• General MR2 Stuff
  • Useless, silly or annoying things installed by previous owners?? (p.2)
2012/04/06 23:28:12
Eric
Previous owner/s had a sub and huge, huge amp installed. intead of removing the wiring when they removed the sub, there was many, many live wires running through my car. good thing I stripped the interior out to clean it the day I bought it.

There was also approx 30 Meters of cable that ran to no where, and some crumby TRD Racing badge on the back

Looks good now that its gone :D 
2012/04/07 09:44:43
deano
Yeah i bought mine with an upside down head unit and trd stickers everywhere which all came off nicely accept for one which took the paint with it. Oh and there was a boost gauge installed on the steering column which made it hard to see the Speedo.
2012/04/07 10:06:12
MRTurbo
A ****ing Blitz venting BOV and Cannon muffler that got me defected 
2012/04/08 13:30:22
Joel
Supercheap auto pod which had rusted. I don't know how well these cheap pods work but it was off the car asap.
We once bought a gt4 Celica and it had a number of stupid things on it. Neons under the car, neons all through the car, two subs in the boot which took the whole thing up and weighed at least 100kg. 15inch wheels with what seemed like +50 offset and another supercheap pod that had completely rusted.
2012/05/02 23:18:30
Tree
I have what was similar some of yous (where do these guys come from?):
DVD Player - sold it for $300
10 inch sub - sold for $50
Crappy, unstaggered thin wheels (very very very old tyres) - sold for $170
290-300mm steering wheel - sold for $50 (surprised there was a buyer lol)
4 inch fart cannon
Pedders lowered rear spring, stock front spring
Triple cigarette lighter plugs just dangling
Interior wiring is all messed up
5% Tint side windows (blind when driving at night)
Probably not worth mentioning but a red "Drift" brand seat thin cover only driver side
Other than that the car was very OEM and very clean body. Not to mention hardtop which I thought was rare (not anymore)
 
2012/05/30 08:06:22
Kev07
As for the DVD player, it's also great for the girlfriend so she doesn't have to look at the speedo, lol.
2012/05/30 09:22:46
tralfaz
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??  
2012/05/30 09:23:06
P E T E
Lol at subs in the boot!
2012/05/30 09:35:48
nissky
I retract my comments about the dvd player.
I burnt 2 dvds full of high quality mp3s, from my flac collection :D
2012/06/07 14:01:18
salem
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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