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What Pioneer head unit are you trying to put in?

If only I was looking to buy a car now and not in 6-12 months time...

Decent chance I'll make the trip down

These are the options I'd consider (note they are pretty much all "driving" routes, not "destination" routes except for HVG) North: Old Pacific Highway - Berowra to Peats Ridge (can pick up GNR here) Wisemans Ferry/Great North Road/Putty Rd loop (start and finish at Windsor) Hunter Valley Gardens/Vineyards (bit of a stretch but the F3 will cut down on travel times) South: Royal National Park - Loftus to Stanwell Park, then; Macquarie Pass/Robertson Pie Shop, or Jamberoo, or Kangaroo Valley, or Kiama blowhole West: Bells Line Bathurst Jenolan Caves/Oberon Dinner I vote for Bavarian Bier Cafe or Ribs n Rumps :P both in Parramatta (nice and central)

In as always* *pending possible family commitments

If you're referring to the Wanted ad, it got deleted (not by me) because it turned into a slanging match. I'll see if I can get Pete to clear out the mess and repost it, if not then make a new ad and we'll push it through straight away.

Feel free to stick your head under my rear end at the next monthly meet. Wait, that sounded a little wrong...

Seca garnish sold, rest still sitting here waiting to go to a loving home...

Back up to the top...

Checked your sway bar link ball joints? If they're not tight then they'll make a clunking noise when going over un-even bumps (as you'll get if you're entering a driveway on an angle etc)

BMC = Brake Master Cylinder I think you'll also need the brake bias valve that attaches to the firewall, the rear disc setups run different bias to drums (and actually have slightly different front discs, too).

That's not bleeding the brakes, it's just the vacuum being depleted in the brake booster....

FYI, if you're looking around local yards you'll need to find AE102 rear brakes, doesn't matter if it's Seca or sedan. Easy way to tell is that all the 1.8L models (Conquest, RV, Ultima, CSX 1.8 etc) had disc rears and 14" wheels, whereas the 1.6L (CSi, CSX 1.6) models had drum rears and 13" wheels. The imported AE101 Levins/Sprinters will mostly likely all have rear discs though. On the AE102 rear disc setups, the handbrake cable acts on the caliper/piston directly, there is no small internal drum brake inside the rotor like a lot of other setups

Yeah most aftermarket gear knobs that I've seen have had the collar and grub screws...****ty setup and if you don't do it up tight then it can spin

Hmmm, 5.0L TRD V8 from the Daytona 24hr....looks like Toyota could very easily enter the V8 Supercars with this. Now they just need to hurry up and do it. Whilst it is great having Nissan and Merc/Erebus in the main series, they aren't at the pointy end yet and the Holdern/Ford ratio is still too far in the red camp :P

Fixed...

I think you'll find that it is the government imposing it, not Toyota. Standard rule of modern grey imports is that there can't be a locally sold equivalent of the body (in this case, the Tarago) unless the vehicle is deemed to be a "specialist or enthusiast vehicle" (the SEVS register) To quote the RAWS (Registered Automotive Workshop Scheme, which determines who can import and comply vehicles) To be eligible (and there is a long process involved too) to be on the SEVS register, a car must meet 2 out of 4 criteria, as below A hybrid Tarago would most likely only meet 1 of those criteria (Unusual Design Feature), maybe 2 (Performance, but I can't remember the kW/kg ratio). This is why you only really saw the performance versions of Chasers/Skylines etc imported as they could only meet Performance and Appearance criteria (they're not Unusual, and I don't think Hot4s counts as a "specialist publication")

A few hundred km later? Ok, now I can believe it. When you said earlier "later on down the road" I thought you were meaning like a couple of km later that day, which is why I was so incredulous that enough heat could get into the bearings to destroy them.

So Cara's up in Townsville for the week so I've been having the pleasure of driving Lexi every day...decided I'd reward her with a bath and some happy snaps

Pfft, less than a day in the job and you're already out of control Other things to consider are how full is the car? What is the traffic like? Lots of hills around? Do you regularly go on long trips and "blow out the cobwebs", or is it just 10 minute city trips where the engine never gets warm? Fuel consumption ratings are a guide based off a standardised testing regime, and don't always reflect real-world scenarios for a lot of people

^This, our camrys are 70L, when the fuel light comes on, we have approx 10L of fuel left in the tank Hmm, weird that my post deleted itself....

How much fuel are you actually putting in the tank though? Just because it's a 60L tank doesn't mean you are using 100% of it, if you're filling up as soon as the warning light comes on you're probably only putting ~50L in, which improves the economy a fair bit (still not great though).

They had one at the Top Gear Festival, sounded nuts

Decent chance Toyota would run as Lexus anyway, use the IS/GS as a base rather than the Mark X ie like this: