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  1. Hiro
    You'd be better off asking on a global site like ToyotaNation - neither the FXGT or wagon were ever sold in Australia. There's a good chance they will as most of the suspension is common across the range (although base-model wagons in some regions did still have a live-axle rear end)
  2. Hiro
    ToyotaLink backup battery going flat (like a smoke alarm)?
  3. Hiro
    Ironically the current trend is for keyless cars being stolen easier by people using signal boosters to up the range of the transmitter, allowing the thief to enter the car in your driveway etc whilst your keys are still in the house (since there's no code cracking, it's just a simple amplifier)
  4. Hiro
    In Australia whenever a word of phrase has an alternate definition which has a sexual meaning, it always implies the sexual version. We're a dirty lot.
  5. Hiro
    In-house Harrop, in-house Toyota or in-house Eaton (it's an Eaton supercharger)?
  6. Hiro
    Got a photo? If it's anything like the older ones it'll be a Neo Wedge bulb like these: Non-LED ones are getting harder and harder to find (and LED ones never seem to illuminate properly) so it might be best to go through Toyota themselves
  7. Hiro
    Do you have a sunroof? The drain tubes run down the A- and C-pillars and have a tendency to get clogged, leading to leaks either into the cabin or the boot.
  8. Hiro
    Return from the dead much?
  9. Hiro

    Toyota 86 GTS

    Hiro replied to juvenile's topic in Members Rides

    I had a feeling this might happen.5th post in this thread :P
  10. Hiro

    Hiro's AE102

    Hiro replied to Hiro's topic in Members Rides

    He still has it, probably has 500,000km on it now. :P Close
  11. Hiro
    Also in Australia there's no such thing as an RA22, it'll be either a TA22 or an RA23 (or an RA28)
  12. Hiro
    The Camry doesn't come with a RWD supercharged V6 though :P
  13. Hiro
    If it was me we'd have the MarkX instead of the Aurion :P
  14. Hiro
    You've basically hit the nail on the head there - all the information out on the net points to these as being either an AMI (the Australian Toyota distributor/manufacturer at the time) or a dealer special badge-job, to try and liven up sales or run-out a late model (Holden is notorious for this, just look at the number of different "Limited Edition" spec'd-up Commodores there are, which do nothing but just devalue the stock-standard models sold before and after them). My personal opinion is the rarity in this case isn't going to add much (if any) value to the car, at the end of the day it's still an auto SA63 (close to the least desirable Celica of all time) with gaudy 80s badges/paint/wheels.
  15. Hiro
    You put up with those kind of things when it's a RWD coupe with the TRD NASCAR V8...
  16. Hiro
    Headunits and clocks will always have the 3 wires you need (+12V constant, +12V ignition/ACC-switched, Ground) as they need the constant +12V for memory functions etc (they don't have internal batteries like a computer does, hence why the radio stations and the clock usually reset when you disconnect the battery).
  17. Hiro
    All the Toyotas we've owned (except for the KE55 which had a dodgy gauge, and the JZZ30 which had a scarily accurate digital readout) have had ~10-15L left in the tank when the fuel light starts to come on (it'll fade in and out for a few litres due to fuel sloshing around the tank). In my AE102 (which I've filled up the most :P) the car will start to fuel-starve when going up steep hills or around roundabouts with about 3L left in the tank, and the most I've ever squeezed into it's 50L tank is ~48L (and that includes trickle-feeding through a couple of clicks). Chances are with a 55L tank you will NEVER fill up with more than ~50L, even if you drive with the fuel light on for 100k. If you fill up when it first comes on (which may not be constant) and you don't try and trickle-feed more fuel in after the first click, 40L sounds perfectly reasonable.
  18. Hiro
    Check to see if there's a hidden key barrel somewhere under the dash or inside the glovebox - on our Soarer (which had an electronic boot release) there was a push-button next to the boot release lever that set it in valet mode, disabling the solenoid and only allowing the boot to be opened with the master key. The same master key (rather than the valet key) had to be used to unlock the push-button (which had a key barrel in it) to allow the boot release switch to work properly
  19. Hiro
    Out of curiousity, can you open the boot with a key? Might be some kind of valet lock in place (so you can keep stuff in the boot at a hotel and the valets can't get it out)
  20. Hiro
    Note that only the 3-rib/bluetop bigport 4AGEs have the screw-in air temp sensor in the intake plenum. 7-rib bigports and smallports have them as a plug-in sensor in the airbox
  21. Hiro
    Screw-type caliper pistons are especially common on cars where the handbrake actuates the piston rather than a separate internal brake drum - the screw thread is part of the self-adjusting mechanism of the handbrake
  22. Hiro
    No, the XV30 Solara was the last (and both Solara generations had a different body to the Camry anyway)
  23. Hiro
    The Toyota 1X is a re-badged Startfire...
  24. Hiro
    Now I remember them, those are the Talon wheels, they were a Toyota Genuine Accessory for the AE112 and ZZE range, but were almost certainly 15x6 (considering the Sportivo wheel is 16x6 I doubt they would have offered a smaller yet wider wheel to go on an Ascent or Conquest :P) http://www.autoweb.com.au/cms/A_54320/title_Sportivo-Accessories-Rev-Up-Corolla/newsarticle.html
  25. Hiro
    Yes, positive on the specs in the post title. All info is engraved on wheel other than AE112. It's a toyota wheel. We just need to find out what wheel it is.Take some photos of the markings and post them up - 4x100 really narrows down the Toyota models to basically FWD Corollas (up until the ZREs) and the smaller Yaris/Echo/Starlet, and none of them ever ran anything as wide as an 8" wheel.
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