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Cross threaded is pretty tight but have you ever had to remove a UNC bolt from a UNF hole? 😂

Well done. It’s sad that you still have to fight for your rights in this day and age.

Name some cars with the best names. Here is the Toyota Blade Master G. Doesn’t look like much but very cool name.

The viscous clutch is there for a reason and from a professional standpoint, running long term with it constantly locked up is never a good idea. Fuel consumption will be increased by a noticeable amount. Horsepower will be reduced. Hard to guess a figure on it without doing the proper math but I’d say maybe 10 BHP. The fan blades are at a pretty sharp angle to allow them to push more air and it takes a lot of power to turn them. One of the first mods I do on anything I buy with a longitudinally mounted engine is to remove the fan completely and fit an electric fan with a thermostatically controlled switch mounted directly into the cooling system rather than running off the air temperature in the engine bay. Added stress on belts, bearings and associated components. The engine will take longer to reach operating temperature which will in turn have knock on effects, Again, increased fuel consumption. Temperature sensors will read the engine as cold so the ECU will request extra fuel. This rich running condition will lead to extra carbon in the engine. Fouled spark plugs which will again affect fuel consumption, fouled valves which could lead to a sticky valve or bad valve seal against the head leading to lower compression. Carbon in the ports which will affect free gas flow leading to a reduction in horsepower. The oil will take longer to reach optimal temperature. Camshafts, crankshaft, bearings, rings and other components may suffer.

Take a drive around Al Awir. You’ll see brand new Landcruisers being converted to GXR and VXR spec, RHDs being converted to LHD and all sorts of fuckery going on. Maybe worth putting your chassis number into www.vindecoderz.com and checking if your car really is what it’s supposed to be. Also to add, it’s not Toyota who are working on your car, it’s Al Futtaim. They are just a product dealer. If you have issues, don’t be afraid to escalate complaints directly to Toyota in Japan. Jerking gears on any car is not normal unless you’re running a race box with straight cut gears. Sounds like you’re being fobbed off because they either don’t know what the problem is or are too lazy to fix it. There are consumer protection laws and you should be able to return the car for a replacement or refund if you can prove the faults. I am not clued up on them but someone else here will know.

I have a machine here for cutting vinyl. Can’t do those 3d ones though. Dragon mart is the place to go. You’ll find everything there. I saw a Corolla with 3d GT-R badges on my way to work yesterday so anything is possible in dragon mart. Personally, I hate the place. If you’re going it’s a good idea to bring one of those kick scooters.

It makes my dung boil. There's just a complete lack of respect for other people's property here, tools or otherwise. The only solution is to hit them where it hurts, the wallet. Decency and manners are lacking in a lot of people. If you borrow something, use it, clean it and leave it back. How hard is it? Honestly, I'd love to see a U.K. style system here. If you need a tool, buy it. If you pay for it you'll damn sure look after it. Last garage I worked in as foreman, every man got assigned a full toolbox. When they left, the box was checked top to bottom. If anything was missing or broken, I took it from their final salary. Got in so many fights over it too.

@Gaurav if you need to borrow a spanner, no problem 😂

So we’re all technicians who ended up in the Middle East, we all originated in different countries. How is the tool buying culture in your country? Im from Northern Ireland, part of the UK. All mechanics own their own tools, many also own their own diagnostic computers. The logic behind it is that if you break it, it’s your problem, you replace it. I learned it the hard way after I connected an Autel maxisys to a Peugeot with a shorted ecu and had to replace it myself. In my time in UK I spent at least £20,000 on tools. To put that in perspective, that’s 100k dirhams. They’re still sitting on a pallet at home. The price to ship it doesn’t correlate to buying new tools here. I was shocked when I came here and saw the garages buying tools. The mechanics would use something once and throw it. They didn’t pay for it so they don’t care. Buy a 10mm spanner on the company account, tighten a nut, leave it in the engine bay while the customer drives away. Noticed this culture a lot in my new job with paintbrushes. Back home I’ll buy a paint brush, use it, wash it and use it again. Here it’s buy it, use it, throw it and buy another. Any similar experiences?

This looks like a good idea for any garage for keeping a few low key red horse handy.

Fuel boosters are a scam to make money for the fuel stations. Start with the basics. Has your driving style changed? Is your air filter clean? Are your spark plugs in good condition?

There was a study about this a few years ago and a black car can use up to 2% more petrol than a white or silver car. So yes, in theory it will use a bit more fuel but realistically, not an amount that you're going to notice. Lighter colored cars do make sense in the UAE because white, silver etc reflect heat whereas dark colors retain it.

I don't know much about them, I've just seen guys with them when I've been fishing. Personally, I'd get the biggest one available. There's nothing like having more power than you need.

Well done chum 👍🏻

Yes but it might not always engage at the same level on the temperature hand. Maybe one time it will come on at 60%, next time it might not come on to 65 or 70%. The reason is that the temperature gauge is measuring the actual temperature of the coolant. Fan activation is not controlled by coolant temperature, it's controlled by air temperature in the engine bay.

I'd like to point out that running hot and overheating are different things. If the temperature hand goes up a bit, it's running hot. If the hand goes to full and steam comes from the radiator cap, then it's overheating. As long as the hand isn't in the red, it's fine. People worry too much about this. An engine is designed to be able to handle a bit of heat over the normal temperature, it's not going to pop just because the hand touches 3/4. Some customers have confused the hell out of me with this in the past telling me their car was overheating when it wasn't. It was just running hot due to blocked radiator, stuck thermostat etc. and no matter what tests I did, I couldn't replicate the 'overheating'. If they had told me properly what the actual problem was, running hot and not overheating it would have saved everybody a lot of time. The fan clutch doesn't engage when the engine overheats. If it did then it would be too late. It engages when it becomes too warm, which should be long before the point of overheating.

What about picking up some cheap lights from dragon mart to open your options up? I’ve seen a few people using small battery powered LED floodlights on extendable poles when fishing and they light up a big area.

As far as I know, parts should have 12 months warranty. Maybe worth an email to Mitsubishi in Japan to let them know what’s going on. If a so called authorized seller is selling fake parts or refusing to honor warranty they might be very interested.

Were the parts marked as genuine? If so, this is complete bs and the vendor deserves the full force of the law plus whatever karma is coming to close their doors. Its one thing ordering online on aliexpress or eBay, you already know if it's too good to be true, then it probably is too good to be true. But when you buy supposedly genuine parts from a proper shop, there are no excuses.

This one of the reasons why I think the system is flawed. Rahim bhai is one of the hardest working members on the site but he only has one star.

What happened? What was the part? Did it fail? Or was it just fakey fake and you didn’t use it?

I thought this was going to be something else. Anyway, here’s a corolla compressor in a 69 mustang.

Honestly, I don’t like it. Nothing personal, it’s just my opinion. I think it devalues new members who come on here and ask questions. In my eyes, the people asking questions are just as important as the people answering them. Without questions, there can never be answers for the elite few to max out their star count. Not everyone knows things, many are just beginners starting from scratch who will never be able to build up a star count. I think a karma system would be better, where replies can be either up or down voted or ignored completely leaving users with positive or negative karma.

I like both of them looks wise but if I had to have any Audi in my collection it would be a UR Quattro. The modern ones don't appeal to my sense of ownership.