Euan
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I picked up a ludicrously cheap set from Car-parts-market on Ebay, something like 8 quid for a full set, can't fault them, no streaking or juddering...
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Pop over here: http://www.toyota.co.uk/cgi-bin/toyota/bv/frame_start.jsp?id=Heritage_Celica_Brochuresi wonder what spec mine is then. :rolleyes:
it was advertised as a celica vvtli.... but it has leathers, e/sunroof and climate control, the alloy pedals, spoiler, 10 disc autochanger but no woofer all standard with the car.
not sure on alloys as it had aftermarket alloys fitted. oh and no GHD,s lol
And take a look at the brochure dated a little before the age of your car ... should find it there. Though from the sounds of it yours is a Celica 190
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GHD - fancy hairdressing stuff
As to the Style and Premium packs (technically models if you look at Toyota's brochures!), they're basically:
Premium = climate control, tilt/slide sunroof, full leather
Style = 17" alloys, spoiler, aluminium effect pedals, enhanced sound system with woofer, manual aircon
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Well, here're four quick colours to avoid... :-)
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Heck, I remember one time when I'd been around at a mate's, getting back to my car to find a drunken couple just about to get jiggy over my bonnet (I think the exact quote from the man I interrupted was "I was going to do her up the arse")... boy was that one a close escape!
(considering all the fun little scratches that zips and studs might've left, nevermind any possible stains...)
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Yeah, I really wish more car parks were like Costco's - the spaces are at a 45 degree angle to the bits you drive through, and the spaces have a good foot-wide marking between them.Cause and Effect. If parking spaces were wider, then twat drivers have lesser chance of hitting others.
Sorry to hear about the car in the OP.
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If the car is going at a set speed, yes, bigger wheel = slower axle speed.
But the car's speed isn't externally controlled, it's a function of the engine and gearbox making the axles turn through lots of revolutions per minute.
Boring maths time->
Using http://www.etyres.co.uk/tyre-size-calculator.htm - 195/65/15 tyres give a diameter of 643mm, multiply by 3.14 (approximation of pi) gives a circumference of 2019mm. So for every rotation of the axle, the car will move 2019mm forward.
70 miles = 112 654 080 millimetres (=112.65km), so it takes 55797 revolutions of the wheel to go 70 miles, if you want to do that in 60 minutes (for 70mph) then that's 930 RPM near as dammit.
So the speedo will be calibrated, more or less, to read at 70mph when it's doing 930RPM at the axle.
Now, let's imagine we whack on some 17" rims, and go to 195/55/17s. These are 646mm diameter, so about 2028mm circumference. So at 930RPM, we go 1886040mm in a minute, or 113 162 400mm in an hour... 113.16km.
Speedo will read the same, as the axles are going at the same number of RPM, but the actual distance travelled in a set time is further - so a higher actual vehicle speed (albeit we're still only dealing with very small percentages, and given that a speedo can be 10% out and still OK...)
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If we moved the car at a set speed, say 30mph as measured by GPS, then yes, with larger wheels the speedo would under-read by more.it would give you a slower speedo reading ,wheel would be turning slower due to it being larger..
But as Bill T says - the speed's factoring off the number of revolutions of the axle, and for a given number of revolutions of the axle, the bigger the wheel the faster the speed.
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Other way around surely!larger tyres will make speedo read slower..
Larger wheel circumference means more distance travelled per revolution means a higher speed at a given number of revs.
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So from that, 205/50/16 is almost identical size wise, 195/50/16 is 1.3% smaller, or 195/55/16 is 1.97% larger.
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Yep - because it means that for one rotation of the wheel, the car travels less distance, so you need more rotations of the wheel to travel the same number of miles.Smaller Rolling Radius = Lower MPG ?
Will also marginally improve acceleration and reduce top speed (not that hitting top speed is an issue on the roads!)
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AIUI, ultrasonic refers to extremely high pitched sound, while supersonic is for things going faster than the speed of sound (like jet fighter planes).
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So flocking the whole car is right out then? It'd be unique...
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Gen 7 uses 26", 20", and 16" (respectively driver, rear, and passenger).
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Git, did they have 26" ones at your Costco? At the one in Edinburgh there were tons of all sizes, but stopping at 24" - wasn't even like there was a space where they'd sold out of them!Goodyear now make their own aero flats and sold through Costco. All lengths individually available. Very high quality with metal fixings. At £6 + VAT this is very hard to beat and they are the best I've used. I've now fitted them onto all the family cars.
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Oo, flocked, now there's an idea!
.. yeah, painted.
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Hint of Ford Focus with the front wheelarch on the black one for me too... not sold!
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I'd try grabbing ImgBurn (it's free), and use that to record your image file directly to disc. Sounds as though you might have been burning the image as a file onto a disc with Nero... whereas really it's a special sort of file that contains an image of several files and how they are to be laid out on the disc that needs to be recorded as an image rather than a file, if you get what I mean!
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Hadn't seen the Toyota Celica XX 20000GT Twincam 24 before before, looks like a close stablemate to the Mk1 MR2!
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As others have said - while access to the back isn't quite as handy as with a five-door, it's very possible to get a child seat in the back, the boot is cavernous, and what's more it's an ace car to drive:
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Facelift also gets the pink rear light clusters, as opposed to the earlier ones with distinct red/orange/white bits...
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Aha. Despite falling into the right age category to have watched Bod when little, I can't ever recall using "PC Copper" as a generic term!
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I fear you may have fallen for a bit of a myth, the word's far older than the TV programme...PC Copper featured in kids' TV programme "Bod" when I was younger (i.e. 17th Century sometime), hence the catch-all term for Officers of The Law for folks of my age.
From http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2209/why-are-the-police-called-cops-pigs-or-the-fuzz
Let's start with cop. Cop the noun is almost certainly a shortening of copper, which in turn derives from cop the verb. The London police were called bobbies, after Sir Robert Peel who advocated the creation of the Metropolitan Police Force in 1828. Copper as slang for policeman is first found in print in 1846, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The most likely explanation is that it comes from the verb "to cop" meaning to seize, capture, or snatch, dating from just over a century earlier (1704).The derivation of the verb is unclear. Most authorities trace it to the French caper and before that to the Latin capere, to seize, take. Other English words derived from capere include capture. Thus, a copper is one who seizes. An alternative theory is that to cop comes from the Dutch kapen, meaning to take or to steal.
The word "cop" has other meanings as well, all connected to "catch" or "snatch":
To "cop out" meaning to withdraw or escape, or to evade responsibility
To "cop it" meaning to be punished or get caught
To "cop a plea" is to try to catch a lesser punishment by admitting to a lesser crime
"A fair cop" means to be caught in the act.
As with many words, there are several stories floating around positing various origins, almost certainly false. The notion that cop is an acronym for "Constable On Patrol" is nonsense. Similarly, the word did not arise because police uniforms in New York (or London or wherever) had copper buttons, copper badges, or anything of the sort.
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Not even entirely sure what red projectors would look like, but on the basis of basically colouring the black bits in red...
Logo puddle lights
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Shame they use such a pointlessly fake looking image to illustrate the effect - just makes me think that the actual effect looks pathetic (hence using a fake image to make it look good).