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I don't know of anyone in the UK I'd trust to do that work, there is a chap in the USA who goes by Relentless Motorsports who can definitely repair these. I guess it depends whether you dont mind going aftermarket with the ECU or whether you find anyone decent to fix these. Be careful who you trust, they are old PCBs and pretty complicated ones at that, not your standard PS5 HDMI repair

Absolutely no expert but from what I hear that sounds like ECU related fun definitey see if you can borrow an ECU from someone local to confirm real quick.

As others have said, probably a relay used for feeding the fog lights - if you can find it you can remove the whole lot and replace with a diode and a clean 12v feed from somewhere. That or add a diode to the relay so the back current from the brakes being switched on doesn't turn the relay on ...

Replacement Number Plate Lights/Bracket Decided I wanted to install a rear view camera and some LED number plate lights to freshen up the rear of the car a little. However, I didn't want to butcher the existing wiring harness and light mounting bracket. So I designed/printed a new one. The number plate lights are VAG units, I made a harness to convert those to Toyota plugs so it is literally plug and play. Those being smaller allowed me some real estate to install the camera. All fits up lovely to the factory holes. Due to the size of the 3D printer I own I had to print two seperate parts and pin them together. That said it seems to have worked pretty well and looks good. Will test/re-design accordingly when the cars on the road. Little things ...

Thanks @Peter P appreciate it. Lots to do but I'm just happy to be making some progress right now ! Heres to driving her around when the weather gets a bit better ...

Rear Bumper Fitting After many months I also wanted to get the new rear bumper fitted. The first one I bought was too difficult to repair (the holes cut for the parking sensors were effectively 'welded' but they were on the lower part of the bumper which has a weird contour which I just couldn't get right (annoying as I spent a lot of time trying but I just had to admit defeat) I bit the bullet and bought a better quality rear bumper which I stripped and primed for now until it can see a proper paint job. I also had to fit a new fuel tank protector, no pics of this but it was epoxied and raptored to protect it and installed with nice new stainless fittings. Also all new hardware to mount the bumper to the car. Awaiting a cover for Australia to cover up the hole for the JDM plate too. Nice to see some progress finally.

Boot Leak Another issue which has been (and still is) bugging me was the water in the boot. I have a feeling it's from a few areas: Boot seal (you can see water climb under the seal and drip into the boot) Spoiler (terrible fittings, now removed) Seams (not sealed, leaking slowly through when rain flow is minor) Awaiting a new seal and a good day to seam seal the necessary parts. Am very tempted to leave the spoiler off, think it looks great without it.

Boot Pop During the summer I also set about fitting a solenoid powered boot release activated by the alarm. Biggest issue was finding somewhere to mount the solenoid and how to 'pull' the lever. Used a similar setup to factory - effectively a bit of brake cable looped through the solenoid - worked a treat. Solenoid was bolted to the rear boot panel - all tested and a worked a treat. May fit a boot 'pop' to raise the boot slightly in the future. Excuse some of the temporary fittings in the pic, it is all crimped/soldered in place now ... After this I set about sorting the rear lights which had one failed fog light PCB fitted and a bunch of wires twisted together. Cut all of this out and replaced with a dioide which was soldered in. Also fitted a diode from the switch on the dash (which was illuminated) to stop the back current from the brake light illuminating the switch when the brake was applied.

Preseving What's Left ... I realised it has been some time since I updated this. Work and other family stuff took over so whilst I have been working on things it's been a lot slower than I'd have liked. One of the big issues was finding someone to fix the damage to the rear quarter which I'm happy to say is lined up for later this year. In the meantime I went about stripping and epoxying the area just to preserve what was left.

Hey @TrickyBlue are these still for sale ? If so could you reply here or drop me a PM?

If you can film the light sequence when you turn the key that would be handy. But I had a similar panic a couple of weeks ago and it was the ECU main harness plug not being seated correctly (I pushed in the plug but in my haste didn't pull the lever down) and the light sequence sounds familiar, no EML, no alternator light, but 'some' lights ... assuming this is all good you can check ECU fuses (I think it's powered by the main EFI fuses from memory so check all of those) after that it could well be an ECU problem (check you have ground and +12v (permanent/switched) when the ignition is on. Other thing could be a fault immobilser. Or grounds... it's always grounds

I might be able to help with those, I have a 3D printer it's just time I don't have a lot of

I reckon 3d print some mounts and bond them to the skirt on the inside

I'll be honest I'm really interested in the spats only so not sure whether you want to reflect that on the list? But sounds really promising.

I'd be interested if they are actually plastic and not bloody fibreglass ...