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If you mostly drive solo and have no passengers, this is common, the drivers side will settle more than the passenger side. There's a few things some people say you can do, but I wouldn't bother. a: Swap springs from left to right (Why pay so much for this for a few mm?). b: Drive around with equivalent of drivers weight on Passenger side for a few months. But this only really works when the springs are new, If they've been in there for some time, probably won't do anything but raise your fuel consumption, as the springs have already settled. So I recommend just learn to live with it

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I wouldn't know because I haven't been on the drag strip, but have been told if I ever do, to start reacting on the last amber (Treat the last amber as a green), because in the time your body actually reacts, the tree has well and truly moved into the green. Is this what practice most of you have been using ?

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which she did

So he asked

Just curious, what gear are the 1zz's crossing the line in ? 3rd?

negatron just misses the Chrome bling bling Corolla and is just venting his frustration

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Here's a write up on a road test... http://www.autocarmag.com/FirstDrive_Summary.asp?RT=206616 The numbers look good.

That's odd, because if you can twist it, you have moved the small rubber ring/seal so it shouldn't be stuck anymore. Basically they need to twist, and then once the two plastic protruding bits on the bulb are aligned with the two cut-outs/slots on the light housing it should pull straight out...

Do you have anything loose that is hanging low underneath the car ?

So you can't get them to twist at all? Or they don't come out after you twist?

Can you explain this better, where exactly are these sparks coming from, are they electrical sparks? Are they coming from under the car? I really don't think any sparks are normal.

BMC Filter is a perfect fit and seal. Also, out of the box has less oil than the K & N, so less likely to clog up the MAF

Which City? Melbourne? If you work at Melbourne City Toyota you should see my car come in for service soon :)

an ugly sight

How did you just drain the oil from my Commodore

which it ate

but it needed

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My car is metallic silver, when I picked up the car new from Graham Werner Toyota in Ferntree Gully, Victoria it had a deep scratch in the drivers door. I nearly didn't accept the car (I shouldn't have) but they assured me it would be fixed and wouldn't been seen. In most lights, the drivers door is clearly a different colour, went back a few times but never fixed. I gave up rather than let them make it worse. Problem is, looks like accident damage, but the car has never been in one. The only way I can see it being fixed and probably the same solution to your problem, but not really worthwhile is to respray that entire side of the car to match that panel...

Oversteer is when the rear end of the car slides out when cornering, so in effect the car has oversteered and has now turned too far into the direction of the corner, these days alot of people refer to this as drifting. It happens when the lateral forces on the rear of the car and/or engine power overcomes the grip of the rear tyres. Understeer is when the front of the car either slides out or simply drifts too wide when cornering, so in effect the car has not turned enough or understeered into the corner. Typically a RWD car will have a tendancy to oversteer as most of the weight is on the front end of the car and the power is going to the rear of the car which is lighter. A FWD car will have a tendancy to understeer as even more weight is on the front of the car, no power is going to the rear. But with the ideal suspension set up, the amount that a car does these things can be reduced or eliminated. The Corolla for example is a predominant understeerer. The standard springs and sway bars are soft which make the car body roll when cornering. The tendancy for the car body to roll in corners, means that the car's weight is always shifted to the outside tyres (particularly the front outside) and then that 1 tyre needs to handle the weight of the car mid-corner and of course it can't, so the car will understeer. If you reduce the body roll, you reduce the amount of weight that 1 tyre caries, distribute more to the other 3 and in turn reduce understeer. Reducing ride height reduces body roll a little, you're bringing the car close to the ground and lowering the centre of gravity, the same way to can balance better with your knees bent, so shorter stiffer springs improve this. Installing more solid, stiffer sway bars also reduce body roll, because they control the amount of flex in the chassis and stiffer bars will reduce the amount of flex and roll. Hope this all makes sense.