Cleario
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I do but also can you imagine the bad press that would happen should a 20 year old Toyota sending shards of metal into an innocent driver.
I’ve worked for a certain brand that after 10years airbags are advised they get replaced. When replacing them curtain airbag bolts have snapped, fallen out but it’s always been kept on the low.
im not sure what I can openly say without causing myself problems but I’ve worked for 3 brands all of which use Takata airbag inflators only 2 of them have an active recall.
Toyota take any safety related items seriously from the floor mats, we have to remove any non genuine floor mats, we have another active recall for CH-R /new Corolla brake pedal torquing to the air bag inflators. I’ve done a few avensis that have had driver, passenger and Airbag ECU complete replacements, easy £1500 parts plus 2.5hours labour.
In all fairness I think Toyota need more gratitude for being completely open about it and are more than willing to admit the error(from supplier not in-house fault) and will replace them at no expense to the owners.
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12 hours ago, ams said:
Seen loads of corollas/ versos/ avensis that have rusted and snapped under the rubber.
But on the celicas never seen one snap and when ive taken the rubber and ciut the metal part off completely they havent been rusty underneth. Its another example of the difference in component / build quality that Ive seen with european vs japanese built cars.
Have you found the same? Theres loads of small things ive found over the years to be common on euro built cars compared to jap built cars that have put me off them.
i can agree totally, if you look at old auris/avensis/Yaris they’ve all had a brake pipes replaced, some extremely poorly. Corrosion on sills/wheel arches, lower arms corroded with holes in. All made within the EU. Yet we still get Prius taxis in with 250,000 totally original parts. (Minus HV batteries)
I actually brought this topic up at the academy (we do Lexus and Toyota training even though we have differnt techs working on them) and was given the answer of ‘There’s a reason Lexus mainly produce cars in Japan’ (and look at the old RX that was made in Canada)
On the other had the hilux and land cruisers produced in South Africa rust. Badly. I know they’ve had hard working life but I’ve seen 2016 with brake backing plates corroded, snapped coil springs, floor panels with holes in, all super common problems.
we’ve obviously got the airbag inflator recalls still going on, I’ve done a few starlets/celica’s recently still solid maybe the oil leaks stop the corrosion
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I can agree on the crank pulley 100% the hybrid Engine still have a ‘damper’ pulley fitted which is a normal crank pulley but they don’t have any aux drive belt/components, it’s sole purpose is as a damper.
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I cut mine off on the recommendation of the old boys in work, they said they’ve seen water sit under the rubber causing the shafts to snap on the corolla’s and Avensis.
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I could be wrong and I’m sure @Kev 16v will correct me here but I think the OEM 16’s came with Yokohama’s and the 17’s Pirelli.
on another note, I’ve just removed 4 Bridgestone potenza s001’s that came on my Leon FR and replaced with my favourite Goodyear eagle asymmetric 5’s due to them cracking, 2 years old and 13k on them, still showing 4mm and the ride is night and day.
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I’ve always used the manufactures coolant in anything I’ve owned. From Vauxhall’s, fords, bmw and many Audi’s.
ive always looked at it as if I ‘save’ £20 during a repair only cost myself hundreds more as a result.
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As far as I’m aware it’s backwards compatible, but I’d have to look into it a bit further before recommending it to anybody else.
All I can add is I’ve changed mine to pink SLLC as we have plenty laying around 80odd thousand miles ago and haven’t had any issues.
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I had a look for some of the older service sheets. LLC is 3 years 40k.
In all honesty I don’t think I’ve seen a car come through here with red coolant and we do get a fair few older corollas, Yaris and avensis. Even a Starlet a few months back but saying that I’ve theyve got full service history it will have been changed to pink now anyway.
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I was under the impression the red is for pre 1998 vehicles? All the service information sheets here list 100k engine and 150k inverter. No idea where you’ve seen 2 years?
Ive worked for volvo/ford and hyundai, never heard of a coolant change that low on any manufacturer.
To be fair I’ve changed my coolant once in 150k of ownership. Nearing 200k it’ll be done again.
(just to add the 2WW and proace are of different service schedules as they are not toyota manufactured vehicles)
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Why would you change the coolant every 2 years? The Toyota recommendation is 10year/100k interval for engine coolant and 150k for inverter.
plus the price of Toyota coolant is isn’t going to break the bank even if you change it twice as often as recommended?
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In retrospect adding a clear ppf would have helped, but at a quarter of the value of the car is it really worth it vs getting it repainted?
It’s a shame cars get bumped so often in car parks.
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33 minutes ago, budgetbondbile said:
Of course motorway miles is prolly much better than town miles even cosmetically.
I've always wondered where they get the 12k average mileage from and whether it's totally accurately representable.
I've pretty much always limited my miles to between 3 - 5 k but I do use mine quite a lot but mainly jus round town, occasionally im surprised when I've realised I've gone over the quota, but unless I was using mine for heavy motorway or daily commuting I couldn't see myself ever getting near the average 12 k.
And so the low mileage 30k 10 year old car must still actually be quite a well used car.
I’m going to have to agree and disagree.
the front bumper, bonnet and windscreen of my celica is ruined from 7 years of motorway driving. Full of stone chips, pitting on the glass and I’ve put 3 front plates on it due to cracking. It did do 20K+ for 3 years running so it’s fair wear in my eyes.
Hence me buying a ‘daily’ car that I don’t care about so I can swap the celica for something better than can be kept tidy...but on the other hand, the underside of mine is in pretty good shape for 200k. Far better condition than some 50-60k cars Ive had in work. Hardly any corrosion, all my brakes work without sticking, just a slight leak from the timing chain tensioner and no I’ve never coated anything underneath or any special treatment.
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I don’t think mileage can be used to determine a ‘daily’
for the last 3 years I’ve had a ‘daily’ car, that cars changed 7 times but they’ve all been more comfortable and economical to run, hence them being used to sit in traffic on cold winter mornings or heading out to ride somewhere that I can leave it in a forest and not worry about it. They’ve all done 8-10k a year.
my celica is just a car I use on the weekends now, which is still doing 8-10k a year, it’s the time I want to be out and about so the mileage adds up. do I need the celica? No, it is worth selling? Not really hence keeping it.
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I run H&R 10mm rear spacers with longer studs. They are like you said slip on with the centre bore to locate the wheel.
I no a lot of people who run with the wheel just located on the studs but personally i like you know the wheel locates correctly.
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I had the exact thing happen years ago on a bonnet I painted. He called it crows feet.
i asked the painters in work what had gone wrong and told me it’s normally from not mixing enough, wrong ratio or applying the 2nd coat before the 1st has flashed.
i Took it down with 600 on a DA and started again, again I was painting in my garage not a booth.
Although it was only a bonnet I was gutted, I couldn’t imagine a whole car!
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I’ve always used genuine plugs changed once a year. For the cost it isn’t worth worrying about. My celica has gone from doing 20-30k a year to 3-4K, it’s it gets moved in and out the garage a lot so starting and stopping when cold fouling the plugs. But saying that I’ve always used genuine service items, I see no reason not too.
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13 hours ago, Cal670 said:
Yikes... I need to to take the Greddy lip off mine as it has a big crack in it from a parking accident (my fault). Bet mine will have a scratch the same after I remove it.
I’d say so! A friend has a greddy lip and recently took it off to repaint it and it’s the same as mine. Not a big deal for me, the amount of stone chips mean it would need painting anyway but still a bummer. It’s rubber through the paint around the fog lights too!
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Jr5 gets my vote
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I’m not. When the wheels came from japan they came with 225/45/17’s so they filled the arches a little more. Then I dropped to 215. I was never really concerned with the ‘stance’ aspect more what felt the best on the road.
they never looked ‘sunk’ in the arches though in my opinion.
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I’ve ran multiple sets of wheels on my celica over the years both 17” and 18” for me personally my wedssports 17x8 et34 with a 215 just worked right.
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I don’t use mine anymore really but I gave i treated it to a polish! The front end is ruined with stone chips and scratched from the C-one lip that once lived on it.
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I have a mark in the exact same place on the front bumper.
I’ve actually given the celica a wash for the first time since around September. The paint work really is showing it’s age and mileage unfortunately.
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They do just pop out, I had to replace my passenger side mirror glass years ago
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I’m sure I read that the jdm mirrors aren’t heated?
somebody somewhere on here maybe from Holland years ago converted them to heated glass. Something I’d look into at the same time.
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High Milers! Official Toyota Sticker
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I’ve had my 150,000 sticker for years now, I’m nearing 200k if I drove it more than once every 3 months I’d have it by now haha!