Facelift Altezza

[Dave]

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.

[LarZ]

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

[Dave]

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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[LarZ]

tidy!

[tomsheen]

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.

[Dave]

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.

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

[tomsheen]

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