dazstarlet

Thanks for the reply. I will try to get my chap to tighten it further. It only concerns more why it keeps getting loose again if he thinks it's fine. I can imagine by the time I get to the MOT place it will be loose and fail again!

So today my UK EP91 failed it's MOT on 'excessive play in rear nearside wheel'. I've had an issue with this passenger side rear wheel since I inadvertently went over what was a large hole in the side of the road where a B road had collapsed away at the edge due to rain or something. I went over the hole with the rear wheel, a huge bang occured and there was some grinding noise for a few mins, before that went away. Noticed that rear end of car was a bit all over the place.

Took the car to mechanic who only found the rear passenger wheel had excessive play in it. Everything else he said looked fine. He took the wheel off, and reassembled things with a new hub pin. The mechanic told me there needed to be some play in the wheel and he was not going to do the nut up too tight. But wheel play had diminished. I drove the car for a while but noticed after a short while things felt loose again going around corners etc. Took the car back to him and wheel play was back to being excessive again. We then repeated this whole cycle again one more time.

So getting fed up I took the car to my local tyre fitter to check that the alloy wheel was not warped, as I thought that might be the root cause after the big pot hole I went over. Not sure if they checked the wheel tbh but they came right back to me and said 'it's the bearing'. So, both rear wheel bearings were subsequently replaced. I thought this had made things better, but then the bombshell today of a failed MOT on this same wheel.

The very experienced old school mechanic I use is usually pretty darn good, but he has told me he thinks the 'younger' MOT guys are wrong to fail on this, as quoting him 'there has to be some play in an adjustble taper roller bearing' - but it's obviously worse than the other wheels hence the MOT fail.

So other than confirming 100% the alloy wheel is not warped and not some sort of root cause I can't see with the bearing already replaced what else it can be..... Any idea guys?

I've read some other forum posts on similar issues people have had, and some have replied that the hub nut must be really tight? Is there a torque setting anyone has used for similar issue I can give the mechanic, as he is convinced that if too tight then damage will occur.

Any help appreciated as this issue is really beginning to get on my goat! Clearly the new rear bearings were money wasted and I don't want to waste anymore if I can help it

Cheers.

Post requirements in wanted section chap.

Post in the technical section mate. Probably some questions already posted / answered on same subject. There are not many subjects now that have not been!

Good job. Now I can pay my subs :)

Nice condition, a bit of surface rust around fixing bracket which will clean off with a few minutes of elbow grease. Not bent or twisted.

This was fitted to my UK EP91 S when I bought it (was going to be a project car for another UKSO member). But it was knocking on the air box, and was pointless on a standard N/A that I had no intention of modding. So it had to come off...

Collection by yourself, or you can arrange for a courier to collect for you.

Cost & Payment: £10 - payment up front if you arrange a courier to collect it, or I will accept cash on day of collection if you prefer to come & collect it yourself.

Location is South Lincolnshire / PE10

No currently on Ebay, but it will go there if no interest on UKSO by end of June. Any questions please feel free to ask, thanks for looking.

Hello all.

A couple with a couple of out of control young boys have moved in near me recently. One of the little sods proudly told me this week that whilst at work he sat on the bonnet of my Z4m! Fantastic news.... i'm sure the aluminium bonnet appreciated that as much as I did (cue red mist rage and thoughts of getting away with killing said evil child).

So my thoughts must turn to protecting the car now (which is on my drive when I am at work). Does anyone have recommendations / experience with the home network security cameras? I am thinking about the ones like Netgear ARLO and such like. I would rather not have to get a NAS box to hook it up to, but I will need one that can set up at least one viewing 'zone'. It doesn't need to do night IR stuff as the parents do at least drag him in at night - which is a small miracle as they don't care much about other disciplines.......

Any help appreciated,

Cheers.

Bought nice clean 98 Starlet S from him, only 36k miles. All was good, and car which replaced my lovely original has been a nice little chap so far.... Damien is a good chap to boot ;)

Cheers, yes I've been on eBay and realised the link item is not what I need! Thanks for confirming.

Hope someone can help me out here please. So I've bought some alloys off eBay as piccie below, Toyota branded and they have flat seated bolt holes. The standard steelies my Starlet has on have tapered nuts so won't fit with new alloys. Are the flat ended nuts on the europarts link below the ones I need to get to fit the studs?

https://www.eurocarparts.com/ecp/c/Toyota_Starlet_1.3_1998/p/car-parts/transmission-parts/car-transmission/wheel-bolt-and-wheel-nut/?924730090&1&b57a60b28dd8d1902210da91942916eb6999d959&000866

Any help appreciated. Ta.

He's a great guy, and his You Tube vids on all sorts of car / bike refurbs and mechanics are really interesting. Just so happens he has done a series on fixing up Starlets including welding and complete stripdown of parts from one car to rebuilding of another with parts.

This link shows the first 5 Starlet videos, which is one series of 4 vids from a few years back, but also the first part of a new series to get his new $300 dollar daily back on the road. He has just uploaded a new video on getting the engine out of that which is not on the playlist yet.

Really worth watching this guy.

Never got around to posting this, but now with a twist in the story I will. Bought a rear bumper from him, he was away on hols I think but met his (cool) Dad I think it was and collected it. Was great to chat Starlets with him, and see BMX's nice import outside. Bumper was in very good nick as he promised.

Now the twist.... had bumper refinished and sprayed up as new by my local bodyshop who are ace. Due to work have had to wait to fit it. But went in this Saturday 12th just gone and helped chap fit it at said bodyshop. Interesting to see him push out back panel that guy who ran into back of me stoved in as well as ko'ing the old bumper.

Looked great!

Well it was not to be. Last night at about 6.45 as I was coming home from work a Lithuanian lorry driver in a 40 tonne artic decided to pull out of a junction as I was just coming onto him and despite best efforts as he had come across my lane entirely I could not swerve round him enough and we hit nearly head on at 30-40. Needless to say there was only going to be one winner. Not me or my little Starlet. Car is a write-off.

But thanks anyway for the bumper. It looked ace for the 5 days it was on!

PM'd

One here for £10 if you can collect from aldershot

Aldershot is just too far down south chap, sadly due to work and stuff I don't have the time to get down there. Cheers anyway.

Got one here mate would have to post due to being located in Guernsey, PM if interested

Very kind offer mate. This may be too costly for courier though? I would need to look into that first, unless you know sort of prices if you have used before?

Colour not important as will be pro resprayed, but must be uncracked with no scuffs, gouges or deep pitting. I can only pickup from local to me +/- 30 miles in Peterborough area, or else I can pay for delivery.

Set on Ebay too right now...

Ok I can fit it to mine so the chaps are saying on my other post, but fair enough if someone else is ahead in the queue for courier delivery. I am hundreds of miles away so no time to collect. Plus it would cost me a lot more in petrol than a courier. Thanks anyway.

I am interested in this chap, but I have a question posted in the section on exterior about needing to but seals to fit it to a std UK EP91. Once I have an answer I will be back to you (if it will fit my car). My car got rear ended and the bumper trashed, so I will be having any bumper I buy resprayed so I don't mind paint damage. But is yours free from splits, dents or any plastic damage?

If all works out would you get it sent down to me if I shell out the courier fee?

Cheers,

I've read lots of posts saying how the rear bumper of a JDM 4efte EP91 is a straight fit to a UK EP91, but I also saw this post on another forum saying you need to buyer some inner seals. Is this info below correct? I need a new rear bumper after this clown ran into the back of me last week whist I was waiting at a red light, and I always wanted the JDM bumper if I got a need to replace mine. Now I do!

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"Got a part number for that inner seal?

Yes I have...

It's 52591 10060, for the right one, and 52592 10030 for the left one..."

I had a replacement engine fitted last year as my original 4EFE had top and bottom end wear, which according to the mech's looking into it was probably due to it running on low oil (from previous owners I thought at the time). So a new engine went in Feb 16 at 96k miles on the clock. Well, I was out of work last year and did few miles, so when the new engine went in with oil (as Fiddlersport drained all the fluids out before sending me the engine) I had the full 9k miles before needing some more. Well I have started a new job, and the mileage is 106 per day - so I calculated an oil fill at end of April when car would have done 9k miles since give or take.

Well, on way back from work on Friday I saw the oil light come on briefly - first time ever since I have had my Starlet (4 + years now). Checked oil today and absolutely zilch on the dipstick! I wonder now if the car has always had a faulty oil warning sensor, and it was probably me who accidently f*cked up the 1st motor by running it dry.

So, is there any margin of safety in oil levels if dipstick is showing below 'low', and if not and the warning light came on only briefly is that an initial 'shot across the bow' before it would have come on permanently. Or have I f*cked engine number 2!

I have not heard the same grinding bottom end noises before the first engine was screwed this time, but I guess it can't have done it much good running so low I have heard some metallic shrill 'tingling' noise on engine load at some points of the rev range (changing gear out of sweet spot or going up hills), but I assumed that was the catalytic convertor which is still the original. Those noises were present when the car had the first engine. I was going to post about what things could have survived over between engines to make those noises, but some Youtube vids point to it being a tired cat (it still on the original exhaust all through..). So I dismissed it, but could those be due to oil levels? Is 9k miles between oil change optimistic?

By the way, there is no oil leak afaik.

I will be really p*ssed if I have unknowingly broken another engine! Any advice appreciated, cheers.

Forgot to post a thanks to Fs, he saw my rantings about the bottomend issues I was having and offered up a good 4EFE engine (and even offered to fit it for me). I could not make it to his garage in Manchester, but it has been fitted locally and all is good with it. So thanks to him, a straightup guy.

Ta.

Motion detection camera's that have a connected spray of water when tripped. Mate at work installed them for night time invaders and they worked a treat. He video'd it and showed us - sure enough at night you can see them getting soaked and they remember and don't come back again.

Welcome along chap. Very tropical compared to most places Starlets live... If you need a hand with anything I am sure there will be no shortage of offers

Welcome.