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When a door is open you can lock the other doors with the key, then when you shut the open door it slam locks but you can't do anything with the fob with a door open. At least, that's how mine works.

When I has to fit a new ball joint on the rod to the Pitman arm I had to take the whole arm off and use some heat to free off both ends as they were TIGHT! Once freed I wound both ball joints fully in and out a few times smothered in marine grease. That was a few years ago and I can still turn...

The alarm and central locking are two entirely separate systems, the alarm having an interface that links into the CL. A door ajar will certainly prevent the alarm fob from operating the CL but the key will operate the locks as normal. The fob sets the alarm and operates the CL so if you then...

This is the approach I've adopted in addition to treating any rust I find (and can get to ) with Aquasteel. I'm undecided how much better the various lanolin treatments are, if at all. They're certainly more expensive. I used to swear by Waxoyl years ago but no longer rate it that much.

I got fed up with Windows over a decade ago so any Windows shite wouldn't apply to me anyway running OS on Mac and Ipad. I had the same problem using both Mac and Ipad on another forum, a while back, that was running the same platform but they did something and it's been fine since. The Mac is...

The buttons themselves are the 4 contact type so I surmised that one or more of the contacts had turned bad.

The forum has become virtually unusable on my MAC running Safari, with page timeout and no response errors. I don't have any problems with any other website. Ipad isn't too bad.

One of my fobs started playing silly buggers, sometimes it would light, sometimes not and even when it did nothing would happen. I ended up replacing the buttons and it'd been fine since. It does seem a bit of a coincidence though that it's packed up after you've been tinkering.

Do the fob lights work? If they do, try pressing either button twice to re-snyc with the ECU.

As the reservoir on the 80 isn't the screw down type I made a cap that clamps down on the rim so I use the Gunsons pressure bleeder. I've also just bought one of these...Piston Tool....ready for the fitting of some new pads instead of using an adjustable wrench like I've done in the past.

I use an Ashton branded gun which is virtually identical to this one except mine has a flexible hose.............GREASE GUN Can't remember exactly when I bought it but it must be 25+ years ago.

If the click is loud enough to hear inside the vehicle I'd say it's probably coming from the solenoid. That's easy enough to check if you can get someone to turn the key with you under the bonnet. If that's operating then it must be a bad connection to the starter itself which comes direct from...

This is interesting. I've just checked mine and there is no "Fog" fuse! The owner's manual shows "NoCircuit" for the fog light fuse so they must be wired into the headlight circuit. I seem to remember reading something somewhere that the rear fogs for UK soec 80's were added by Toyota UK after...

A missing fuse means nopower to fog circuit. It sounds like the fog lights were connected to the lighting circuit at the tow socket some how.