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    6 hours ago, Luke said:

    It doesn't sound terminal, just needs true diagnosis which Toyota won't be able to do without huge bills. Get a boxer specialist on it, certainly sounds like an injector fault to me. Going off topic but how can Toyota tell its been remapped? 

    Probably easily by comparing the code to factory code

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    Just now, Kaisersalsek said:

    It does - you’re making presumptions about what my policy terms are. I’m not adding 6k. /end.

    I never said you were.

    You said you were 'increasing the value of your car' - I'd say adding £6k of parts is more likely to decrease the value of your car. The presumption that spending money on bits increases the value of your car is frankly false.

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    34 minutes ago, 86iain said:

     

    Been driving nearly 20 years and never had a problem.

    I've been driving 37 years and never had a problem until I moved to where I live now (in 2011). Now, every year, I wish I'd fitted winters. Getting into and out of the estate I live on doesn''t happen if you're on summer tyres and there's been a light dusting of snow and the temp is sub-zero.

     

    years ago when I had a Triumph Spitfire I used to go out in the snow and deliberately do 360s on the Watford ring road in the snow....155 wide(narrow) tyres helped

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    30 minutes ago, Church said:

     Most 17" winter tires start from 205 though, so that's what i would go with on stock wheels (with upping profile height one notch 45>50 to compensate width change).

    Very few seem to be @205 - and 205/50 even rarer.

    After reading various reviews I am tempted by

    Kleber Krisalp HP 3
    215/45 R17 91V

    https://www.mytyres.co.uk/cgi-bin/rshop.pl?dsco=110&typ=R-342843&partner=1&ID=psm_rd_uk_tyrereviews&Country=UK

    or

    Kleber Krisalp HP 3
    205/50 R17 93V

    https://www.mytyres.co.uk/cgi-bin/rshop.pl?dsco=110&typ=R-342908&partner=1&ID=psm_rd_uk_tyrereviews&Country=UK

    Has anyone tried these?

     

     

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    I suppose I am thinking ahead.

    This year my winter car (Mazda6estate) was written off. This leaves the GT86 as my only car, for now. I live in an area that always suffers worse winter weather than the surrounding area. They call my part of town 'Little Siberia'. We have lots of hills and I must navigate fairly steep hills to get anywhere. I also have a very steeply sloping driveway - so steep that lowering the car is out of the question! So I am looking to stick the 17s back on at the end of October through to March and looking to equip them with some winter tyres which might keep me mobile throughout, even when the snow falls -and it will.

    So which winter tyres work best? I'm not bothered about longevity as they've only got to get through the winter - I'm prepared to replace them every year.

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    I ended up looking nothing like standard. I went with the HKS Spec-L. It sounds only subtly different from stock, a little less noticeable than I expected but when I go to a new manifold I expect it to still have a neighbour friendly non-chavtastic kind of sound. Sadly, the planned manifold swap will have to wait as I had a house boiler failure this week and replaced it this morning robbing me of close to £3k in the process.

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    7 minutes ago, Tubbytommy said:

    Get a better job or rich woman .. 

    Loads of mods then:)

    As much as I'd like to shack up with an heiress, I don't think that would ever happen  - I quite like my independence these days.

    My job pays well and I'm effectively my own boss but child maintenance is a severe drain on funds - not sure how an heiress would feel about funding that either.

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    Anyone else have this?

    Just about to pull the trigger on going down the TD UEL header route when the house boiler packs up and has so many faults it needs replacing. I don't know about you but being able to have a hot shower everyday and heating in the winter is a higher priority than eliminating the torque dip and having a satisfying burble.

    Does anyone else find that as soon as you can afford a mod on your car something else happens to stake a claim on those funds?

    Me? Almost every time.

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    34 minutes ago, MangoNo5 said:

    Excellent! Did you just repair or change the colour?

    Do have a before and after pic? 😊

    I had repair and an attempt to match the original colour - it's close.

    I don't have a before and after pic - i didn't take a pic of quite how poor my wheels had become - i had removed them in Nov18 and must've put them away damp - they had been shrink wrapped and stored on a pallet in a warehouse for 6 months - when I unwrapped them with a view to sticking them back on the car they were in a horrible state!

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