Facelift Altezza

Bought this over the weekend.

Don't shoot me ha ha!

Very nice car and very different to the mx5 in good and bad ways!

Small enough spec on it, but wasn't messed with and good solid original car.
-exedy clutch
-luk flywheel
-braided brake lines(standard brake lines there two)
-New battery fitted
-MAK 18 inch alloys
-full trd kit with new fogs
-trd dampers, haven't checked springs yet
-trd axle back exhaust
-trd spark plugs
-full leather interior with stamped Altezza badges

Going to daily this soon and plan is for a driving work in progress project.

It's a very clean car, I'm just very picky and needs a few bits doing.
-New Tyres
-Service
-Gearbox and diff oil change
-Coolant Change
-T/b and w/p change
-Clean up and scrapes etc


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Does it not still have the big brake kit?

Love the look of it but couldn't face the interior myself :eek:

Ha cheers too be honest I don't know much about these at all! From what I can see online this is the rs200 L-edition so should have factory hid's etc according to tezzaworld but they don't seem to be there.

It used to have a big 4 or 6 pot brake kit on the front but somebody must have taken it off. Trust me you'd see it if it was still on it!

Well the HIDs were probably removed with the original headlights, those are prefacelift headlights in it at the minute.

Ha ha fair enough! You obviously knew the car well!

Anything I should know about it?

Goin to try get the original headlights to suit it.

If there's so much TRD stuff on it it probably had the black TRD headlights before.

Found pic of it
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It had Ceika 6 pots on the front & 4 pots on the rear. Some setup!

Someone has also nabbed the facelift tail lights aswell!
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Originally Posted by Dave

Ha ha fair enough! You obviously knew the car well!

Anything I should know about it?

Goin to try get the original headlights to suit it.

If there's so much TRD stuff on it it probably had the black TRD headlights before.

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I've never actually seen the car it's just easily memorable from the forums!

There is no TRD parts on the car as far as I can see. TRD didn't make black headlights either they were just Toyota options.

Shit that's some brake setup...definitely not there now!ha ha

Hopefully I'll be able to bring it somewhat closer to it's former glory anyway!

It was for sale in Wicklow, and the guy PJ I think was hi name said he got it from his cousins husband (he was a carpenter and never drove the car and it was always garaged) or something along those lines and was selling it as he had a turbo altezza.

Must have been him who took the parts off it so.

Can you send me a link to that thread?

Cheers

Found it here
http://www.tezzaworld.com/viewtopic....13488&p=128732

Cheers lad!

Had a decent look round the car and can confirm:

-Front bumper is a shitty fiberglass copy (I'll get it fitting right)
-Shocks are kyp dampers and standard springs

Didn't get time to check over anything else unfortunately!

Got my new facelift headlights today.... should have this back to OEM faclift fairly soon all being well!

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The connectors on the IS300 one's and Facelift Altezza one's are the exact same so yeah much better job than getting them from Japan!

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All I need apparently is a 9006 harness to wire them back up. I am going to buy connector's for the auto levelling also and make that function again as the wires are all already there, just connections change to suit the pre-factlift headlights.

Tempted to go for these instead of the facelift rears though..... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LEXUS-Toyo...gAAOSwU9xUTdLj

Got this insured over the weekend and did a few things on it:
- new front tyres, cheap and cheerful Nankangs
- full alignment
- New pressed aluminium number plates
- Played with headlight beam alignment as the light output on these are ridiculously shit. I don't need to use the fog lights to see now which is a massive difference.

It's going for test now in two weeks, fingers crossed it'll pass, only done 1000kms since last year.

Drove it all weekend and only got 23.5 mpg! Never thought I'd get that low was expecting low 30's or late 20's at worst!ha

Smiles per gallon was much better though! Really enjoying this car!

Immediate plans:
- Get through nct
- Buy new connectors and loom for facelift headlights
- Source facelift rear lights (decided to stay oem, instead of going for leds)
- Get new front bumper as the fiberglass copy thats on it is a horrific fit. Be a while away as plastic legana bumpers are 500 euro plus atm.
- Get rear lip fitting better
- Get a few very small scrapes tidied up

Things worked in my favour funds wise for travelling and was very lucky to be able to keep this, the mx5 and my old daily Toledo in storage until I got back.

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Dropped this off for nct during the month and it failed on the exhaust noise and brake cable fouling on the spring. Car has only done 150kms since the last test with the same exhaust which passed first time and the previous year? I asked the tester whats changed, nothing it just failed today.

Took it over to the mechanic who put in a silencer bung and fixed the brake cable issue for the test.

While in there the car got oil change, coolant change, gearbox oil change and diff oil change. Gearbox oil change made a massive difference and is much smoother now.

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Nct passed the next day and back into hibernation until June. Going to transfer insurance over for the summer.

Really like these, Always nice to see a clean one.

Have to agree with Frank, This makes such a nice change from the usual king of the cone altezzas you'd see about

Cheers lads. Really is a gem. It seems to check out as an RS-200 L Edition and I've never seen another. Going to keep it oem+ to avoid the red neck Altezza "She be a good yoke for Donegal Sir" craic.

big antenna and mismatched wheels, and a 'powered by the dole' sticker and you're laughing :p

Still daily driving this and put 10,000kms on it in 5 months. Serviced twice in this period and full coolant flush at 155,000kms.

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Was driving home from Wicklow for a friends Stag do and filled up with a full tank in Castleblaney. Within 2 kms car started coughing and spluttering, and lost all power. Made it 10kms to the over taking lanes outside Monaghan and I couldn't make it up a hill, pulled into the parking as it wasn't safe to drive on.

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Rang the breakdown from insurance and they would only drop me to Castleblaney and no further. Had to call my father to rent a trailer and take myself and the car back to Donegal. Took about 15 hours to get back.

Dropped straight back to my mechanic and he diagnosed as bad fuel. He put in fuel treatment and told me to run the tank through with the fuel treatment and it should solve itself after 2 refills. Car has been fine since thankfully and no issues.

Donegal rally is on my route home and was doing my normal commute. Some serious cars around that weekend!

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Just back from getting another service at 159000kms, 5w30 fully Synthetic, oil filter, air filter, and new brake pads all round. Also painted the front brake callipers that I replaced a year ago finally!

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Car is going off to get some love soon, new genuine Toyota beading, new rear lip and new front bumper all to be fitted and painted by the end of the month for a wedding.

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Then it's off the road for the winter at start of November and into my new winter hack...Saab 9-3 TID 1.9 Auto.

Forgot to say I put in a brand new Pioneer headunit with bluetooth and DAB radio, it's fantastic well worth the money. Works much better with Iphone's than Android though..

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tidy!

Looks good they’re a fine car. Dunno if you’d have any interest but Iv a blitz supercharger kit for one of these. I’d want €2500 for it.

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Looks good they’re a fine car. Dunno if you’d have any interest but Iv a blitz supercharger kit for one of these. I’d want €2500 for it.

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Cheers Larz and tomsheen. I'd have no interest unfortunately! Going to try put some money towards the mx5 next year.

That’s no bother atall. It’ll be mad in a few years when your prob the only one in the country driving an honest clean Altezza ha. Looking at this really makes me want to put mine back together

Yeah Id say it wont be far away! Do you have a project thread for your own?

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Just dropped it off with some nice new goodies.

So just to update this. Got quite a bit of paintwork done:
- driver's door and driver's rear door resprayed
- front left wing resprayed
- front bumper resprayed
- rear bumper resprayed
- side skirts resprayed and fitted with new genuine toyota beading
- new rear lip sprayed and fitted with new genuine toyota beading
- new bumper sprayed and fitted
- new fog light wired and fitted

Sorry the car is a bit dirty, was impossible to keep clean in the recent weather we had recently.

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Then last night washed it and put it into storage safe away from the salt and gritters beside the MX-5

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