Back in late summer I received a letter from VOSA and Toyota informing me they’d issues a recall notice for my car. It needed some work doing to the Passenger Airbag and after a quick search I found out it was an issue with the inflater propellent. It seems weird it took 11 years to find the fault but the work was being carried out for free so I got the car booked in last week. I was putting it off a bit and didn’t realise how long it had been since I received the letter but it turned out to be quite convenient because the steering angle sensor also needed resetting so that was added to the list of work to carry out.

Yesterday I took it down to the garage for the work. I dropped the car off at 9am and by 1pm I had the car back. They had carried out the recall work and attempted to reset the sensor but unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be responding. I have a feeling the steering rack and steering column haven’t been aligned correctly so I’m going to have to strip that down and investigate. It’s either do it myself or give it to Toyota to do but I don’t really fancy paying their labour prices!

While the car was with them they’d also carried out a vehicle check and the only thing they advised me on was the handbrake had slightly excessive travel. In their words I’ve “got myself a nice little car”. It’s quite nice to hear that after all the work I’ve put into getting it back up to standard. They also washed and hoovered the car for me which was awesome. It’s not something I was expecting and seeing as I didn’t pay for any of that work I walked away very happy. Despite all the previous little problems and waits I’ve had with ordering parts, Toyota do have some good customer service.

So a couple more jobs left to do and the car is as close to perfect as I can get it. Happy days. She looks bloody nice when she’s clean too!