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There is an eBay listing that seems pretty reasonably priced. I paid £600 for a set of Toyota Bilsteins 7 years ago.

Worth adding for the historical record, this car didn't sell. Failed to meet the reserve price.

You'll probably find it easier to just buy a donor car. Someone was going to look into a bespoke solution on the rear screen as both the screen and tailgate are out of production. You'll find it easier to buy a tailgate than a tailgate with glass unless you buy a donor car. If you do find one, they are over a grand and have been for a while unless you drop lucky.

Posted on FB, a new record auction price for a Supra; over US$300,000. What does it all mean, who knows.

Probably Marty knows for certain. As the established prophesier of bears in the woods suggesting when its time to consider your selling position I'd have to change clothes to foretell when the bulls are coming on the horizon and its time to buy. The bull market is actually much harder to foresee as it is relatively easy to watch and tell when all the positive factors turn and have turned somewhat negative than it is to guess when the negatives are likely to turn positive. If it were me, I'd leave it at least 6 months before thinking of diving in because just about everyone is expecting a recession to hit the UK and USA in 2023. High inflation, a recessionary economy and rising interest rates will not favour crypto currencies. Its probably moving more into a hold position after the Strong Sell recommendation of a month or so ago. As one Wall Street commentator puts it, you'll never know for sure with the Tulip Market.

Under the old TPFT policies you automatically retained the car for no cost. That happened with me once, I was happy enough as I got extra, over the other drivers policy payment from scrapping the car. It was on on comprehensive policies that the insurer bought ownership of the car. I don't know if that is still the case though as my retained write off was over 3 decades ago.

Markerstudy have truly appalling online reviews. A lot of brokers use them which is why I always any brokers who it is that underwrites their quotes. If they say Markerstudy I've always said no thanks. You'd probably be surprised at the brokers who use them, there are some big name brokers in that particular cesspit.

For the tailgate struts you might as well get new. You need to send your old ones in so that they can recycle the clips. There is a club set somewhere but I don't know who has those. These were available to send off then you would hold your old set as the new club set. If you do a search on the forum you might track down where those are. That'd save you taking both off at once if you can track them down. https://www.sgs-engineering.com/gsc2269-toyota-supra-boot-strut

I bought a bunded fuelling station of 2,500l capacity for around £1600, its less if you go smaller and more if you go larger. I was seriously thinking of going 7000l but that does get expensive to fill and it'd be 4 years supply for me. The wholesale price isn't actually that different to the cheapest retail price, usually no more than 5p lower. You are just hedging that the price isn't going to drop significantly and will likely go up. if it were to drop I would just start buying at the pumps until it went back above the purchase price. I bought at 97p and 1.36p per litre. Savings on the first tank load almost paid for the tank and the second is saving me 50p/l at the moment. I've sailed through the no fuel at the forecourt issues and helped out the family by fuelling their cars. So it has been a sound investment for me and a god send for the wider family in times of fuel shortages but as they always say, investments can go up as well as down. I live on a large acreage farm property so I can put tanks pretty much anywhere I want. If you live in a town semi then you need all sorts of planning these days to meet building regs to ensure you have the correct minimum distance from the house. If you have a LPG or heating oil tank in a modern house setting then there is no reason you couldn't get planning for a bunded diesel tank to. Though its clearly not going to be an option for everyone.

Anyone with a diesel car as their main drive, with space and a few £thousand in cash could do worse then buy a tank and fill it with white diesel. The tank usually pays for itself on the first fill and having your own pump is happy days as anarchists close down fuel distribution centres. Its one of those investments that I wish I had done decades earlier.

I'm making enquiries but the place it is being stored at think its being cannibalised for spares, although the interior is still all there. It was unlocked so I was sorely tempted to flip the bonnet but I decided that'd be too cheeky with someone else's car so I don't know if it still has its running gear.

Manual with a 6sp shift. Looks like from the MOT history that its been abandoned for 3 years.

There is was a 'last one' option to buy a condenser on eBay at the moment. https://www.ebay.com/itm/185119347210

Looks to be two radically different whites. I'd say one looks like 040 Toyota and one looks MB Polar White.

If you are bleeding a system then you need to start at the furthest point from the reservoir and work your way around the car. If you are changing the fluid then I suck out as much of the oil fluid first from the reservoir and then top up to the brim with new fluid and just open each nipple and draw through the fluid until it runs new oil clear in the see through plastic line hooked onto the nipple. I doubt it matters which order when you doing a complete flush but I just do the furthest away starting point out of habit. Its all done car off.

If this set is still around and you want them gone then PM me a contact number and we will get it sorted.

It's covered around 115k miles, I think. That's what km gauge set 1 added to converted to miles gauge set 2 adds up to. No one who hasn't owned a car from new can know for certain the mileage on a chassis. With the sheer numbers of 20+ year old 40k mile Supra's that appeared from nowhere over the last few years, this auction car certainly isn't going to be the only Supra to have had a mileage correction at some time in its long history. That's an interesting topic in itself. I recall you'd only see the very occasional really low mileage car 15 years ago that had done like 40k miles. They were invariably all the later facelift cars. A proper rarity when the cars were at their low value point and a TT6 could be had for a little over £5k. Then, 10 years later the 40k mile cars began to reappear. This time, clearly nowhere near as rare as they had seemed 10 years earlier.

There is a repainted Supra up for sale in the USA that someone has done some detective work on. Sold as "The digital odometer indicates 94k kilometres (~59k miles), approximately 4k of which have been added by the seller." it was sold at a Japanese auction in 2019 with 259,000km. Must have been a lot of reverse gear driving since 2019. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1993-toyota-supra-100/ Another low miler bites the asphalt. I'm proud to own the only Supra that ever got itself driven in Japan, averaged 14k km a year.

There is a 6sp converted GE on eBay for £32k. I'd recon for £40k it is probably down to how much of a purist you are as original TT6's are few and far between in the classifieds and I haven't seen one for that price for a while now unless its a teaser ad from a well known Southern trader. More seem to be hitting classic car auctions these days than classifieds. Trawling and monitoring the auction sites like silverstone and brightwell could turn up something. Its not a particularly good time for anyone swapping a desirable assets for cash with rising inflation that we are witnessing eroding cash value pretty quickly. That should persuade most people to hold onto their assets unless its a forced or deceased estate sale with the latter an increasing source pool that will commonly head the auction route to sale.

People on the forum aren't allowed to discuss High Wycombe dealers. Make of that what you will. If its a newly imported car then there is no HPI history to check. You can run a Japanese history check but there has been some questioning over how accurate those records are. All you can do with any 25 year old car is go off the condition and regard mileage as just a number unless its backed by decades of corroborating paperwork. Spend more time looking under the car than on top of the car seeing most parts are now discontinued so worn parts are increasingly hard to replace with genuine parts these days.

To save the faffing around if no one else wants/needs these by the 25th I'll take them. Be interesting to see the finished digi dash look and info on how its been plumbed in.

Well done, advice is best sieved from many sources.

Suspecting a bubble pop on the 4th of December that started on the 11th of December2017 was timely advice. Whatever though - I really cannot be arsed

First interjection December 2017 - Bitcoin $20k, two months later it was $6k. Someone's maths is a little out.