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A chap in the Facebook group for this generation of Corolla was selling off his collection of spares, one of which caught my eye. The posh Corollas came with a raised centre console lid with an additional storage bin that doubles as an armrest. These are very thin on the ground as the lid snaps off, and if they do come up for sale they are usually grey or black. So imagine my surprise to see a brown one in the pile of spares for sale.

The standard ‘poverty spec’ lid:

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And the prestige version:

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With capacity for four cassette tapes, plus room for trinkets:

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Note the small lip on the base that perfectly holds a tape, this now brings the dedicated cassette storage up to sixteen tapes.

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  • MorrisItalSLX changed the title to Shite Down Under - Elderly Motors For Elderly People - Rare Accessories

Another small job ticked of the list today. Last week one of the windscreen washer jets snapped off where the rubber hose slips on, rendering the washers inoperable.

My side of the road fix involved whittling down the body of the jet with my Stanley knife so the hose would fit over it, this worked but as the jet now had no locating clip it would move around and poke out of the bonnet.

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So a trip to the local Toyota dealership later and I had a pair of new jets (that cost far too much for two little pieces of plastic).

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The added bonus of the new jets is they have a rubber gasket to stop them rattling in the bonnet, I’d imagine mine had rubber gaskets at some point but these had long since perished and disappeared.

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Minor adjustments were made with a pin and they work flawlessly.

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2 hours ago, mat_the_cat said:

Good planning. Although not quite the same level as this...

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I dunno, I was looking at your picture and thinking you should of had the speedo pointing at 222 km/h as well, I mean you of all people have the one Hyundai Stella that probably could achieve such a shot :mrgreen:

(I was also going to say the same to @MorrisItalSLX but he gets a free pass because I realise his speedo only clocks up to 180 km/h)

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3 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

I dunno, I was looking at your picture and thinking you should of had the speedo pointing at 222 km/h as well, I mean you of all people have the one Hyundai Stella that probably could achieve such a shot :mrgreen:

(I was also going to say the same to @MorrisItalSLX but he gets a free pass because I realise his speedo only clocks up to 180 km/h)

I did cross my mind to be doing 22 km/h at the time, but common sense prevailed.

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9 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

I dunno, I was looking at your picture and thinking you should of had the speedo pointing at 222 km/h as well, I mean you of all people have the one Hyundai Stella that probably could achieve such a shot :mrgreen:

Not my picture I'm afraid, just one I pinched from the Internet. And I passed that particular milestone in the Stellar sometime in summer 1998, so long gone now...

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12 hours ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

I did cross my mind to be doing 22 km/h at the time, but common sense prevailed.

It didn't for me!

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If only I'd thought to time it to the temperature and change the clock... (Although the temperature reading was only in full and half degrees, so it still wouldn't be perfect.)

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I’ve always been a fan of driving lights. I think they look the ducks guts and are a practical accessory for the night time driver. Did I forget to mention they are as cool as penguin piss?

I picked up a set of Hella Comet 550s second hand at a garage sale for next to nothing a few months back and I finally got around to fitting them.

Wiring was done as per this diagram:

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And I’m sure you’ll agree that the finished article looks the part:

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Oh yeah!

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  • MorrisItalSLX changed the title to Shite Down Under - Elderly Motors For Elderly People - Let There Be Light

This would really benefit from one of those massive clear plastic wind deflectors on the driver's side.  Not a modern tinted slimline jobby, it has to be the big oversized clear one as seen on many an elderly Australian motor driven by an even more elderly chain smoking Australian with a chip on his shoulder the size of New Zealand.

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17 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

This would really benefit from one of those massive clear plastic wind deflectors on the driver's side.  Not a modern tinted slimline jobby, it has to be the big oversized clear one as seen on many an elderly Australian motor driven by an even more elderly chain smoking Australian with a chip on his shoulder the size of New Zealand.

Big enough for Sir’s liking?

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Night time action shot:

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I found a set of clear protective covers for the Hella Comet 550 on eBay to help protect them from stone chips, but mainly for extra giffer points. A set of proper Hella covers would be the ultimate giffer accessory, but I couldn’t be bothered taking them off every time I drove at night.

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A brief update on proceedings.

The interior light lens turned to dust, so a second hand one was sourced.

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A tip run was undertaken, a double mattress does fit in the back seat.

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And more kilometres have been covered.

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Servicing and registration takes place next month, which could be interesting.

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