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I just had all four of my shocks replaced, not due to noises, they had just given up. My cars just passed 80K and i don't think thats too bad out of a set of shocks. Noticed that yours is a 1999 spec, how many miles has your car done? If yours is a standard Toyota shock it shouldn't be unreasonable to expect 80K with normal use.

I would say that Chris Wilson is nearest to you and is also a member of this forum. The AA route finder reckons CW is approx 294 miles from you ( ) Leons and Option are further still. Maybe someone else will chime in with a nearer specialist. IMO this is still the best way to go. Although i like Toyotas no fee diagnosis policy i don't like the £80 P/H labour charge or the replace each bit till we find it attitude.

"Top arm bushes" Toyota said this to me when mine had a rear noise. I think it might be a standard Toyota answer to any rear noise. At nearly £350 per side to repair, because they sell it as a complete arm and won't seperate the bushes i can see why. I have had my fair share of rear noises and had a lot of help from the guys on the board. The end result even with all of the help, was to still find someone to take the car to who could confirm the fault for sure. I have spent since October 2002 to March 2003 flitting between various garages trying to sort out two rear noises and because they didn't see these cars on a regular basis had no success. Its also cost a fair few $$$ and time of work. The most annoying point is being charged for work that didn't need doing in the pursuit for the noise. I also worried about leaving my car with garages, certain that it was being thrashed around the town at lunchtime by the junior mechanic. These noises are notoriously difficult to identify on a web forum, suffice to say you will get a fair few possibilities. Although you may have some new ideas any garage will still want to do their own diagnosis. I wish i took the advice of one of the 1st replies to my noise thread which was..... "take your car to a specialist like CW, Leon , Option etc. They see alot of these cars and a far more likely to be able to quickly and correctly pin this noise down". I didn't and i should of, the noises i had were sorted out in about week once i took them to Leons.

So true........theres no posing value to be had when your sporting different alloys on the front to the back.

It seems were in agreeance as to what it is and that it should be elsewhere. I was amazed at how much noise this nylon ring made on mine when it was incorrectly fitted, however it was different to yours in the fact it was fitted up side down and had not come apart and fallen down the strut. Chris is right when he says that these noises are hard to diagnose on the web. Maybe a little more info on the noise type, frequency, speed etc might help.

Does you car make a clanking sound from the rear when you go over a bump or pothole? The bump stop which is fitted into the mounting plate has a nylon ring fitted to it. I suppose it is possible that this could have come apart and worked its way down the strut to where it is now. When my bump stop was replaced due to a not entirley different problem the cost was £6.50 for the origianl stop and £99 inc vat labour.

So fitting an aftermarket bonnet (Bomex or whatever)with all the differently placed air vents on the sides etc would have no ill effects. Provided air gets in somewhere i guess???

No 1994 Uk 6spd. Anything I should be worried about? Seems to run perfectly at 1.0 or 1.4 bar. I drive at 1.0bar 98% of the time

Until recently i was under the impression that i had a straight through exhaust. Took the car for an MOT and had Leon put the rear silencer on it beforehand. Only while we were under the ramp did he notice that the front silencer pipe was in place but the internals had been removed giving no cats without the proper pipe. This is either ingenious as you have effectively a straight through exhaust allowing easy connection of the rear cat once a year (passed MOT fine) or a total bodge. Any opinions??

Alarm locked me out at a petrol station and I couldn't move for 40 minutes. Had to push the car away so they could carry on using the pumps. I now leave the door resting on the catch just incase the same happens. I also found (by pure accident) that pushing the black button continuously near the sensor will eventually disable the alarm.

Receipt from TDI mentions the fitting of Eibach springs. Nothing else apart from the price, maybe Nathan knows?

Unfortunatley for me the car was lowered by the previous owner who found it undriveable and put more regular height springs back on before i bought it. I didn't think that this would be the result 8 months later Almost every repair ive done to the car has been on the rear suspension, i reckon £3000 in 8 months......a warning to others hopefully if thats the price of lowering too much.

A cost effective route might be to speak to Pristine wheels in Milton Keynes. They quite often have sets up there for sale that have been part of their refurbish and exchange system.

It was lowered once Chris but apparantly became almost undriveable. It sits on HKS springs now which i think are a fairly normal height. The cars been fine for 6 months and the noise only started happening recently. Now the replacement shafts are on (well Leon lent me his to make sure this was the problem) its gone away. Unless that is you burst my current bubble by giving me another possible solution:p

Problem solved!!!!!!!!!!!! Turned out to be one of the drive shafts. Leon took both off and replaced them with some spares and the noise has gone. I know that theres cv joints either end, but by the time you mess about trying to find which one and take the labour into account for doing so you might aswell replace the whole thing. Although were looking at restripping and reconditioning first in case thats a possible. Can't understand why this failure has occured at only 80000 miles, but it did. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote Supra Al: .......that sounds an expensive hunt for a 'squeak'! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This noise was probably about as bad as a shagged wheel bearing and twice as annoying.

This old chestnut is still going but the noise is still there. Cars been at Leons for 2 weeks now. The speed related element of the noise occurs at lower driving speeds mostly into right bends/roundabouts, mainly after 5-10 miles of driving where something somewhere has heated up possibly. Last 2 weeks attempts have been to replace 2 rear shocks, drivers side rear wheel bearing, full alignment, tightening of all the bolts, make sure nothing was rubbing against anything else, check that discs arn't warped, pads sited correctly and no brake guard fouling. I guess this leaves driveshaft cv's, diff or driveshaft fouling as Chris suggested. As a final resort before things start getting a bit expensive, can CV joints make this noise after 5-10 miles and when turning to the right? Where in particular would a driveshaft foul in case Leons missed it? Any guide to the price of an inner and outer CV joint? Thanks for all the help so far guys. If theres one thing ill know about after this, its how the a*se of my Supra works.

I was advised to put green stuff on the front and red stuff on the rear by a certain performance shop, which i did. Leon noticed this when the car was with him recently and said that this was a pretty cr#p idea and that some people just don't know what their talking about when they give advice. Apparantly for everyday driving the toyota standard pads are up to the job and are better than the EBC green. The aluminium brake hoses that i put on at the same time were worth it though, much firmer peddle.

Must be fairly spirited driving, im getting 18.93 mpg in a modded uk spec, A and B road driving. The good news is you get about £20-£30K for a kidney depending on condition

Surely that spoiler looks at least a little bit different and discreet. I am open to the usual flaming if its not.

Ive got a veilside on mine right now and i am seriously considering dumping it for one of these explosion lip type spoilers. IMO better than no spoiler and better than a huge one, any opinions, good or bad????

Whats wrong with the current wisbone?

Absolutley, night time washes do make you look very insane, i have had those strange looks from neighbours in the past. The bulb in the sensor light broke recently, i havn't got round to fixing it which is why i now wash it in the morning. For the neighbours amusment I have replaced the night time wash with leaf blow drying the car in the garage if it was raining on the drive home, so its dry over night. Certifiable

I tend to get a build up of grime particulalry on the back and sides most days unless its dry weather. Almost every morning I hose my car down with cold water an lightly sponge off the bodwork and then re-rinse. It stops the whole think getting caked in weeks of crap, makes the weekend wash easy, keeps the alloys nice and only takes 10 mins as i use the drive to work to dry it all off. My neighbours think im weird.

I guess you could remove the speaker and all of the tools, spare wheel, boards etc and go for a run in the car and see what happens. The last rear noise i had which made a clang over bumps etc, but not all the time, was finally narrowed down to a wrongly fitted bump stop. The stop was mounted up-side down into the metal fixture and due to the bell shape of the fixture and the hard plastic ring on the bump stop it made a "ching" sound over bumps at low speeds. The thing is the bump stop looks like it should fit in with the plastic part of the stop going into the housing where in fact its the cog shaped end that fits snuggly in. Being that you have had after market suspension work done someone may have fitted it up-side down by mistake. If the stop is knackered thay are only £6.50 from Toyota. I hope this helps, rear end noises are a pain

Quote: DO NOT USE A CAR WASH! Use the manual power wash thingy, or hand wash it like every caring supra owner should . Definatley agree, car washes are going to be fairly ruff on your paintwork, i doubt those rollers have the softest bristles on them. Theres bound to be a fair bit of crap lodged in those rollers aswell for extra crazy paintwork effects. According to a magazine review i read on the main site, the car wash rollers will indeed get a bit confused when it finds a huge spoiler in its path. Buy a karcher pressure washer, there as little as £100 nowadays. I even dry mine off using a leaf blower after reading a tip off supra forums.