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Mook did a set for me recently . . . behold!
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Oh no! Your beautiful GT! Hopefully you get it sorted out without too much expense mate
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Yeah Mook does cut vinyl, not printed vinyl so wouldn't be able to help with this as cut vinyl can't do gradients etc. (at least not to the scale of a sticker)
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Rory, you'll want to fill the holes in the front bumper in before you apply your sticker mate, trust me!
Wayne (Brinkz) has a stick on plate on the front and first time he got up to motorway speed it punched right through the stickers so the holes are still visible. Just stick a bit of plastic into the back of the bumper to cover the holes then filler them up and sand off smooth. If you mark out where your new plate will sit before-hand then you can make sure you don't get any filler/sanding which is visible once the sticker is on.
This is something I'm going to have a go at too at some point so I'll be interested to see how you get along. Hope that helps mate
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I've been really interested in this thread ever since I first read it so I'm doing my own little test. I've run a full tank of Supermarket petrol and got 311 miles from as close to a full tank as I dare get! I filled up with V Power yesterday and reset the trip computer so we'll see how I get along!
I drive a relatively short difference to work and back in irritating rush hour traffic through the city centre so I don't expect amazing mpg, I do take the same route every day so it should be a relatively fair test.
After running the car with V Power to work and back a few times now it definitely feels much smoother, and I gotta say that it feels like described in the first post, i.e. the engine feels like it pulls a little better so I don't need to get up the revs so high before changing gear. I think this is just placebo myself, but it does definitely seem to run much smoother
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Good luck with the new motor mate
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hahahah thats probably not too far from the truth John!
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factoring in alternative fuels, recycling of electrical goods and the general consensus of 'go green', I can only see it going the other way. But I'm not even remotely versed on what's increasing and what's decreasing in use.
I know these biofuel cars are causing more pollution in production process alone that a normal car would from beginning of life to end of life though, or at least that's what the zeitgeist gobshite types would have you believe. Until I'm a scientist who does research on ALL the above to an extremely high standard, I'll stay neutral...as it all could be complete and utter bollocks
I'm by no means an expert either John, just an amature enthusiast hahaha
The problem with alternative fuels is that to date they cannot replace oil, and infact many of them (ethanol is a prime example) actually use more energy to make than they produce, which is obviously counter-productive.You're right about the biofuel cars causing more pollution, although to be fair its just new production of any new car which produces pollution, the biofuel bit is sort of irrelevant. Its basically to do with energy consumption. As a simple example, an old car may well not be as efficient as a new car in terms of fuel, but by the time you have used the required energy and materials to cast a new block and engine internals, make the chassis and all the body panels, the motors and circuit boards, glass, tyres and everything else you need to make a new car (not to mention the energy used to get this stuff out of the ground and process it in the first place) then it would have been waaaaaaaaaay more efficient to just stick with the old car that you had in the first place.
Essentially what I'm driving at here is that its all a bit more complex than how much oil is in the ground. Even if you wanted to recycle 100% of waste material for example, theres the energy input required to melt the materials down etc. etc. etc. all provided by oil. I think you see what I'm getting at here anyway
I'm quite interested in this sort of stuff but not an expert by anyones standards! Just wanted to chuck my two pence in
I just find this energy input/output thing fascinating as there's just loads of bad and good information on both sides of the arguement. Like for example wind power gets immediately dismissed by a lot of people as it doesn't have the ability to produce collosal amounts of energy like oil does. However what nobody really talks about is the amount of energy which you have to put in to make a wind turbine and start producing power is far less than the energy required to construct an oil rig, drill thousands of ft into the ground underwater, pump the oil out, put it into a huge tanker and sail it halfway around the planet and fractionally distill it at thousands of degrees etc. etc. I have no answers, only questions but this is all very interesting to me.
I'm going to stop rambling on now! hahaha
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it takes over 10 billion years to produce what we're using up, it's made from an extinct species at the end of the day. According to BP we have over 40 years of uninterupted resources available at current usage rates. That's from known reserves. We're nowhere near outta the black stuff.
Oh and the prices have gone up cos of certain conflicts in shithole countries, nothing to do with amounts left.
You're right John that we aren't out of the black stuff yet, however don't forget that consumption increases year on year, infact it has to in order to stop the economy from collapsing! The real issue being that current reserves may well last 40 years at current levels of consumption, however the amount consumed each year increases exponentially. Not saying we should panic, I'm just saying this is something which not many people consider.
Also don't forget that oil is one of the most commonly used resources on the planet, and its not like its just being used for fuel. Oil is used in practically everything, almost all paints, plastics, rubbers, epoxys, electrical equipment, consumer goods, packaging . . . you name it . . . you need oil to make it. Demand for all of those things is increasing all the time too
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Okay next time I go on a national speed limit I will hit 6500+ revs, this better be fun & good lol, can't wait. Thanks for all the info everyone. If I knew about Celica-Club and saw these brilliant cars for sale I would have bought one of them without a doubt, But I had money and my one was going for £2500, I thought it was a bargain, has had all the services & stamped, loads of things replaced. and the insurance was only about £30-40 difference between 140&190
As a former 140 owner and now a T-Sport owner I think you've made the right decision getting the 190
The 140 is great, but having lift just improves the car so so much so don't go back from your 190! Sounds like you got an absolute bargain to me so enjoy it mate.As said above, the differences between facelift and preface are the exterior ones described above (bumper, rear lights), the interior illumination is all in green on a preface as I recall but orange on the facelifts, light grey interior plastics in the preface and dark grey plastics in the facelift, and redesigned lift bolts in the facelift engine. There's a few other subtle details which I can't quite remember. I'm sure someone on the gen7 board was talking about a difference that they'd spotted between the headlight levelling switches or something like that too. As far as I'm concerned they're the same car, same chassis and engine, and they both look great so it really doesn't matter which one you have
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hi all, not sure if this is a repost, but I came across this video on youtube showing you how to use seafoam. Thought it might be handy as the car used is a gen7 vvtli
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He's a good un is our Phil
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I'm from York, and so is Dawn (CCUK Events Co-Ord)
We're both out and about with club stickers on. I've never seen another member in Leeds though where I'm also around quite a bit -
I think that would look awesome Rich. Those wheels look like they were made for your 5
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I saw this on Saturday when I was over at Waynes and it looks absolutely beauty in the flesh. Stunning car and one of my favourites in the club. I dunno if you'll read this any time soon but thanks for the short shifter and help with fitting it Wayne! Its much more fun to have two of us swearing trying to get that little rivet out than if it was just me on my own!
I'm still laughing at our drive over to your house.
Wayne: What happened to you on that stretch of dual carriageway? I stuck it in lift, looked in my mirrors and you were nowhere to be seen!
Me: Oh that police car sat in the lay-by spooked me so I didn't go for it
Wayne: WHAT POLICE CAR?!?!?!
hahahahaha
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Hi mate
Just done the exact same thing as you, had my 140 for sale for 3 weeks and a nice lady owner (already a gen 7 owner!) took her away yesterday. Got in my spangly new T-Sport today and had the time of my life hahahha
you won't be disappointed.It's all hit and miss really, but here's my advice.
Get the car on eBay as a classified ad. This costs £15 for 28 days which works out cheaper than listing it a week at a time, and since no one can buy it or bid on it you don't have to deal with idiots bidding and not paying up. Include important info such as mileage, how much MOT and tax is left, pictures, and describe the condition of the car honestly. You don't want people turning up expecting to see a mint condition show car and seeing a slightly tatty 140 or you'll never sell it and you'll just come across as untrustworthy.
By all means get it on all the free sites you can, but as said above, you get what you pay for. I steered clear of autotrader as it was £36 for 2 weeks (no thanks!!) and unless you're car is a beautiful low mileage example then you're not going to stand out from the crowd.
Get some hand written signs in the back quarters saying the price, mileage and your phone number and make a big sign to stick on it at night (unless its in a garage where nobody will see it!) as you never know who might be passing by and show some interest.
All you can do after that is wait. Hopefully you'll get some phone calls from people wanting to come have a look. If you've got someone coming to see it, make sure the car is clean, neat and tidy. Nobody wants a car with all your old sweet wrappers in the footwells or thats so dirty you can't tell what sort of shape its in! Whatever questions they have just try be honest and genuine, don't start bullshitting people as they'll either see right through it, or come back to you at a later date!
Finally, be patient! It took me three weeks to sell mine, and it was in good condition with a good spec. A few grand is a lot of money to most people so don't get disheartened if nobody rings you in the first few days. If after a few weeks though you've had no interest, consider dropping your asking price or try figure out what might be putting people off.
Hopefully that helps you out and I've not come across as patronising or anything. Just sounds like you're in the exact same position that I was so trying to pass on some helpful tips. Good luck with the sale, and you're gonna love you're T-Sport, trust me!
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Just sold my 140 today mate. I had it on loads of different sites and stuff and without a doubt having it as a classified ad on eBay generated the most interest. Thats £15 for 28 days which isn't bad compared to autotrader (£36 for 2 weeks! are they kidding?!). The other thing which got interest was just having it sat on my drive with a big sign on it!
Hope that helps and good luck with the sale
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I'm currently watching my ass.. front back and sides... the buggers keep moving lol... They're not even keeping to the lay bys.. caught it today with it's bum out of one of the country side roads ... they must be on commission for the most pulls
Yeah, I passed a police car hiding between the hedges on the York ring road. There was no way you could see them until you passed. Seemed like a sneaky trick to me!
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Bad times! I live in York and work in Elvington so I'd better watch my ass! :S
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Awesome
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Yeah, same for mine. You can cut them in lengths of multiples of three LEDs, so 9 in a strip, 12 in a strip, 15 in a strip etc etc etc.
To get your new wires on all you gotta do is get a nice sharp knife, and cut away the sticky tape on the back, and scratch away at at the underside until a small section of the copper strips are exposed at one end. I'd then test the strip with a battery to check you've exposed the contacts enough but it should be easy enough. Then just solder your wires onto the contacts on the bottom and you're good to go. If you've got some heat shrink then stick that over the top for a bit of extra protection, although this isn't essential.
Hope that helps mate
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That Sports M has been for sale for literally about 3 years now from WRC in bradford. I think they've got an orange and black blitz supercharged gen7 thats been for sale for a similar amount of time. Judging by the ebay location of West Yorkshire my money is that WRC is probably the seller still! I agree though that they can't shift them cos they're both huge eye-sores!
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I just got a touchup kit from Mr T to make sure its the same colour. As usual the little brush you get is rubbish so I'd use your own one, but apart from that its a pretty much perfect match. Comes with a little pot of gloss too which is handy. In general I can't complain about the kit, and thats on a chili red celica which is generally pretty tricky to match to.
Can't remember how much it was but it wasn't a fortune. A fiver maybe
Dial kit for T Sport
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They were £96.85 all in from Mook. It was £85 for the dial faces, and I also bought the LEDs from him and there was postage too, hence the total price.
I don't think thats a bad price considering that Mook makes you your own one off design to whatever spec you want (I sent him a sketch), cuts it on his plotter and assembles every set by hand. Very painstaking work. The quality is incredible though so hats off to Mook!
As for changing the LEDs. If you've done something like this before (changing LEDs in your climate control etc) then it is possible to do, but you gotta be very careful! If its your first go, get Diablo to do it for you. He did some tiny little LEDs for me on my old 140 stereo and did a good job so I recommend him