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Ran over a screw last night woke up to a flat tyre :/ got it repaired
What have you done to your car today?
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- 8,843
- Ottawa
- Automotive_Buff
LOL.. we used to fix our flat tires WITH SCREWES.. just screw it in, and it'll hold the air in. Nowadays you have slime to cover punctures.
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- Kriel47
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I have never heard of fixing flats with screws... did you put nuts on them so they didnt pop out? Thats very interesting. At my grandfathers tire shop we would shave the inside of the tire where the hole was and then we would put some slime, a patch, heat it up, and stitch it.
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Eric.
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I just won a fight with my insurance. On July 1st we had a hailstorm that did $1750 in damage to my Civic and around $1100 to the MR2. The MR2 had a small limb fall and hit the fender and roof. Large dent in the fender, small dents in the roof. That limb bounced and lightly tapped the Civic's front passenger door, leaving a tiny crease. The rest was hail damage to the Civic.
Insurance adjuster came, decided $1100 in damage to the MR2, and said it would likely be totaled but being that old he needed to send the info off to their main office to decide the value. I get a phone call a week later saying that the car has been valued at about $1000, basing it off the NADA "low" value of $2000 and then subtracting due to the "daily driver" nature of the car, paint flaws, and some rust.
I wasn't about to take a $1000 check (or buy it back and only have about $800) for it. So I compiled a list of MR2s for sale anywhere in the US. Found two for $800 that were wrecked and not repaired. One for $2500 that was visually similar to my own. Many were around $3000-4000, a few past $6000. The price averaged $4183 for the 28 cars I found. Then I compiled all the maintenance items I had taken care of for another $1500.
Got a call today, they adjusted my value to over $2700 and a check is in the mail for the repairs.
I win.
Insurance adjuster came, decided $1100 in damage to the MR2, and said it would likely be totaled but being that old he needed to send the info off to their main office to decide the value. I get a phone call a week later saying that the car has been valued at about $1000, basing it off the NADA "low" value of $2000 and then subtracting due to the "daily driver" nature of the car, paint flaws, and some rust.
I wasn't about to take a $1000 check (or buy it back and only have about $800) for it. So I compiled a list of MR2s for sale anywhere in the US. Found two for $800 that were wrecked and not repaired. One for $2500 that was visually similar to my own. Many were around $3000-4000, a few past $6000. The price averaged $4183 for the 28 cars I found. Then I compiled all the maintenance items I had taken care of for another $1500.
Got a call today, they adjusted my value to over $2700 and a check is in the mail for the repairs.
I win.
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- pennslyvania,US
- che69velle
thats why i keep all recipts for everything on my cars, good job on saving the aw11
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- pennslyvania,US
- che69velle
- 735
- pennslyvania,US
- che69velle
Haha, Not hail dents on that one. Well, a couple, but I didn't include them in the estimate...
Can't see the roof damage in pictures.
Does touge factory make fiberglass or wide fenders for the aw11?
edit; http://www.andysautosport.com/toyota/1985_1989_mr2/
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Well, I used to travel a lot (still do). I used to live in the Balkan Peninsula for about 5-6 yrs. In Albania, (at the time) there were only 13 models from Mercedes-Benz. That's all you would see.. Mercs ruled the roads. Whenever you would puncture your tire, you just put a screw in it, which will hold the air in. I sold my Benz with the screw still in it. It was common back then. Don't know what's going on now....
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I bought the coilovers I posted a thread about a while ago. They're on the car now. Its been causing headaches since. Fronts are at full height or pretty close to it and running into little fitment problems here and there. Just had it out for a short drive and its getting better.
I have not adjusted the rear. Once the front is how I need it, I'm going to lower the rear a little.
I have not adjusted the rear. Once the front is how I need it, I'm going to lower the rear a little.
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Not to MY car but my friend recently bought a Mazda mx-5 and is turning it into a grass-track racer, today we fitted new body parts, new brakes and painted it. Keeping the drop top though.
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So in other words, a Rally Car...
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Eric.
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They've got Tokico Illuminas in them. They take strut cartridges like the stock suspension. So best I can guess is they're a custom made setup maybe using stock shock bodies. The bottom mounts are different and I actually had to grind the rears to make the opening a little wider. But I've been told that 85-86 MR2s had smaller wheel knuckles.
Roo
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Driving down a farm track at work in the Colt of Mediocrity, I encountered a rock I'd never come across before (mostly because I'd never driven it in such a low car). Hit it square on with the auto transmission sump, put a 1/4 inch hole in it and was left with an inability to engage gears, what with there being no fluid in the transmission and everything.
Sump off, beat the dent out with a ball pein hammer, drill the hole circular and insert a bolt through with a couple of washers on it, tighten the nut and cover both sides in sealant. Make a new gasket courtesy of Kellogs (noone stocks auto transmission sump gaskets for a 1987 Colt - who'd have thought it?), more sealant, reattach to transmission, refill with new fluid. Not pretty, but it works. In fact, now it has the correct amount of fluid in it, it now goes better than it did before.
The only other work of note is the engine oil change it had recently.
Sump off, beat the dent out with a ball pein hammer, drill the hole circular and insert a bolt through with a couple of washers on it, tighten the nut and cover both sides in sealant. Make a new gasket courtesy of Kellogs (noone stocks auto transmission sump gaskets for a 1987 Colt - who'd have thought it?), more sealant, reattach to transmission, refill with new fluid. Not pretty, but it works. In fact, now it has the correct amount of fluid in it, it now goes better than it did before.
The only other work of note is the engine oil change it had recently.
MedigoFlame
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Simply removed the curb rashed hubcaps (thanks mom...) and gave it a small rinse...
Any ideas for what I could paint the steelies? Or would it seem ricey...
Any ideas for what I could paint the steelies? Or would it seem ricey...
MedigoFlame
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I won't, changed my mind. 
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- Punknoodle_Nick
Either get some nice hubcaps (that car does NOT suit running on steelies!) or, preferably, some nice rims. However hubcaps are cheaper, especially if they get scuffed up ;p
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All polished, ready to roll...
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- Max Archer
My E30's in the shop again. It's been at my parents' house for the past few years, while I live 400mi away, but my mom's been "borrowing" it lately because my younger brother has been using her Prius all the time. It's in for a bunch of stuff that all relates to the hot weather LA has been having, including fixing the non-functional passenger window, replacing the driver's window, which has lost the brackets that hold it on the tracks, and converting the A/C from R12 to 134. (Who knew it hadn't already been!) I can't wait to move down there and start doing some of the more interesting work on the car, like new suspension, a shift kit or Z3 shifter, and a much-overdue paint job.
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