Rob

Soops now sold on that eBay they have now. To a Martin Su. that name rings a bell too.

Sort of, I'm about 30Kg heavier now and sold my Supra for minimal money right before they started to appreciate again.

Bit of a long shot. Made these a lonnnng lonng time ago and now, sans Soop, I suppose I don't want them anymore. Any interest here in buying them? They are on eBay too.

I was with LV for 10 years but let the insurance lapse for 1 year while I was unemployed, on a promise from LV that they would carry on my my NCB if I renewed with them. 1 Year later they refused to re-insure me stating they did not insure Supras. One tele-handler told me they had never insured japanese imports ever, and still seemed sceptical when faced with their own records of my last 10 years. They even had the gall to ask why I was leaving them after being so loyal.

If its permanant, how you going to get it through its MOT each year?

Get under car, find rubber boot to clutch release lever, spray grease into the lube-openings in said boot. Enjoy the silence. Personal Jesus Barrel of a gun etc

Are those foreign bodies in fact the bolts that hold on the IAC and TPS? I wonder if someone was working on those, lost the bolts and thought no more about them other than fitting replacements. I'd recheck the cylinders again just to be sure, and inside the whole intake plenum.

I have L5 SUP for sale, in the For Sale threads, if anyone is interested.

That's not in Yorkshire.

I've been saying that for ages. If its never the drivers fault, then Toyota should do a recall, they do seem rather handy with them these days. The other good one was that the white lines are slippy. Again, someone should tell the DoT about that, as they are kinda prolific.

Ahhh, I remember when petrol was around a pound a litre, when the cost and the amount would match as the dials turned over. Back then you could leave your front door open, and kids could play in the woods safely, and Britain ruled 4/5ths of the world.

When you say "both beams flash" surely you mean the dipped beam just stays as it is? i.e. on, if it flashed as well, you'd have two beams per headlight. Whereas some cars have a combined beam and dipped main light, with two filaments in one bulb, or that may be old fashioned now.

Cheers it OK thanks. I can get a local garage to weld plate and get it MOT'd

This 'ole 'ere, ringed in red, is longer on my car. It seems to have rusted through equally on both sides of the car, which is unusually coincident. The alternate garage I went to for MOT, after the first one started effing about over number plates, failed me on that. I think the result may be wrong, the holes are rusty and ragged edged, but the MOT guy thinks its a hole made by rust alone and being within 300mm of a structural point, he dun failed it.

Wow. Ask and ye shall receive. Many thanks.

I've been googling to no avail. Does anyone have any pictures of the underside "chassis" rails just forward of the rear wheels? Mine are all deformed from poor trolly jack practice over the years and are now quite rusty on the surface. I checked the PDF manuals but can find no decent close ups, so anyone got owt?

Fair point. I'm hoping to sell it here so at least its had a proper job done now. It is the first major piece of work I've had to have done on the car since the very first cambelt job back at Sidcup in 2001 ish.

Hmmm, garage said the fuel line was all one piece. They have always been a very trustworthy garage so I don't think they would deliberately shaft me.

Yes, its a good point, but these particular plates were fitted in 1999 when I bought the car. I kept them for each MOT and my usual ones have too small a font at the front, to be an MOT pass.

Brake pipes cheap, but fuel lines are a complete all out job and the rear frame and tank needs to be dropped for that. There was a full 70 litres in there too, so that needed storing. Hopefully I've got it all back. It was some 14 hours labour at £35 an hour at an independant local garage.

£837

This is annoying. Supra is in the garage, having had all its brake and fuel pipes replaced but now is awaiting MOT. The garage are telling me it will fail on the plates as they are worng size letters and also do not display the plate manufactureres postcode. I told them it was an import and pre 2001 but the MOT is adamant about the postcode. When I pushed him with "So you are saying that every car post 1973 will have t ohave new plates made for this years MOT, if they haven't already" he said "yes". I'm sure that would have made the news were it true. Sidelights are due to fail as being "too blue" desppite being white lights, but they do have a blue tinge to them, but also he says main headlights have no beam patterns. This is surprising, where has my beam pattern, present for the last 17 years, gone? Could the new bulbs, Halfords super-duper Brite-Bulbs2000 be causing this problem? I'm going to take it home and probably go somewhere else now.

Just had this very issue today, while prepping my car for its MOT ( putting the cat back in and putting legal plates on ) I noticed oily patches all over the drive and a smell of fuel. Stripped off the placcy covers and there is a lot of corrosion at every plastic bracket. Seems fuel and brake oil are mixing. Frightening when I consider the level of "enthusiasm" with which I drove home.

Eurgh! Did you replace both? It worries me there might be a difference in colour / tone /wear. Still, at least its not as rare as I thought.

I might have mentioned this before, but there has always been a sticky patch on my door card near the glass, where my elbow has sat while driving for the last 12 years. I've tried cleaning it before with stuff like Grooom! but never had any good results. Today I went at it again and noticed the cloth I was rubbing with had a turquoise residue on it. I tried foaming cleaner, even Isopropyl alcohol and engine degreaser, and this turquoisy greeny stuff kept rubbbing off. I tried the alcohol on another part of the door card leather, as I suspected it was the leather colour leeching out with the alcohol, but that just came out black/grey, like dirt removal. Any ideas what this blue / green stickyness is?