Toyota Celica bought, a tale of many not bought

[garethj]

This plug has 2 inputs so I pulled it out and rigged up a dodgy temporary 3.5mm input jack and connected it up.

The radio didn’t switch on at all.  Arse.

I put the audio inputs inside the white plug but they weren’t a great fit, no audio came out and to be honest I wasn’t 100% sure how I’d switch to it anyway.  Bluetooth overlayed with satnav instructions wasn’t what I wanted.

Time for plan B; a conversion bracket from double DIN to single and use another radio that already had an input to it.

Next day delivery from Amazon, a set of Toyota to ISO leads from Halfords and we’re in.

[garethj]

That Blaupunkt London sounds a lot better than the original Toyota radio, even though I think it’s a premium system.  Maybe because the Blaupunkt has better sound adjustment so I can make the most of the Toyota’s speakers.

Next was the broken petrol release lever.  It’s right by the front edge of the seat and I think it’s quite a vulnerable spot.  It looks like someone has trodden on it so while it worked, it kind of laid there like a dead rat.

Seat out, carpet up and it should be easy to see what’s what.  To add some excitement I enlisted the help of my eldest who shares the car with me.  This is an action photo of him carefully removing some of the trim clips from the sill cover.

[garethj]

As luck would have it, the lever pivots on a plastic pin and that had just popped out.  A bit of pulling and it’s ready to put back together again.

[tooSavvy]

My Carina II has a nice set up (likely the same?) with the boot lever twice the size of fuel - the fuel notched inside the boot, likely shared pivot pin.

Quite hard to stand on it, to my mind anyhoo...

Nice to see a bit of ToyyoAction, m8

[garethj]

The Carina one looks better because there’s the plastic shroud surrounding it.  The Celica one is just the bare, naked, vulnerable lever.

[inconsistant]

Ive never liked any of the Celicas ever and I’m not going to start liking them now just because you’ve bought one.

Nice car well bought though, you’ve def. got a nose for the overlooked and underbudget.