Lauren
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You may want to add whether it's had the valve spring recall done or not.
Also whether it's had the fuel filter changed at the 80K mile service as that's an expensive one.
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Pics of my DC2 in action in 2006. Fond memories indeed.Top pic at Cadwell, bottom three wheeling at Anglesey.
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Welcome aboard. I owned a DC2 back in 2006. I do sort of agree with the similarities, though the DC2 was far more hardcore, in the right way. I'll always have a soft spot for a DC2.
Any plans for the car?
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Most likely your auxillary belt needs changing. I do mine every 70K miles. They just stretch a bit over time.
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Earlier car spring rates around 2/3kg. The spring rates on later cars are a bit lower, though IIRC they increased the ARB's to compensate. The better ride and especially the refinement is affected by the chassis reinforcements to later cars which reduced NVH. Probably a couple of hundred for installation and around £100 for alignment. It's not really an upgrade and you may want to get the ARB's as well.
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Around 90-100C. I've noticed it's quite easy to get it to 120C with spirited driving on the road. I have found on track it will get over 125C after a couple of laps. Really you don't want to go over 130C, but it does seem to stabilise around 125C. If you're going on track an oil cooler is a good idea, on the road I'm not convinced it's needed.
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29 minutes ago, Church said:Lauren: is 4mm min thread legal requirement for both winter and summer tires @UK? Here in LV it's same for winters, but for summer tires 1.6mm is minimum required to pass MOT.
1.6mm is the legal minimum whatever the tyres. No requirement to run winter tyres in UK. I only said 4mm so that he would have plenty left to drive home on. 3mm or more is better when it comes to clearing water as a wet trackday is likely this time of year.
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If you have over 4mm of tread you won't be under the legal limit by the time you drive home. Expect to lose a couple of millimetres off the tread if it's dry, warm and sunny. If it's wet you'll hardly get any wear. At this time of year I would be suprised if you go through more than a millimetre of tread. I've been driving on track for 20 years, never have I thought to take another pair of wheels with me whether it was 30 miles away in Oulton or 400 in Spa. As long as you have adequate tread to start with you'll be fine.
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I can't see why you'd bother. As long as you have at least 4mm of tread on your tyres you'll be fine on the day. Grip levels this time of year are pretty low anyway so you will get far less wear than you would on a clean track in warmer temperatures. If you put the stock tyres on the front then you will increase understeer particularly so if mixing Primacy tyres with grippier tyres. In summary, it would be shite. Don't worry about it, just enjoy with the same size tyres all round.
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Go for it. Pick a venue/place or event and post it up via the calendar section under social meets and see what interest you get. Pub meets are a good option, meet for lunch etc.
We really are lacking something regular in the north.
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3 hours ago, krazeekam said:Very useful posts and discussions. Taking my 2013 GT86 TRD (with no mods) into Western Toyota (Newbridge, Edinburgh) on Monday 25th November. They've said they will need to keep the car for a week and will provide a brand new GT86 courtesy car.
I haven't mentioned the spark plugs to them but will do so now when I hand the car in. It recently had a full 60k service done at my local garage bar the spark plugs.
Will also confirm whether they will change the oil, filter, cooland and re-gas air con.
Is it worth asking them to check the clutch too?
Will let you know how it goes and thanks for all the useful information.
It should have had the spark plugs changed at the 60K service. So get them done when the recall is done. You may want to check whether your local garage missed changing the diff oil too.
For the recall I can confirm they will change oil, filter, coolant and recharge air con refrigerant.
You can ask them to check the clutch. Probably worth changing whilst the engine is out, though I'll bet it's barely half worn.
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An IMDB rating of 8.0 is pretty good. I'll wait for it to appear on Netflix.
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8 hours ago, 3card said:I would also appreciate existing owners thoughts on auto vs manual gearbox
Everyone with a manual will say it's better. All those with an auto will try to convince you that it's brilliant.
There aren't many naturally aspirated RWD manual coupes you can buy these days. Make the most of a manual gearbox whilst you still can. The auto removes a level of involvement that you get with the manual.
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7 hours ago, Twigman said:It's a Toyota cost but involves effectively a full engine rebuild and from what I've heard they've not been 100% successful.
It's nothing like a full engine rebuild! This is at best misinformation and at worst, scaremongering. They don't even take the heads off to change the valve springs. Things like this can never be 100% successful but that's just probability for you. 3505 cars in the UK are affected. Most have no issues and the bonus is that if you buy a car car that is a 2012/13 car most owners will have had the plugs changed and a new clutch as part of the deal. This saves money in the future. For cars that have problems post recall, pretty much all of these will be in the first 50 miles of driving the car away. I wouldn't see that as a reason to be put off. Also factor in that the coolant will have been changed and the aircon recharged. The recall is a big free service really.
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37 minutes ago, Twigman said:It's a Toyota cost but involves effectively a full engine rebuild and from what I've heard they've not been 100% successful.
It's not anything like a full engine rebuild, in fact it's nothing of the kind. They don't even remove the heads to replace the valves. Sure the cam covers come off and the cams have to come out, but that is all really. Due to the laws of probability nothing generally is 100% successful. But what is important here is not to spread over hyped scare stories when a lot of us have had the valve spring recall done with no problems at all. I would not be put off buying a car second hand if it had the valve spring recall. All I would do is make sure it's done a bit of mileage afterwards. Any failures and there have been very few in the UK will have resulted in the first 50 miles post recall.
Also it's worth remembering that if the OP bought a car that has just had the recall done, then it will have a warranty for a year on the engine.
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I think a picture would really help!
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5 hours ago, Twigman said:It could do with a 7th longer gear.....keeping the 6 it already has. Cruising at 90-100mph (140-160kph) puts the engine right where I don't want it (MT).
It has GT in the name, which stands for 'Grand Tourer' in most peoples' dictionaries.....it should be capable of doing some 'grand touring'.
Clearly the designers had 70mph cruising as their priority when selecting the top ratio - some of us like to cruise a bit faster. Often 70mph feels like I could get out and walk faster.
Perhaps I crave an Aston Martin?
I don't get this. I've done four long Euro trips in my car including desestricted autobahn on all of them. I think the gearing is ideal. I don't cruise over 80 in this country but the car with the gearing it has is happiest cruising at 100mph. At 90 it's great too as you are well into the torque band of the engine so it picks up really well to about 110mph. Far better than it does at 70mph in 6th gear. Over 100mph fuel consumption really takes a hit I find. On derestricted autobahn I cruise between 100-110mph which is fine. I'll have the odd run over 200km/h (120mph) and beyond where there's space. I do tons of long distance driving in my car, only went from Manchester to London and back yesterday, it handles it really well. I wouldn't want the gearing to be longer. Still returned 43.6mpg as well which is good enough I think.
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It sounds like it would not be worth it for you, Annie. The relaying thing is not going to work if your car is in a car park a distance away and they may not know which house/flat you are in too. Better advice is to use a Faraday cage to put your keys in, i.e., a metal box. A friend of mine had the attitude of putting her car keys within easy reach in her house. She went on holiday and had all three cars stolen. Since then and a ridiculous rise in her car insurance she no longer puts the keys in a place where they are easy to find and has installed posts on her driveway.
Again, if you go to a shopping mall, they are not going to be able to relay to key if you're walking around a shopping centre, so they won't be able to take the car. It's the same issue if you are any reasonable distance from where you parked your car. If you feel a disc lock is worth it, it's your choice of course.
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So 18 months old or so. They'll last a long time yet, so either stay with them or bite the bullet and change them.
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I'd say that's about right. You don't really want to go over 130C. You should be alright if you keep your session times to no more than 15 minutes at a time. What track?
I've easily seen it read 120C in road driving. I did find on track that it does seem to oddly stabilise a bit around 125C.
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4 hours ago, Test Drives Unlimited said:Has the Hoody got a zipped front?
Yes.
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How about starting a thread and seeing how far we get:
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4 hours ago, Subota Boy said:Yes Annie. It was the most amazing day! I got Tada San to sign my Toyota book and he was most interested in my nose badge, which we were discussing in the video. Lovely man. Very grateful that the Drivers Club were able to link up with Toyota to make this happen!! (assuming that is how it came to fruition - I don't know the details).
It was complicated, I think Rob had something to do with it as well as Richard at RRG. But Adrian and Patrick are very good friends of mine, I've known both of them 20 odd years now! I was with others competing in the TSS which Adrian setup, so there was a huge amount of cross-linking between the lot of us. Tada San wanted to meet the owners of the GT so us lot were an obvious choice!
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8 hours ago, CherryBomb said:Ah, so cool. Work just has to get over these sorts of things, these important life events, eh? It almost would have been worth getting fired over lol. Did you ask him about the torque dip, by any chance?
I didn't specifically ask about the torque dip, because that's really more a result of emissions and to a point to make the car feel like it gets going at higher revs. He was very interested in my AE86 which I still had at the time and loved hearing about that. We talked about what might happen in the future for the GT but he didn't give anything away of course. He enjoyed looking at what I had done to my car. It was a fab day and Toyota looked after us well with food and a mobile ice cream parlour!
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Recall issued on cars to have valve springs replaced 2012-2013
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I wouldn't worry about it. A coil pack is not a big issue even though it is a tediously annoying recurring issue. I did the same at Donny back in January, though my coil pack failed on the way back. Have changed them all now, after the last one going after a sprint at Snett a couple of weeks ago. There seems to be an issue with my loom which is being looked at presently. It may be the connector to the coil pack. We shall see.
You should have no issues doing trackdays. I've been sprinting and tracking mine for getting on for 7 years now. Had the recall done back in March and 18K miles ago now.