Discussion and technical advice the SW20 MR2. 3S-GTE, 3S-GE, 3S-FE etc
Anything and everything to do with maintenance, modifications and electrical is in here for the Mk2.
depends to be honest if you look at the quality of some of the ads you can tell that we are barely past pond life in intelligence basic parklife speech and grammar and really terrible ads that just shout Chav and run a mile!
The old favourite that gets me reads something like: "Dis 1 is a import so it iz faster dan a uk car.
It also as a K&N on it in-it which makes it 185 orse power. I ad a cozzie a bit bak and dis feels az fast or a littel bit fazter..."
Last edited by Rowland on Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.
lol, seems you are not the only ones who spend your lunches (and work hours) searching the ebay.
I dont know whether half the ads are trying to impress and sound good, or actually trying really hard to be accurate - but don't have a clue!
IMO 99% of the stuff on there is rap with a capital 'C'
i often correct people on there, the first ad someone already corected him on that one i was going to but couldnt be bothered, as for second if i recall you have torque convertors on automatics which is like a clutch in some way praps he is confused a wee bit
nofearmadbiker wrote:i often correct people on there, the first ad someone already corected him on that one i was going to but couldnt be bothered, as for second if i recall you have torque convertors on automatics which is like a clutch in some way praps he is confused a wee bit
The guy with the black MR2 replied to my message and said that during the auto box rebuild all the clutches were replaced. Fair enough, but that is not what it says in the text.
praps he doesnt know much about auto's thay are strange things indeed automatics, only had two in my 18 years of driving a bmw 323i one with twin exhausts ver quick for auto, car was mint had it two weeks and sold it very boring and petrol was unreal it drank it when you poodled and drank it when you ragged it, other one was a mk2 escort that i converted to manual thats where i learnt the difference between the two extra pipes oil coolers for box dfferent radiators all sorts of things
I don't think it's limited to E-Bay TBH. But E-Bay bugs me full stop.
My biggest gripe with any kind of advert is the [u]VERY RAIR and DesIRABLE!!!!!!!! [/u] USEof random Text Fonts, STYLES, [i]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! marks[/i], and statements saying u wl not fnd btrr or guaranteed money back!!!
FnK B4 U bd -thx fr Lukn!!!! :)
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...this seems to be the normal these days. What happened to the old fashioned rules like, be honest, if you don't know don't say etc etc. Use a spell checker so most of it is legible at least (typo's are OK) -and check that the advert is legible in the first place!
I can't even get through that lot these days to find out what they're even talking about. I used to buy off the Bay but a while back and no more, ever.
...TBH, I think those are relatively good adverts apart from some very crucial details of course.
This is why I never bother looking on ebay uk as most of it's either crappy chineese badly made crap or just plain crap. Theres usually some decent bits and bobs on the us ebay and at least it has a chance of being a bargain. The occasion something half decent comes up on the uk one it always gets priced for/bid for silly money.
Dunno about buying cars though.
RedMR² wrote:My old favourite is: "This is an Import MR2 Twin Turbo which has loads more power than the UK single turbo"
that one gets me too!!! IT'S TWIN F*CKING ENTRY TURBO!!!!!!
it only has 1 turbo!!!!!
how can they not know this!!!
surely a rule of selling ANYTHING is to at least learn a little bit about the product!!!
and the whole import being faster thing??? jesus!!!
Found this on ebay, for sale of some front lense indicator looms:
TOYOTA MR2 MK2 SIDE LIGHT AND INDICATOR LOOMS TOYOTA MR2 MK2 FRONT SIDE LIGHTS AND INDICATOR LOOMS AND BULB HOLDERS ( IF I CAN FIND SOME BULBS I WILL THROW THEM IN ) . IDEAL FOR NEWLY IMPORTED MR2'S THAT DON'T HAVE ANY SIDE LIGHTS WHICH ARE A MOT REQUIREMENT OVER HERE .
RedMR² wrote:Found this on ebay, for sale of some front lense indicator looms:
TOYOTA MR2 MK2 SIDE LIGHT AND INDICATOR LOOMS TOYOTA MR2 MK2 FRONT SIDE LIGHTS AND INDICATOR LOOMS AND BULB HOLDERS ( IF I CAN FIND SOME BULBS I WILL THROW THEM IN ) . IDEAL FOR NEWLY IMPORTED MR2'S THAT DON'T HAVE ANY SIDE LIGHTS WHICH ARE A MOT REQUIREMENT OVER HERE .
Since when did import MR2's NOT have sidelights?
I may be wrong, but I think the US spec ones don't. Doubt anyone imports them though
RedMR² wrote:Found this on ebay, for sale of some front lense indicator looms:
TOYOTA MR2 MK2 SIDE LIGHT AND INDICATOR LOOMS TOYOTA MR2 MK2 FRONT SIDE LIGHTS AND INDICATOR LOOMS AND BULB HOLDERS ( IF I CAN FIND SOME BULBS I WILL THROW THEM IN ) . IDEAL FOR NEWLY IMPORTED MR2'S THAT DON'T HAVE ANY SIDE LIGHTS WHICH ARE A MOT REQUIREMENT OVER HERE .
Since when did import MR2's NOT have sidelights?
I thought Jap imports came with orange sidelight lens, and you had to replace them with white, to pass an MOT. So its kinda right.
RedMR² wrote:Found this on ebay, for sale of some front lense indicator looms:
TOYOTA MR2 MK2 SIDE LIGHT AND INDICATOR LOOMS TOYOTA MR2 MK2 FRONT SIDE LIGHTS AND INDICATOR LOOMS AND BULB HOLDERS ( IF I CAN FIND SOME BULBS I WILL THROW THEM IN ) . IDEAL FOR NEWLY IMPORTED MR2'S THAT DON'T HAVE ANY SIDE LIGHTS WHICH ARE A MOT REQUIREMENT OVER HERE .
Since when did import MR2's NOT have sidelights?
I thought Jap imports came with orange sidelight lens, and you had to replace them with white, to pass an MOT. So its kinda right.
not really as it is only the lense that is different, the indicator/sidelight loom (which the guy is selling) is the same as UK loom and will fit UK lenses, there is no diff between UK and Jap indicator and sidelight looms.
why do these people not know that the mr2 is a basic quad turbo setup???
it's pretty obvious, even in the original brochure it states: 1001bhp w16 quad turbo!!! 4wd!!
top speed 252mph 0-62mph, 3.6 seconds!!!
dumbasses!!!!
/ lies:
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