Bovington Victims

Bovington claims yet another victim.

Since that great days dragging my baby has started to leave patches of oil when she is parked.

I took her to the garage today and apparently its the rear axle cooler thats ****ed.

They have quoted me £200 for the parts alone.

As you can imagine i want to

They are taking the car apart in the next hour or so to confirm that is the problem. If it is this thats the problem, should i get them to go ahead and fix it or is there another way around this. e.g a supra club expert that might be able to help.

Also any one know any one near stansted airport that might be able to help me with my MOT for when my cats happen to go missing???

And last moan, loads of stone chip on paint and another windscreen.

Lets be honest though......cant wait for the next one.

Feel for you....

The car had a brand new windscreen fitted when I picked it up from the paintshop on friday....

By sunday she had a few stone chips, two cracks in the windscreen and 3 sets of bald tyres.... OH HELLL yeah it was worth it *grin*

 

Bovington claims yet another victim.

 

Since that great days dragging my baby has started to leave patches of oil when she is parked.

 

I took her to the garage today and apparently its the rear axle cooler thats ****ed.

 

They have quoted me £200 for the parts alone.

 

As you can imagine i want to

 

They are taking the car apart in the next hour or so to confirm that is the problem. If it is this thats the problem, should i get them to go ahead and fix it or is there another way around this. e.g a supra club expert that might be able to help.

 

Also any one know any one near stansted airport that might be able to help me with my MOT for when my cats happen to go missing???

 

And last moan, loads of stone chip on paint and another windscreen.

 

Lets be honest though......cant wait for the next one.

Disconnect the diff cooler. Use a decent Diff oil ( Motul Gear 300). Will be fine.

I remember you sat at a round about telling people to go right when you should go straight on

Checked my car for stone chips couldn't find any "new" ones, no punctures either. Though i do keep on smelling smoking brakes as mine were smoking nicely on the day. Bit worrying as i haven't used the car since sunday. Got my MOT on Wednesday so will see it the tyres pass or not.

The Z3 there was a friend of mine and has said it's the most fun he's had in ages.

Oh he's also said he's in love with the yellow MR2 driver.... female driver obviously.

So can't wait till next year, Planning permission permitting.

hehehehe... stacey is a lovely girl....can't make any further comments, but damn the girl has got skills when it comes to driving...

sorry about that round about issue. i was sure it was straight on but the guy infront of me went right so thought i would send people the same way. Led us back the right way afterwards though to make up for it

I'm not worried, i'm local to bovingdon so went straight past you.

I am in love with the Max-GT MR2 more than stacy....

That would be a stunner in traffic lights in London. now you see me, now you don't lol

get me?

£200 for parts? No chance, a new diff oil cooler is just £120 fom Toyota, and you can change it yourself in an hour.

Assuming you have a UK car, right?

Bloody hell, i told them to go ahead with it now. Thats the last time i use that garage.

Yep uk sepc

More bad news from them aswell, they rung to tell me one of the rear disks is cracked. Told them to leave that prob a good job.

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Dude, sorry to hear that.

I had to shell out £300+ for 2 new rear tyres. I guess everyone saw me smoking my rears all day, had so much trouble with grip.

May have found a new, smoother runway to use, but just waiting for a certain member to give me some more info for the next one

Im gunna go uprated all round.....n e info / oppinions

Yeah, dont waste your money, stick with the UK brake setup.

BTW if you get a disc replaced at Toyota they will probably force you to buy pads too, they usually change thwe whole lot at once... probably to cover their own backs.

Get a Mocal cooler..

If its just the cooler that needs to be replaced then measure it and count the rows.. just replace it with an aftermarket unit Mocal coolers are great and around £50 for the one you need....

Seriously Dont go Toyota..

PS ... got my tyre fixed and plugged..

It had a fat nail in it!!

All good now and the car is LITERALLY spotless after 3 hand polishes and a £100 valet

5 row then ?

I had a blown tyre and what i think is my zorst now rattles throughout the entire rev-range.

Hadyn - are you talking to me ?

I sent a PM a few days ago...

5 row then ?

That's why there was a ? at the end

So, you have fins either side of a row - cool.

When i changed my tranny cooler and oil cooler the oil ways looked larger on the MOCAL units to standard (tranny) which should aid flow?

Ok my rear tyres are shagged from the power sliding around at the end of the runway and the wheelspinning starts (almost half way at some points), im thinking race logic would have helped.

Anyway the cheapest quote (black circle) is £211.00 ea so far ...275/30/19

Dave

Personally, I'd block it off. Anyone ever heard of a JDM rear diff overheating and/or failing due to lack of cooler? (with the exception of silly powered cars)

Didn't think so...

Personally, I'd block it off. Anyone ever heard of a JDM rear diff overheating and/or failing due to lack of cooler? (with the exception of silly powered cars)

 

Didn't think so...

So what about tranny coolers and scoops.......just additional weight?

Or there for a purpose? better to be on the safe side?

Or should we all just cane the fukc out of our cars? i know your answer....lol

Nice to see you and the car back in action Matt

Catch up soon

Dave

Hi Ya,

Never had a diff cooler on mine and never had any problems even running a single and lots of power.

Just as a mention give a thought for poor old Samsupra37 who lost her clutch on sunday and had a four hour wait for the RAC and a tow home.

She's had it replaced now but they found that the flywheel was f****d as well it was one of those dual plate thingy's with the rubber in between the two plates, anyway came to over £500 pounds to have done.

Oh ya and would love to meet up at santa pod with the evo as he was always in front of me NOT !!!!!

So what about tranny coolers and scoops.......just additional weight?

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So what about tranny coolers and scoops.......just additional weight?

Or there for a purpose? better to be on the safe side?

Or should we all just cane the fukc out of our cars? i know your answer....lol

 

Nice to see you and the car back in action Matt

 

Catch up soon

 

Dave

Autobox coolers are well worth doing as you can see those temp really climb once you start doing powerbraking and really abusing the box, but diff cooler?

If someone can show me an example of the diff cooler being a worthwhile upgrade, I'll do it.

If I had a UK car and the diff cooler started leaking, the first thing I'd do would be to remove the heavy pump, cooler, pipework and block it off.

The car would be lighter, faster and more reliable

Remove the UK scoop and it would probably be quicker too! - Less wind resistance!!!