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cheers daniboy! hopefully itll be easier to find one of those...

will a celica steering wheel bolt onto a corolla zze123r? mine is warn and having a hard time finding a corolla steering wheel at wreckers but theres a couple for celica available will it fit? want to replace before selling my car. or does anyone have a standard wheel for a zze123r corolla lying around? dont need airbag, just wheel. cheers

I'm trying to tidy up my sportivo before i sell it... my steering wheel is very warn and would like to get a fresher one. happy to pay reasonable price. just need wheel not necessarily the airbag with it. hope you can help, cheers!

thanks kenshin! are they hard to fit? im expecting that they clip in yeah? $80 isnt too bad, i was expecting more...

i known for a while that the sills on my rear windows are lifting off at both ends, its not a huge deal but i feel it ruins the lines of the car and id like to fix it. but i dont wanna have to fork out more moneys after fixing my shifter problems. any know how to fix this cheap and easily? i tried searching and stuff, but not much luck.

someone from sydney used to make similar things for the ZZE and sold them eBay a few months back, but i just went looking for them and theyre not there anyway. are these still available?

just picked the car up, and i was right cable was stretched! had them replaced and mt90 put in. now it feels like a whole new gearbox! lands lift from 1st to 2nd and everything! no crunching into 3rd when its cold either! it didnt even feel this good when i bought it! i can shift with just 1 finger and feels incredibly light! im a very happy boy!

thanks for the offer and info prozak. but im not going to stuff around with it my self. i had taken the shifter itself out when this problem first started and it was fine, no probs moving around or the positions it was going into. like i said im 99% sure its the cable, cause of that and disconnecting it at the gearbox end. ill post exactly what the problem is on thursday after toyota work their magic.

super dave, i talked to a mechanic friend of mine and he said it does happen in the early models and i remember reading somewhere that changing the cable from some sort of rubber to some sort of metal was one the few mechanical updates when the facelift came out. i know its the cable cause i disconnected at the gear box and tried to shift, it still felt bound up and "gummy". the detents seem fine, theyre the things that keep it in gear right? if i reach down to the gearbox and shift it my self i can easily select gears and it stays there, and with unhooking it and shifting im 99% sure its just the cable is stretched. silvabullit, pretty sure the shock proof and mt90 are different products. just checked a couple threads and the redline site, and shock proof kills synchros cause its heaps thicker and produced for dog boxes. mt90 is the viscosity the 6 speed needs and from what seems like the majority are reccomending mt90 is the way to go. for a week i was driving around with only the top row of gears going in, 1,3 &5. yesterday it all carcked it, no more gears and now need it towed to toyota :( the irony of losing my gearbox on boxing day does not make me happy

i have discovered that i have stretched my shifter cable... most likely cause im stupid enough to rest my hand on the shifter while driving. how common is this problem in the stivos? during investigation of this problem i found that the cable bushing had room to wiggle, is the plastic end stretched like is it supposed to move? or is it the cable itself stretched or both? getting it fixed at toyota their first day back after christmas, this was not a nice present. also getting mt90 chucked in the box when they do it.

no longer for sale!

after pulling out the two front struts, putting them back together and swapping springs from side to side brought the gap down from 12mm to 5mm... but still 5mm higher on passenger side... will cal king springs soon and talk about possible defects, but considering they got swapped sides and drivers side is still the same probably not that. considering whether or not to get new strut tops? or give up and except the fact my panels are just not straight... measured chasis and both rails and control arm bushings are equal hieghts from ground... am now stuck for solution!!!!!!

not a problem with the springs, they were doubled checked before they went in. theyre exact same height, thickness and part number... next step both front struts are coming out on sunday to be checked!

Got new front tyres today... with alignment and everything car dives much better! BUT! car is stil uneven!!!! it is still front passeneger side which is higher... i pulled out the strut again today, made sure everything was where and as it should be, went back and still same problem! anyone got any thoughts? i dont beleive it is "settling in" ive traveled 300kms since sunday and height hasnt changed! anyone know where i should starting looking to solve this problem???

so, being armed with a tape measure i checked each corner and discovered it was only the front passenger side side wich was off, after checking things out i discovered that the difference in height is like 9mm. i also discovered that for some stupid reason my two front tyres a different sizes, the taller one being on the passenger side lol...