I'm new to the site and would appreciate the help

[Pepper]

Hi lads 

Great to be apart of the the website.

I am hoping for some help off ye lads if you could please, recently purchased a 2007 d4d avensis I'll post pictures later , I'm looking to purchase a tte grill would anyone know where I'd purchase one of these and second I'm considering lowering the car I want to know what would ye recommend on what mm springs I should use don't want the car too low but I would like to reduce the height as I think it is very high at the moment ,17inch toyota alloys on the car at the moment and I reckon looks abit to high with them 

Hope ye can help 

Thanks 

 

[Heidfirst]

Hi Darren, welcome to TOC 

I think that you might struggle to find the TTE Sport Grill. The part no. is PZ439-T9493-AB & the installation manual is readily available online if you wanted to think about making something similar yourself.

The TTE springs (oemed by Eibach iirc) were -25mm iirc.

[rdy416]

Hi I’m looking for the same thing for mine but Toyota have discontinued them.

I suppose the only thing is to keep places like eBay in hope one eventually turns up.

Or you could make your own which is something I’m looking into doing but I want to purchase another stock grill to cut up.

I managed to buy a set of tte lowering springs which are about a 25mm drop apparently. My other car is lowered about 35mm and that looks perfect. But the tte springs may be enough to take some of the arch gap out without making the car too low

[Pepper]

Thanks for the reply lads 

Beautiful grill but hard got 😣I've tried everywhere on the Internet no joy 

Yes I have seen the Eibach pro kit only 25mm drop would I notice the difference? I don't want to drop the car to floor I want it to be comfortable 

What size wheels have you with the 35mm drop @rdy416

[rdy416]

Thanks for the reply lads 
Beautiful grill but hard got [emoji21]I've tried everywhere on the Internet no joy 
Yes I have seen the eibach pro kit only 25mm drop would I notice the difference? I don't want to drop the car to floor I want it to be comfortable 
What size wheels have you with the 35mm drop [mention=86724]rdy416[/mention]

On my corolla it’s running 17” kei force 10’s



The avensis being a t180 comes with 17” as well.

[Amateurtorque]

Nice Corolla Ross. Is it a daily drive or show car?

[rdy416]

Nice Corolla Ross. Is it a daily drive or show car?

 

 

Thank you it used to be my daily but more of a show/toy now lol lots of plans for it but the wagon is raping me at the moment so things I want to do are on hold again [emoji24]

 

 

This is my daily well it was till the turbo packed up on Saturday. It was recovered to the garage this morning to have the turbo done and a new dpf because some wally before me gutted it and didn’t map it out [emoji849]

[Amateurtorque]

Hi Ross

Looks really good.

hope your new turbo and DPF aren't too expensive.

what happened when your turbo gave out?

Matt

[rdy416]

Hi Ross
Looks really good.
hope your new turbo and DPF aren't too expensive.
what happened when your turbo gave out?
Matt

Cheers Matt

Dpf was £319 delivered with gaskets and 2yrs warranty, turbo was originally a Melett re core which it quiet possibly will be again unless it’s damaged the housings and that’s about £164 delivered.

Strange really ever since the core was fitted it’s made a strange howling noise and not a whistle that turbos generally do. I had mentioned it to the garage and they said it should be fine.

Anyway drove about a mile up the road on Saturday was thrashing it because the engine was cold so was going dead steady. All of a sudden there was a pop and the car lost power no warning lights or smoke and the howling became extremely loud.

I popped the bonnet thinking it was a pipe off but couldn’t see anything obvious and it was still howling away so I disconnected the vac pipe to the actuator and drove back home.

Ross

[rdy416]

Cheers Matt

Dpf was £319 delivered with gaskets and 2yrs warranty, turbo was originally a Melett re core which it quiet possibly will be again unless it’s damaged the housings and that’s about £164 delivered.

Strange really ever since the core was fitted it’s made a strange howling noise and not a whistle that turbos generally do. I had mentioned it to the garage and they said it should be fine.

Anyway drove about a mile up the road on Saturday was thrashing it because the engine was cold so was going dead steady. All of a sudden there was a pop and the car lost power no warning lights or smoke and the howling became extremely loud.

I popped the bonnet thinking it was a pipe off but couldn’t see anything obvious and it was still howling away so I disconnected the vac pipe to the actuator and drove back home.

Ross

Turbo was stripped today



The cold side compressor wheel was completely chewed. Word to the wise don’t buy a “supposedly” genuine core off eBay as this is what happens. New genuine Melett core on its way

[Amateurtorque]

That's terrible.

it just shows your instinct about the howling noise was right, even thought the garage said not to worry.

will it take long to get fitted and back on the road?

matt

 

[rdy416]

That's terrible.
it just shows your instinct about the howling noise was right, even thought the garage said not to worry.
will it take long to get fitted and back on the road?
matt
 

Cheers Matt

Hopefully should be back on the road this week well fingers crossed. It’s really stressed me out today because the garage basically blamed me for it.

To which my answer was I never touched all the time it was working the only time I’ve laid a spanner on it was when it blew up.

Bit of a theory as to what’s happened was just something that the garage had mentioned. So I googled it and this forum funnily enough came up with the answer.

Ever since the cartridge was fitted I’ve had the strange howling noise. The garage said something about a reduction on the intake pipe that’s missing.

I’ve read a couple of cases that the ring has moved in the pipe or not been put back properly and has been sucked into the turbo. The howling is to do with the pipe not sealing to the turbo inlet properly.

Which is what I think has happened they put the pipe on and the ring has shifted whilst doing so and the turbo has sucked it up causing the damage to the blades.

Ross