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TRD_07
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Re: WORST experience with AE-86. I promise you'll be entertained... please read.

Sun, 25 September 2005 01:32

KOPDIS wrote on Sun, 25 September 2005 03:09

TRD_07 wrote on Thu, 22 September 2005 08:53

This car 4AC one, he is referring to is my old car pictured in my avatar, when he bought the car it had 3 days remaining on RWC before it expired. He bought wed night and it expired on Sat, i would of been straight under the car checking things thurs morning and down to the RW tester asap to fix it before it expired, as i thought you would do, you even said "oh oil leaks, not your(my) problem but whoever gave you the RWC it will be there problem"

I had put the car through a roadworthy check and received a RWC after i fixed afew minor problems the test revealed. The Tester never pointed out any major problems with the car leaks etc. and i was unaware of any other problems with it, like the ones stated, i mean its 20+years old id expect it to have some small leaks but nothing to worry about. It was badly out of tune which we agreed on when inspecting.

I put the car up forsale because i started a new job(was working part time) and didnt have time to do the planned 4AGE conversion, so i had only done 200km since RWC was completed, the test wasnt a dodgy RWC however i felt the workshop was alittle dodgy, the mechanic still looked over the car and seemed like a nice guy, i guess he was abit lenient.

Good luck with it, it was a decent car, apart from those problems which would of partly been resolved with the T-series diff i offered with the sale, the small engine leaks/belts are a different story i would of tuned it alittle better & run on the 4ac til it blew prob 6months+ and replaced with a 16v rather than waste money on POS 4AC, but your choice, your car, enjoy Smile

AH i thought it was you. How's it going? Mate we're loving this car you sold. that RWC thing was not a big issue as we didn't have the time to fix it on thursday. Garage was busy and earliest booking we could get was saturday. (friday actually, to do the clutch but didn't notice the problems until saturday). After the tune-up, it ran sweet. Fixed a float in the carbie which made it stall a bit. It revs really nicely and i'd feel a waste to throw this engine out for a 16V at this point. Some more it's pretty quick and after setting up the suspension a bit, it corners like crazy. When the 16V goes in, suspension etccc has to be done so we're saving that hassle for now and enjoying the simplicity of STOCK. Tell you the truth though, i bet an 88KW 4A-GE TVI-S will go in before we change the rear bushes... if you get what we mean..

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