My Celsior had an intermittent problem that the passenger’s side door couldn’t be locked nor unlocked by the remote switchs. It happened once in a while and the re-trying was mostly effective to work. But recently the symptom is getting wo…

I have needed to replace a timing belt for Daihatsu Move LS900 owned by my family member. The biggest problem to me was that I didn't have any special equipments nor tools for that except simple tools which average Americans own. I only ha…

These spark plugs were used for 13 years without changing for 145,000km in 1UZ-FE engine for Celsior UCF21. The other 4 plugs are not pictued but they look exactly the same. Using a gauge, I measured the gaps and the results were all 1.12…

I don't want you to feel uncomfortable seeing this but I want you to know how the throttle valve became clogged by the carbon. This is the throttle valve of my old Celsior UCF21. The lower half was just cleaned by the rag above with alcoho…

Setting up the tachometer helped me to find the cause of unusual problems and showed me the solutions. One thing that made me to worry before was the over heat indicator turning on sometimes although the engine was still cold because it wa…

Can you believe it? You only need 300 Yen for these. The coffee, the bread with butter and azuki, the delicious Chawan-mushi and 2 different salads with the grape fruit. Have you ever heard of Ichinomia Morning Service? There are many coff…