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I think I'm going to order some of that Gorilla stuff and give it a go. Kate, the lady I bought the tonneau from, has a black gen 6 vert, UK model, which has exactly the same problem as mine. She's taped it all up with duct tape, which holds it in place and stops the water getting in, but looks awful and is rerally only a stopgap. Also she has the same problem as I do, which is browny-yellow spots of what looks like mould on a half a dozen places on the hood fabric. I'm going to have to find something which will kill them off... I've bought an Auto Glym fabric hood-cleaning kit, see if that will do the trick.
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Hey, Arizona, have you done the repair yet? I'd be really interested to know how it went, especially as my vert is now sporting its lovely newly-acquired tonneau!
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Gorilla glue? Unfortunately I don't have a gorilla which needs gluing!!!
Seriously, the problem with mine is that with the hood up the top of the window is below the area it should be glued to. Maybe it might be do-able with the hood half down? I'm not sure how I could clamp the glass to the hood for the 30 minutes or so it takes to cure.
I found this on the Saab owners group:
1. Open up the hood 2" or so to release the tension on the rear panel.
2. Cleaned off as much old mastic from edge of fabric and glass as possible.
3. Wiped down fabric and glass with water to remove dust/ dirt and make as clean as possible.
4. Wiped over glass and fabric areas to be bonded with metolated spirit and allow to dry.
5. Masked off window on line of where fabric hood will bond to prevent mastic overspill onto glass.
6. Applied about a 6mm dia bead of mastic adhesive, i used SIKAFLEX 221 BLACK POLYURETHANE SEALANT, got it on ebay.
7. Starting from the middle working out to both sides, cafefully and firmly pressed the hood fabric down onto the glass. I held it in place with duck tape every 6" or so. dont worry about mastic oozing out of the joint onto the masking tape. Found that this could easily be carefully removed with a sharpe stanley knife once it had cured. The only difficult bit to bond it the 1 1/2" of fabric that overlaps each end of the window. As its under the fabric, i just gunned in a blob of mastic, pressed the fabric down and put a heavy weight ontop to hold it down. seems to have done the trick if not the most elegant solution.
8. Some suggest holding the fabric down with weights. Thought this may be diffucult as it would press on the excess mastic. Took someones elses suggestion to prop the rear window outwards with wooden battens between the rear or the rear seat and base of the window. did this at both ends and it helped keep the fabric flat on the window.
9. Once done leave for at least 16hours (left mine 24hrs). Dont be tempted to fiddle with the mastic as this may kill the bond.
10. Once fully cured, i took off all duck tape and cut off excess mastic. Seal is now holding well and very neat.
Let me know how you get on, Arizona
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My Gen 6 vert has a problem with the rear window. Basically the top of the window has become detached from the hood and needs rewelding or gluing in. I'm looking for a recommendation for some trimming company who might be able to do this, any companies within, say, 100 miles radius of Oxford would be appreciated. Cheers, folks.
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My insurance registered on the DVLA site the day it came into force, which was the day after I bought it onlune.
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Far too small a market for anyone to tool-up to produce these.
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LOL!
Gone to Mondo... that was quick.
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I have a brand new set of electroluminescent gauges which I bought on Ebay a few months ago but have just noticed are for a LHD car
Complete set, including the inverter and all instructions for fitting to your Celica.If anyone wants them free of charge let me know and I'll send them on, it's a shame to just leave them lying around gathering dust.
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MOT's while they have a valid purpose are the devil, No matter how hard i check everything over the day before, i always get a wrenched gut when the garage phones with the prognosis, altho mine passed in july with no advisories.
Especially with older cars like ours, so much to wear or/and go wrong.
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Took my Gen 6 GT vert in for it's MoT today. Passed with no advisories, despite having clear non "E" marked indicators and repeaters with LED's!
Now I can relax for another year!
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Have to agree the trip to Dover is the worst bit. English motorways have so little to look at.
Angus
Leave early morning... I do the Dover-Calais trip at least 6 times a year (looking at French properties and buying booze and fags) and we always leave home at around 0400, the roads are pretty clear then, even the M25.
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And I bet there are some idiots who send their manservant out to get some...
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OK, what's all this about?
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Glad you got it sorted
Metal polish is brilliant stuff for polishing out plastic, acrylic and glass, I treated myself to a Rolex watch back in the eighties when I was working out in Jeddah, wore it while I was scuba diving over a period of 5 years, so the face was really scratched. I took it into a little family-run watch repair shop in Oxford, as the local Rolex agency wanted £180.00 to replace the crystal and would need the watch for 6 weeks. The guy in the watch repair shop advised me to try Brasso, which I did, and which worked perfectly.Which is why I thought it might sort out your problem
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Petrol will *not* damage your headlight - I've yet to find a automobile headlight which can be damaged by petrol, I've used it many times to remove headlight stickers for driving in Europe.
And it won't cost anything to try. If you can scratch it with your fingernail and get a clear line petrol might work.
A good way of polishing blemishes/stains out of both glass and plastic is to use a little Brasso or similar on a rag, watchmakers use it to polish out scratches on watch crystals - a watchmaker gave me this tip and I've used it on my watches with great success, too.
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Sounds like adhesive left after a sticker or something like has been removed. Try a rag soaked in a little petrol, that might do the job.
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Actually for £1600 or offer, with it's long MOT, you could buy it, run it into the ground and then sell it on for parts.
Be fun, anyway
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No service history, no record of number of previous owners... on a normal ST202 that would be posssibly OK, but on one of these beasts I'd really want to ask a lot more questions, and definitely go and have a look.
But yes, it does look, on first sight, to be a good buy.
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Spot on there mate
That is the exact reason i bought my Gen 5, i would have loved an Interga Type R (still would), but the price to buy one was 4 times that of the Celica, but i have easily spent that sort of money on my Celica now, but over 3 years, so the only way i could afford a Type R is if i bought a sh*t box and drove it for the next 3 years and saved up all my spare cash, but that would be the dullest 3 years of my life
Mean to say that if you'd lashed-out and bought an Integra you wouldn't have spent any money on it?
Yeah, right!
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I'm going, too, but probably won't get there until 5:30 - 6.00
Bri, did you get my pm? Do you have a price for the cam-cover off my old car?
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Ugh!
Gen 7 is ugly enough without adding to it...
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When I get my T Sport I'm gonna sell on my HIDs and stick with Osram Nightbreakers
Gonna stay on the safe side of things with that motor.General question; I have my HIDs declared with SKY Insurance but they've not said anything about them being illegal on my car. Do you think I'd encounter issues if I had to claim through them then?
Interesting point. I'll ask my Bro-in-law, who's an Insurance broker when I next see him. Why don't you ask SKY, just out of interest?
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OK, I'm probably wrong, but I'm certain that my first Gen 6 pre-facelift, which had the original wheels on it, had tapered wheel nuts.
However, I'll bow to the greater knowledge of those who have had Celicas a lot longer than I have
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yeah, but so are footwell LEDs, new wheels, sideskirts, etc
But they aren't illegal, and they don't f*ck-up other road users.
There is a difference, you know.
Convertible rear window problem
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Good link... I've ordered some, since it will be good for mky leather upholstery too, every time I leave the car with the hood down it seems to attract birdcrap!
What a useful source of info you are, young lady, it was your link which led me to the tonneau on Ebay for just £75... thanks once again:)