After having owned a Rev4 I bought on Autotrader for a few months, I caught the MR2 bug and so went looking for my idea of the perfect
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'2.
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After posting a thread announcing that I was looking for a car, fellow member RikH77 got in touch, and I bought his Rev5 Sonic Shadow just yesterday!
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It is a
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'98 on an S plate, NA Rev5 with sunroof and deep red leather seats and door cards.
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The car is almost completely stock with the exception of an Alpine sound system, some flat blade wipers, support struts in the engine bay and a very handy cubby box in the centre console.
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69,000 miles or so, no rust and in very good condition.
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I couldn't turn it down!
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240 odd miles, 5 hours, a lot of rain, and a lot of traffic later.
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I arrived home in South London, very happy with my purchase.
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Only initial things I decided I had to replace included the windscreen wipers
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(Bosch Super Plus ordered today from CarParts4Less for
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£6.84!!), and the front splitter
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(some damage to the offside, I've put a thread in Items Wanted, so hopefully I can replace that soon).
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I also want to replace the headunit, although the Alpine unit is very nice, with no aux input, I need another
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(currently have my eye on a Pioneer CE153DR,
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£99.99 with free DAB adapter from Halfords).
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This morning I woke up and straight away set about cleaning and polishing the car after it's long wet journey, and the paint/bodywork
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(other than the splitter) is really very good.
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I put the clear side repeaters that I found left in the boot on and proceeded ordering various other lighting mods
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- smoked side lights with chrome indicator bulbs upgrade from MR2-Ben, clear headlight lenses, and Osram Nightbreaker bulbs.
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Future modifications I intend to make are as follows:
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After being made aware of their existence by Rik, a quick eBay search returned the following:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toyota-MR2-Ce ... 0592901070
looks quite good to me, and overcomes that issue of cup holders that my girlfriend always whinges about.
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As above, I intend the replace the headunit with:
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... yId_165655
Bluetooth, 2 x USB, aux input, and it looks quite smart by comparison to most of the chavvy looking head units.
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A turbo engine lid with gas ram, partially for cosmetic reasons, partially for the rain tray.
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Import rear light clusters, for the quad sidelights.
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And that's about it for the time being! Potentially some kind of breathing mods but nothing major! I shall upload some photos as soon as I get around to taking some decent ones!