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Hi, I'm new. I bought a 62 plate black GT86 back in July. A genuine 1 lady owner from new and it had covered 18,500 miles!

I had the lumpy idle issue and associated 'christmas tree' of dash lights within a week. I lived with it for about a week while researching the issue, but fortunately it was still in the five year Toyota warranty! I dropped it off with a 'fault diary' and picked it up a few days later all clean and sorted with no bill!!!

I love the car and I'm planning some modifications... HU upgrade, JR11 wheels, torque dip removal (TD UEL is currently my plan).

Anyway, I hope to learn much from all the community on here 😀

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Hello and welcome! :) Mine is 62 plate as well, no issues so far. It's only had a driver's side wing mirror replaced 2 years ago, but other than that it's all good at its 52k miles! 

If you need any parts, let me know I'm sure we have something you might like 

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Lots you can do, my advice is make a list of mods bearing in mind your usage. There is now a host of parts available and some good aftermarket parts from the many specialists you can find on here.

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Welcome aboard. There's plenty of info on here and I hope you find it useful. A number of us already had the TD setup some with EL manifolds and some with UEL. I reckon as soon as you change the wheels you'll want to lower it. ;)

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2 hours ago, Minion said:

Welcome! I'm sure once you've done the first mod you'll get the bug ;) 

Yeah, that's the problem. I've been resisting so far...

Years ago I had a Calibra (don't judge me) that I lowered, poly bushed, fitted 17s (big wheels at the time), fitted wilwood big brakes, magnex straight through exhaust,  HIDs (a new thing at the time and only high end premium cars had them as standard), a subtle aerofoil spoiler (modified slightly and painted body colour), upgraded head unit with Focal 'mids and tweeters' and twin 12' subs.

From memory it handled well, but the 86 platform is far superior (the only thing I've driven that I could compare to the 86/brz is a friend's Lotus Exige!).

It would appear that I'm having some kind of mid life crisis and almost trying to build the same car again? 😬 😂

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