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There is a 17" OEM set come up on eBay, reasonably priced by current standards. They are a bit scaggy so in need of a refurb, the silver painted valves says all anyone needs to know. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115518495984

Autoglass will remove and refit glass but they won't insure any glass that is discontinued. So rear screen is at your own risk.

I had a bit of a nightmare with an old English sports car I bought when I found out that the coolant had gone to a translucent blue solid jelly in the heater matrix and plumbing past the opening heater tap, even though it looked and was fine in the radiator. Clearly a sign that the glycol had not been changed regularly. Now, without fail I replace coolant every 2 to 3 years on all my cars which is what you are supposed to do but no one ever does. If you have gel formed in your matrix there is no way you will ever be able to recover the situation. Nothing dissolves it and no amount of air or water pressure will move it. At least the heater box on the old English sports car is in the engine bay and cost £35 for an upgraded output replacement. Cars were simple things once.

I have heard that peeps are paying that price.

Seems OEM 17" wheels are now pretty firmly priced at £2,000, Euro2,000 or US$2,000 optional extra from all the recent ads around UK, USA and Europe. They are definitely not cheap, I am going to have to reinstate locking wheel nuts when I finally get around to putting this set onto my car.

I wouldn't take the risk of a policy that didn't have an agreed value these days. I've just been looking at some USA Supra ads, there is a RHD TT6 that is broken advertised for US$65k. Its cheap because its broken.

There was a thread last year asking how long people had owned their cars and it turned out that there are lots who have had their Supra a long time and grown older or just plain old with the car. 24 years myself, same car.

What I don't get is there is only one hinge part number for the Celica but two part numbers for left and right on the Supra. Am I missing something? The Celica part 68801-20090 is listing as available but the Supra parts are listed as discontinued.

Be good if you can confirm they are the same as the 1990's Celica as there will likely be more of those around than those off a Mk4 Supra with ten time the production numbers.

As a side note Squiffy had the same problem in January and bought two off the forum, maybe he only used one in the end and then maybe if he has one left its just the side you need. It'd be worth asking the question anyway.

These hinges are discontinued so outside of a breaker they will be in short supply. This is the kind of incident when a welder and a NVQ comes in handy.

In which case, I'd go for the cheap cable every time. Its the charger that determines and regulates the 5V output and current modulation. The cable will only downgrade that with variable resistance so wouldn't have any potential to harm any plugged in appliance. For anyone regularly using google or apple maps, the charging cradle is an ideal way to go.

I wouldn't put a cheap charger cable onto an expensive phone in case the power output is not correct for the appliance. I prefer to use a wireless charger on my Samsung phone. Brilliant piece of kit with motorised arms to grab any size phone so it couples as a cradle, particularly useful when you are using the maps function. These clip onto your air vents or failing that (you'd have issues with say a Supra) sucker onto the screen. I wouldn't want my phone suckered though as its heavy and suckers tend to give way at any moment, though more usually in hot weather. These chargers cost from low £ twenties up. PS - the picture is for reference an not the actual unit I own so I wouldn't know if this particular make/model has motorised arms. Also if you aren't in a hurry you'd be able to get them cheaper direct from Chinese suppliers via Ali-express over say Amazon or eBay in the UK.

When I had my car professionally suspension fine tuned they said the specs on the Supra were 15mm gap tyre to arch on Toyota Billsteins and 25mm gap on the standard setup. I'd be wondering how much changing the rake on the car would affect the weight distribution away from the near as damn it 50:50. I'm sure Whifbitz will be able to tell you.

The more efficient way to keep a hot spot going would be a burning log or two. I've done them many times for parties and weddings and a good size log, something about 12" to 18" wide and up to 3 foot tall, will burn away nicely for many hours on a still evening. If its windy they do burn faster as any fire will. I have about 20T of seasoned cord wood ready to cut and about 5T of cut logs if anyone local to me (central Shropshire) who is going would like to grab a Supra boot full for free. If you like to look of the burning log then I'll show you how to prepare them which means you have to be OK with handling and using a fairly large chainsaw and be prepared to have a large log sat across your back seat. The burning log would need some notice as I'd need to fit the log grab onto my digger that is currently sporting an auger to dig post holes. Or there is the ready split logs sitting there ready to take away. To set a burning log alight, you either need a spot of diesel fuel or a firelighter. Those supermarket bags are just wildly expensive for what they are, it pains me when I see people buying those.

We had a pushchair in the 90's with an unclip seat that would double as a back facing car seat with the belt clipped around the back; so all my babies were picked up from hospital at 1 or 2 days old in a MkIII Supra. Sometimes, the internet is your friend. This article may help you out?

From what it reads like, Billsteins for the Supra haven't been readily available for a while now. It'll probably be like the ever elusive Denso condensers, out of stock for well over a year to then reappear to go on to be out of stock again within days. Its a few days opening over a few years timeframe. Which means, you have to be ready every day to pounce, that requires dedication unless you can log stock notifications on sellers sites. I find with many of those they automatically drop the pre-notification after 3 months. Supra OE or pattern parts are like little golden nuggets, occasionally you see one glisten in the distance to find out it was just a mirage and even rarer, you'll manage to dig one up.

An update on this. I have been bouncing emails with the Aussie gent who supplied the plug and play module and fobs that feature in the video. This option isn't cheap, he has mentioned A$270 for the unit and one fob or a$440 for the unit and two fobs. So, although this is an option people would need to weight up the plug and play advantage cost over say a £15 unit from eBay that would have to be spliced into the factory wiring. I asked if he would be interested in supplying units to the UK and if he is I'll post up the contact information here so anyone interested can contact the person direct. He isn't quick at responding to emails but he does say that he always gets there in the end.

Don't Toyota have any of their branded Billsteins any longer? I bought a set of those, from Toyota, only a few years ago. It was the springs to go with the Billsteins that I couldn't get hold of. Hence why I bough up a set second hand, primarily for the springs that do still have their factory coloured paint marks on.

OE springs have not been available for at least 5 years. I bought a second hand, low mileage (aren't they always) set to hold as spares in 2017 as they weren't any longer available through Toyota or other distributors of Toyota products.

A car would count as a taxable gift but whenever I have had to allocate a value for tax purposes, and it has always been accepted, I use we buy any car. For the Supra, the IH tax asset value is £220.

The government website explains things quite clearly so its worth a visit. https://www.gov.uk/inheritance-tax/gifts and

Another aspect on gifts is if you miss a year then you can carry forward that years allowance. So if you gifted nadah last tax year, you can do a double dose this tax year.

The limit is £3k per year total, for all gifts. That could be £3k a person if its only one gift but if say you have two children then it'd be £1.5k each per year. I have two children so I gift them £1.5k each a year. Inheritance tax only kicks in after the threshold is reached and with married couples where the estate passes from one to the other then on the survivors death there is a double IH allowance on any residual estate. So if you are married, you need a pretty large estate or a flat in London before you need to be concerned with IH tax. For property upgrades or purchases then we have well funded family trusts set up that pay for houses or upgrades as a interest free loan on the never never, only redeemed when the property is sold or the person dies.