The Fly

Er, not if you are in a 50 zone. I haven't done any particularly scientific back-to back comparisons given that our highway driving sojourns are few and far between, but at 80kmh our fuel consumption decreases significantly. Try those speeds for a few minutes each in similar traffic and conditions and road topography, and keep an eye on the display in current consumption mode.

And if you buy the Bitsash!tty, you will forever be the butt of those "w@nker in Spanish" jokes. :)

I've not noticed any problem with the Kluger, but I also don't rest my hear on it. If you want a bad head restraint, drive a Holden Captiva. Diabolical. Felt like I had to lean through the steering wheel just to keep my hear away from the thing.

LOL! Yes, I was indeeed talking about the panel beater that left the device on the battery.

Absent-mindedness I suspect. Or a rush to get it ready for collection.

Ours is also black. Looks awesome clean, but never again! I'm not a big fan of badges and less is more IMHO. I removed the SUBARU letters from my car years ago.

Hm, not sure. The box is only small although both cables have the terminal clamps usually seen on jump cables and they are also red & black... And no I'm not giving it back to the panel beater. The car came back with crap all over it that needed to be clayed off and the residue on the clay was red. Has taken 7 hours and still counting to clean, clay, polish and wax the car back to a glassy smooth finish.

They are a pain in the bum when polishing because they catch threads and I always end up taking a toothbrush and Quick Detailer to them to remove the polish residue from the edges so I'm thinking of getting rid of the badges on the rear hatch. Why Toyota feel the need to inform people that the car is a V6 with VVTi I don't know, and to have the name TOYOTA and the big logo is plain overkill to me. The KXS badge may get a reprieve, but I doubt it. Can anyone confirm that they are attached by double-sided tape only? Or do they also have the old style rivet moulded into the back of the badge?

I can vouch for them. I have seen fantastic results on my car the the Mrs' last car with one. You just need to use plenty of lube or it sticks and then you have to clean the residue off and go again!

I am also one for trying to jusge the timing of lights to minimise beign stationary. We also live on a hill and are surrounded by quite undulating topo' which means we are goping up and down a fair bit to end up at the same altitude or lower! Having said that, I can still always manage to better my wife's fuel economy. She always seems to be on and off the throttle even when driving along a continuous stretch. Her excuse is high heels but she does it regardless of what she's wearing... And as most would know, when you offer advice you get your head shot off! She never drives when I'm in the car unless I'm, er, not capable.

I'm not sure whether this is the right board to ask this question, but here goes: Last week we had a repair done by a local panel beater due to some ***** letting a trolley roll down into our car. When I opened the bonnet a few nights ago, there was something attached to the battery. At one end were clamps like you see on jump leads, and at the other was a little box of some kind in a rubber enclosure. It had S.A.T.O Australia embossed on it but other than that it had bno distuinguishing features. The panel beater had obviously inadvertently left it on there as it had their name engraved on it. Can anyone tell me what it is, what it does, and if there might be any implications from it being left on there by the panel beater? I took it off when I found it. Thanks in advance.

Works for me too as I mentioned above. Pity the tube is small. It is designed for use by hand although I have also used it with my orbital polisher, and as Taka said, it won't necessarily do a better job but it does save on elbow grease. Haven't needed to try it with my rotary yet. I looked over our car the other night and the paint work is in terrible condition and in need of a attention. It feels really rough, lots of bonded contaminents, and there are clearly visable water marks on the bonnet. I'm a bit surprised that it feels so bad given that it's only 6 months old and is always garaged. I used a few products on the bonnet by hand: Paint cleaner - no good, then Scratch X - no good although it did get the washing scratches out, then Fine Cut #2 and it just started to do the job. It's definitely an orbital job or failing that, rotary, then clay bar for anything still stuck on, then polish and wax. There goes Saturday just to get that glassy-smooth finish back again....

It happens on all colours, it's just more obvious on black and dark colours. Our is showing them too as well as scratches just from washing it. The joys of a black car. I have used Meguiar's Swirl Remover before to deal with swirls on my WRX (silver). Haven't tried it on the Kluger yet but I tried their Scratch-X on some light scratches caused by polishing out bird sh!t stains not long after we got it and it worked well so I'd be pretty confident about the Swirl Remover doing the job. Just take care using a rotary polisher if you have a crack yourself. When I need to do it I may try by hand and see how it goes before using my rotary.

I have never sat in it since we bought ours. Ours lives permanently in its little hole below the centre console so the kids acan use tyhe console for their crap and drinks when they have them. The best way to assess it obviously is to sit in it while you are being driven. I tried it when we were evaluating the car but only when the car was in the showroom and not on the road. It doesn't look comfortable due to the narrow design and all reviews that I've read to date suggest that it isn't. But for an occasional seat we're not really worried, and lets face it I won't be sitting in it so I don't care! Ours operates as a 6-seater which suits our needs.

Of course it is! Duh. I completely forgot about the bleeding auto-answer setting. Thanks guys!