lovelock
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Any oblong plaque would work e.g stainless/carbon fibre
Or if you want to go nuts an equalizer screen for your radio would look cool I reckon.
Trying to blend it back to original won't work I don't think, try to make a feature of it or make it look like an OEM fit item
Interesting idea, I might see if I can find any metal plating or something. Wrap in in carbon fibre or something.
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I have removed these gauges:
And have three holes, I really cba with buying and fitting and new dash. Anyone got any clever ideas to make the holes a bit less obvious / something better than a black bit of vinyl to cover over it?
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I can get tyre fitting free, but recently saw Toyo Proxes in 215 45 17 on eBay for £215 for 4.
Probably be going for those next, works out at around £55 a tyre. Cheaper than camskill etc.
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At the same time / before was an E46 330d M Sport Auto. Great car.
Before this is, Saxo Furio, Saxo VTS, Fabia VRS, MK1 TT 225, Supercharged MX5 MK1, E90 320d oh and a GSXR 600.
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Do these allow a greater adjustment of the camber?
My rear wheels have too much camber after coilovers, haven't tried adjusting camber using standard bolts though.
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Someone didn't hold the ratchet head square when pulling the handle.
I would suggest application of heat from a blowtorch then use an air chisel or SDS drill & chisel on hammer only. Hold towards middle first to make a notch then turn so it's hammering it undone.
Blame the tyre shop!
Didn't use a deep socket.
Off now, 10 drill bits later.
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so im guessing that those nuts are also alloy then too..
Yeah alloy tuner nuts. Now replaced with steel.
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One last picture to add to this thread.
This is one of the nuts I took off yesterday. Notice the bending...
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finally it come off then
Thats the part that snapped off initially!
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Another picture
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yep rich , take this into account :
were they tuner nuts you had ?
Yep tuner nuts...
Now have a nice set of tappered 'tuner' nuts from nuts4wheels but in steel.
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what was the outcome mate?
Not much so far! After a while of chiselling etc the aluminium becomes compact and harder.
I have now bought a load of small drill bits and just going around the stud.
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DO NOT GET ALLOY NUTS.
They twist snap without them being over tightened let alone if someone gives them too much on a breaker bar.
Example A:
Im currently in the process of drilling this out. Not fun.
As for steel damaging the wheels...? Are they make out of butter or what.
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Im 24 and a web / app developer.
Don't see that many Celica's around my way!
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I didn't buy it
£700 bill coming on the bike this month so thought I would be boring
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Heres the pictures, looks to be a bit of wear on the drivers bolster but trying to get a deal to include all the facelift plastics.
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Been offered a set of GT Front and rear seats for £320, looks okay condition from pictures but need to check drivers seat.
Is this a good deal? Also do the GT's have different door cards / steering wheels?
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I always thought they were for cooling a rear engine? :/
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Hey! So since I bought my car it has had the boost gauges in the passenger side of the dash. Not my thing.
I actually don't want any boost gauges so decided to remove my current ones to free up some money.
The car is running a Blitz S/C kit, is it worth still having some sort of gauges? If so i'll just get cheaper ones.
Not interested really in seeing boost, but is there anything I should really be monitoring? AFR or something?
Side note, removed this lot (temperature detector parts still on car yet to be removed), what you think its worth?
£150 / £200?
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thanks for the suggestions!
I have friday off work so first thing in the morning I will try and remove it.
Ill try to hit a socket over the top first, then ill go for the chisel on the side to spin it out and if that fails ill destroy it slowly with a drill.
New nuts came today, feel much better in steel thats for sure!
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nuts4wheels.com uk company and quality product mate, look for my "tuner nuts" thread in the consumables thread
I looked before but couldn't find it... :/
EDIT: Found it.
Come across these steel ones which look the same to mine now, but not aluminium!
http://www.driftworks.com/gt50-steel-wheel-nuts-with-key-5-colours-available.html
Same as on the nuts4wheels site but cheaper.
EDIT 2: Just ordered the GT50 nuts from Nuts4wheels as was £2 more with 1st class recorder as opposed to driftworks budget 6 day courier.
£44, but happy to pay double that of the aluminium ones. Pay cheap pay twice!
I would try a small and sharp chisel to try and turn it before drilling it, so make a dent in it and then tap it round
have used studs if you dont want to go to toyota
Messaged you before but you said the standard nuts wouldn't fit these wheels
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Thanks for all the replies.
Yep, ali tuner nuts... most have bent whilst taking them off and still have the other side left yet to take off, hopefully none snap there.
Looks like it'll be a trip to Toyota to get a wheel stud and get the drill out.
Any suggestions on strong wheel nuts?
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they say a deep socket whack on the end normally works , we did it once to a corsa wheel once and it worked great
have heard of this one actually. Ill give it a go later
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Hi,
so this happened:
There is about 3mm of the nut left on there but as you can see its just the rounded part.
They are pretty week so I imagine I could chisel that top off, but am I right in thinking there is the tapered part still in there which will need removing too?
only option I can think of is to get a screw driver and try to unscrew it by hitting it out.
Any other suggestions failing that??
Any creative ideas for covering these 3 holes in dashboard?
in General Celica Discussion
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I have just been in the car and noticed that the air con vents are the same size as the holes...
Would an extra three look mad? or genius?