, has folded it's tent. There is no more maintenance on Transmissions. Our C Class is sealed for life, At 70,000 Ks the oil still looks like new. Last of the 5 speeds Our Camry Hybrid has no moving Parts.. no Torque...

Where would we be without the Internet..... Our 204 C Class 2010 70ks car had a modified Rear Light Cluster wiring replaced under Warranty, a known issue back in 2010. Problem has returned as the Mercedes fix was a band aid. They will still repair it, as the plastic of the connectors melts. The...

I can't believe it Fords 105E is 60 today. I worked on them when they were new !! It was at a Ford dealer on the Pacific Hwy in North Sydney. Now long gone , i cannot recognise the place now. E,g., Chatswood had a milk bar and a cinema, now it is Hong Kong ! Stop the World I want to get off.

Okey.. okey I heard you say.... The Paint on my new Hybrid Camry is tissue Paper thin and scratches if I look at it sideways. Where as our nine year old C Class comess:( up like a new Car when Hand Washed by local Car Wash. This I find very annoying .. so I will look at selling the Toyota to a...

And I ask... what happened to tire re-treads?? Taxis in Sydney used to run exclusively on them as they never ventured over 80KPH. Side walls outlived the Treads by many KLs. Is it that new tires are too cheap ? Like many cars they are not worth repairing ? :confused:

The World moves on... I read that the currant Car sold with a Holden Badge the ZB has the lowest resale of any Car sold in this Country. The die hards will have to get used to FWD. And that, while it is currently a rebadged Opel , in the near future it will be a rebadged PSA design. The other...

This new Camry Hybrid continues to amaze me...... Drove back from Shell Harbour on Cruise Control, with Automatic Braking all the way Home. Car kept at a programmed safe braking distance.. accelerated and braked as necessary, and back in Sydney traffic brought car to a standstill as necessary...

I used to be a fan of this but I fear today's cars don't respond to any interference with the back pressure. Inlet, firing, and exhaust are now a designed continuous loop, computer controlled. Disturb one element and performance drops. I'm very fond of a comment made to a young Gun Ho teen who...

Do people read Tech. Threads ? Or as a friend says Cheque Book mechanics? A mixture of both i suspect. But for me I'm all Technical ! I guess it is like a comparison between Italian and German. They have different priorities. A boring World if we were all the same !

Proof of technical article .... Friend complained of Flare ... checked Engine vacuum and needle was dancing... a bad plug lead... Flare now fixed. Vacuum Modulator and hence Throttle Valve Pressure dances to the same tune Erratic operation, the Shift Valves get confused

Having had a couple of queries on the subject .........To set up any make of Auto Transmissions it is imperative that, firstly the Engine is in a good state of tune and in good condition, not with low compression. An Engine and an Automatic Box should be matching bed fellows ! With vacuum...

file:///C:/Users/Sean/Downloads/9789811042706-c2%20(1).pdf Copy and paste on to Google. it won't open from here ??? How it all was developed and now works. Engine speed... with Gen. 2 are the components that determine how it is designated as a CVT. and geared. Gen. 2 can Rev up to 17,000...

Just watched the TV Program "The Garage" from Spain. Jock can be a bit of a pain, but he will tackle anything that Drives through the Door. A Heater Matrix was changed in a SL. What a lot of work to change this item... One Day's labour just to get to it ! And repairing Vent Flaps ... another...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTxGlUDcTDs. New Camry Hybrid :D:D:D:D Another interesting development. Plus from the same source a detailed description of the Electrics Look it up.

A Genius of design. Cvt has no Pulleys. Uses two Planetary Sets instead, for an increase in power and Torque output to wheels, while using less Fuel. With 5 lts/100k on a trip a long way between refill stops with silent running on Cruise. (medium throttle.):cool: