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I use to let people do test drives but a few joy riders later I no longer do that. Instead I give buyers, after they part with the cash, a written 30 minutes from time of purchase contract where they can return the car (in its departing condition) for a full refund. Never had anyone return a car and never had to suffer any joy rider either.

It reads like you could do with an arbitrator to step in who can negotiate an acceptable route and time frame to completion which may involve additional costs to you to compensate for extra time taken to fit a body kit or extraction with compensation. Or, you could just take your car back now and take legal action for compensation which may or may not be successful. Even if you gain a court order you still need to extract payment and there may not be the funds available to settle a court order. This is a company in some amount of turmoil! Reading between the lines something unlawful could have occurred to provoke a compulsory strike of action. With this level of churn, it would not be unusual for the company to lose a bit of customer focus and it indicates a fragility in the company that could mean you lose the commission completely and then have the paint company holding onto your car pending additional payment should any money be owed them. I'd extract myself and my car from the situation as quickly as possible. PS - As an additional note, extending the accounting period can be done for many reasons. It can be to fit in with the tax year but this date doesn't do that. Or it can be because the accounts are in disarray and need extra time to 'work out'. Or it can be delaying when a company goes bump to grab as much tax and VAT and customer money before going bump. The company is now not required to file accounts until January 2019.

It does look like people are overstretching the market more often now. The Supra inflation of 30% a year has slowed this year to have probably stalled, price inflation this year will be likely be around 10%. I still expect a stock TT6 will be pushing £45k to £50k within 5 years which is in line with market predictions that Supras will plateau out around similar pricing to the Honda NSX. Which would mean the days of 30% inflation are over so anyone wanting to cash in. now would be a decent time.

There are two camps and always will be. Sometimes modders see their originality as an improvement returning a superior car, then other see it as a personal choice. Both camps are very stuck in their ways, that doesn't make anyone right or anyone wrong. Its personal property to do with what you want. I've kept my '65 Mustang Fastback as it was the day I bought it 4 years ago which is pretty much stock aside from a front drum to disc mod. I've kept my Supra exactly as I bought it 20 years ago. I'm just clearly not a modder. Some interesting reads from both sides of classic car ownership: http://www.mustangandfords.com/project-vehicles/25980-modified-or-stock/ https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2018/01/05/stock-vs-modified-for-your-ride https://forums.vintage-mustang.com/general-discussion-non-vintage-mustang/842377-stock-vs-restomod-value.html A comment that sums up the issue for modded cars getting old that I can relate to is this one in the forum link:

You keep on throwing out this 'I've had 4 Supras' like that's some kind of an authority badge. The classic car market didn't manifest itself with the arrival of the Supra. You can always have the occasional highly valued modified classic cars like you see with the old British marques tribute cars of Le Mans winners or those with a rally pedigree. Of course the original factory works cars are by a very long way more valued still than any modders creation or recreation. Classic appeal has nothing to do with how fast the car went otherwise morris minors and bubble cars wouldn't get a look in or the fiat 500's. The question raised was, lets remind ourselves, is OEM best to maintain value and in the instance of cars its as close as possible to factory original that is a good bet to give best value and with an appreciating classic it follows on its also going to give you the best security and return on your money. Owners can either look at the rising prices as an opportunity to invest in buying a car, invest in their car (to buy those very expensive Toyota parts) or to cash in and buy something that's a lot more current. Now this is just my personal opinion. Everyone has a right to their own opinion. I have no problem with your opinions and would never say you are wrong or simplistic because a forum thrives on both shared and competing opinions.

It is with every classic car in the car World so its very unlikely Supras will be any different. The reason stock endures is because its timeless whereas mods date and become old so these cars require constant upgrades to keep them current. So even though modded cars will always get good prices the costs are high to mod and then maintain so from an investment viewpoint its all pretty much a no brainer.

I'm planning on swapping a replacement 1st and 2nd cat onto my car next Spring time so if you'd like to have first dibs on the one(s) coming off let me know. Only replacing due to heat shield has been hump bashed a lot over the years, other than that the part itself works fine. Don't know if Toyota stock the heat shields as a seperate part or not?

As there are several options of the rear quarters, I think you need the grey tint non aero but it's probably best you confirm this.

Probably worth you adding whether you are after facelift wheels or pre-facelift.

I have a set of Toyota bilsteins I replaced on my car with new only because I'm replacing lots of OEM parts with new OEM parts. It probably depends what you mean by good, these are fully functional good but being 20 years old (sat on my shelf for 2) and 95k mile on the car they don't look new. If interested PM me an offer.

I think you are confusing the appreciation rate with value. Stock cars are rising in value faster than modded cars and have been for a few years now. So by deduction, anyone seeking an investment through the purchase of a Supra would see a much better return by selecting and buying a stock version of the car. Traders are shifting stock cars at advertised prices well North of £30k these days. But to get back on topic £20k is a bit of a ask for any car with transmission issues.

Increasingly the appreciation is around stock cars and this car seems a long way from stock. Its value will also be tied somewhat to what the starting car was, as detailed on the VIN plate. There is no info on what the car started out as within the advert and £20k is particularly strong money for any car with R154 transmission issues. It'd be strong money even if it were an otherwise pristine stock TT6 car suffering V160/161 issues.

Black death is very easily spotted as a black sludge or black hard varnish build up caused by PMA VI improvers dropping out of the oil and then depositing. VI improvers are thick polymers so when they drop out of the oil its never good news for the oil galleries in the engine and to bearing surfaces. Its usually caused by infrequent servicing leading to high acidity in the oil or poor engine crankcase breathing on a worn engine suffering blow by gasses. Its not that frequent these days, being more of a nineties problem. But then again, these cars were around in the 90's so this car may have had poor oil flow issues for a long time.

My financial adviser used to turn up in one, a 7, but got shot after 18 months saying it was too unpredictable on mini roundabouts and he hated the service stop every 3 months.

Amazing when considering that some traders or chancers are posting these up for £400 dinged, bashed, cracked and scraped online.

I bought the jspec spring clip set in via TCB this February, £6.09 each plus delivery.

My car was only up in the air for 4 weeks so was back together a year ago now. I'm planning on having a close look in April next year at the front end to decide if its time to replace all the front suspension arms and associated bushes and bars. Got all the parts together so just a question of when to get it done and whether to do it myself or just get the garage to do it at MOT time. The station bridge does provide good acoustics but my HKS hi Power exhaust is a lot quieter then the system it replaced so I don't feel the incentive to head to Efes just for an excuse to ride the tunnel anymore. Good to see there are a few owners in the Shrewsbury area, seen a black one on the road occasionally but that's been it for the last 10 years. Back then there was someone in Bayston Hill had two parked up by the quarry turn, long gone are those so either sold or owner moved.

I seem to recall my spring clips were much, as in much more than £3 each so assume you are talking second hand fair? They did make quite a bit of difference to the brakes, lot less noise. The new springs compared to the one I took off were worlds apart in terms of springyness. So always best to go for new I recon.

Losing traction on anything other than a wet road or loose stone chip with a dyno 330bhp at the road wheels has never happened to me which would suggest your rear tyres are a bit suspect. I wouldn't boost back as the driving experience standard to BPU is poles apart with usually no detriment to overall reliability. Enjoy each day with or without the Supra.

Did a trawl and looks like pink tops have a higher coil impedance than the grey tops and the ecu is set up to the specific type of injector so you cannot simply swap to a different colour. The higher impedance (later) injectors operate at a lower current so in theory last longer.

I'd assume jspec as it looked very much like my air box.

There was one just sold on eBay for £10. Bit of a bargain I thought.

I have a spare rail with the gray top 440cc injectors but there is actually a pink top injector for sale in the UK on eBay. What is the difference anyway other than the clip colour?

On pre VVTi models there isn't a pairing button anywhere on the remote module to start the pairing process so maybe they were factory paired by Denso and thats it? Talked with Toyota and they were useless. No one has ever managed to come up with a way to pair remotes to the 93 - 96 Supra as far as I am aware. If you have a later Supra then there are threads on how to do this. So if you own an early Supra then you will probably find your only options are to get your original setup functioning again or buy and install an aftermarket system.

If you need the pipe i.d. I can go measure the complete set of new fuel and brake pipes I have hanging in my garage.