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Yeah the 928.......how do you mean yellow? If you mean i wouldn't like the non-spoiler car cos its yellow thats because i dislike any car thats yellow. Infact i dislike any car that bright orange, or lurid blue, or yellow, or bright green. I only tend to like dark blue, silver, white or black.

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You can't deny that when Toyota looked at the design for the MkIV they weren't taking a few ideas from the 928.......? http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~IBISgts/t1.jpg Yeah, Porsche to like their tea trays a bit on the backs of their cars, but i like the uncluttered sloping back of a car a bit like this (yes, i appreicate it *does* have a spoiler, but not 12" high!)

....that got a spoiler?

F40 and F50 - whats those - 2 out of all the Ferraris out there...........thats about 0.02% of all the different Ferrari models ever made..... It looks more like a Porsche 928 I think it is without..... http://home.clara.net/dmad/nospoiler1.jpg

Bobbeh - if its as easy as the guy says then why shouldn't I even think about it?! The Supra does look more aggressive and sporty with the spoiler, but its also a bit more bollocks-out-in-your-face, whereas the non-spoiler looks more classy in my opinion, like Ferraris don't often have spoilers on the back.....

I really love the look of the MkIV Supra without the spoiler on the back - i'd like to take my spoiler off, if only to see how it looks for a week or so. (im a UK TT owner) - can anyone comment how simple/hard it is to remove the spoiler and put it back later if need be. Also, does it leave massive gaping holes in bootlid once its off? cheers

Lovatt - where would a non-trade guy like myself pickup these 3M products? Cheers!

Basically my black Supra is covered in little hairline scratches where the housewives and so on over the years have marked it with their rings/shoppingbags/dildos and so on, so i'd really love to T-cut it down a coat. I don't think its a metallic black - its the 'only' UK black i believe, so can someone confirm if there is a specific reason not to T-cut it. I can tell theres a lovely black paintjob under there waiting to come out, but unfortunately it has this oxidized, hairlined, filthy layer sitting on top of it. I've t-cut a car or two in the past and know what im doing, but also know how dangerous it can be on the wrong type of paint (fortunately not due to my own errors).... cheers

What about if you were doing 100 and then 'slipped' it into reverse?

Hehehe. Okay, i know what 'not' to do now - none of this slipping it into d then. Okay, so its put it in L and keep the revs going. Im not saying im going down to MacDonalds to try and impress the Oakley posse, but it would be nice to know how to do a slick U turn if need be. I've had to do a few on some empty streets before (my job means im always tracing up and down roads looking for addresses) and would love the chance to do something like in the movies......

...everyone always tells me to 'search' and all I ever come up with is sweet FA. My autobox is coated in carbide.

Okay, i don't get it. I've got a manual button but then apparently on the gear selector, L is 1st, 2 is 2nd and D is third upwards. So what is the manual button there for? I know its there for snow (engine braking), but is there any other practical uses for the manual button? I'd like to be able to do 180s pulling out of a car park to look like the Duke of Hazzard, and im presuming the best option would be to rev in N and then wack it down to either D or L on full lock? Obviously i'd better practice on a football-pitch sized car park else im going to be forcing the back into the nearest Vectra.......

I went down the the Toyota dealer today and asked about the Mats! Thanks for the tip - he did a search on the ivory black ones and they came up £78. Then he did a search on the other ones and they came up £11.24 or something! He thought it was odd and i told him i heard there was a special deal on. Also i wanted the blanking plate for the bottom half of the stereo - he said it was £28 and was actually a cubby hole thing which slotted in the place of the bottom half of the double din. Is this right? I pick it all up on Saturday. Its good to know the alarm is CAT1 - also thanks for the tip on how to prove it! They haven't asked me to prove it, so i think i don't need to worry....

Okay, so JPS and Sextons are the ones to hound for all my Supra needs it seems. I'll give JPS a call on friday and sort out a booking in of my new pride. Money is rather tight at the moment! "You got a 16000 mile UK sec car with one lady owner for 12K AND you haggled with the dealer?[envy] I would have ripped is arm out of the socket! Jesus, have YOU ever got a good deal! Well done! [/envy]" Its not a 16000 mile UK car - its a 59000 mile UK car. Im saying its a 93 model and has been owned the last 5 or so years by a housewife as the town runabout. I did all the HPI crap and i know they bought it in '98 i think it was (i got their receipt for it too - they paid £28k for it). And in the time she has owned it, shes done roughly 4kmiles a year and serviced it at every dealer interval requested! I bought it privately too, not from a dealer. So i got no comebacks, but thats something i don't care about anyway as warranties are worth absolutely sod all in my opinion. I did haggle them down to £12k, but i guess they were expecting that much. They were obviously not in a hurry to sell it (both didn't need the money, and didn't need it off their driveway urgently) and I was in a hurry to buy a car for work. I think i got a good deal - is that the case? I really wanted a manual, but decided instead to try and find some rocking horse shit. I hope i know enough not to buy a dog and i know a lot of tricks. Its obviously a genuine motor - the steering wheel leather is still matt and unworn, the seats are nice and clean, the seatbelt springs back into place, its got all the UK equipment, standard wheels, reciepts for a good few years from Toyota for servicing, brakes, tyres and so on. Original stereo, alarm etc - not been modified or ragged. No muck in the engine/engine bay, but not too clean to of been steamcleaned (to remove oil problem signs etc). No rattles (apart from those boot stay things!). Fast and tidy. Needs a good days valeting which im doing tomorrow as its got silly things like the "Y" is missing from toyota on the back, and the car mats are not matching!! All original panels, no filler anywhere i could find. Climate control appears to work fine, as does everything else. Still haven't really sat down and worked it all out - the manual button for example................

"1/. A decent 10/40 synthetic 2/. JPS are the Mutts Nuts. Just check out Leon's car. 3/. Contact Matt Harwood, Sexton's in Maidstone. 4/. F*ck knows 5/. Try sticking to Super Unleaded. 6/. Again, speak to Matt." Thanks for those quick answers! Is that fully synthetic? JPS sound good to all accounts - are they reasonable cheap as well? I took a look at the website and sure enough there are some truely demonic Supras there, but im not much of a modifier - yet anyway. I just want somewhere who know their stuff about Supras and will do exactly what needs doing and not rip me off. I only put Optimax in my cars..... I got £400 knocked off the car - i was trying to haggle £900 off, but only managed £400 in the end - justified for £200 for the cambelt and £200 for a damn good clean! I paid £12k for it. Nice clean example, owned by a woman for 5 years, during which time she had done 16000 miles over that whole time....she replaced it with a new M3 convertable. I really needed a UK car for insurance purposes. I think regarding oil changes i'll do it every 5k miles or so then. I can remember when the odo hits 5000 or 0000, so that souds reasonable. I do like to stretch its legs of a drive, but im not ragging it and i am letting it cool down properly and not giving it stick until its well up to temperature. Should i ask to get the crank seal done at the same time as the cambelt then? Is is a common area to leak? Regarding stereo - I reckon the Uk ones might of had a single din, but this one as standard had a 6 disc toyota changer in the boot and the additional controller for the CD unit under the radio cassette unit. I assume this was an optional extra on the UK Supra if wanted. Its all being ripped out shortly, but for the time being its nice to know whoever bought it back in feb 94 paid for the extras! I've already got an agenda to oil the tailgate rubbers! Finally - who is this Matt guy with all the answers!?

By the way, just to confirm, its a UK Car (definitely) 3 litre TT on an L reg @ 59000 miles. Its in black and its an auto with cream leather - anyone give me a rough value of the car, so i can see if what i paid was spot on. Its got full 6 monthly service history from birth at a Toyota Garage, with full HPI check and milage confirmed with dealer. Its totally standard also.

Just bought a UK '93 Auto Supra (black). Its a lovely drive etc, but i need a few pointers - hopefully some of you can remark on it? 1 - I've heard i need to do a full oil change every 2500 miles or so, if i want to keep it healthy and running. Now thats not a problem, just what oil is recommended? I don't want to scrimp on the important stuff like oil, so please recommend whats best for a long life! 2 - I'm nearing the end of 59k miles and i got some money knocked off for a cambelt change. Is the light going to come on at 60k? I was going to take it to http://www.jpsmotorsport.com in Bletchley which are about 10 miles from me - is this a decent place to go? Can they do a decent full service on the car, with oil change, cambelt etc? 3 - Where is the best best place to get the most-fitting blanking plate for the Stereo. I have a £500 Pioneer sitting here which i want to put in, don't want a panel that will look like a totally different colour plastic etc underneath! 4 - Is the factory fit alarm Cat1? I've been told it is, but i personally have my doubts that it would be..... 5 - Other than oil, is there anything (im a total novice here) that every informed Supra Mk4 owner needs to check on a regular basis, on addition to the usual car stuff (fluids and so on). 6 - Finally, how simple is it to get to the rear and front speakers to replace and can anyone quote sizes and how deep the gap is behind them? Thanks!!!