GR86 What did you do with your GR86 today

Two's Company said:
Bloody kids on Halloween threw eggs at the house last night. 🤬Thankfully the cars seem unharmed. Having had an egg hit a car door in the past I know how much damage it causes because the shell shatters the laquer. An egg flew over 3 cars (inc the GR) down the drive to hit the garage so I am at least thankful they had a decent throw!
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A few years ago, some dickheads drove around our local area, stealing pumpkins off door steps, and then throwing them at cars and houses.
My GT86 was parked out side and I came out the next morning to find a whacking great dent in the rear quarter and the remains of a pumpkin a few metres away. £400 worth of damage.

Halloween can **** off.
 
Hospital appointment today in Manchester for SWMBO.. The first decent drive we’ve had over from Chester

She hates the fake noise (to be fair the droning was getting on my norks a little too) so when we got home I disconnected the noise generator.. Took me 10 mins maximum

Time will tell if she’s happy/happier on the next journey

I thought that the car felt superb

I also saw my first GR on the road (apart from mine) near the Knutsford / M6 exit on the M56.. A nice red one 😍
 
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Roundtrip today, adding kms up to 1300. Great weather, only partially wet roads.
The area here in the south of germany is especially nice in autum , when the leafs multiply their colours. And the roads are winding in a way that fits the small blue rocket in a wonderful way. No real need to rev it, 2nd...5th and up to 5000rpm is enough. You can mostly let it roll, only go off the throttle in time to decelerate, braking just ocasionally.
The straights and bends are absorbed in the best imaginable way. What a fun........

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Cholmondeley-Biscuitt said:
That's gotta be totally photoshopped - where are all the potholes and crumbling kerbs? Seriously though, what a great looking surface, it's better than my driveway FFS! :LOL:
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No, seriously not.
There were some uneven surfaces as well, but most of the streets are in a quite good condition. And tarmac sticks good here. Could have made many more pics, but had to look at the nav to guide my friend, who took the job of driving today.
By the way, after a while of getting used to the car he was not really hating what he did. Grinnng from ear to ear.
 
Two's Company said:
Bloody kids on Halloween threw eggs at the house last night. 🤬Thankfully the cars seem unharmed. Having had an egg hit a car door in the past I know how much damage it causes because the shell shatters the laquer. An egg flew over 3 cars (inc the GR) down the drive to hit the garage so I am at least thankful they had a decent throw!
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Glad you didn't have to shell out for any repairs
 
Conscript said:
Halloween can **** off.
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Don't worry - that will be a distant memory once your neighbours' spent fireworks start landing on your car this weekend.

(And while we're busy celebrating the persecution of religious minorities, could we re-introduce corporal punishment for anyone setting off Chinese lanterns? Taking the family out to a good public flogging would surely prove an affordable and educational opportunity to raise spirits in this pre-Yuletide gloom.)
 
I was tailgated by a very fancy looking Taycan in a 30 zone. As we passed a derestricted sign I...

..very gently accelerated up to the NSL because I both know the limits of the car and don't measure my worth by some boy racer mentality :p

However said Taycan couldn't drive at NSL because although visibility was fine, the b-road was too narrow for it. Horay for smallish cars.
 
Conscript said:
Booked it in for it's first service next week, at Abbey Motorsport, along with camber bolt installation and full alignment. Have also asked if they could give the suspension a once over just in case my excursion into the undergrowth has caused any untoward damage....
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Dropped it with them this morning....Scott phoned about an hour ago, and good news - no real evidence of my off-road shenanigans, other than some mud and grass that they pulled out of some of the panels on the underside.

Camber bolts installed and wheel alignment has been sorted too, apparently the before results were a little wayward (compared to @ZN8s which they'd seen earlier this week, with similar mileage), but it seems par for the course that the factory alignment isn't the greatest. So again, no real conclusive sign that I'd bent anything. Picking it up tomorrow morning, I'll see how it feels and then post in the alignment thread.
 
Conscript said:
Me and dad returned the scene this morning....
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Took a good look around the car. Covered in greenery, but not a scratch on it. Wheels undamaged and tyres still inflated. Regardless, there was no way it was going back up that bank. I was all ready to give up and call a recovery truck. But luckily my dad isn't such a pushover.

On the right of the pic, further down the bank you can just see some tramlines in the grass leading back to the junction. Evidently someone else had done the same recently. Dad suggested just trying to move it back and down the bank.

Success! Despite being on wet grass, we got enough traction to roll it back and further down the verge. By this time, two passers by stopped, evidently thinking we'd just crashed, and with their help we managed to reverse it all the way back to the junction along those tramlines in the grass. With a bit of wheel spinning, we got it up the incline at the end and back onto the road. I then rejoined the A11 and drove it back to mums....slowly and with no music.

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Car is now safely back on the driveway and despite being covered in scenery, I can't find any damage. Not so much as a scratch. It drove back perfectly....tracking as straight and true as it did before. Nothing fell off. But I was aiming to get the alignment looked at soon anyway...when I do I will ask them to take a gander incase there's anything I can't see.

To say I'm relieved is an understatement. And I have definitely used up all my luck for the year, because if I had come to a stop just a few feet further forward....

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....huge concrete manhole that I didn't spot last night. That would have been a bumper gone, or, if I'd come off the road a few feet later, a crushed sump.

Christ. Still shaking.
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Sorry very late to this. Glad you and the dogs are ok and the car too!
 
It's awful outside at the moment, but I couldn't resist getting up early and going for a drive to see how the new alignment felt on some back roads. What a difference adding the camber bolts has made! You can really lean on the the front wheels in a turn, and even on wet roads covered with fallen leaves, I felt much more confident in the car. Can't wait to see how it feels in the dry... unfortunately that probably won't be until the spring.

Got home and spent a couple of hours modifying the Automotive Passion mudguards to include cutouts for the air vents. The car is covered in mud after this morning but if I can drum up the enthusiasm I'll give it a spray down and fit them later.
 
Conscript said:
It's awful outside at the moment, but I couldn't resist getting up early and going for a drive to see how the new alignment felt on some back roads. What a difference adding the camber bolts has made! You can really lean on the the front wheels in a turn, and even on wet roads covered with fallen leaves, I felt much more confident in the car. Can't wait to see how it feels in the dry... unfortunately that probably won't be until the spring.

Got home and spent a couple of hours modifying the Automotive Passion mudguards to include cutouts for the air vents. The car is covered in mud after this morning but if I can drum up the enthusiasm I'll give it a spray down and fit them later.
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Good to hear this update @Conscript I think I might be contacting Abbey this week to discuss camber bolts and alignment. They are about 45 minutes from me.. so I don't have much of an excuse!! I have been contemplating all season tyres OR this upgrade. I think this might be a better bet for my needs.
 
I thought I'll use whatever sunshine is left to get a couple of little jobs done today.

Managed to replace the two dash tweeters with the Focals, easy jobby, although pulling the connectors out is a bit fiddly if you've got sausage fingers like me, as the cables are rather short.

I also installed some Noico Black sound deadening material in the boot. Not tested on the road if there's any noticeable difference yet, but one big panel covered around 70% of the boot floor without any cutting involved.

I finally got around to installing @PVGR 's boot strap as well. Perfect fit and a much needed QoL improvement to the car.

Next on the to-do list are:

  1. First Toyota serivce (second if you count the 1000 miles engine oil and filter change]
  2. Focal door speakers
  3. Door sound deadening
  4. Clutch spring replacement
  5. Rear boot spoiler
  6. Fixing a tiny dent in the rear quarter panel :(
  7. Machine polish and ceramic coating (this will be a spring job)
 
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