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It can be a pain getting agreed value insurance on a stock car, modified I'd imagine could be even more painful as some insurers wont quote on modified. Don't know that any Supra import in any guise has actually sold for anything like £30k so give it a go. Any valuation on any Supra is pointless though unless its an agreed payout value as Lbm has just found out.

This might be true as both the orders with subsequent cancellations were on Amayama Japan as UAE wasn't stocking the parts. Of the 53 items just ordered, UAE only had one item as a stock item whereas Japan had them all on a 4 day turnaround order, which turned out to be bollocks.

Amazon have loads of sellers sub £100 and one sub £90 with free delivery.

I always appreciated one thing with a Supra, its so reliable and uses no oil between servicing and doesn't go out in the rain any longer so the washer fluid is hardly used meaning that the bonnet needs lifting once a year. Now with the 65 Mustang, I do need to check the oil and coolant levels regularly and its all chrome rockers, pulleys and filters. The surgically clean engine bay thing leaves me wondering.

The interior looked spot on to me! No bling, no painted dash, no wrapped dash, and no holes. Even the seat cushions didn't have the usual crimp and crush effect. Think you must have been looking at a different car. As for the mileage, 94k on a 1993 car doesn't suggest its been a reps car at any time in its lifetime. Anyone who buys one of those many 40k milers out there and believes it without stacks of documented verification is living on a hope and a prayer.

These are only £90 (incl VAT) delivered to your door new.

I email a list of part numbers to TCB. They will sub in superseded parts when appropriate so they must do more than religiously follow a presented list.

I have had issues before when Amayama have refunded parts payments for those they can no longer source which does then load the freight and Parcel Force admin charges on whatever they do finally ship. As a side add in I have then gone on to get the AWOL parts from other sources so it seem Amayama don't try hard to locate parts. So this time, I used their quote me option which is supposed to fill you in with what is around before you finalise and pay for the order. I did my big 53 item nuts, bolts and bushes order and requested a quote. Got confirmation to my email then never heard anything more so checked into the site two days later and there was no sign of the order placed for quotation. It had disappeared without a trace. I entered again, the 53 item order and decided this time I'd better just fo ahead and buy as its quite a chore tapping in all those part numbers. Three days later I receive two emails advising various bits are no longer available so it'll be value wise 30% short shipping with no freight discount due. Amayama is too risky these days with my last two orders being short shipped and that makes Mr T or TCB in the UK quicker and a lot cheaper. I'm not going to be troubling Amayama any more.

Found this which may be of some use, recon the cost is about £2k for a double garage. So might be worth talking to companies who supply that type of garage for suggestions.

There is a battered one on eBay for £55 that you could get re-trimmed?

Just a reminder that its the Manchester Classic Car show this weekend, Saturday and Sunday. and there is a 3 car Supra stand hosted by Ian Ian, so good they named him twice. Be good to get a decent turnout for the gents exhibiting there. Usually lots of good freebies to be had from the retail stalls as well, if you get there early enough! http://www.manchesterclassiccarshow.com/

I just got quoted £450+VAT to rebuild the two Supra turbos. Only tried one place as a look see so maybe if you shop around you could get it cheaper than you were quoted. If anyone is after the part numbers for new they are for the CT20 and CT20A turbos 17201-46030 (front) and 17208-46030 (rear). There is a guy selling both unused in the US for $2,400 at the moment. or you can buy one from Burrows Toyota off eBay for £2,700

Depends if its a Supra 6sp or not. If its a run of the mill, say BMW Getrag box they are really cheap by comparison.

Does seem a bit pricey, I called just now a turbo reconditioner, out of interest as I bought for £200 a low mileage (40k also) set of turbos as a spare set that have a hell of a lot of shaft play for the claimed mileage. The local Midlands turbo reconditioner/seller quoted £450+VAT to recondition the two Supra turbos then I suppose the gaskets would be another £100 on top from Mr T. I'm going to have to get my spares reconditioned because they are low mileage crap and any set is not going to be worth much; unless sold with a parts and labour warranty.

How about talking it over with these guys? http://www.bee-cool-aircon.co.uk/services/ac-pipe-repairs/ https://www.bonair.co.uk/hose-and-pipe-repairs

I have only ordered the upper and lower arms at this stage. I do have a spare front sub frame that I could swap out but I'm planning on giving the front end a good look over this Autumn when the car is up on the ramp for a couple of months to assess if that is needed/worthwhile. If you have all the bush and fixing part numbers for the front then that'd be very useful to add to the stockpile I have as I'm expecting that if you never use parts yourself there will always be someone around the World willing to buy them in a few years time.

Shamed into replacing all the nuts, bolts and cams with new just placed an order today with Amayama. Its £240 worth DDP just for the fixings (quoted £280 domestic). I already had over £50 of new fixings so a complete set of rear frame and arms bolts, washers and nuts is £300. Also ordered a front set of upper and lower arms today (next years project?), that's another £1,200. Lots of places listing front upper control arms as discontinued so if anyone wanted to stockpile probably needs to order those soon. Another expensive Supra day, gone past £5k on parts alone.

My daughter has a three year old Astra 1.4T which she says has started to run really rough and low on power. Reading up on likely issues it seems later Vauxhalls (Corsa and Astra) do suffer from coil pack breakdown. Is there any way to diagnose and identify a intermittent faulty coil pack or does it need to wait till its a permenant fault? I haven't checked any error codes yet. no EML.

A friend of my daughter is a physicist working on induction charging for electric vehciles. They are looking into charging areas under road, at traffic lights and the inside lane of motorways. A wifi electric meter will be required for billing, maybe in the future it could all be incorporated with the household bill and for city dwellers there would never be any need for home charging?

Its looking really good on the rust front and I hope mine is like that when the tear down begins. Luckily I'll be indoors with the car on a 2 poster so it won't be weather dependent. Strangely though, I'm not looking forward to it. I'm sure it'll end up being fun and interesting when I get stuck in.

You shouldn't see any water pooling under the seal if it is sealed properly. If I were you I'd think about having the glass taken out to first up check the state of the metalwork and then replace the seal.

I'm planning on having an outside power point alongside my garage installed next time I get a leccy out ready for the day when the first electric car turns up on my driveway in the next not so many years. I'm thinking Tesla seeing its got the range, fast and getting affordable with sub £50k options becoming available. Has anyone been in one, driven one - loved it, loathed it? I know someone with a Nissan Leaf and they love it but I like the Tesla lines better.

There are a few listed in the USA and Canada for between $1k and $4k.

I've driven 90,000 miles in my Supra so don't feel the desperate need to do a whole load more and now, like a lot of owners do sub 1,000 miles a year. Possibly a good thing, less chance of it getting written off and receiving a £6k offer from the insurers for your cherished TT6. I don't miss the washboard ride along the local B road that used to be my daily commute that feels like a smooth super highway in my Merc. Toyota GB advice shared at last years NEC classic car show is lock up your Supra now and only run it to the MOT station as its annual outing. So there is lots of scope for lower km yet.

New list black unmolested (even has an air box) jspec and over £15k already. Be interesting to see where it ends up.