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Location: NSW
Car: 1990, MkII Turbocharged, Black
Mileage: 60K km
As far as I know this is the only ADR compliant MR2 Turbo in the country.
Imported privately, and sold to me by the original importer after he'd
achieved ADR compliance. Car has probably been clocked (had 49K km on it
when I bought it, clocking is very common for ex-Japanese market cars sold
to Aust. & NZ), and has certainly been pranged fairly heavily and rebuilt.
Since purchase I have replaced all door & T-Bar seals to get it dry inside,
replaced the rear subframe and control arms to '93 spec, and fixed sundry
irritations like no spare, no alarm, no cruise control, rattles everywhere,
cracked tail light lens, cracked drivers mirror, driving lights that fall
off (that actually happened 3 weeks into ownership, talk about caveat emptor)
and gave the poor thing its first fresh coolant for who knows how long.
Fixing the climate control was fun for weeks for the guys at Ron James Toyota,
thanks to Mark Sandiland and staff, who finally found a simple adjustment
when Toyota Head Office at Taren Point were keen to start replacing TX valves,
compressors and whatever else.
The peculiar Japanese market radio, with Japanese FM frequency allocation
(gets you taxi despatch and some very minority interest FM stations) and
Japanese emergency frequency rapid access button, remains, mainly because
it's so well integrated with the rest of the car's systems, power button
illuminated at night at all times, delayed eject after ignition off, all
those neat things.
Still to come is some further investigation of the front shocks, trying to
find a reason for the poor brake performance, and MAYBE new rubber, as it
currently rejoices in "Dark Horse Roadstones", well, no, I'd never heard of
them either, they're Korean, and really are roadstones, esp. in the wet.
Nonetheless, at 200HP, all leather, ABS, Climate control, electro-hydraulic
power steer it's the full quid GT turbo spec, and comfortably beats Sydney
taxis, something I couldn't do in my Cordia Turbo.
It looks just like the normal cars, but has raised deck lid louvres, turbo
decals and a neat little internally illuminated MR2 sign in fluorescent
green instead of the red plastic embossed item (a Japanese market only
feature) between the tail lights.
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Geoff Seeley (geoff@mr2.com)