trigger

Just done a DVLA check on this and it's not been taxed since July, anyone know whats happened to it?.

Now sold and gone to a good home.

Cheers. It's as nice as it looks to be honest but i don't really know what it's worth, I'll be happy with somewhere close to the asking price.

I'll probably put it on eBay tomorrow and see what happens.

Due to a change of circumstances, Mrs T is having a baby so she's got my Focus and I've bought a old Ford Sierra the mighty Starlet needs to find a new home, I won't lie, It's been a brilliant car and done my wife well, she's gutted that I'm selling it!.

So it's a 3 lady owner SR, just turned 80000 miles, has lots of history, everything works as it should. It's got 5x alloys with excellent tyres, the 2 front ones are Uniroyal's that are only a few months old (the original centre caps are in the boot).

It's been fully serviced and it had a new windscreen for it's MOT in June.

Faults, well it's TTE rear box is long gone like many of them, the O/S/R quarter has been keyed at some point and into the door, some colour magic polish hides the worse of it, it has a couple of dents you'd expect a 17 year old car to have and i have painted the bonnet with a aerosol can due to a dent, it's not bad but it is a little strippy/patchy.

All in all it's a very good original example that with a little love could be a excellent example. I'm not sure what it's worth, hopefully £995 ono is about right?. I'm in Ipswich, Suffolk. P.M me for contact details.

1998 Toyota Starlet 1.3 16v SR

1998 Toyota Starlet 1.3 16v SR

1998 Toyota Starlet 1.3 16v SR by Triggers Retro Road Tests, on Flickr

1998 Toyota Starlet 1.3 16v SR

1998 Toyota Starlet 1.3 16v SR

1998 Toyota Starlet 1.3 16v SR

1998 Toyota Starlet 1.3 16v SR

1998 Toyota Starlet 1.3 16v SR

1998 Toyota Starlet 1.3 16v SR

This is the newest photo I've got, I'll try and get some more.

What are these worth? I'm looking at selling this on in the next week or so as I've bought a Sierra.

It's in great condition other than a few small dents and the bonnet is a bit patchy still! 79000 miles, nearly new tyres all round, new windscreen for the mot a few months back yadda yadda.

To be honest it's been absolutely faultless in the time we've had it and it needs for nothing, the wife loves it but she's having a baby soon so it will be too small for us, she's having the Focus and I've got this Sierra to use instead so it's surplus to requirements.

Aye, I done mine a few days ago, flat back the primer with some 600 grit wet and dry and give it about a hour after applying the base coat before lacquering. Then after 24 hours flat the faces back with some 1200 grit wet and dry and finish with a good polish, should see them looking dandy.

No they are just plain, flat stickers.

I wouldn't bother wasting your money on those Speedline badges, they are cheap crap, mines turned up and they are just stickers.

I got them from here. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251949927370?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

I does seem strange that they didn't fit the 1.6 16v lump in the sporter model or even fit a slightly more desirable interior, I guess it was to keep the insurance down and encourage the first time driver to buy them maybe?.

As for this one, I've still got it, it must have done about 2000 miles in it now, not a lot of miles i know but it's been faultless and drives really nicely for a cheap, little Jap car, Yesterday i spent £83 on a pair of Uniroyal Rainsport 3 tyres for it from http://www.tyreleader.co.uk as they worked out the cheapest. The mot is due next month and one front tyre is close to bald with a slow puncture and the other is cracking so it would be daft not too,

As the tyres got to come off anyway then I'm also going to refurbish the alloys, I've ordered a set of new Speedline badges for them and I'll probably go Anthracite in colour as that suits the black. I'm well snazzy.

Clean it?

It wasn't me but we live near the college and also have a black SR, I didn't know that there was another one locally.

A friend sent me this a few days ago from a 1998 issue of Top Gear magazine, they didn't seem to rate the SR that highly!

Is the bottom bit of bonnet shinner than the rest? Shoulda done the whole bonnet

That's just the light, I did do the whole bonnet.

Thanks, As I'm a tight wad i decided that i might as well have a go at fixing the bonnet it myself, It was pretty well kinked in to start with and the paint had all cracked, I had managed to get the line right across the bottom and knocked out the worse of the damage so i attacked it with a sander and some filler.

It didn't need much filler as i got the worse of the damage out, after some primer it looked like this.

Yes that's a rattle can, what could possibly go wrong?.

Well a bit really, i should have bought a better nozzle as it didn't flow very well from the can and then disaster struck when the lacquer stopped spraying and then started started again causing a big run.

Balls, So i had to flat it back and start again. once all unmasked it looked like this. Stripey.

So fast forwards to this morning and i had a go at finishing it, after a good flatting session and running over it with the mop it's come up like glass, I'm much happier with it.

It's still not perfect but i shouldn't complain, it looks nicer with the badge and sticker refitted again too.

It now lives to fight another day!

I'm sure you've all been itching to see how I've got on with this... Well, I went round my dads today and we stripped the front end off to see what was bent, Thankfully it was only the bumper iron which i have a replacement off, the front edge of chassis rail was also slightly bent so we straightened that out and also reshaped a bracket that sits just under the headlight.

That all seemed to line up better so I boshed back on the replacement bumper bar and headlight.

Then after a lot of adjustments with a persuader, a block of wood, and some gentle pushing we managed to get the bumper and bonnet to all line up pretty good again.

Much better i think you'll agree, Today I've made a start at repairing the bonnet, I was going to get a bodyshop to do it but i think i can do a good enough job with a rattle can for now, If a 2nd hand bonnet turns up on ebay at some point I could always change it.

Total costs have been £15 for the headlight, £5 for the indicator, £25 for the bumper iron, £2.83 for a indicator clip and £7 for a replacement SR bonnet sticker and £40 for the parts to paint the bonnet , Not bad for a £400 payout, Mind you I haven't seen any of it, the wife's made sure of that!

That's a shame but at least it wasn't your fault.

Someone was talking about selling their Yaris SR for £150 over on Retro Rides the other day.

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/175272/sell-scrap-reg-yaris-sr

No, sadly not, I've just admired them from afar. Other than that Silver one i haven't seen one for years.

My subaru is also known as an alcyone but mines a genuine uk model

They were known as a SVX in the UK and Alcyone SVX overseas, I used to have the massive horn over the SVX, mostly because of the front window design.

The VR's were the imported versions, I don't think the UK cars had the digital dash either.

This one's listed as having a date of manufacture of 1986 but first registered in the UK in 1988, The owner has had it since then so that's probably when he had it imported into the UK.

This is from Wiki.

Two H4-powered derivatives were sold in Japan: the turbocharged Alcyone VR, and the non-turbocharged Alcyone VS.

I've been driving since 1997 and had about 40 cars now.

Here's a selection of those that i have photos off, sit down, this could take a while.

My first car.

My First Car, 1984 Vauxhall Nova 1.2 Swing by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

My old Vauxhall Nova 1.2 SXi by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

My old Ford Escort 1.3 Eclipse by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

My Old Ford Escort 1.6 Si by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

Ford Sierra 1.6 GL by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

My old Ford Fiesta 1.1L by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

My old Ford Escort 1.8TD LX 4-Door by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

My Old Ford Escort 1.6 LX by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

My old Audi A4 1.8 SE by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

My Old Peugeot 306 1.8 Merdian by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

My Old 1998 Ford Mondeo 1.8 Verona by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

My old Ford Focus 1.8 TDCi Ghia by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

My Ford Mondeo ST24 And Hannah's Ford Puma 1.4 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

2000 Volkswagen Passat 1.9 Tdi 115 Sport by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

2004 Nissan Micra 1.5 DCi 86 SE by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

2002 Volkswagen Bora 1.9 TDi 130 Sport by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

My 2005 Ford Mondeo ST TDCI in Cornwall by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

1994 Volkswagen Golf 1.8 Cabriolet by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

1988 Ford Escort 1.6 GL Mk4 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

1984 Ford Escort 1.3 L Mk3 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

1972 Opel Kadett B 1.2 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

My 1974 Ford Cortina 2000 XL Mk3 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

1985 Suzuki Alto FX by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

1991 Mercedes Benz 190E 2.0 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

1976 Honda Civic 1200 Deluxe 1st Gen by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

1998 Toyota Starlet 1.3 16v SR by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

I think that's most of them.

They are funky cars for sure, i saw that Silver one last about 4 years ago in the car park of a local car show, It's an import Alcyone version.

1986 Subaru VR Alcyone Turbo by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

1986 Subaru VR Alcyone Turbo by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

Owner : Trigger
Reg Or Reg Year : S890 AGU 1/8/98
Owned Since : Jan 2015
Colour : Black
Modifications : None.
End 6 Vin Digits : 417316
Pictures:

1998 Toyota Starlet 1.3 16v SR by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

1998 Toyota Starlet 1.3 16v SR by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

That's a kind offer, thanks but Mrs Triggers grizzling about having no car now so I'll have to crack on and get it sorted asap.