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1600GTCelica

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  1. firm on eBay in northampton had a middle section really difficult to find , sure they will have the back box , wasn't cheap at £150 , a motor parts supplier in cheltenham could supply the middle bit at similar price GMF 01242 252100

  2. They are a great car and now appreciating very well. To buy a nice one you are looking at £5-£7k , this issue is finding one. they suffer badly from rot if not well looked after , especially rear hatch and sunroof. I bought mine 10 years ago a manual with full history and 123k from new , if you can find one buy it as it is one of those cars which show good appreciation and a hoot to drive with that silky twin cam 6.

  3. a local toyota dealer is moving and clearing a load of old stock which includes all the following toyota manuals.

    Cressida body manual ( purple)

    Corona Mark @ body -orange

    2 x carina and celiac body - turquoise - don't know what years , probably gen 3 on

    18r, 185-c and 18r-g engine manual - gen1 and 2

    1000- body - yellow

    corolla ke71te- body -orange

    corona body - deep red - guess rt40

    corollake70 , te71 from aug 79 -chassis - yellow

    starlet body -red

    a-30 transmission 3 speed toyoglide -red

    service spec 1977 model - sky blue

    corolla ke &te chassis - yellow , will be early corolla

    they are looking for £10 per manual plus £4 P&P

    if interested or want more info as he only lives up the road from me , please pm me and i can arrange for you to buy it through their ebay ac.so let me have your ebay id as well.

    They are finding spares all the time , were toyota dealer for 30 years from 1980 onwards and still service toyotas now , although not a dealer anymore.

    will post up other things which might be of interest.

    cheers malcolm 07975718146

  4. Glad everything ok , you might just want to check it for yourself as its the dvla site and shows all the mot history till 2007for every vehicle , and i checked it before you bought it and it was blank. you can check the current sorn mot staus again on the dvla site and it was sorned with no mot , if you have an old mot certificate you might want to query it as i have cars i have stored since 2008 and they show that mot but nothing else till i tested it this year , it applies to my gen 4 vert.

    all for your own piece of mind as it looks nice and appears to have loads of history.

    referring to the grey one in swindon previously perth , that disappeared pretty quickly off ebay, but don't know where it went..

  5. interesting history with this car when you check its history , on the mot site . the vehicle was just tested to give it 12 months ticket , but it has no mot on it back to 2007 as the site shows all old mots back to then. the current seller obviously bought it with no mot 2 years and the dvla confirms it was sorned, from 2014 with no ticket on it. Hope the history gave a clear picture when it was bought.

  6. Picking up on chelt girls comment , her carlos saint has exhibited exactly the same symptoms and we had tried most things to cure it.

    It appears the cs gen 5 and maybe yours has a relay on the fuel pump which reduces the voltage to make it quieter at low revs , and over a certain RPM then the relay boosts the voltage to allow the pump to run at full power.

    In view of the fact that if its a pump problem you may be able to get at the pump as it might have an access point to the tank , however if its crud in the tank and it needs to come out , then it could be expensive.

    One of the gen 5 guys ( paulus, if he would be so kind ) needs to confirm whether your car is likely to have the two phase power supply to the pump and if so then the paperclip trick must be first port of call , as it appears the relay detioriates with age. You have nothing to lose by trying this first and if ir solves it fine, if not its a hunt elsewhere , maybe muck in the tank but it definitely sounds like a fuel starvation problem.

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  7. This seems to be a bit of an Audi TT -Celica debate , I think it is very much horses for courses , i have run an a diesel A4 avant from new ( last of the older shape and much better car than the later one) and it is great motorway and drivers car and ideal for lugging things about, However we have had a gen 6gt in the family for 8 years which has just gone back on the road after summer storage which i use for running around , it has that bit of refinement for a coupe as well as more practical space than the TT , also bullet proof reliability just coming up to 207k on the original engine and box and you can't hearing it idling the engine is so quiet. It always brings a smile back on my face every time i jump in for a spin, probably the best value car I ever bought as it has no rust after 18 years.

    However if you want a real bit of fun I have just taken my ml1 Mr2 off the road for the winter, handles like a go kart , goes like a good sports car and great for the summer with the roofs out, just love it.

    Toyota produced great performance cars you only have to look back over the past 40 years to see, but i do think they have lost there way in the performance sector over the last 10 years and audi grabbed the opportunity. A debate likely to run and run , depends whether you have loads of cash to buy the Audi , or you want a bit of Celica fun for a few thousand or a few hundred if its a gen 6.

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