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    New GT-86 as a young driver

    in General Toyota & Other Car Discussions

    Posted

    Pretty hard for any of us to comment IMO for 2 reasons.

    Firstly, We do not know your family's financial situation to discuss whether financing a car of this value/type is a good idea or not. Price will probably be around a Golf GTI and repayments can be estimated perhaps. For a 1st year of work, there can be a lot of other necessary expenses that would need to be considered.

    Secondly, as the actual car in question is not released yet, its virtually impossible for anyone to give a detailed response on its ability/characteristics.....unless they are involved in the industry somehow. The release date is probably mid-year.

    Saying all that, the reports of the car are impressive, and given an option to own one I would certainly be happy with it over a Yaris, but I am not in your situation. And probably would not trade the MR2 in for it either..

    New tyres for 2005 Echo

    in Wheels & Tyres

    Posted

    Yokohamas have suited me very well in the past. The A drive is fitted standard to the work corolla and performs very well for daily driving. My understanding is that the c.drives would perform better, particularly in the wet.

    For the MR2 - S.drives have impressed me very much after trying similar priced bridgestone and dunlop tyres

    Wanted Supra Manual

    in Supra Club

    Posted

    If your were in Aus i would recommend the supra forum, depending on what city i could possibly suggest a few places, but your location is "non-Au".

    Give more details and ppl might be able to help you out

    Suggestion for new pads?

    in Camry Club

    Posted

    I use Porterfield R4-S HP in my MR2. I source them from the states. Reviews were similar to EBC Greenstuff in performance, but with out the dust and noise which is why I chose them. I have these pads in for almost 4 years now with hard street driving, no track days, and can definately vouch for NO noise, and next to no dust. The stopping power seems very good IMO. I am adbout to order another set, to go along with my new slotted RDA rotors.

    Mr 2 or Celica???

    in General Toyota & Other Car Discussions

    Posted

    The MR2 is definatley a better "driver's car", but less practical obvisouly. Looks is a personal thing. There are a number of other MR2's for sale (not just in Adelaide) that may be worth looking at if that is what you would rather. Personally, once you have driven an MR2 and enjoyed what mid-engined cars are like, I beleive it would be hard to get the same enjoyment from something else. Unfortunately for us owners they are getting older though.

    Recommend me an Auto Electrician in Adelaide

    in Audio/Video/Electronics

    Posted

    The previous code was "code 11" which i think means ECU (B+). I have not re-checked it.

    This has not happened in the past 6 months and just did it again last night. My car is not a daily so limited use but had driven it as daily for past 3 days. During this time the car would idle fine at 1000 rpm, but would have trouble in heavier traffic slowing from 50km/h to stops - when engaging clutch to change down gears the rpm would drop as normal but sometimes too far and the car would almost stall (it did twice and would have on other occasions had i not revved it).

    I have thought earthing could be a problem, but since this has not happened lately had not worried about it.

    Any suggestions would be welcome

    Aw11 Questions

    in MR2 Club

    Posted

    Hey Everyone

    Im new around here but you shall see me more often as I am purchasing a Aw11( CAR ) this weekend , pending a check over at automasters on Saturday morning..

    The car has original 90000k's on the clock and the car was made in 1984...Thats the first thing I got stumped by, I thought Aw11's were only made in 1985??

    Is there any major fault I should look for ? I can already see the door rubbers are long gone.

    Anyways I've just finished building my Ke70 corolla( Build Thread ) and thought I would move onto a new project being this Aw11...

    The first thing I noticed when I started to research the car is that they cant hold Offset to well with out showing it ....

    I'm putting R15 x 8 +0 Rota Classics(V) with some 195/50 on. so its going to stick out pretty fare, with some flares they should be covered...

    Does anyone have pics of a aw11 holding some decent offset?

    Done a google image search without much success...

    Here's a pic of my ke70

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    Cheers guys

    Cheers

    The MR2 was first produced in Japan in 1984. This is sometimes referred to as the AW10. It should have black side mouldings and bumpers instead of body-coloured ones. Check that it is an Aus delivered car vs Jap import, as the early model Jap import ran a 1.5 litre engine instead of the usual 1.6L

    Door rubbers, and the rubber gaskets around the fornt spoiler, side skirts, c-pillar tail lights are probably gone, along with suspension bushes. Check for body rust in wheel arches too.

    As for offset, this is probably as wild as it gets and still looks damn good that i know of. The guys in the sates run much more extreme set ups but imo does not look good. Flares on these cares ruin the image imo

    F: 15x7.5 +29, A-disk, 195/50 R15

    R: 15x8.5 +29, A-disk, 205/50 R15

    http://www.mr2australia.com/MR2play/tm.aspx?&m=1132&mpage=17

    Hi from Adelaide

    in New Members Introductions

    Posted

    Hi all

    I own a 1988 MR2 S/C. Japanese imported G-Limited Targo Top Dark Blue.

    I have had this for the past 6 years, but lived in Tas up until 2009.

    Did not this place existed, been a member on mr2 australia since ownership though, under the same nick.

    Cheers

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