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Actually can't be GLS as they had rear headrests... Just looked like some chrome glinting around the glass.

Looks like a Starlet outline to me anyhow. A GLS maybe?

Scampi.

When you say plugs chap you mean the same adapter that Billy linked to on Ebay?

I'll give it away if I can get the new unit in It's the original Toyota tape player mate.

They are very well respected in the hi-fi world as good gear. It isn't going to outperform a full on separates hi-fi system for sound quality, but as far as this new fangled wirelesss streaming malarkey goes you can't really better it for price / performance / ease of use. It gives you full system synergy, and that's good as it's all designed to work together and stops a lot of the hassle of mix and matching gear.

Shame, I love that blue colour. Really suits the Starlet.

I'm surprised I can't find a DIY guide on this or a Wiki entry as 1st timer peeps always have trouble with it. I am wanting to replace mine but reading numerous threads it all seems a bit daunting with many pitfalls. If someone could knock up a post with piccies it would be great. Otherwise I may have to give Halfords £29!!

Has this bitten the dust? I don't see the coloured model tags anymore.

This is my Starlet with Yaris alloys.

Good job chap. I'm sure you'll be fine with it. Enjoy.

Bottom line, 99.9% of all other cars compared to the Starlet are going to seem unreliable But it isn't an Alfa or a French car you are buying. Take a look over at Bmwland forum, and ask some questions there. There is a German chap on that (UK) forum who just knows everything you could need to know.

"Are they expensive" Tom, nothing is cheap in BMW world if it's genuine! I can testify to that. Ignore the VW comparison as at the end of the day VAG diesels are good workhorses no doubt, but VW's are not anymore reliable than BMW's. I've had several of both and so far BMW ownership has been far more reliable by a bloody mile than some of the tat VW shove out. And there is no way the pride of ownership is the same I can assure you ;) As for performance, well if you check the MK5 170hp GT TDI it's officially only 0.60 7.9 and the 330 will pound that into the ground. Evo mag loved it, a

Tom, I'm sorry I can't take occult seriously (just as I can't listen to childish conspiracy theorist crap like man never walked on the moon etc). A couple of thousand years since intelligent man has been roaming the planet and conveniently there is not one single piece of on-demand repeatable action / process that shows evidence to uphold the notion that there is a dark / unseen side of life - and you'd think after all this time someone would have something on film or camera or shit would't you! Damn that devil man, he always seems to leg it from the room just as the camera starts rolling! T

LOL! David Icke is a fruit cake (or certainly was). Many of you will be too young to remember this footie goalkeeper turned BBC presenter turned loony tune, but if you don't know of him try finding a video of him on the old Wogan BBC chat show. He thinks (thought) that there was a master race of lizards or such that ruled man!!! He also said he was the son of God. He may of calmed down a bit but maybe still needs a bit of medical help..... As for torturing suspected terrorists, well they use our freedoms and human rights against us to slaughter the innocent. As they showed no mercy to

Oh yes, forgot about that. That was a recall too. Gearbox was not good for VW reputation in my opinion. All German peeps with failures got free replacements, all UK failures got if you were lucky and pestered them enough was afaik a 'contribution' to a new box. Well gee thanks VW, thanks for helping me to pay for your f*ck up. Got shot of mine after 8 months. My last VW - ever.

Noooooooooo... don't do it. As a former huge Polo fan I had one and they are not particularly fun to drive, in fact lousy handling over rough stuff - can't push on with speed at all. A Honda engineer told me that they checked one out and it had mostly standard Polo suspension. And although quality BBS wheels and such like they have a design fault VW acknowledged which means total gearbox failures. You might just as well get yourself a 16v spec model and use it as a starting point.

IDWorkz sell crystal lights don't they?

Do you really need the paper version? There is a full PDF version floating around on the internet - I can point you to it if you want (it's not on a torrent or a dodgy Russian site or anything). I found the link from a Starlet forum down under. Let me know.

Welcome chap. Car looks mint. I really like the 70series. If only someone has a Si or R tucked away in a garage..... Starlet longevity is bloody great isn't it. I often chortle to myself as I trundle past new (mostly French & Italian) cars broken down on side of road. Maybe you could start a thread in projects section?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/toyota-starlet-kp61-rwd-/221277863069?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3385303c9d

Needs work, but a good base for a project maybe. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1988-TOYOTA-STARLET-GL-WHITE-/161101704846?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item258268ee8e

I've no idea Morgey, i'm told that that on the ramp nothing was catching but i'm only going on what they said. I'm not really up on this stuff tbh. The front top mounts are new KYB one's which I'd think as OEM replacements should be like the originals. Maybe going back to Toyota ones would do the trick... I'll just have to live with it until I can find a garage that does know what they are doing.

Well they say it's front springs and I did have new top mounts at the front (not back as KYB don't make them) so maybe if I'd kept the old ones it would not be happening. I don't know. As for being a good garage, well how do you know these days? This garage has rave reviews on the 'good garage scheme' website and locally - they have a good background in various prestige dealerships before setting up on their own. This is one for the rant section but these days 90+ % of tradesmen I use seem to f*ck things up. It's like nobody has all the skills anymore. If I had a £ for every garage that did no

Well fitting garage found issue to be front passenger side spring twisting / moving slightly against top mount when at full lock. They say it's because there is no lug or something to stop it at the top unlike the bottom. They tried cleaning up and reseating everything 3 times but can't fix the issue. Maybe a faulty manufactured part as the other side isn't doing it (not sure that is true I heard noises coming from front and back). Not causing any damage apparently, so looks like I'm going to have to live with it unless I start trying to fault find specific part and get a replacement. But