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I've been with Hagerty for a few years, they don't like mods at all. A non stock exhaust and road wheels gets them sweating.

I did find a classic car hypothetical on acquiring the salvage on the Hagerty brokerage website. First up the insurance policy usually needs to have this as an option. The example gave a salvage value of a written off classic car as 20% of its agreed insurance value which is precisely where my £12k I'd be comfortable with lands on my £60k agreed value policy.

As I drove around today in the beast basking in the quiet sunlit roads I wondered how much I'd be prepared to pay the insurer in the event of a accident write off for the salvage. There are some great parts for sale ads running at the moment from £1,500 for a scrap quarter panel, £500 for an aerial, £450 for those black block rear number plate surrounds, £400 for a fuel door, £100 for a throttle cable and even £80 for a pair of wiper arms. So I worked out a scrap TT6 Supra with lots of resalable body parts not crash damaged has to be worth £30k in parts so I'd probably offer the insurer up to £12k to get the car back. Has anyone bought their or another salvage Supra recently to know what insurers are looking for as a salvage price. We buy any car say the car must be a perfect runner and in pristine condition to get £260.

Glasgow LEZ goes live tomorrow with many more schemes around the UK set to commence in the coming 12 months. If you live in one of the towns or cities around the UK introducing their just stop oil LEZ zones why would you own a Mk4 Supra? Facing a daily surcharge of up to £60 to use any petrol car pre-dating 2006 (unless you can claim exemption for your blue badge taxi Supra) why would you? In Scotland the proposal is that the surcharge is a fine, that doubles upon each infringement. What starts as a square mile in the city centres will expand as councils exploit the revenue generating potential of the schemes whilst standing behind the virtue shield of saving the planet. Now would be a good time to ditch that Mk4 Supra if you are a town or big City dweller or else sometime in the not to distant future you will face a hefty surcharge every time you take it out of your driveway. That or wait another 10+ years until they become historic 40yr vehicles that are presently LEZ and ULEZ exempt (upon application). Keron is awaiting your call.

These are pretty much locked up with forum bods these days but they do pop up occasionally on eBay so you could do a saved search there and you should get pinged when a set appears. Expect to pay £2k for a pristine set without tyres, that way you won't get any nasty surprises.

EURO 5 rules you out of a lot of places now unless you do the pay to play daily surcharges. I had the blue efficiency 220cdi and it is a great car, I'd manage top 40's mpg on short journeys and top 50's on long journeys and its plenty quick enough. PS - my car was a 13 plate. If you go for this one I'd recommend you replace the two bonnet catches. I had one stick and you then find opening a locked bonnet isn't at all easy. When I picked up a new catch from Mercedes I was told its a fairly common problem so for the sake of 4 bolts on two new catches I'd strongly recommend you change them out. You cannot get into them to grease them and the one that failed, stuck closed, on my car had grease turned solid and a bit of corrosion in the mechanism. For the sake of £40 its worth the not wishing one day that you had.

It would be a precision job to cut in the square holes in the spot on correct position and also in the correct size to accept and retain the white clips to then have these mate up exactly with the trim clips. That is a lot of variables to get wrong measuring it by ruler and die or plasma cutting if they aren't machine stamped at time of manufacture. I suppose you could double side tape the trim piece if all else fails and rely on the two arch clips to stop it departing the vehicle.

Or a 1965 Mustang, no tax and doesn't tend to depreciate. Actually up 35% in the last 5 years.

Are the square clip holes in the ducting piece? Cannot see them in the far away photo.

You should be able to get these cheaper going direct. I doubt the shipping from Aus would be £170. https://www.facebook.com/Junseiautoparts/

You could still buy the rubber composite wheels new until recently, now showing as discontinued so there may be some units floating about in the supply chain somewhere. Those were around £650. The leather option wheels have long since gone, they were £1,400 back in the day. 45100-14590-C1 That is just the wheel so no springs or horn boss. The boss isn't cheap at around £600 but they are still available. 45130-14300-C0 I still haven't got around to fitting my refurbished leather wheel with horn boss but I'd be looking at over £1,000 for that seeing I put a good number of hours labour into refurbing it. Wheels, including the horn, are available on fleabay starting at £300, our friends at Restless Customs have a few up for sale.

Its a boomerang sale having failed to meet reserve last time around. I forgot to mention the lights anomaly to the Brightwell office guy I talked to though I did let it be known that I thought their price guide was pure fantasy land. Comment came back was these fetch strong money these days. Really was my parting comment, acting like I didn't know.

I've have actually seen this happen, invariably on an incline rather than on level ground when a catch can fitted as an aftermarket thought was full to brimming with oil.

Went to Brightwells today and had a look around the cars there to see if there was anything worth flipping and stopped by the Supra they have on auction. The headlights aren't actually yellowed, they have a lot of rust inside giving the yellow tinge. I've never seen that before, otherwise looks straight enough.

Another Supra at Brightwells. Silver JDM TT auto with price guide £35-£40k +15% buyers premium. I doubt it'll make £30k. Being sold as investment grade (due to its mileage, originality and condition) with 64k low mileage. It has a chequered MOT history with missing years and a multiple MOT point fail only 120 miles on from a clean MOT pass. Including an advisory for wheel bearing play on two wheels. I changed all my original wheel bearings out at 105k miles just for something to do. Maybe they just needed to be nipped up? https://www.brightwells.com/timed-sale/5371/lot/615994 End Bid - £27,500 + 15% Buyers Premium

A final entry on this for the archive. The rear screen is toughened glass and there are only a few companies in the UK that can manufacture curved toughened glass. There are more options for the front screen available, presumably because the demand for replacement windscreens is so much higher than for door or rear screen glass. The good news is that anything glass wise is possible, at a price. From the info I gained the minimum production run is 10 units. Tooling costs would be around £5k per item of glass. Tools would be stored for a limited time period if unused, usually around 2 years. All manufactured screens would need to be shipped off to hold in store somewhere. For anyone doing say a rear screen then the initial outlay would be around £9k for first 10 rear screens and then £4k for the next 10. Front screens are cheaper, around £100 a unit cheaper. So, if we imagine I was doing glass I'd need to start out at £1k for a rear screen and £900 for a front screen. So it's something that is viable at Toyota dealer prices once all glass is discontinued. If someone like me or Keron ever takes this on then people shouldn't expect a bargain price per unit, but it won't cost the Earth either.

Check with your insurer or broker, Hegarty (a broker) include European breakdown on the policy I have.

I received a price and lead time from Toyota, £1,105.48 with 1 month lead time. So grab one while stocks last as production is due to end in June according to their website.

You have to worry about some eBay listings, sold as for 1993 - 97 with a blue tint. Pre-facelift cars are green tint sun strip. The first glass to look into would be the rear heated element screen.

Strange that Amayama have a shipping price on the part number listing if they don't/won't ship glass. I've sent an email to my local pet Toyota dealer to enquire on availability, timeline to supply and price on a heritage screen that has production ending in June 2023 so it should be interesting to see what comes back from the Toyota dealership on that.

Hi Andy, for those seriously interested then I'm hoping we can get three to five people together to work out if its a viable business. Before I checked the Amayama prices I had estimated that the screen price would need to be around the £1k + VAT mark to cover the tooling outlay over a reasonable number of units sold. So it is a financially viable project if there is the will power and cash outlay to get it up and running. I have a 0.4 acre enclosed building so storage isn't an issue. What would be useful is finding someone with good contacts into the like of FedEx or UPS to get good World-wide shipping rates locked down. Amayama can ship the screens for £120, I know from things I've shipping in or out that if you went on the FedEx site and quoted it you'd probably be looking at £650 one off price. So getting the logistics right is probably the make or break.

As part of the outside of the official Toyota heritage project where people associated with this group have looked at all sorts from badges, belts, ABS sensors and control arms I've been looking at the Supra glass situation. There are some facelift windscreens still in circulation but beyond that pretty much all the glass seems to now be discontinued. Which, makes replacement following accidents, stone chips, vandalism and breakage when removing the glass (to undertake a respray or panel repair) a serious headache. I have trawled the World and there isn't a heritage glass option for the A80 Supra anywhere in the World that I can find. There is the option to have new glass made but a couple of things are required up front. The first being a screen available to be scanned and moulds prepared (I have obtained outline quotes for this). The second being the initial cost of tooling and funding a minimum production run. This is where a club could get involved and then retail the screens World-wide but I doubt the Supra Owners Club is capable of doing that so it'd require an individual or consortium to fund the tooling outlay and go from there with purchase, storage, sales and distribution. I don't mind being part of a consortium but I'm reluctant to do it alone. So two questions for anyone here: 1. Does anyone have a rear screen sat out of the tailgate that can be borrowed to scan? 2. Who here would be interested in joining a funding group for a new Heritage glass venture for the Supra A80? For thread additional information: Amayama prices April 2023 Windscreen 5610114020 £1,002 + taxes (VAT and Duty) Rear screen (discontinued) 68131-14250 (price date unknown) £902 + taxes

I do see the benefit the 'embossed' silhouette of the car brings to a design, it is clearly a recognisable representation of a Supra Mk4. Where the bull horns say anything from Corolla to Hilux. Maybe you two could work together to create fantastic things, if you have collectively the time and inclination, leaving any spats at the door. Group think can be a lot of fun.

On the jspec brakes there are pad retaining spring clips that stop the pads moving around. I don't know if the UK brakes have the same setup, if they do are the clips there? They look like this on the jspec brakes