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Hi...I joined up last month, but only just found the vic section now... :D
Names Rhys, and heres my pretty stock AE82 Sedan:
Shes done 183,641k's as it stands atm, is in overrated condition, was freshly repainted about 2yrs ago in the original blue, and still drives like a dream :)
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Your kidding aren't you? I was thinking of something a little more subtle, like a smallish sticker across the back window or something?
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What do these stickers actually look like? If they look any good I'm prepared to get one to put on ma rolla, provided of course you guys think its worthy of one :)
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No ideas at all guys? Just a rough estimate would be good, do you reckon I could get upwards of $3k for her?
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Hey there Chief...
What are of Vic are you in? If you heading over yo toyrolla then you a suburbanite... so which area?
Well I'm right around near Toyrolla, if that gives you a good idea, nearish Epping plaza shops.
The dash is easy as pie, you will have it done pretty quickly, even if you take your time. One great thing about ae82 is the fact that there dime a dozen at the wreckers, if you break anything in the process you can get another really cheaply. On that note, why not head to a wreckers (pick a part for instance) and have a crack on a car in the yard. That way you can have a couple of goes and if you bugger anything up you don't have to worry about it.Ah fair enough, sounds like an idea, although as it seems atm I probably won't have this car too much longer....starting to give me pains in the right knee from the way I fit in to drive it, so I might be looking for something bigger sooner than I originally thought.
Anyway, Welcome to the club mate... you've got one clean looking car there. Nice work.Cheers....on that note, from what you guys see in the pic what do you reckon I could sell it for roughly? I was hopin $2.5-3k given its in better condition than the majority of AE82's around nowadays and its got low k's for its age I guess.
I'll give you guys a quick run down on it.
Corolla AE82 CS Sedan, build date 11/86 (So its the updated AE82 release)
3sp Auto 1.6L Four (roughly 190,000k's)
18 Month Old paint, still spotless, shining better than our 2004 Camry.
Inside is in overrated condition, no rattles.
Lightly Tinted Windows
2 Piece Louver in overrated condition
Umm thats about it, the stereo in my sig may be included depending on the price.
Thats about it really. I don't really want to sell her, but shes a lil too small for my needs :)
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No progression as yet guys, haven't had to time to visit any wreckers to check out parts.
Only thing I've done lately is replace the blades and arms (just the blade section) on the windscreen, now I can actually see in the wet! Woohoo ;)
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Yeah... but just a few of the plastic surrounds, and then the 4 screws holding the actual cluster in. Once thats done, reach in behind it (from the left side is easier) and pull out the speedo cable and the 3 flat plugs that go into the back. Reverse the process to install the new one.
Fair enough, sounds pretty easy, I'm a n00b at this modifying thing hehe
Damn, I fit in my ae82 sedan and I am 6'3 lol. If you wanna have a look have a search under my name it was awhile ago. 20V 4age goodness :(Well your about the same height as me, I have my right leg sorta angled towards the door and it still touches the wheel when I brake, works well as a foot rest, but thats about it. I've sat in a Manual AE82 before, couldn't get my left foot to sit on the clutch with it all the way out. I'm not overweight either, so its not like I'm fat and just can't fit lol. I drive a TR Magna too, and I drive that with the seat all the way back, which is a hell lot further than in the Corolla.
Yeah i ment the cluster, my bad.And from memory there are screws behind the vents or something, just be major careful when taking things apart cos they get real brittle and hard to get good plastics espec dash top :D
Yeah thats my only concern, don't want to create rattles in the car, doesn't have a single one atm, which is impressive for a car of its age.
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Its only the instrument cluster you'll need to replace... just the bit with the speedo and fuel guage etc. Its about 8 screws in an ae82.
Great, and what do I need to take out to remove it? I presume the drivers side of the dash at the least?
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I dunno about the other '83 rolla's but there is plenty of room in my Kesev to drive comfortably as well as in my sisters ae82, but each to their own. Good luck finding a dash in that condition, you may be in luck. And not sure if it was answered before but the plugs etc for the tacho dash are all there.
Well my AE82's drivers seat just goes back enough for me to sorta squish in and drive, the 83 rolla's I can't get the seat back far enough to get in properly, let alone operate the clutch on the manual one.
I don't want the whole dash, just the cluster, or do I have to replace the whole dash? If I've gotta replace the whole dash forget it, I'll never find another in the same nick, I thought I could just replace that bit.
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Fantastic news about Grandpas fleet of rollas!! I suggest you have a little read through some of the threads in rides and projects. There are some really fun times to be had in the rwd corollas which were the majority of cars sold in 1983. If you are really lucky then pops will have a 1.6 litre 4a powered rwd ae71 for you to swap the fwd one for. Then you are about 1000 dollars away from 4age rwd bliss!!! Well thats what I would do. I totally understand if you are into fwding. Each to their own. Please take the time to have a good long search through the forums on this site and read about 4ages and ae82s and ae86s and ae71s and ke70s.
Nah they are all FWD, both have the 1.3L Carby, mines got the newer 1.6L and to be honest, I'd be fed up with driving it if it was a 1.3L, the 1.6L barely has sufficient juice for me. BTW, when this car gets replaced, it won't be another rolla (sorry to break everyones heart), they're just a bit too small for me to drive completely comfortably, and I want something with a lot more kick. So unless I can afford a brand new rolla (donations?) it'll be something bigger......being 6ft I can't actually drive either of pa's other rollas, so its this one or nothing anyway.
Went down to Toyrolla to see about the cluster and clock, and was rather surprised with the price, $35-40 per item! You've got to be kidding me if the digital dash clock is worth $40! I kindly thanked the man for his help (I might add a very emotionless fellow, I think he was half asleep or something haha) and left.....
Might try pick-a-part later this week, have a wander round and see whats findable. I'll pay maybe $10 for the clock, and I guess $20 or so for the cluster, tops.
Wish me luck!
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That car looks so well cared for, its a shame he didnt get a ke70!! Grandpa really knew how to keep her overrated!! Anyhow, might I agree with the wheels suggestion and suggest some color coding for the black front end. Personally, if I was going to go for the clean look then I'd remove the black rubber strip on the side too. I reckon cars look lighter and cleaner without them, unless you want to keep her 100% dent free of course.
Well he paid a bit to get it the way it is now, had it resprayed, removed any rust, and the interior needed a good workout to get clean. I know the person who owner it before my pa, and when he had it the car was one of the worst AE82's on the road, the boot for instance resembled sand paper more than paint. Its now one of the best AE82's on the road IMO. I'm not sure what a KE70 is, but his got 2 1983 Model Corolla's, a pale blue one which is a auto like mine, and a white manual, both in similar but not as fantastic a condition. I've had her for 5 or 6 months now, I've lost count.
I'd like to keep her dent free, so if its going to require body work I'd rather leave the strips there. Probably better to have them anyway, because I park hard up against the wall at home and if I ever bump the wall opening the door its that black rubber strip that makes contact, so its saving the paint, like its supposed to :cool:
Hopefully I can find a clock and cluster for it today, might give the guy with those wheels a call, see what we can do with them :lol:
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if you know who painted the car they should be abel to do it, also while ur at the wreckers look for ae82's and suck and if they have colored springs big chances they are lowered ones, you could grab them and keep your standards if you got defected or was selling the car to some one that wanted it standard height,
i would recommend against tinting the tail lights, in my opinion it looks cheap and easily detectable, just polish all your lights up and it will look overrated.
also you could just get some springs and cut them and keep the ones in it in case you need to go back, i like cuttys and theres nothing wrong with them imo
I just don't want to meddle with the springs....I'm not going to cut them because they are unroadworthy cut, and it affects handling. If I could change them myself I might have considered it, but I'm not game, so it can stay the standard height me thinks.
I was looking around at tinted lights on AE82's and have decided against that anyway, to me it doesn't look like it'll suit the colour of the car. As for paint, I know who sprayed it, because it was my grandpa who got it done. I'll look into the paint but I dunno where I'll go with it.
I'm going to go looking for digital clocks and instrument clusters today if I get some spare time, so I'll let you guys know what I find later tonight should I find anything :cool:
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mate, i suggest if ur on a budget, cut ur spring, it will make it look nice lowered, spray ur bumpers in body colour, tint ur tail lights and side indicators, the paint is like 9bucks. its special tinting paint form peps auto spares. and then a set of alloys, like 15s. if u wanna spend 150 bucks or so, get a sports exhaust.
hope that gave u sum ideas.
I do want the car to be roadworthy. If I cut the springs its unroadworthy so I'm not doing it, also sacrifices handling big time. That taillight tinting paint, is there any legal issues with that, in Victoria specifically? I've seen plenty of cars with it, but would it prevent a roadworthy? Oh and is it hard to get an even coating?
I don't mind spending $10 here $20 there on little things to improve it, $100 or so for wheels because they will improve handling and grip (the 13's on it aren't the best in that department, especially the wet) but no more. Doesn't need a sports exhaust. I'm interested in colour coded bumpers, but I'm too worried I'd screw that up and it'd turn out crappy in the long run, so I probably won't do that.
Atm, the things I want to do, thanks partly to you guys with your great suggestions is, wheels (which I've wanted for a while), instrument cluster with tacho, digital clock and maybe tint the rear lights if its legal.
I reckon that'd be a improvement :cool:
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ae82 is definately 4x100 mate.
I know that much, but the offset? Is it +30? +35? etc...
I suppose I'll know if I go round a try them on the wheels rub on full lock or stick out from the guard if the offset is right or not. These are what they look like:
Suitable for a AE82? They're 15's.
Clock and dash are easy to fit... all the wiring is already there, you just have to take the old one out, and plug the new one in. easy as.So even though its a CS without those features stock, they leave the wiring behind the dash? Thats perfect!
So I presume that includes the wiring for the tacho and stuff is there? Makes me wonder why it just wasn't standard....hmm. As long as your sure, I might pop past a local wreckers tomorrow and see what I can find.
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nice key ring mate :cool:
Not bad for $7 aye! Genuine leather too! :lol:
Can someone please get back to me on the wheel Offset? I really need to know, and I've tried googling but I don't know where to look :P
The wheels in question apparently have two different 4 stud patterns, but were fitted to a Saab 900 which as far as I can tell has a PCD of 4x108, so unless the other pattern is different (ie. 4x100), they're not going to fit right?
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keep her clean man and chuck some tasteful 15"s on it and lower it abit, ae82 parts can be found very cheap as every one robs them for there 4AGE's
Clean is a priority, I take great pride in my rolla and its gotta look good, why have near new paint on it otherwise, speaking of which I might give her a polish soon since the weathers finally fining up here in Melb :cool:
Lowering is pricey, as much as I'd like to get some stiffer suspension on it and get it a little lower to the ground we're talking into the hundreds and I just don't want to spend that much on it, just as I don't know how much longer I'll have her....could be months, could be years, but we're probably talking months (as in, maybe June/July next year). Any suggestions on where to go to look for some alloy's? I don't mind if they're 14's or 15's, just as long as they don't exceed $100 and I'd prefer that to be with rubber, obviously not new, I don't expect too much, just hoping someone might be throwing out a set from the garage at a cheap price ;)
Nice one... :)Go hunting at your local wrecker and see if you can find a cs-x model... grab yourself a tacho dash and clock and a few other flash bits. Other than that, a nice set of wheels is always one of the first enhancements you can make... no need to go spending up big, AE82's have the same stud pattern as most other small cars from that era onwards (4x100) so you'll be able to whack on some factory alloys from a newer corolla or pulsar or something... 15" is a good size, very common, and 100 bucks would probably get you a set. Tyres are cheap too.
When the budget allows... a set of lowered springs, tint the windows, colour code the bumpers and your car will be transformed :D
I like the idea of the digital clock, and the tacho would be nice, any idea how difficult these things are to fit though? I wouldn't be looking at much for a CS-X dash would I? $20 from the wreckers or something?
As far as the budget allows section goes, lowering sounds too costly for what I'm willing to spend (don't think I can do it myself :lol:), the windows are actually tinted although not much, easy to tell when shes parked next to another AE80/82 though hehe. How would I go about colour coding the bumpers? Spray it myself? How hard would it be to get an exact colour match ready to spray? I like the idea of colour coding the bumpers :P
Keep em coming guys! Thanks for those so far :)
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BTW, just to add a little more Rolla to my life when I'm not around the rolla, who likes my new keyring! (Replaced that keycase you can see in the above pic which was from the previous owner, my grandpa) :)
Oh and guys regarding wheels, whats the stud pattern and offset required for a AE82? I'm presuming its 4x100 PCD? But offset?
(I want to email a guy whos got some nice 15's for sale with good rubber cheap, but I need to know what to ask)
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Hey guys, I'm pretty new to the forums, only made a couple of posts so far....thought I might share my rolla with everyone and see if anyone has any "cheap" suggestions on what I could do to improve the look of her :cool:
Nothing too costly, I've intentionally avoided replacing the wheels because I don't want to over-invest on the car, I just want to make it look as good as it can for a reasonable price. I mean, if someones got some alloys to suit with decent rubber they'd like to get rid of under $100 I'm interested but I doubt thats gonna happen right :lol:
Atm I'm looking at getting new wiper arms as one needs replacing anyway....otherwise its pretty stock, only real change to the exterior recently is the paint, which was recently resprayed but still the original blue :P
Cheers.
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its funny cas my mum said that the other day that it would be easy to break into my car lol
Well thats just the thing, they are.
If you wanted to make it much more difficult to break into, install a keyless central locking system and disconnect the manual door locks. Means you can't control the locking from the inside without using the remote, but no body can force the locks up either :D
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All good guys, I've worked out where it is, didn't think I'd need to get under the car to find it thats all...
So it appears I'll have to pull the front bumper off to access it, but before I do (won't get around to it till the weekend) is there any easier way to replacing it? I don't want to pull the bumper off if I can avoid it, but if theres no other way, so be it I guess :P
Thanks guys.
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Probably not going to help you much now, but I was in a similar position about 5 months back, putting a budget system into my AE82 Sedan which sounded good without breaking the bank.
I ended up with a Pioneer DEH-2950MP deck, Pioneer TS-G1041R 4" 2-Ways for the front (straight in dash replacement) and Pioneer TS-G1641R 6" 2-Ways for the rear (fitted into the spaces in the parcel shelf provided by Toyota). All fitted for $450 with a CD holder pocket to fill the gap the Tape deck filled with the original radio.
Might not sound like much, but it actually performs very very well and is more than enough power for the size of a cabin (enough to prevent people understanding you yelling at them inside the car :P)
The biggest problem your likely to come across is rattling with a more powerful system, if I really crank mine on some tracks you can hear a slight rattle from outside the car. I wouldn't want to pump too much more through the car at the risk of causing even more rattling.
My stereo was also fitted to be as discrete as possible, because being an older car its not really hard to break into, so the front speakers are in the dash, completely invisible, the deck has a removable face plate, which makes anything hard to see through the tinted windows and the rears are all but covered by the louver fitted to the back window. So technically, with my stereo, the only way to know it exists is to hear it running when I'm in the car!
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I just went out and checked mine and its under the drivers side headlight. You should be able to see it through a small gap near the headlight.
Just went and looked again, still can't see a thing, looking all around the headlight, theres nothing that looks remotely like a horn, wouldn't be able to be even more specific about where to look? PLEASE!! :P
I'm not sure if the AE82 is like a KE70 or not, but I've looked around through all the little gaps under the drivers headlight and I can't see it. It sounds like its under the drivers front guard though....
Thanks so far guys :P
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Hey, I'm new the forums, joined up mainly for this reason but I'll hang around as long as I've got my rolla :P
What I'm trying to work out is where the horn is located under the bonnet of the car, I've been looking for god knows how long now and I still can't find it. I've got a replacement, just something better because the one in it is sounding a bit old and worn out, but I don't know where it is to replace.
I'm hoping one of you guys (or gals) will be able to give me some pointers as to where to find it, and then how to change it over (although I'm presuming this bit is fairly straight forward).
Thanks a bunch.
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Oh and 1 more quick question did all ae82's come with some sort of alarm system ? i accidently hit a switch under the drivers side part near the right speaker and then the horn went off till i fiddled with it again... i S!@$ my self to begin with i didnt think that was stock though
Hey mate, you wouldn't be able to explain that a bit better to me would you? I was just under the bonnet of my AE82 tonight trying to work out what something was. It appears to be an alarm of sorts which is mounted in the top corner on the drivers side, but it has a key switch, which I don't have the key to so I'm a little unsure as to what it does, but it has a 9v battery in it :P
Any hints? Is that like yours?
Ae80/82 Stereo Wiring Diagram
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Does anyone have a wiring diagram suitable for wiring a Headunit into a AE80/82 Corolla?
Thanks :bash: