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ok ta, I think the price difference here to there is enough to tempt people to do this. It still doesn't seem to me like too many UK based people want to pay the current asking prices (your car always seemed very clean and had a lot going for it) but the prices in the states are much much higher.

Just out of interest how much are you doing this end to help, or is the buyer doing all the leg work on that? Either way it'd be good to hear how it goes.

Inside the engine bay it'll be written on the chassis plate what it came with, as others have it'll be V161 as it's a facelift SZ-R, but on the actual gearbox not sure re V160 vs V161 but tbh it won't IMO effect the value if it had by some chance (unlikely) been swapped

I think I have a whole wiper motor and arms assembly if it turns out to be that.

Sounds similar to our 40 year classic car system? Prices have really accelerated these last few years, we don't see/hear of many new £30K buyers but presumably they are out there, although most cars advertised seems to be staying advertised rather than actually changing hands quickly?

I almost find it uncomfortable/stressful now! Only one of my 10 supra's was bought for over £10K and that was a 98 car in around 2003 so only 5 years old at the time. I'm just keeping up on servicing, resigned to the costs if I decide to refresh it in anyway, but honestly tempted to bail out for something else that's more in the vain of under the radar value. Can't bring myself to do that right now (there aren't many decent vfm propositions that I can see?) and am happy driving it as is for the time being, it still provides the smiles.

Crusty arms and hubs look bad but aren't really crucial and could clean up ok, it's impossible to tell about the body without a in person inspection, the exhaust shields if original give some hope it's not too bad underneath the underseal? But defo work to be done! Almost crazy to me that they didn't spend at least time some with wire brushes and some mild phosphoric acid on a rag. Makes me think that some of the 'you could eat your dinner of that' ones in the club should make more but might well not!? (un?)arguably if you are buying a £40K+ 25 year old car then it's not your last few grand going into it and you expect and can afford the clean up.............massively different times/owners these days!

Provenance is essential, but I'd say for many things a low miler is still preferable. Just for the V160 and diff alone, these only really wear from usage, and not from sitting around. It's far from the be all and end all, but I'd say it's a nice to have.......but hope you do use it some from now on, barely ever see one out and about these days.

Yeah they've been discontinued for a while now, possibly used on ebay, that's where I got mine from.

Easy, but botchy/risky? https://www.bimmerforums.co.uk/threads/reflow-ecu-in-oven-anyone-done-this-before.426778/ but here it's seen as pointless, but has some good other info https://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?2446988-Putting-your-failing-electronic-components-into-the-oven

I found this an interesting watch and it perhaps explains some of the reasons we are where we are?

is it worth checking the coolant sensor too?

Yep I'd second that, I have a set I got ages ago from James/Turtlehead green car he went single on, so they are genuine low mileage (or at least have some provenance) and barely any BPU and I paid £500 back then (with all vsv's and pipework) from memory and wouldn't let them go for that now (sod's law if I didn't I'd start getting issues?) I do recall Chris Wilson stating the J specs turbo spool was noticeably better than steels, perhaps less important at BPU+ and high rev ranges, than in a stock car.

I think the powers that be know that, and are trying to ensure there aren't huge blips, the US "soft landing" type talk. Even the most wealthy and aloof people are becoming aware of issues, but most are still pretty relaxed in general I think as they can 'just' sell X Y or Z if needed? Or cut back slightly even get two jobs. But the issue comes if we get a sustained pinch and it gets more and more serious for more and more people, then we can get more unemployment (two jobs tricky that's if you keep the current one), start getting distressed sales (eg on leveraged BTL houses if those that have stretch themselves fear the future enough to want out?) and then that can be another spiral down. Take Supra prices, we all feel good sat on £20K+ some would say/be £40K+ but there is low turnover and people are ok waiting, if a few truly needed to sell then we could get a sentiment shift and a slide into a market with few buyers, a whiff of a declining market makes buyers nervous for the same reasons the sellers are hence why any decline is usually shorter/sharper than the rise up was? I'm a bit extra doom and gloom I know but there are plenty of negative signals out there?

It does look a little bleak, or at least a belt tighten period for all? "Winter is coming" Two councils (Hampshire/Kent) here down south have today notified government of potential bankruptcy in the next couple of years. High energy prices likely sustained. Apparent bad news Thursday? Christmas retail/GDP will be interesting, a barometer for how much we've all been affected? Stock market generally down, crypto wobble, house prices likely to be affected negatively, interest rates likely to stay elevated for a time yet. As time goes by more Debt has to be refinanced from the near nil to the new current rates Possibly stressed businesses, being gradually worn down, will have to throw in the towel due to all the above effects impacting their turnover, then this can further lower sentiment/optimism as you hear of a friend of a friend being made redundant, which can lead to more belt tightening and so on..... Hopefully we can balance things so we just all have it just that bit worse/harder and there isn't any real increase in widespread hardships or huge asset/currency crashes etc.

It's a very interesting phenomenon for sure. Bitcoin a technical block chain proof of work etc crypto -promoted as Digital Gold Dogecoin, a meme coin created by a guy in a lunchtime apparently for a semi joke? and loads in between, a whole melting pot of innovation, speculation, altruism from some, outright robbery from others. Were a coins merits are hard to decipher and even if you can it doesn't mean they'll perform better for you. The predictions were obviously wrong but the timeline of predictions are notorious for that, and they'll simply say they'll get there one day it's just going to take longer, while others think most are destined to go to zero. Higher price predictions were common for lots of assets these last couple of years, the FED tightening seems to have null and voided all of them!?

I have a set, (tatty) gunmetal ones and pretty sure they are with the 9" rears.

I'm pretty sure this is the Country's debt and then that amount is divided by the population to get this stat? The UK national debt being "the total amount of money the British government owes to the private sector and other purchasers of UK gilts" The personal debt is a different/separate/additional figure?

Yes potential/certain empty promises inbound! the 'Market' pulled us up on trying to reduce taxes and at the same time increase spending, so if they do start throwing around those sort of promises it'll have to come from somewhere else (Rob Peter to pay Paul), not just from more debt, they are more hamstrung than previously?

Many are? An interesting video, especially when you see it was made in 2017

and this sort of thing should be a concern to them too, wealth and/or brain drain if things slide too much, adding pressure on the deficit (was going to put "/surplus" but it's been a while!)

Makes you question who runs stuff really. Democracy used to pick parties/leaders/policies all fine but then really, security services, financial markets, the ultra rich have many of the wizard of Oz levers behind the scenes, or certainly influence on when and how they are pulled? Let's face it too, we like American are really only presented ever with a binary political choice and over the years their positions have moved closer. We rarely feel inspired to get behind them they either shoot themselves in the foot, are hounded by the press/media or are just hamstrung by the seeming futility or our (and global) finances/economics. I sometimes go down the rabbit hole into global/country finances and it all seems like a house of cards, on a spinning plate, with central banks with one hand on the stick busily spinning for dear life and with the other sprinkling magic balancing dust over everything.........

where the chocolate bars are Jostling to get in prime position, try to melt all the others bars around them, and have little respect for the shelf they find themselves on or thought for the supermarket worker who put them there? PS I don't like the chocolate analogy as I actually quite like chocolate and this risks tainting it!

I don't mind it, still get some general thumbs up, admiring glances etc, to me in essence it's just a modern sign of Supra appreciation, so few out and about these days that it just attracts general car people and they like to see one, and the younger ones can utter this phrase?

I think my enthusiasm contributed to giving you enough of a nudge to get one, timing couldn't have been much better looking back!?