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I heard from someone, I think it was CW when I was enquiring about updating my ECU setup, that an individual ended up buying 3 working stock Denso ECU's before they found one that worked and all were all expensive. So, it's pot luck, you takes your chance, hope and prey, fingers crossed etc. There is always an option to go for an current production ECU setup with programmable options that can be mapped to suit your particular taste, I was quoted prices starting at £5k for that a few years ago and going much higher. It's like do you play Russian roulette and hope to land a good 30 year old Denso ECU or go play with the expensive crowd.

As someone who is fast hurtling towards State pension age I have been doing some research around when is the best time to retire, close down the business, draw the various pensions etc.. The WHO have tables for countries on their mortality ages and also the age you can expect to attain in good health, before an enduring or life changing medical condition emerges. For the average UK male, the healthy years number just 63. Health is priceless, so much so that I started buying private medical insurance 5 years ago and as a family policy it has already been used for an incidence of cancer care. Doesn't matter if you go NHS or private, you often will see the same consultant, only a lot quicker on private. For those who can afford it and over 50 I'd recommend taking out private medical as you have to pass a two year probationary period before claiming if you enter a policy with no prior medical conditions. Some will say it's an unfair advantage, even queue jumping but when it comes to gaining treatment for a family member I personally couldn't give a f what people may think. As Scott says. it pays to self monitor. You can buy monitoring equipment very cheaply, everyone should invest in a £30 blood pressure machine for starters. I do hope your recovery goes well after the health scare and I know these things usually come from the blind side.

Just to update this thread a few years in and all seems well with the V160 using the OE spec oil. The gearbox feels good and clunky as it should. I have just ordered in 2l ready for the next oil change in about 7 years, which will likely be in about 600 miles. You never know, after all, just how long these old Dextron II fluids will continue to be available. A new source for everyone, lower cost than the original retailer provided at £14.99/l including shipping. https://www.gfnparts.co.uk/oil/peugeot-mobil-atf-d21065-oil-for-automatic-transmissions-9730ac Update: GFN parts are part of the Greenhous group. The package arrived this morning well boxed, loads of bubble wrap and with each bottle individually sealed into a plastic bag. Quickly dispatched and well wrapped. The ATF is described on the web page as being NOS which it is batch dated October 2019, now turning 5 years old. The last oil I bought was date stamped 2017. This product may not actually still be in production so it could be prudent for V160/V161 owners to grab a couple of bottles while stocks last. For £30 it's got to be a must have on the shelf.

Thanks all. I've checked over the hoses and the ones on top of the engine (4mm id) are fairly stiff but have no sign of any cracking even when pinched and pushed. All the larger hoses look and feel fine. I bought a spare radiator 7 years ago and some coolant hoses at the same time. It's all still boxed so I need to break it open to find out what I did buy in the end. I'll need to check that out and buy in some 4mm, 5mm and 6mm id reinforced hosing to do some changes before or as required. One of the firewall heater hoses looks a proper pain to get to. I could just end up asking a Supra specialist change the hoses out for new Gates or the like where Toyota is no longer available. With only 2 people in the car there will be storage available on the back seats or behind the front passenger seat for antifreeze, rudimentary tools, pipe lengths, duct tape and the compulsory triangle. If I decide to get a specialist to replace the hoses who would people recommend reasonably close to Shropshire. I could try CW but I'm not sure that he is into doing Supra work any longer.

It's fully 24 years since my car last ran the Autobahn, gently pushing M3's aside with ease. Since I bought the car in 1998 its been 100% reliable, never even blown a bulb. It hasn't moved much in the last few years, it's about to go for it's 25th MOT having covered just 86 miles since the last one. This could all be about to change as one of my daughters is a petrol head and is now old enough to afford to add to the insurance (quoted £260 to add her), so we are thinking of running an Alpine and Dolomites tour together which would run to around 3,500 miles all in. Seeing the car is now 28 years old and will be 29 when the tour is planned, what spares do people recommend to carry? Is it likely to blow a water or inlet hose (these are all original on the car) racing through Germany on the way to Munich as the gateway to the Alps? There will be plenty of miles covered in Europe by dragonballers, is there anything that should be carried on tour for every eventuality? A lot of recovery companies have maximum age limits on cars covered, which companies do people use for their accident or breakdown recovery?

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The internet is your friend - lots of additional info (to that here) on the USA Supra forum.

When the last MOT test was conducted over 10 years ago it's going to attract low ball speculators willing to take a punt. A fresh MOT would make a World of difference to its appeal.

Few could share the attention to detail. I'd be worried it'd be like that 5,000 piece jigsaw with one piece somewhere safe you cannot recall. The big reveal will be awesome. Have you any plans to promo it with magazines etc?

It might be the car rather than your age that is the problem as insurers know that getting body parts for these cars is near on impossible these days so just about any reasonable bump claim is going to be a potential write off. When I was a wayward youth I'd always check out insurance first before buying a car, it'd usually give me pointers what to buy. The scariest quote I ever had was £5k for a Sierra Cosworth, so I settles at the time instead for £300 against a Mk3 Supra Turbo.

Get your wife, girlfriend or a child involved, looks like small hands are a prerequisite. https://www.supraforums.com/threads/any-way-to-manually-release-the-hood.415468/

I found this lying around my old files while doing a bit of cloud housekeeping. Once upon a time, you could get Supra parts, now more a historical record. 940072369_suprapartsallmicro.pdf

These are old wheels now but were popular in Celica World. You'd probably get a fair bit of interest on a Celica forum. Prices for sets have ranged from US$500 (at auction) to US$3,000 offered for sale so as for their worth, it's think up a number between $500 and $3,000. One torn sticker does hurt the value as you cannot get hold of those and having ones made up may well not survive the first car wash.

There are a few recycling companies now selling certified EV batteries for repurpose use in domestic and commercial power storage applications. You can buy certified, 80%+ charge capacity, 80Kwh Tesla batteries for £10k. Well under half the price of new battery storage. I know from our production output that we are wasting, not using or storing, up to 40Kw a day of available energy on start to end sunny Summer days and extra battery capacity could have us sail through several consecutive cloudy days without any need to resort to a generator or mains top up. My setup is single OEM plug an play, I suspect wiring up a mix and match of inverters to batteries could bring you into some kind of BMS mine field to navigate.

The trackers were not expensive, US$2,800 DDP for the pair. They came with some spare parts too which was an unexpected bonus; a motor and two spare controllers. The batteries are the big ticket item at over £6k but still, the entire build came in just shy of £17k which I've been told by friends who used to install solar equipment is a bargain final cost. I did put in a lot of hours though doing the shed build and stud work for all the electrics as well as time spent actually assembling the trackers and ducting or just running a lot of cabling underground. The inverter is not tied to the mains as you then need to register the installation with the local electricity network provider (National Grid) who would then have an implied right of access to perform an on site inspection. I'm fortunate to have the space and all the digging and lifting equipment required to do the job without recourse to paid help or equipment hire. That was important throughout April and May as there were only a few days that were dry enough on the ground to be able to move heavy equipment in and out of the site area. The site is not overlooked from the road or any neighbouring properties so it's placed to be as inconspicuous as possible to minimise the risk of theft of hardware and also possible complaints from anyone in or passing through the area. So, no one would get to appreciate it if it was decorated.

Most people will probably be oblivious to 2019 legislation that detailed rolling blackouts to protect the National Grid output at times of stress, introduced as the country is nearing 100% capacity. Different areas to have their power cut on different days. This legislation was topped off in 2023 with 'in event of an emergency' legislation detailing up to 7 day blackouts on domestic property and 'certain' industries. Aside from rising utility costs we have seen increasing number of power cuts, from a few seconds (I have lost a very expensive printer to a rapid sequence of on/off spikes) to blackouts lasting for several hours so, I went full on engineering project and did a DIY solar build on 2 pretty large two axis trackers. It is operating off grid but I have retained options for house backup supply from the mains or our generator ready for those dark Winter days. The build started with painting the metalwork in March and ended this month with an electrician brought in to do the final fix on the inverter and house feed cable. On a nominal 8Kw the system has peaked power delivery at 6.8Kwh in the sunshine and still delivers around 1Kwh on rain soaked days. There is a 20Kw battery store which on sunny days is recharged by 10am and on cloudy days has managed to be fully charged by the days end. This is at peak Summer where sunshine hours are 5 times those in the deep Winter months. A year ago I knew nothing about Solar so anyone clued up can reasonably expect to be capable of putting together their own DIY setup. We now have our own off grid power and our own bore hole water both backed up by mains electricity and mains water at the moment. If anyone considers their own entirely DIY installs, it was intense but overall quite satisfying seeing the end result and output.

Last I corresponded by email and phone conversations with CW, which was pre-Covid, he told me he was getting too old for this shit and winding down to retirement so it'd be useful to hear if he is still going.

I recall being sorely tempted to buy a complete rear hatch in 2018 for £100. How a few years makes a difference. From the picture it looks like some of the element wires are compromised, as though its probably had a tinted film at some time whose removal has damaged the heating element. Or, is that just the angle of the picture creating that visual?

The last claim I had was when I had Admiral insurance and they were impeccable in getting things sorted with a repair and courtesy car. I also had an agreed value policy with Admiral and the only reason I moved on is they have/had a ceiling value on their policy that was below a TT6 valuation I was seeking at the time. I'd go with a front line good reputation insurer like Admiral, Saga, Hiscox etc. ahead of a Markerstudy broker offering where you could end up in a whole World of pain when it comes time to claim.

These were incredibly hard to get hold of in 2009. So, if anyone wants one they should be relieved to have one available even at a hefty price. Decent quality second hand ones have listed for £100 (Euro120) in the recent past.

The cooling fins disintegrate to powder on older OEM intercoolers which does reduce performance, as I found out when I replaced a 15 year old intercooler with a new one bought from Whifbitz. So it is probably best going for a new, updated and uprated intercooler that fits the OE mounts.

I have one of those sat on an old column with barrel and key.

Try Autoglass. Their website says yes but that might be a lie.

The bottom lip on a stock bumper isn't flexible. I ran over a badger in my Supra 15 years ago and it rolled several times the full length under the car. I noticed a few days later there was a small dome in the bottom lip so I had the bumper replaced. If a 60mph badger impact hardly deformed the lower lip I wouldn't be sure you have an OEM bumper fitted. When I took the car to a Ford dealer for a new insurance bumper fit the damage assessor said a Focus was written off a week earlier following a badger hit. I said but this is a Toyota. He didn't look to happy about that.

SGS is the place to go to. There was a set of forum struts doing the rounds but they have probably disappeared into someone's bin or shelf by now. It's better to have access to a second set for a couple of reasons. The setup was people would get passed someone else's replaced weak struts to send off to SGS for a refit (they recycle the fittings with around a 10 day turn around) with new gas struts. The benefit of this were clear. First up you wouldn't have a strutless tailgate awaiting a new set coming back. Second up its far easier to change one strut at a time than deal with a very heavy tailgate totally unassisted. Third up it was nice having a forum set available. If you do need to remove both struts be aware if you are unfortunate and end up breaking the rear screen its a limited supply heritage only option now at heritage only pricing. Might be worth putting a call out for the forum set that someone will have unless they just binned their removed struts having had the evolving forum set refurbished.