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Kev07
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Re:Useless, silly or annoying things installed by previous owners?? 2012/05/30 08:06:22 (permalink)
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As for the DVD player, it's also great for the girlfriend so she doesn't have to look at the speedo, lol.
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Re:Useless, silly or annoying things installed by previous owners?? 2012/05/30 09:22:46 (permalink)
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What always amuses me is the 'For Sale" ads that tell you the owner has spent $30k or more on these types of mods to the effect that the car doesn't run properly or gets 28ltr/100km, and then they expect to recoup all their expenditure plus more to make up for their lack of common sense and good taste in the first place.
 
The Toyota engineers and designers that built these great cars must shake their heads at what some people with hugely less experience and taste waste their money on.
 
See my signature block below. All original and staying that way, which means never had any problems with what is a 23 year-old car that goes like stink, even with an automatic transmission, and still gets 7ltr/100km. And what is wrong with cassettes??  

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Re:Useless, silly or annoying things installed by previous owners?? 2012/05/30 09:23:06 (permalink)
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Lol at subs in the boot!

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Re:Useless, silly or annoying things installed by previous owners?? 2012/05/30 09:35:48 (permalink)
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I retract my comments about the dvd player.
I burnt 2 dvds full of high quality mp3s, from my flac collection :D

Carless again :(
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Re:Useless, silly or annoying things installed by previous owners?? 2012/06/07 14:01:18 (permalink)
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Mine has a piggy back ECU wired into it. there's a mess of unlabelled wires and fraying electrical tape back there. too scared to touch it.
 
had vinyl ricer logos on the doors (apexi, etc). those are gone now.
 
there's a stub of brass where there used to be a knob to rotate on the right of the steering wheel. i don't know what it did, but it doesn't do anything anymore. might have been related to the audio system that had been removed? (yes, I had a heavy red wire running from the battery to behind the seats, with nothing connected to it. luckily it had an inline fuse plug in the front with no fuse in it so it wasn't live in the cabin).
 
boost gauge on the steering column doesn't have a shroud/housing, and is pop rivetted on.
 
wheels are 7 on front and 8 on back? not mine. it had 7 on left and 8 on right. and also one rear shock had been replaced. and had a different ride height to the other side.
 
what it did have was a fuel line run up higher, so you can get to the fuel filter easily from the top of the engine bay.  that was nice.

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Re:Useless, silly or annoying things installed by previous owners?? 2012/06/19 05:53:54 (permalink)
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Mine had/has (still working on changing it)
Big boost gauge on the steering column, couldn't see the speedo - Took it off, currently deciding where to relocate it (Need some hints, NOT A PILLAR)
 
An unwired Turbo Timer (It was unplugged, and the body half of the wiring wasn't on it at all.. don't know why they bothered - took it off, not relocating it)
 
Blitz Atmo BOV, currently looking for stock replacement, or a nice aftermarket one (Kinda looking for suggestions for a plumb back BoV)
 
It had a damn big (3inch wide, 4.5inch long), metal Transformers badge on the front, of which the sticky glue took over an hour to carefully remove.
 
Apart from that, nothing too ridiculous. Needs a lot of work still though.
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