Delboy52
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It looks fantastic. But I could never start it up with people around...
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Great calender that. Was showing everyone that entered the house all the months, especially November
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Hehe. Either that or I assasinated a platoon of hibernating squirrels that had taken refuge under the bonnet. Sounded uber rough though, like engine death in the next second of idling.
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Turned out to be a really big drop in oil pressure. Car is fine again now after my breakdown cover came round. Pretty bad noise it made, like firing on one cylinder.
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Celica has been stood for a week on the drive, went to start it just now and after a sluggish start there was loud knocking coming from the engine. I shut it down pretty quick. It sounded like the engine had no oil or something was broken. Maybe not all pistons firing?
There is usually a little piston slap when I first start it in the mornings as the oil pressure seems to drop off and it takes a second or two for it to re-pressurise. The car has been facing up on a slight incline so is it possible the oil has drained right back over a week? I checked the dip stick and it is full.
Charging the battery now, but I wanted to know if starting it again could do even more harm? Everything under the bonnet looks dry but it the weather has been very cold and damp while it stood.
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GT4 mate. Just drive it sensibly most of the time and it won't bite too hard.
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Do you have room to have a GT4 and a commuter car for the 12000 miles you do? I've always wanted a Supra and this year I got myself one with a V8 in it. I do 500 miles a week in my gen6 SS1 and it costs about £15 a day to get to work and back in fuel. It costs £30 to get the Supra to work and back each day! So if you have space, get the GT4 while you can and have it for weekends/days off and run the commuter car as your daily. It seems to me you'll feel unfulfilled if you go for the 190 and miss the GT4.
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I took out temp cover on my Celica SS1 import recently, £150 for 2 months with AF. Those insure dailys are about £25 or £30 a day and if your car isn't on their website lists you can't insure it. These lists happen to not have import variants or declaration boxes. Tried to insure my Supra that has a different engine and it was impossible as the helpful chap on the phone told me.
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I see now how that A-Pilar antenna will work now, or not for my car!.. Did you run a wire from the stereo or the antenna port on the electric motor Quaigy? I guess you had the roof liner off or partly off to spread the wire around? Why is the wire length important?
I saw this antenna and it looks like it would plug straight into the port on the current electric motor like the amplified one in my 1st post. Bit pricey though. Which makes me wonder why the £37 is so much more than the other. Quality or rip off
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Hi
My electric radio antenna gave up today. The nylon cable broke off inside the electric motor. That was a replacement mast of about 2 years ago so after seeing what some people have done on here I was thinking of getting an internal one instead. I saw this and this then wondered if I can simply attach it to the inside of the rear window in a corner and plug it into the original connection near the electric antenna motor? I don't really want to start taking the roof lining or rear wing apart to conceal the antenna, just want a simple and effective alternative.
Cheers
Mike
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I'm more bothered about my little one kicking the crap out of my front seats!
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If any child car seat conforms to ECE R44.03 and R44.04 it is perfectly safe to use... any extra cost you might pay will be for eye-candy only. So it's perfectly safe to buy the cheapest seat you can find which conforms to the regs.
This is true, but if the base is too wide then the seat will likely tip to one side as Celica rear seats have high side bolsters. My wife's car has a bench style and her Maxi Cosi will not stay upright in my gen 6, which has very similar seats to a gen 7 (in the back.)
From about 15 months onwards our girl has been in this for my car:
Fits the Celica very well and has removable panels as they grow. My girl gets excited when she gets to ride in the Celica so it's comfortable for her to be in.
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I have the old style Goodyear Eagle F1's and they are so far the best tyres I've had. Excellent grip in all driving conditions and have barely worn after about 4 months of driving 100 miles every day of the working week. If the asymmetrics are even better then it's all win.
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39 litres will last me about 4 days on my commute which is 48.7 miles each way. 44.1mpg, can it be true?
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There are two fuse boxes in my gen6, I assume your GT4 is the same. One near the bonnet release under the steering wheel behind a panel, and the other behind the battery under the bonnet in a long box. Should have fuse positions on the inside of each cover as I'm not sure without looking.
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Might be an idea to check the underseal is all ok in that wheel arch and where the inner/outer skin meet. It'd be such a shame if your car suffers like mine has every 2 or 3 years with rust appearing from an old repair. You had a nasty looking scrape there but it looks like a nice repair job has been done. Just my 2p to keep it that way
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Tried taking some photos but it's very hard to show properly, so took some videos to try and show the problem.
This is a pic of the distortion:
This is a video of the arch from inside. You can see how the metal has developed a hole at one point and is distorting along the arch curve:
This video I try to show how the metal is now rippled along the edge of the arch. Also the top part where the outer skin is distorting the most.
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I do happen to have a receipt for the work. If I was to take it to them, I'd expect they'd offer to repair it but regardless if they'd charge me or not I've lost confidence in them being able to do a better job than before. Can I simply ask for my money back? Repair is dated 14.01.09.
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The job has been done several times before with them, always cash jobs to keep the cost down. This is the 1st time a universal arch has been used and it's now separating from the inner skin. I thought about going back to the body shop but there's been too much fail already with them (not just this job,) so I want to take it somewhere else. As it was a cash job, the small claims route is not an option.
Where abouts in London are you Ray? The M1 gets me to the M25 in about 30-40 minutes. Can PM me a price?
Went to take some pics this lunchtime, but photographing a dark green car that is very dirty and in dim overcast wet weather is not going to show too much. The worst can be seen from inside the arch using a mirror or feeling it. The inner and outer skins have parted and are now just pushing each other apart along the arch. This seems to have opened up some water traps and is spreading the rust.
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The arch was repaired a year ago by cutting away part of the wheel arch and welding in a "universal wheel arch." The new body shop has never heard of this "universal arch." Well, whatever it was it's now bulging apart from the inner and outer skins and a small rust spot has appeared lower down. Looks like they reshaped the arch with filler and it has created a massive water trap. Will get take some photos tomorrow.
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I've been quoted £640 to repair my rotting rear wheel arch as a bodged repair from another body shop last year has made the problem worse than ever. Can anyone recommend a place in or near Milton Keynes? Does this quote seem about right?
Cheers
Mike
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I had the Maxi-Cosi car seat that is part of the Quinny Buzz travel system of 2008. It fitted into the back seats of the Gen6 but the seat belt was at maximum extent so the head was raised a bit more than in my wife's Rover. The base is narrow so fitted in the seats. This wasn't the ISO model.
For when the child is about 1 onwards I have this one in the back of my car:
Recaro Young Sport mircofibre - Black / Aquavit
http://www.prams-pushchairs.co.uk/recaro-y...avit-p-628.html
There is a range of colours available for this model. It fits very well as the base is narrow so is snug in the gen6 high sided rear seats. The seat belt holds it in place, it's not an ISO. Halfords do this range also, not sure who's doing the best price currently.
My only niggle is that the Recaro seat doesn't recline as much as my wife's Maxi-Cosi. I tested the fit of that one in my car and it was such a wide boy. One side was always higher than the other so no good. With the Recaro fully reclined, my 2 year old girl can just about touch the back of the passenger seat when in the fully forward position.
It's a lovely looking seat, soft touch, comfortable for little one. She can quite easily fall asleep in it
It should last a long time as it's up to 11 years.Hope the info helps now and later on. Feel free to ask any questions
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Every time I have a blown bulb in the house or car I remove it prior to going to the shop and have it in my pocket. That way you can be sure it's the right size, power and connection type. Saves a wasted trip.
Can't really join the hate for Halfords as they've been pretty useful for me both in Gateshead where I used to live and now Milton Keynes. Identifying the correct battery for my import model which has the small connection posts, fitting alloys, mixing paint and finding those bulbs etc. Always been superstores if it makes a difference...
Rare optional extra, multibox. What's it worth?
in General Celica Discussion
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This one already sold in NZ for a lot.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Very-Rare-Original-Toyota-Multibox-JDM-Optional-Extra-/321105422927?nma=true&si=tXN5%252BsJ5Z%252Bhu%252B2ko5Z2D%252F%252Bws3sM%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
Does anyone have one in their car?