Looks like badge took the biggest hit. Anyone know if these can be replaced? Will take the care to the ppf installer in the next week or so and get his opinion on the best thing to do with the damage to that.
GR86 What did you do with your GR86 today
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Silver Fox
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A few of the lads here have swapped for different designs of Toyota badges so it must be the case they can come off. I know @S18RSG swapped his badges when he had his GR86 (cos I saw his car with the new ones) so perhaps he can advise next time he's on here.
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Quick contactless wash, the ceramic coatings making it look like i know what im doing.
Regarding the front emblem, the emblem is stuck onto a mounting piece, a fixing plate if you will, that peice is bolted into the bumper (im 90% sure). I changed my emblem by splitting the emblem from the plate, so as not to take off the bumper. Since then I have had the bumper off and it's very simple to do, ( i recommend two people to get the bumper back on). I would much rather have removed the bumper and unbolted the emblem than attempted to split in situ. I would look into if the back plate bit is a part of the emblem part number, might be worth getting one of those as well if needed and cheap enough.
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Its hard to figure out the pn for the back bit but found thisl; Link
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Why don’t you look into a decal kit for it? They just stick over the OEM badge and come in various colours. It would save you dismantling the car.
Here’s an example from a slightly annoying American yoof:
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Renzokuken86
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I had to quit out one of his videos within a minute due to his voice. Why does everything he says sound like a question?!
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3d Printed and fitted those little wind deflectors for the front windows.... I think they improve driving with the windows open but to be honest it's pretty hard to tell without doing definitive a side by side comparison. I thought out spoiling myself with some carbon fibre filament and printing them in that but in the end just went for ABS... 
I weighted my car, cheeky buggers telling me it cost £66 but luckily I asked while sitting in the car in the weighbridge and they have a screen with 1340 on it 
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I reversed back.
I weigh 74kgs and the disklok is 4 kg. So 78kg.
That's 1262kgs and 3/4 of a fuel tank, I think that puts my car around 1270kg with a full tank, give or take a couple kgs.
.I reversed back.
I weigh 74kgs and the disklok is 4 kg. So 78kg.
That's 1262kgs and 3/4 of a fuel tank, I think that puts my car around 1270kg with a full tank, give or take a couple kgs.
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KobayashiMaru86
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I still need to do this. Have the lighter wheels on but added braces, etc. I've lost 20kg myself which helps too.
I think the only significant weight I have added has been the bigger brake discs front and rear, reckon that is between 10-12kgs.
I have no spare tire.
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Long-time contributors may remember how my sometimes enthusiastic yet perfectly safe and legal driving has resulted in some unsolicited negative feedback from Ms Fox, including comments such as "you corner too fast" and "there's no need to pull away from the lights like that".
Well, comrades, guess who is downstairs completing one of His Majesty's Speed Awareness Courses, whilst I am upstairs sharing my thoughts with you lovely people?
I think I'll pop for a vigorous yet 100% legal and considerate drive.
Well, comrades, guess who is downstairs completing one of His Majesty's Speed Awareness Courses, whilst I am upstairs sharing my thoughts with you lovely people?
I think I'll pop for a vigorous yet 100% legal and considerate drive.
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Well I had the opposite - my old i30N was registered in my wife's name so the letter came through addressed to her.
I opened it (seeing it was car related!) and then laughed my head off - then I looked a bit closer.......
I think 'F'ing Barstuards' were the next words that came out of my mouth - I'd been the unlucky driver
My son still reminds me of this day constantly!...
But actually the course I did was very good and the instructor not judgemental or anything - I was expecting a lecture session but it wasnt like that at all.
I opened it (seeing it was car related!) and then laughed my head off - then I looked a bit closer.......
I think 'F'ing Barstuards' were the next words that came out of my mouth - I'd been the unlucky driver
My son still reminds me of this day constantly!...
But actually the course I did was very good and the instructor not judgemental or anything - I was expecting a lecture session but it wasnt like that at all.
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We are currently at a participant contribution part of the course I think. I've just heard Ms Fox confidently state the words "impatience" and "frustration" into the Teams meeting.
Didn't realise they covered your sex life.
Didn't realise they covered your sex life.
Wait until they get to the bit about approaching damp dark tunnels without lights.
KobayashiMaru86
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I did a course a few weeks ago after being caught on an empty dual on a Sunday in a Suzuki Swift. First time I've ever been caught in 19 years and in the slowest vehicle I own. It was very much "speeding is bad, come up with an action plan not to do it again". At the bit when they showed an NSL sign on a single track lane and they exclaimed that you'd never do 60 down there, it took all of my being not to say "send it!"
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My only speeding ticket in almost 20 years was overtaking a 40mph lorry going 59mph in a national in a small van. 6:30 AM 2 days after the first lockdown on a VERY wide, VERY long straight section of road. I hadn't seen a single other vehicle on the roads while I was travelling to work as a key worker. Apart from plod hiding in a lay-by.
Luckily the speed awareness courses weren't available due to the aforementioned lockdown because there is no way I would have said it was unsafe and I would have probably been chucked out of the course and given the points.
Unfortunately Speed Awareness courses are (still!) not available in Scotland, so it's points and a fine if you're caught 
chopper602
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I am always being told off, like you, for my reckless driving, by my lady partner. She is the only one of the family to have done the course of shame . . .
