Your not real starlet owner until

gv1.3

gv1.3

Admin
You're not a real starlet owner until -

a) you spent wayyy too long looking for the oil filter
b) found the oil filter and then wondered IF it was actually possible to get it off
c) tore the knuckles off yourself trying to get the filter off from above
d) jacked the car up and realized it was as difficult to get it off from below
e) cursed the Japanese designer who "put the oil filter there"
f) went on to TGTT to search for others who have had the same problem
g) realized that most people will never go on a forum to admit they cant get an oil filter off
h) get frustrated and "stick a screwdriver through it" only to realize that you still cant get a turn on it
i) feel terror as you realize you can now not even drive the car because your oil filter has a screwdriver in it
j) find yourself standing there with blood on your stinging knuckles and the daylight quickly vanishing trying to do a job everyone said would take 15 minutes
k) start to listen to people telling you "its so easy when the A/C is ripped out"
l) go to change the oil filter a year later and realize you can do it in 5 minutes because you have developed "a system"
m) throw loving glances at your EP every time you pass her by knowing that you know how to fiddle around under her bonnet
 
Crazy_eyes

Crazy_eyes

Member +
gv1.3 said:
You're not a real starlet owner until -

a) you spent wayyy too long looking for the oil filter
b) found the oil filter and then wondered IF it was actually possible to get it off
c) tore the knuckles off yourself trying to get the filter off from above
d) jacked the car up and realized it was as difficult to get it off from below
e) cursed the Japanese designer who "put the oil filter there"
f) went on to TGTT to search for others who have had the same problem
g) realized that most people will never go on a forum to admit they cant get an oil filter off
h) get frustrated and "stick a screwdriver through it" only to realize that you still cant get a turn on it
i) feel terror as you realize you can now not even drive the car because your oil filter has a screwdriver in it
j) find yourself standing there with blood on your stinging knuckles and the daylight quickly vanishing trying to do a job everyone said would take 15 minutes
k) start to listen to people telling you "its so easy when the A/C is ripped out"
l) go to change the oil filter a year later and realize you can do it in 5 minutes because you have developed "a system"
m) throw loving glances at your EP every time you pass her by knowing that you know how to fiddle around under her bonnet
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:) lmao at this one, took me ages to get my oil filter off. A K&N in the future
 
MarcoGTTurbo

MarcoGTTurbo

Member +
gv1.3 said:
You're not a real starlet owner until -

a) you spent wayyy too long looking for the oil filter
b) found the oil filter and then wondered IF it was actually possible to get it off
c) tore the knuckles off yourself trying to get the filter off from above
d) jacked the car up and realized it was as difficult to get it off from below
e) cursed the Japanese designer who "put the oil filter there"
f) went on to TGTT to search for others who have had the same problem
g) realized that most people will never go on a forum to admit they cant get an oil filter off
h) get frustrated and "stick a screwdriver through it" only to realize that you still cant get a turn on it
i) feel terror as you realize you can now not even drive the car because your oil filter has a screwdriver in it
j) find yourself standing there with blood on your stinging knuckles and the daylight quickly vanishing trying to do a job everyone said would take 15 minutes
k) start to listen to people telling you "its so easy when the A/C is ripped out"
l) go to change the oil filter a year later and realize you can do it in 5 minutes because you have developed "a system"
m) throw loving glances at your EP every time you pass her by knowing that you know how to fiddle around under her bonnet
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Im sitting here with tears in my eyes reading this!! I & J are soooo funny cuz Ive been there ha ha ha!
 
GT_Irl

GT_Irl

Member +
You're not a real starlet owner until - You use the money you saved to fly home from upsidedownland (oz!) to see the folks on.... a forged lump and a new turbo kit..

Sorry family! I am a terrible person!!!
 
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Keenoep82

Fresh Recruit
gv1.3 said:
You're not a real starlet owner until -

a) you spent wayyy too long looking for the oil filter
b) found the oil filter and then wondered IF it was actually possible to get it off
c) tore the knuckles off yourself trying to get the filter off from above
d) jacked the car up and realized it was as difficult to get it off from below
e) cursed the Japanese designer who "put the oil filter there"
f) went on to TGTT to search for others who have had the same problem
g) realized that most people will never go on a forum to admit they cant get an oil filter off
h) get frustrated and "stick a screwdriver through it" only to realize that you still cant get a turn on it
i) feel terror as you realize you can now not even drive the car because your oil filter has a screwdriver in it
j) find yourself standing there with blood on your stinging knuckles and the daylight quickly vanishing trying to do a job everyone said would take 15 minutes
k) start to listen to people telling you "its so easy when the A/C is ripped out"
l) go to change the oil filter a year later and realize you can do it in 5 minutes because you have developed "a system"
m) throw loving glances at your EP every time you pass her by knowing that you know how to fiddle around under her bonnet
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You twat. I just spat tea all over my laptop...

:-D
 
sx_turbo

sx_turbo

Lifer
gv1.3 said:
You're not a real starlet owner until -

a) you spent wayyy too long looking for the oil filter
b) found the oil filter and then wondered IF it was actually possible to get it off
c) tore the knuckles off yourself trying to get the filter off from above
d) jacked the car up and realized it was as difficult to get it off from below
e) cursed the Japanese designer who "put the oil filter there"
f) went on to TGTT to search for others who have had the same problem
g) realized that most people will never go on a forum to admit they cant get an oil filter off
h) get frustrated and "stick a screwdriver through it" only to realize that you still cant get a turn on it
i) feel terror as you realize you can now not even drive the car because your oil filter has a screwdriver in it
j) find yourself standing there with blood on your stinging knuckles and the daylight quickly vanishing trying to do a job everyone said would take 15 minutes
k) start to listen to people telling you "its so easy when the A/C is ripped out"
l) go to change the oil filter a year later and realize you can do it in 5 minutes because you have developed "a system"
m) throw loving glances at your EP every time you pass her by knowing that you know how to fiddle around under her bonnet
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lol, remember this on me first starlet, i ven ended up taking it to a toyota "specialist" who had the same problem lol, was sat in the waiting room for 2 hours while the guy was running backwards and forward to the office, looking in his manuals, and back to the car again lol, even carried on after i told him where it was,

they wouldnt do oil and filter changes on mine after that :(
 
pilgrim_fgau

pilgrim_fgau

Member +
gv1.3 said:
You're not a real starlet owner until -

a) you spent wayyy too long looking for the oil filter
b) found the oil filter and then wondered IF it was actually possible to get it off
c) tore the knuckles off yourself trying to get the filter off from above
d) jacked the car up and realized it was as difficult to get it off from below
e) cursed the Japanese designer who "put the oil filter there"
f) went on to TGTT to search for others who have had the same problem
g) realized that most people will never go on a forum to admit they cant get an oil filter off
h) get frustrated and "stick a screwdriver through it" only to realize that you still cant get a turn on it
i) feel terror as you realize you can now not even drive the car because your oil filter has a screwdriver in it
j) find yourself standing there with blood on your stinging knuckles and the daylight quickly vanishing trying to do a job everyone said would take 15 minutes
k) start to listen to people telling you "its so easy when the A/C is ripped out"
l) go to change the oil filter a year later and realize you can do it in 5 minutes because you have developed "a system"
m) throw loving glances at your EP every time you pass her by knowing that you know how to fiddle around under her bonnet
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I though it was just me that suffered this treatment lol
 
pilgrim_fgau

pilgrim_fgau

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Any other car I have owned, I would nearly send it to a garage to get work done, and pick it up when its finished. Why is with any starlet/glanza I have owned, pulling the suspension out, pulling off turbo kits, intercoolers, bumpers, general servicing etc all seem like a daily activity :)
 
Jay

Jay

Admin
You're not a real Starlet owner until - the sound of winter landing is a squealing fan belt.

Or the three cylinder burble of a water soaked sparkplug!
 
rage

rage

Lifer
i should be called a starlet veteran. survived oil filter swaps, cracked mani's, broken turbo's, broken rods, limped back on 3 cylinders, blown intercooler pipes, etc. etc. done it all :)

you are not a real starlet owner unless you can stand next to your blown engine and think: no biggy, it's just a flesh wound :) will have it up and running again in a week. i'll probably have some salvagable engine parts in my shed. she's worth it :)
 
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turboloon

Member +
rage said:
i should be called a starlet veteran. Survived oil filter swaps, cracked mani's, broken turbo's, broken rods, limped back on 3 cylinders, blown intercooler pipes, etc. Etc. Done it all :)

you are not a real starlet owner unless you can stand next to your blown engine and think: No biggy, it's just a flesh wound :) will have it up and running again in a week. I'll probably have some salvagable engine parts in my shed. She's worth it :)
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rwdrev!!!;)
 
Jay

Jay

Admin
rage said:
no biggy, it's just a flesh wound :)
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hookie663

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We'd agree there jay that's y I put an s bonnet on my v lol
You're not a real starlet owners until uve squeezed the last bit power outa ur stressed out standard wee weaked rod glanza engine lol
 
Phil

Phil

Super Moderator
hookie663 said:
We'd agree there jay that's y I put an s bonnet on my v lol
You're not a real starlet owners until uve squeezed the last bit power outa ur stressed out standard wee weaked rod glanza engine lol
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that is the best power in these cars.. somewhere just shy of the stock engine limit.

EDIT - and in the spirit of this thread, your not a starlet owner until you realise the above.

Phil
 
Luke.R

Luke.R

Member +
You're not a real Starlet owner until you....

Do a headgasket change on Xmas day, even though you knew from the start that no manner of cooling system bleeding was going to stop coolant being pushed out of the header tank, and should have just changed the gasket in the first place.

1 bar of boost and a standard engine WILL result in cracked ringlands at some point, even in a few years, it will happen lol.

If you have never ever got your interior light to work properly.

Also worry if you get no rattles from your interior lol

Thought about letting that flare off in the passanger footwell, but being to worried incase it goes wrong.

Finding random Japanese crap under the seats, carpet, spare wheel etc.

Most peoples descriptions are spot on, and my old starlet which I had for 7 years I pretty much had all of the above happen haha.
 
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