Supratad

Live! Live again! Arise, my beauty! So does the chain NEVER need replacing, like ever? I ask, because I made a rather spiffing crank locking tool for my Supra, so may sell it to a supra owner hopefully, unless it might be needed and modified for the Z?

43 years. I only got it in October Gah Illogikal already did the joke, and I missed it.

Black stockings. Proper Barry style.

I've just put in a Dension Car Dock cradle for iPhone. Its a bit pricey at around £80 but it charges the phone, has a built in FM transmitter that works really well for playing music on the stock stereo and has a free app that makes phone use while driving very easy with big buttons. I mounted mine under the air vent, right next to the centre pod and ran the usb cable trough to the the passrnger footwell cig lighter. If you pay for the upgraded app, you can match colours to the orange interior lighting.

Your little robot looks terrified there.

Do not sign for a hire car. It is a credit agreement and they will hang on to your car for as long as possible to bump up the hire costs to the 3rd party's insurer. If they then refuse to pay the extortionate hire car rates, you will be left to foot the bill. This has all the makings of an accident management company scam to me. All it does is benefit them and raise everybody's premiums. Their keenness to chase you for an answer is an indication. Most insurers drag their heels on everything. If it were straight, the bodyshop or garage would offer you a free courtesy car, not a hire car equivalent to your Z. Walk away from these shysters and contact your own insurers.

Ah well, at least its not something I did, not that I did owt but plug a USB powered cradle into the ciggy lighter socket.

Hi again I was just fitting a Dension Car Dock iPhone cradle into the car earlier this evening. Its a powered cradle with FM transmitter and matching app, but I noticed a hissing from the speakers that I did not notice before. Now maybe its always been there and I'm imaging this new kit is causing a problem, but even with the radio off and the power USB removed, the hiss remains until I remove the key. and comes straight back when I turn to ACC position. Stereo is the stock Bose, speakers are all stock too. Anyone else had this?

Jesus Christ, and all that was the fault of some idiot who wouldn't slow down for oncoming cars and then drove off without a care in the world, leaving the destruction behind him.

Have a look at the thread I started on this. I did the same and the car is now fine. It didn't hydrolock but water somehow put the fire out. After the garage gave it the all clear, I spent some time drying out the interior as the body doesn't drain water out. I had to remove the seats and trim panels to lift the carpet to do this, but its all fine now. Overall it cost about £350, so if yours is similar, don't claim on your insurance, although its too late now as you have already informed them. Trouble is IMO, if a garage knows it is an insurance job they will start totting it all up, ie replace full carpet rather than just spending time drying it etc etc, whereas a trusted local garage who know YOU are paying will try to keep costs down for you. If the engine is not fubar'd by hydrolock, I would seriously suggest stopping the claim and taking it elsewhere

Don't forget Dad's Army

Or a Jag, but even that's playing up now. My point was, someone said it was a full auto lift type hatch, so I was asking if that was true, People have been talking about one - handed operation, one button push etc.

From what I can see of the locus and the mass of the lid, and the angle of the struts, there is absolutely no way the tailgate can lift itself from any point below halfway.

This. They all make a bit on parts, plus they control full liability for the job. If they fit your pads, they have no "provenence" for the pads, It might say EBC all over, but how are they to know they are not fakes and been tampered with, or who knows what, and thus the risk to their insurance is unknown. You're asking them to insure work that can lead to deaths and there's a big unknown right in the middle of it. I once got a exhaust place to fit an HKS hyper to my Supra, and they were reluctant but did it as long as I signed the receipts with a statement that I took all responsibility for the parts fitted. That was a fair few years ago and you'd never get the likes of Kwik Fit to do that again without some sort of back-handed cash only deal.

In all my searching, I saw some posts that suggested the boot should lift itself all the way, from popping the button, but playing with it today, even with the weight removed, its so heavy in the downward half of its swing, the struts have no effect on its motion, nor can they from their angle. Is it supposed to be that way? With 5 coins in the boot still wont pop clear to be lifted in one clean sweep. New struts, penny trick and lead weight removal had all done nothing!

Self-quote madness! They are not! Having fitted the new ones, removed the weight, and done the pennies trick, its made no difference at all. Should I be complaining to SGS that their standard struts cannot lift the tailgate - sans weight - at anything less then nearly 3/4 of the way up already? I know its cold weather but I expected a bit more than this.

Me too, It happened a few weeks back just after drowning it, but I had a spray can of silicone grease so I did all the rubbers around both doors and sprayed normal grease into the door lock. In the past few days of even colder weather it has given me no trouble at all.

Are you saying the SGS ones are not strong enough to raise the lid?

I've just sold my one, for £1800, after 13 years of ownership. Loved every minute of it, but I did feel it was getting too old a car and a bit too boy-racer for my more mature years now.

Aye, just ordered some. As you say £65 all in and almost next day delivery. Just need to sort the head unit and the scratched glass and I will be all sorted.

Just checked my struts, as the boot won't hold open unless at the top, and they are all in a funny language, like Japanese or summat. Should there be a English serial number there, if the car is a UK one? Does anyone know enough Japanese to translate that?

Yeah, they could have driven it through water! Glad it's all worked out in the end! Ah yeah, I'm in Crystal Palace for a while now regarding criticising others, especially for driving.

Two oil changes, one air filter. Complete strip of inlet side, compression testing and general drying out. Six hours labour was the biggest slice, with VAT I've just had the seats out and lifted the carpets, it was full of water down there. No way of draining it but I sponged it out and have a blow heater in there now. So a warning, even if you can drive through without swamping the engine, the body itself will let water in and that will sit under your carpets. Don't do it.

Well, £400. It stings but not as much as it could do. THere is still some water in the carpets under the seats. Are there any body shelll drain plugs under there, as I think there may be water in the body under the carpet at that lowest point?

They've done all that today.