MIRAGE-MAN

Looks good mate, were you able too use the standard / supershift transmission when you put the new engine in?

My neighbor has an XR30 2001 Toyota Estima with the 3.0L 1MZ-FE V6 in it. 

It's a great car, a powerful people mover. Sounds good when you put your foot down. It's nice and quiet and cruz nicely around town. It can use the gas though. And it's become a bit of a dog in recent times, it revs out at 4000 rpm down the motorway, and seems too have a bit of lag when you put your foot down. May not help that the engine light is on.

It leaking oil, and may have some electrical problem with the battery charging / alternator system.

But a great car otherwise.

Looking forward to the new meet up spot.

I'm deffinately in for this one. See you's next week.

VTNZ say a lot off things. 

Some of which is bullshit.

Got no money, and I have other commitments tonight.

Sweet as Ed, thanks man.

48 minutes ago, 0R10N said:

How much are you happy to pay for outside "parking"?

$15 - $20 per week. But it's up to you ed.

The time has come for me too move from the storage place I've been using for the past year. Need another place ASAP. I'm don't care if it's inside or outside or on muddy grass, I don't really care.

I'm more than happy too do a weekly automatic payment.

And I'm possibly looking as far as Hamilton.

If anone could help me out, that would be sweet.

Thanks guys. 

Spotted this beauty on the shore.

The old Stellar is still parked up, I haven't done anything to it in nearly 3 months. Getting some money in at the moment, so I'll hopefully be able too start doing more work on it. But yeah she ain't driveable, it's turning over but not starting / running like shit.

While i'm waiting too get it running for summer cruzin, it's gone a bit moldy on the inside.

That's all I got for an update at the moment.

Just now, MIRAGE-MAN said:

I'm sure if you saw another person locally driving a Pizza. Which may be unlikely. You'd wanna have a chat.

Whoops, I meant Piazza. Stupid auto correct.

Pizza lol

3 hours ago, piazzanoob said:

You couldn't leave the poor mirage driver alone could you

I'm sure if you saw another person locally driving a Pizza. Which may be unlikely. You'd wanna have a chat.

Hopefully another fella with a mirage is going to attend the meet up tomorrow. Saw him driving through Lynfield, and I just had too have a chat.

Spotted a Tina here in Lynfield. Man the smell of weed is wofting pretty strongly in the air here too. 

It's the two people in the people mover listening to Rasta music.

Ya Man!!! LOL

Does anyone know this morons name, who is complaining. Does anyone have his address? I would have also voted having the meet outside his house. 

Stoddard is even closer for me. Yay!!!

On 6/21/2017 at 08:31, milkchoclety said:

Hey bro sorry to bump an old thread but did you ever manage to find some lowering sorings? I'm trying to find some myself but can't find jack haha

Have you tried going to Jammex NZ. I last checked 2 years ago, and they had some.

On 6/19/2017 at 09:43, flyingbrick said:

Yeah sometimes the truth hurts but meh that's life, most of us are broke for one reason or another.

I think.my thought process is similar to yours mirage-man.

I get my mind set on a particular vehicle and desire takes over regardless of how bad of an idea it is... Especially with daily driver- I find it SOOOO hard to buy sensibly/boring Corollas and shit.

After a long string of SHIT unreliable cars we had to take a leap and borrow some money- ended up with a commodore that we paid too much for BUT it's been reliable for 4 years and although it's not as frugal as a Corolla or as cool as something (anything) else it does absolutely everything necessary and would totally trade again.

Coon/commodore for lyfe.

 

Yeah your pretty damn right there. I think too far ahead of myself 80% of the time, and I sometimes settle on the first thing I see, it's worked out so far though.

Most of the time, I drive into the unknown. And if it works it works, and if it doesn't???

Needless to say I've been pretty lucky, with my purchases over the past few years. Nothing has ever broken down and left me stranded on the side of a dark country road. 

But Yeah, I nearly didn't make it out of the Waioeka gorge between Gisbourne and Opotiki back in April in the Vitz. But that came down too a computer problem, that was able too be reset. And no the Vitz ain't on it's last legs at all.

Reliable older Toyota's are the answer too everyone's problems. Even mine

Feel free too lock this thread now Neil.

1 hour ago, cletus said:

Are you buying a car just for one tow mission?

Ugh Yeah, that would be silly. 

"I'll buy it for one tow mission, and sell it too you afterwards."

10 minutes ago, chris r said:

this is oldschool lol. we all have 2 or 3 other cars.... Doesn't mean they are any good/in a state to daily

Yeah, damn right Chris. The Stella is nearly un-driveable, as the carb is completely blocked. The gold Mirage, is not a vehicle I want to drive daily, and has very bad play in the front right wheel. The green Mirage is running fine, but I'm not sure it could do a tow mission too Gisbourne. As a standard trailer would take nearly all the weight it is capible of towing.

The Vitz is OK, it's driving it's short city distances.

https://touch.trademe.co.nz/motors/listing/view/1344662450

This would have been great, I only just missed out on it this afternoon. Came across it a few minutes after it closed.

11 hours ago, Borgweiser said:

You do realize this is Oldschool right? Not Consumer.org

Obviously the answer is going to be twin turbo pinto swap into a Mondeo body turned rwd with fresh apex seals and three new vtec controllers on modgies and louvres

Modgies may actually look kinda good on a Mondeo wagon. It has too be lowered and have it's guards rolled though. LOL.

Microsoft Paint mockups anyone???

5 minutes ago, fuel said:

At $1300 that's really cheap motoring for something comfortable, safe and handles reasonably well. You're certainly not going to buy anything better to be honest. As long as the clutch and water pump on it are OK, you're probably not going to run into much other trouble. My 400,000kms Mondeo wagon was a Repco sales vehicle and had been well serviced and only had cosmetic flaws.

A V6-24 Galant is nice n all, but it's 5 years behind on technology. The Galant is probably a bit more simple with having a SOHC engine, but it's down on power compared to the Mondeo. The Mondeo will have side air bags, brake assist and electronic brakeforce distribution while the Galant has none of that - just front airbags and ABS.

Yeah, I love some of those Mitsi's. But I'll keep with an old one at the moment.

Don't even bother going too Tony' s Tyre service if you need a wheel alignment on your OS car. They're brain dead asf when it comes too wheel alignments on old cars.

Took my green Mirage to their new branch in New Lynn, with that $39 voucher thingy.

They said they could do it, then they said they couldn't as they didn't have the alignment settings for it.

And he said something along the lines of "we don't do cars older than 2000".

How dumb.