Another bargain!

[FarmerPug]

200bhp but its in a front wheel drive car

one thing about sporty toyotas they put TRD on them which compared to the likes of AMG, GTI, R32, VRS, even SRI, TRD isnt exactly a sporty sounding thing. Especially when it gets pronounced turd
but whats this bit about nice interior, there arez no pictures of the interior.

here is another toyota:
http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-moto ... a/86561588
its from the unknown city of elfast, and CLUTCH NEED SLIGHT ATTITION

[lozz]

Pretty comon thing that on Toyotas,
isee alot around now, needing a new clutch,
strangely there only Pennys tho, £10 for a plate, or £35+ for a kit,

There a Heavy box so it most probs puts people off getting a new plate and fixing em,
igot my celica cheap as it needed a new plate, (splipped at high-revs),

as for the Carina, idont like them there a horrible car to drive, the new shape Avensis looks good tho,

[FarmerPug]

I dont like the carina either its not just horrible to drive, but also to look at, listen to, smell and sit in.

Id be very scared of doing a clutch in a fwd car, is there much work in getting the gearbox out?

[lozz]

I dont like the carina either its not just horrible to drive, but also to look at, listen to, smell and sit in.

Id be very scared of doing a clutch in a fwd car, is there much work in getting the gearbox out?

Peice of cake getting them out,
hardest bit is getting it back in, if you havent got a decent trolley jack its a pain,

there a awkard shape box so theres no where to place them on a trolley jack properly, and no room to handball them back in,
i ended up standing on the steering rack and lifting the gearbox up with rope on the celica,

[sirwiggum]

A ruined Accord coupe for a ridiculous price

http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-moto ... t/86943283

[highlander]

The price does seem high, but when you said "ruined" I was expecting the full Barry treatment (badly-applied fibre-glass body kit (with or without paint), lots of primer, MASSIVE GREAT BIG STUPID BLOODY SPOILER, and the sort of farty, tuba-like exhaust that you could park an SUV in comfortably).

This one just looks like it's been lowered too much, and I'm not too keen on the alloys.

[sirwiggum]

Bah! Some boy racer who has watched too much Fast and Furious and thinks he is Vin Diesel because he put alloys and lowered his Honda and does donuts at Larne KFC car park.

I fail to see how lowering a car such that it can't get over most speed humps, and fitting tacky alloys increases the price?

No doubt the gearbox is on it's last legs too.

[highlander]

Oh, no doubt it's a shitter in it's current state, and the price is astronomical for what it is anyway (a gas-guzzling V6 Coupe).

If the seller can be persuaded to part with it for a lot less money, it would be fairly cheap and easy to restore to a usable state (increase the ride height and put some more sensible alloys on her).

I was just saying that I was expecting the full thing:

- lurid and/or badly applied respray (possibly matt black)
- crap body kit
- huge fake air scoop on the bonnet
- one large or six regular-sized exhaust pipes
- a big badge that says "GTi" and/or "Turbo" on the boot lid

with the result being a completely ruined and unsalvageable sh*t-heap, destined to rot in someone's driveway before finally being towed in shame to the scrapyard, where it would languish in a corner, unloved and unwanted, until the tinworm finally reduces it to dust

[sirwiggum]

I know what you mean Highlander
Compared to some heaps that coupe is salvagable.

Usually some Corsa and they've ended up taking the alloys off to sell separately.
Occasionally still in primer as they haven't got round to getting it painted before getting the girlfriend pregnant and "NEEDS TEH MONEY"
Sitting rotting, can't sell it cause they wrecked it, ends up scrapped.

[FarmerPug]

there is a lad at my work who has done the same to his car lowered it to the point where the front wheels cant turn put different alloys on the front and back the rear are actually big fat merc ones which are ok on a merc but not a fwd bora the windows are tinted to near opaque levels even the windscreen is tinted half way across with the top getting some rediculos name with torque in it the front wing looks badly painted and badly put on there are lots of scrapes and the engine sounds like a broken lorry. this is a ruined car and why do boy racers adopt this driving position of the seat as far back as it goes ive sat in this car and i cant drive it the way the seat is and im taller than the owner.

then you should hear the suggestions i get for my 406 from him

[sirwiggum]

Once the boy racers have outgrown / destroyed their Corsas and Saxos, they move on to larger prey.
They love their mid-size German cars like VW Borings and 316is because "its gansta innit?"

I saw a Golf where the rear alloy had to be scraping the wheel arch liner! The liner itself had came off and was resting on the tyre!

In my mind, the old safari-rally cars like Celicas and Starions with the jacked up suspension looked sportier than a snow plough!

[highlander]

because "its gansta innit?"

My colleague has just got herself a Toyota RAV4. Her Mum and her Mum's partner both also drive RAV4s. She's poorly at the moment (breast cancer) and has recently moved back in with her Mum until she's fit enough. So on the driveway there are three almost-identical 4x4s.

It's quite funny. I told her that all three of them need to dress up in matching black suits & ties and bomb-burst out of their houses one morning shouting "GO GO GO", pile into their RAV4s and speed off, just to make the neighbours think there's an FBI listening post in the neighbourhood.

[FarmerPug]

i read somewhere, i think it was richard hammond going on about people spending a lot of money modifying cars, but not actually improving them, and a good business opportunity would be to have a de modifying company.

[sirwiggum]

because "its gansta innit?"

My colleague has just got herself a Toyota RAV4. Her Mum and her Mum's partner both also drive RAV4s. She's poorly at the moment (breast cancer) and has recently moved back in with her Mum until she's fit enough. So on the driveway there are three almost-identical 4x4s.

It's quite funny. I told her that all three of them need to dress up in matching black suits & ties and bomb-burst out of their houses one morning shouting "GO GO GO", pile into their RAV4s and speed off, just to make the neighbours think there's an FBI listening post in the neighbourhood.

Could see that working better with blacked-out full-size Range Rovers or Jeep Cherokees!

i read somewhere, i think it was richard hammond going on about people spending a lot of money modifying cars, but not actually improving them, and a good business opportunity would be to have a de modifying company.

I remember that article. He claimed that his modified Land Rover was a worse car to drove than an old unmodified Land Rover.

I think there may be a market opportunity for a company to take classics and 'upgrade' them, perhaps better suspension, engines, brakes.
However once a small car is badly modified, it is usually a sign that it has been driven inappropriately - revved when cold etc., the handbrake will be shot from the handbrake turns, the suspension from trying to get a lowered car over speed humps etc.

[FarmerPug]

modified classics now i do like them, the jensen interceptor, the mercedes w112 mecatronic, and the eagle speedster. Especially the eagle speedster that has to be one of the best looking cars ever.
though ill agree about modified hatchbacks they are usually beyond economic repair by the time they have been ruined, having said that my cousin bought a ruined d turbo, it was lowered, had a scraped bumper, wrecked alloys, tinted windows with the bubble effect that you can only get if you do it yourself, and the front bumper was hanging off. But he also had a 306 which had been wrote off in a rear end crash, so he put the suspension from it into the lowered car, fixed the bumper, swapped over the alloys, tuned the engine right, and peeled off the window tint. And at the end it was a decent car again.