rich_p

Depends on the look your wanting. Your current set stand out and give the car that 'modified' look. Gen 7 16's look very nice and oem+ on the older gens, just as long as the rest of the car remains subtle.

Cheer up, Don't be feeling so blue about it all ;-)

...meh, never been a big fan of alcantara, though I see they're a lot less slippery, I'll take my leathers for day to day driving

Would save a lot vs a pair of GT seats, keep full leather and the T sport logo, could be just the thing for your interior plans! You do right in a trial run first, but looks promising, just as long as any over spill can be wiped off easily enough (which it should from vinyl/ leathers ) Nice find!

One 'advantage' to using v power on a regular basis. it's double points over standard fuel and will occasionally by on promotion to triple, it soon adds up!

£2.42/ litre??? I don't mind paying a few extra quid for the debateable benefits (and extra loyalty points) of v-power, but doubt any petrol is worth double the price of normal stuff.

Same predicament here! In the past week I've washed, two stage G3 treatment, window waxed, tyre dressed, plastX etc on both the girlfriends Fiesta and my Celica, only to return from a few days working down south to both cars covered in sand Club meet tomorrow as well so I'll need to do mine again, and hope for the best today! Not cool

Ah very deceiving pictures then, sounds a lot worse than they show. Sounds like your at least getting fairer valuations back, I naturally expect insurers to start at rock bottom and chance their luck. I see the reasoning behind the tin top, and naturally so do the Japanese, as most T-bars are autos with tin tops being for the 'drivers' with manual boxes. I like to pose and drive at the same time, haha!

Yours is barely scratched! Is it just the bumper? It may be too late but the best course of action to me would simply be to source another bumper and switch them over, and then decide if you've lost interest in the car and sell on or keep it knowing it's been sorted out without getting a write off mark against it. Obviously keep a few photos of damage and repair in the interest of honesty with prospective buyers. It's a sad fact that because the repair co will be wrongly valuing your car at around £1500, and will only quote for brand new original parts from toyota, plus whatever they charge for painting and blending to adjacent panels, it easy to see how so little can cause a 'write off' situation. Going off topic a little, I'd have to go for a manual beams t-bar if I ever had another MR2, ultra rare though.

Glad you walked away from that one, it does sound and look particularly nasty. So lucky too with s boot full of car parts too! Crazy insurance quotes for another 140 celica, how do they stack up against the MR2 on comparison sites? I'd have thought the celica would be cheaper as its a lower group, with the 190's being the same as an MR2. As an ex MK2 mr2 owner i can say they're a great car, and I'd get another one if the right one came up at the right time. Built the same era as the Gen6, lovely solid cabin, much fewer rattles than the 7. The 3S-GE is a cracking engine and certainly whet my appetite for high, N/A revs. Can't beat hearing the engine right behind your head either! They make a very good tourer too, I never had any issues with boot space and the cabin is very isolated from road noise. The handling was a learning curve for me, they reward smooth inputs, and can bite if your not careful, but overall it's s good chassis, offering good feedback and driving 'feel'. Tyres however are very important, I ran Toyo T1R's successfully in Sun, rain and snow, but it was nearly undriveable on the mixed brands it started out on. Happy hunting!

You may need to replace the roll bar drop links, depending on wether or not they come off easily. I'd have some ready to be on the safe side, you can always get them refunded if you don't need them. I'd expect squeeling noise to be a belt first and foremost, has to be a cheaper replacement than the actual pump too so worth doing that first to eliminate it.

A hydraulic crush bend is exactly as it sounds, you'd notice the pipe have a smaller diameter on each bend, obviously causing restriction. Mandrel is much cleaner and bends remain uniform. As stated well worth paying for, more so if boosted.

I've read a few reviews on this, not many to found in all fairness, and remain sceptical. There are a couple claiming great effect, others say marginal, and others non at all. My opinion after reading is that it may help with an otherwise neglected engine, but if you know your engine has been taken care of it may be money best spent elsewhere. For example, the first most positive scenario I read involved an older, turbo'd Vauxhall, on the day of terraclean, the garage also repaired a radiator hose which had worked itself loose, and loose turbo wastegate hose, ending a 'months old' problem, both of which are indicative of poor maintainance in my eyes.

Watchig that video, it's easy to look at my gen 7 and wonder where it all went wrong. At the very least we inherited the screaming twin-cam engine Much respect to rally drivers, these are cars are designed not to like being driven in straight lines, and it really shows in that video.

Thoroughly entertaining!!

I suspect the wheels will in fact be advan avs model 6 ;-) http://www.elitejdm.com/productimages/Wheels/17_Inch_Wheels/00499_1.jpg Very similar to they dynamic pack wheels though, which ive said before are my favourite toyota wheel. I guess once a car is so damaged its better to see it broke rather than simply scrapped, those TRD bits and pieces will be brightening some else's car before long.

Single fit are always going to be nicer, but if you like the wheel then go for it. Mine aren't multifit but are double drilled for some reason, (weight saving maybe??) I quickly stopped noticing. Danny makes a very valid point too!

Indeed, but can't tell from the video!

Haha, how did I not spot that! I stand by what I said though, not such a bad effort from the Honda, it'd make a half decent sleeper depending on exterior mods.

I think I've hid directs kit in both my car and partners fiesta. Ballasts and wiring all seem as good as any, nice and slow and the digital sort, their kits are well priced too. I did buy a cheaper set for the celica originally from an ebay seller and they were awful in every way, poor ballast and the complete wrong colour with worse than halogen light output. My only criticism toward hid direct, and I think I saw another member with the same issue, is there is not always a great deal of quality control with the bulbs. I noticed the supplied ones weren't quite matching shades of '5000k', seeing one more yello than the other. Customer service was fine and they agreed to exchange a couple of times but I eventually got fed up and ordered some upgrade bulbs, which have been fine in both cars for well over a year now. http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=370641370992

Even if the Celica had lost, just look at the interior in the Honda , I know which I'd rather be driving. In fairness the Honda didn't do too bad from a 1.6, I wonder was it a gts (190), or Gt (140) celica?

On a ferry, passing cockshott wood, A street in muff! That's the best my photo album has and I know none will count, maybe they will inspire someone!

The pirellis my car had on when I bought it had the same advisory note 'out of shape' When I switched the wheels over I could see a massive difference in wear on the inside edges. The cars lowered on coilovers and had a lot of negative camber at the back, causing the wear. I'm now back of eagle F1's and think I got at least 15k out of the last set

Kinda guessed to be fair, it obviously pre-dates the use of cabin air filters. If they ever actually worked they must've been great in smog laden inner city traffic jams.

Forgive my ignorance as a gen7 owner, but what is it and why would you want one? Seems like it replaces the interior light and has a fan built in. Integrated hair dryer?? Gotta love jdm rare-ities