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The recommendation is that you don't split the calipers on the 4 or more pots as the hudraulic fluid flows between the two halves and by splitting you could end up introducing leaks. The join has to be capable of withstanding 800psi hydraulic oil pressure. The torque spec on caliper bolts though is typically 55-60lbft. Watch that you don't lose the sealing rings if you aren't replacing those with new ones.

Its a shitty ad for a £27,500 car which will probably put most off viewing. No interior pics. No engine pic. No information on the car. The kind of ad that basically says its a great car but I know absolutely nothing about it.

Seeing you have been given the vehicle age info from the VIN plate you should edit your post and delete those pictures. It's never a good idea to have full VIN plates on permanent photographic record.

A sad state of affairs and you have my commiserations. He must have been a speed nut of sorts, a Supra is nothing like what my dad would have ever driven. First up on the mileage. The clocks would have been changed at some point. Probably when the car was first imported. So unless you have the original km pod or a sensible Japanese service record then mileage is but a number. From the MOT history it clearly hasn't gone anwhere far for a good many years which does mean it'll need a good look over before it goes back to full on road use. This will affect the price but a lot of potential buyers would use this as a means unfairly to beat you up on the pricing. Unless of course they do find some serious issues. As for a sales price it really would need to be someone in your face. Traders would probably take this off your hands for £15k tomorrow. An individual price would likely be somehwere around £20k assuming all it needs is paint, a new front bumper and recomissioning. If you were to get a ticket on it or at least have a MOT run to identify any suspension, bearing and bushes age related/lack of use issues then you could probably add straight away 10% to 15% on the price with a good report and fresh ticket. So, for the gamble, I'd run it down somewhere for a MOT test. Not somewhere like Halfords, a classics friendly garage.

Is the TT sub frame any different to a NA? Unless you want it with all the bushes, arms and sway bar fitted.

Still makes it a very low annual mileage 90k mile car which is believable as probably a true mileage. Be interesting to see if the private retail market really is at the regular ad price of £20k+ for an auto TT that we are seeing these days.

Seals also just fail. I had a pinion oil seal tear on my MGB. I'm sure that wasn't the oil that caused that. Threw the entire diff contents out. I was lucky the car only does 500 miles a year and I service/inspect it annually so it got caught in time before any damage occurred. I've used synthetic oils in my Supra for over 20 years. Different synthetics. PAO's back in the early days then some ester blends and now highly refined mineral oils. The thing with engine oils is they are formulated to specifications and that includes detergency and elastomer swell specs so really it shouldn't matter too much which oil you swap and change to. Though, it is usually accepted as best to stick with one product. But even then over the very long life of these cars, that product formula will have changed even if the name hasn't; probably quite a few times. Best solution to that is to have bought a 205l drum of your favourite oil 20 years ago.

There is no point putting on old spring so hopefully Mark has some new ones for you. I replaced my spring clips with new ones when I refubed the calipers and the difference in ease of compression was large, incredible, I could hardly believe it. New they aren't that expensive from toyota.

SRD is probably the first place I'd talk to about doing a refurb or exchange as they do offer this service and are reasonably priced. Having refurbed my own brakes and also bought refurbed calipers from SRD I'd say for the saving don't bother. Its a faff that'll end up in sore fingers stretching the dust boot over the pistons and probably the odd ripped dust boot along the way when you fit the retaining clip. Unless every penny really counts, get SRD to sort it for you.

The door glass I received intact from a scrapper was wrapped in about 15cm of bubble wrap. You could have thrown that off the top of a high rise and it would have bounced.

I can confirm they are M6, I used M6 button flanges PS - not the specific ones in the link though, they are too short. You need something around an inch (20 - 25mm)

There is one for sale on eBay but a pricey £477 from Japan. You haven't mentioned which colour, this one is green. I bought a spare green door glass a few years ago. It's been so long I cannot recall for sure but I think its for the driver side.

First up you can rule out the taking the car for a spin as anything to do with the non starting problem seeing it ran fine aftwerwards. Beyond that there are only three things that need checking, spark, timing and fuel delivery. Whether you have a NA or TT car could affect where you look to your problem but I'd start off with fuel pump pressure and then fuel filter or pipe restriction, If it started and died that usually points to fuel first.

It does - maybe you put in the wrong plate? TOYOTA SUPRA - Check MOT history.pdf

I know of someone who is a very clever physicist who is part of a team working on wireless induction charging where cables could be laid under or alongside or overhead the road surface for intervals at intervals and cars fitted with smart meters that would then lead to period billing for charging used. There are pilots running trials already and he recons roll out systems will be around within 10 years. So people shouldn't need to trip over all the extension leads running out to the road from a gap in peoples windows, nor do pit stops to swap out battery packs. Classic cars with their grinning owner will roar by the 70mph limited GPS managed electric cars on their alcohol fuel.

Palletways or Palletline are a franchise network so it all comes down to who is your starting point and destination point operator as to how the good are handled. There is freightroute as well who do it mostly on their own but they also will subcontract collections and deliveries in far away (from their own depots) areas. The answer is no one can answer your question as every carrier is different depending on where from and where to. Palletline probably has the best tracking facilities of the pallet movement specialised companies and generally have the slightly better review scores.

This is why I always put the dice in the glovebox ahead of a MOT test.

This is crystal ball gazing which I looked into a couple of weeks back and the 'experts' cannot agree with what the impact of phasing out petrol and diesel vehciles will do for the classic car market. Some believe classics will disappear into museums and crushed and others beleive the nostalgia will continue and maybe even develop further alongside bland silent type electrics. One positive sign is they closed all the coal mines but heritage steam railways have never been more popular. So why not the same for classic cars where you have to believe the truely iconic cars will always have a drooling market. That will sadly, likely mean the loss of the very last Vauxhall Chevette but those Aston Martin DB5's will always find a welcoming home. There will be probably 50 cars that will always find a market in the future of icons of the past and the Supra has a fair chance of being one of those because of its film star and gaming heritage. These things endure, every petrol head knows why the 1967 Ford Mustang is iconic and how many people today were interested in cars in 1967? The internal combustion cars that do remain will continue to run but will need to be fuel delivery modified to get used to ever increasing ethanol levels in the fuel which will always be available and have a market price set to sugar, grain and cane commodity pricing. Plus whatever taxes of course. In 2050, you'll likely be buying your road ethanol in 4l bottles from Amazon being a certified classic car owning V5 registered purchaser to stop alcoholics buying it.

It is rarely equitable to compare the sticker prices around the World as there are often other, non advertised costs involved. Taking the USA as an example I was surprised when I lived there that there were transaction (sales) tax to pay when I bought a second hand car. It was actually two cars, one for for me and one for the wife. I didn't know about the sales tax part until I went to pay for the cars and that 9% premium on two cars was one of those, really are you kidding me moments. If a car is sold 10 times in most US States then it generates taxes 10 times. Taxes do distort the second hand market. It isn't just with cars it is anything in life that generates taxation for the government. You have progressives in this country often mention that Ireland has a higher minimum wage than the UK so we are by inference both inferior and regressive but they always fail to mention Ireland has no income tax allowances so they pay tax on every penny earned. Taxes have a big role to play in market conditions, including prices. Probably more so than prevailing currency exchange rates.

Its going to depend if its a short engine, full enegine, including turbo's or not, including the hard to find loom or not, with inlet side intact or not. All ancilliaries or not. All sensors or not. The place you do see a few for sale is in the USA or Canada and the full kit is usually in the region of US$4,000 but some have been trending up to an eye watering $5,000 for a original Supra engine with limited warranty. So that'd be for a full engine setup up to £4k proper money. Quite a bit more than an Aristo setup.

I bought my Supra in 90's so I'm pretty sure I never bought it because it was going to be on Fast and Furious one day and that meant I wasn't going to actually lose 95% of the purchase price in depreciation. Stepping aside from the looks of the GWG Supra entirely this programme basically angled in on what an ugly car that they were starting out with thar was wearing its 90's heritage pretty badly with its so dated looks. I cannot recally any magzine article I have ever read on the Mkiv Supra starting out like that. Universally, those all seem to go for how well the design has stood the trials of time. But as you say thats television, and they were obviously just after exaggerating the transformation from an ugly duckling into the finished article.

Judging from the enormous size of those power packs this HID kit is really old. They really aren't worth much at all, if anything. I gave my newish HID set away ahead of the new MOT regs barring them to the buyer who covered the postage cost.

Anyone here would know you couldn't buy a mechanically and body panel and rust good TT for £8k, even Keron would be mightily aroused by such a deal. Anyone here knows sticking on a body kit, vinyl wrap and a big spoiler wouldn't more than treble the value of any Supra. If anyone who doesn't know the market goes looking for that good body condition running perfectly well TT they would soon find out that in £8k guise just doesn't exist any longer. It seems the insults to the car syling that are more keenly felt from the "squished catfish" look to it now appearing, "so super dated". Its like they did the car a favour, turning it from a Fiat Multipla type of car icon to something else much more aesthetically pleasing.

There are just way too many curves on this current fukker, it's like a 90's throwback

Is it guess the price?