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    Price: £12,750 ono 

    I am regrettably selling my 2015 GT86. I've taken great care of the car from the moment I got it at 7k miles. Info:
    - 56k miles (using daily so will be going up)
    - 1 Previous owner before me, I bought the car at 7k miles.
    - 2015 - Manual - MOT until Februray 2021
    - Full service history
    - Keyless Entry/Start
    - Mechanically sound
    - New pads 2k miles ago

    Modifications
    - MeisterR adjustable coilovers
    - Rota grid wheels with Pilot sport 4's
    - Full exhaust system manifold back
    - Tomei UEL Manifold
    - HKS Dual Resonated Front Pipe
    - Invdia R400 Catback
    - Quite a loud but deep, rumbly sound.
    - ECUTek remapped for the manifold, straightening the common torque dip and has other features such as flat-foot shifting, toggleable backfire, launch control
    - Valenti sequential tail lights
    - Blacked out headlights
    - Maxton Splitter
    - Roof Spoiler
    - Vinyl wrapped roof
     

    I still have the following stock parts I can include with the purchase of the car:
    - Catback
    - Manifold
    - Overpipe
    - Suspension
    - Tail lights 
    - Original plastic plates

    Let me know if you have any questions :) Selling because I'm driving a lot more and would like something a bit more fuel efficient.

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    2 hours ago, Church said:

    Greenspring: oh, i see that you have those plastic trd under-window garnishes installed. Can you tell of what color/finish they are? I'd like to also install on my GT86 also brz fender garnishes, but not sure which paint code will be closer looks wise to these plastic bits, in which paint prepainted should i get.

    I actually just vinyl wrapped it as I thought the TRD ones were a bit too expensive for what they were, gloss black vinyl did the job with a similar result, TRD plastic is more of a flat black (The one i've seen in person at least) and I have a lot of gloss black highlights on my car so I think the vinyl works better for me anyway.

    It's quite an easy job to do, just run a line of knifeless tape along the body line, lay the wrap down and cut/tuck along the window. I'm sure a wrap place could do it cheap for you if you asked :P

    The Black fender garneshes were just off a black gt86, can't tell the colour difference between that and the wrap luckily.

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    I Have 6 stock GT86 wheels for sale, 3 of them are in absolute perfection condition, one has slight surface corrosion, one has a bit of curbing and another has a dent (See pictures).

    Tyres:
    4 of them have Nankang NS2R but they're all pretty shagged
    2 of them have stock tyres but they're barely legal
    Also have 2 stock tyres not on the wheels I can chuck in for free so you can do some skids or something.

    May be willing to swap for other parts :)

    Looking for £150

    Based in Swindon, Wiltshire

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    Just now, gavin_t said:

    Interesting that the gearbox has had problems more then once. Is it the same issue as last time?
    Seems strange because on a whole the gearboxes seem fairly reliable.


    Would say you should have a good case the only worry would be that as a synchro is a moving part that depends on user input they may have wriggle to play the improper use card...

    This time it's gear 4, last time it was gear 6. Last time the car was completely stock and I'd had it for about 6-7 months, not done a track day or anything. It's a risky move but hopefully they'll honor it under warrenty.

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    1 minute ago, NJay said:

    Call me cynical but once the dealership have your gearbox in bits they can say it's down to your track session and expect you to pay up to fix it?

    Anyway an independent can do it and Toyota stump up the cost when the independent assessment shows it had nothing to do with your track session?

    That's what I'm worried about :( I did ask the dealer if I could take it to an independent for warrenty work and they told me no! Luckily the dealer themselves aren't the ones deciding if it's down to track use, they're sending detailed pictures to ToyotaGB apparently. So the same thing would happen with an independent, they'd need to show Toyota that it's not down to track use in order to get the money from them. Still time to change my mind and cancel the booking though.

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    Another Update:

    I contacted Toyota GB and they have got in touch with my dealer and have now agree'd to take apart my gearbox on the condition that I pay for the labour (£900) if they deem the damage due to my modifications/track use. Now I've had 1 track day, for 15 minutes and the issue was present way before that, they don't believe me when I say that but it's the truth! (So much for the customer is always right). I know myself that this issue was through no fault of mine so I booked it in for the 22nd. We'll see what happens...

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    8 minutes ago, Captain Duff said:

    In terms of the modifications part of the issue the EU is your friend here (and I say that as someone who voted to leave it!). The 2003 EU 'Block Exception Regulations' are what you need to quote. These were essentially brought in to stop car manufacturers using their main dealer network as an unfair and expensive cartel and forcing owners to use them for servicing and parts, so the regs have forced them to allow cars to be services elsewhere and fitted with non-OEM parts so long as those places and parts are themselves up to standard (so getting a VAT registered independent garage to do your service and oil change doesn't invalidate any warranty, getting your mate to do it might).

    And as others have said, they would need to prove that the mods caused the actual problem, so with a gearbox issue a non-OEM exhaust would not be a reason to refuse a warranty claim, but a re-map or turbo etc. could well be.

    This is all in addition to the fact that I got my own second cat deleted after-market exhaust supplied and fitted by main dealer RRG Macc (and so I am not expecting any warranty problems!).

    As for the track issue, that may be more problematic as I have a feeling that the warranty views 'racing' as improper use of the vehicle that could invalidate the warranty, but I'm not 100% and 'racing' may not be the same as a track session.

    That's some good information, thank you. It has been remapped, and they did check that.. However I had the same issue repaired prior to ANY modifications so that helps my case a little. I've literally been on a 15 minute track session about 2 weeks ago, that's it. I've spoken to Toyota GB and they're investigating for me so we'll see where it goes from here.

     

    I appreciate the detailed post.

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    Thanks guys, update on this..

     

    Spoke to the warrenty person at the dealership and he's claiming that they also can't cover it because it's clearly seen a bit of time on track. I argued that the issue has happened before (they repaired it the first time when the car was stock) and there's clearly an underlying issue causing the gearbox to have more problems of the same nature. I've spoken to Toyota GB and they're going to contact me soon. I really don't want to be out of pocket over a broken synchro when I've done nothing to break it myself! 

     

    Absolutely fuming 

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    Hello,

    A while ago I posted about my gearbox having issues. I finally got my car into my local stealership (Toyota Fish Bros, Swindon) this morning and I got a phonecall this afternoon telling me they can't cover the gearbox under warrenty because I've made modifications to my exhaust and I don't have a catalic converter. This is nothing to do with the gearbox?! I was told when I bought the car that if the item with the issue was modified then it wouldn't be covered but otherwise it's covered. Am I wrong here?

    I'm going in either this evening or tomorrow to chat to them. Must keep my cool

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    1 minute ago, Church said:

    I'd try adjusting clutch pedal travel/grab point/dead travel fiirst. Just get two wrenches, 12 & 14, move seat back, steering wheel up and lie on floor on back, turning back with 14 screw on clutch engagement sensor switch, adjusting pedal, then readjusting sensor to new pedal position.

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    I'd try both adding dead travel and taking out, by eg. counting turns.

    Some warnings:

    - don't look on just simpler checks like rowing through gears when stationary, engagement of 1st & reverse, and if you can start going w/o using accel. I wouldn't look also on clutch pedal height relative to others, only how it does or doesn't it's job. Do also short drive and check engagment of all gears, 1-6, eg. i had a bit worse engagement of reverse-1st-2nd at one position, and a bit worse 5th & 6th at another position. Check all.

    - don't dial out all dead travel. I usually leave some in. It's very easy to miss slight clutch drag, which will add extra wear on synchros, can make engagement of some gears worse especially when cold, and you may need some readjustment with clutch wear by time, and you'll cut quickly through stock flimsy & thin rubber clutch stopper (IIRC SU00301639) as you'll more often will press with extra force clutch pedal to disengage it "for sure", if with no dead travel & clutch bite point right near beginning.

    - i don't remember exactly, but it might be more PITA for RHD cars.

    I've done this and like you said, adjusted it so there is still a slight bit of dead travel just to ensure it's not always engaged (And yes, it definitely is a huge PITA for RHD cars haha). The 6th gear was crunching a bit even before I made the adjustments so it looks to have made no difference to the life of my synchros unfortunately :(

     

    14 minutes ago, Deacon said:

    I had synchro's replaced due to crunching into 4th at high rpm

    They replaced all of them? From what they told me, they only replaced my 6th gear one. Have you had any problems with it since? It's horrible! Especially when downshifting, makes me cry hearing that noise! 

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    Around a year ago I had to take my 86 into the dealership to get repaired because every time I shifted into 6th, especially when higher revs, it made a horrible crunch sound and felt as bad as it sounded. They replaced the 6th gear synchro and everything was good until a few months ago it's started happening when shifting into 4th. Never been track driven, tried changing the oil to millers oil and seeing the same results.  I have a service due so I'll see if I can get them to look at it then but I'm curious if anybody else has had this issue and if so, how did your dealership resolve it? New gearbox, new synchro?   TIA

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    1 hour ago, GT1986 said:

    Hi Matt, think I might go for this. I'm really struggling to find that lead you have linked to that is required for the GPS. Is there a specific name I should be searching on amazon? Many thanks.  

    Think you might have replied in the wrong thread ;) I don't own that headunit, just seen it posted!

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