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This the fake rear dash that would attach behind the rear seats with pegs on either side and would attach to the hatchback door with strings so it would raise up and down as you opened and closed the hatchback.

Believe it or not, I used to put a lawnmower in the back of my 96 Celica GT hatchback with regular frequency. The cargo cover would get in the way of putting my lawnmower in the back, so I took it out of the car and put it in the storage closet of my house. I traded that Celica a couple of years ago and forgot to put the cargo cover in when I got rid of it.

It is black and in great shape. I'll take 30 dollars for it. I live near St. Louis, MO. If you want it and can meet me for pickup, that will be fine. If you need it shipped, I'll find out how much it will cost to send something that big and odd shaped through the mail and you can pay for shipping.

Send me an email at DoothaBartman@netscape.net

Dude, BlkGT, thanks a ton for putting that picture in the thread. I've never been able to figure out how to do that.

That was really cool of you.

Selling the wheels I had on my 91 GTS with some brand new 205/50/16 H rated directional tires. I bought a 96 and put new rubber on these wheels thinking since the bolt pattern was the same on the 5th and 6th gen cars the wheels would work on the 96. They don't.

That doesn't mean there aren't any interested parties out there. At the very least you can nab a full set of tires with less than 150 miles on them for cheap if you don't want the rims they are mounted on. I'm hoping I might run into some people that also own 5th gens cause these babies rode perfect on the 91.

I've got the whole kit and kaboodle for sale on ebay here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...RK%3AMESSE%3AIT

If you want just the rubber or just the wheels we can work out a deal.

These are Ultra HPR Radial GT tires manufactured by Lee. They are very grippy, ride smooth and are a suprisingly low noise tire for 50 series rubber.

Long story short, the 16 inch rims I bought didn't center up on my Celica and the wheel shop took the rims back but wouldn't take the tires back, so I put the stock wheels back on. These tires have less than 120 miles on them.

They are mounted to the 16 inch rims that didn't work on my Celica and I'll have to pay five bucks a tire just to get them off the rims so I can ship them to whoever buys them, so I'm already out 20 dollars just to get rid of them. No one ever wants to give me what I want for them so the price is negotiable, make an offer.

I have pictures I can email.

Try me at DoothaBartman@netscape.net if I don't seem to get back to this post.

Peace.

I would love to be able to find this sort of info as well, but even calling Toyota yields no results. The best they can do is tell you how many Celicas rolled off the line that year.

It really sucks. How else are we supposed to know how rare our cars are?

Does anyone make a hitch for our cars?

I'm getting sick of the grass in my trunk, the smell of gas in my car, having to take my mower apart and having to have another person help me hoist it into the trunk so I can mow the few yards I have to take care of. Not only is it the mower that's getting on my nerves, I've got a trunk mounted bike rack that is a pain in the butt to mount and is really hard to keep from messing up the paint, so a hitch would help in that respects too, as there are a number of hitch mounted bike racks.

Any help would be appreciated.

I was searching for some stockers cause mine are all scratched up and stained and a guy here posted a reply about a place on the internet called transwheel.

If I remember correctly, they have the five spoke factory wheels for 157, and they're refurbished and refinished so they'll have no out of round or cosmetic issues.

157 is a lot to spend, but if you just need two, at least you know where you can get them and they'll be in good shape.

They'll also take wheels from customers and refurbish them for you. Or you can send in a bad wheel that you have and buy a wheel that they have and they'll give you credit toward the purchase. It works out pretty well. If they have only one wheel you can have it shipped to you when you ship one of yours there, then they'll fix the wheel you sent them, and you send in the other wheel that's bad and they send you the wheel that you just sent them that they just fixed, and it's all on some sort of exchange.

Check it out. They have a 1 800 number that you can call and get more details.

Hey VEP,

I heard about a guy that got over 320 thousand miles on his Toyota contacting them to use his car in an ad on tv and he got a new truck out of it. Maybe you could get in touch with them?

I remember the older adds Toyota used to do, where they'd have all the owners of cars with 200 and 300 thousand miles on them standing next to them and jumping up in the air.

The old slogan: "I love what you do for me, Toyota!" Maybe you could get on television...

I was thinking that he might have had the six cylinder, but my mom had the four and my dad had the six, and having driven both, unless his car was REALLY sick, there's no way it was the six. That thing was a rocket on wheels.

I always tell people about the 89-91 model Camrys we had being the perfect sleeper car. Nobody had any idea you could take them on in that thing, much less leave them behind. We moved on to some later model Camrys after one got wrecked and one was swept away in a flash flood and I don't think the newer ones were such a sporty ride. The curves and bubble shape of the car seemed to make it fat and slow compared to the older, more angular versions. The newer ones don't handle as well as the old ones either. One thing is for sure though, the automatics with the ECT power button hauled much butt.

He probably had an auto with the ECT, and he might have had the overdrive button off, which would have made the car a three speed instead of a four speed so his jump off the line would have had more top end than my first gear.

I thought about getting an automatic Celica remembering how perky that old Camry was, but the gearshifter for an auto looked really out of place in a Celica, and picking out a 6th gen was all about the way it looked...

I thought I'd get around waiting in line at a red light by gunning it from a stop at an intersection where my lane ended in a quarter of a mile or so. I wasn't trying to race anybody, I haven't done that since I was in highschool. I guess the guy next to me thought I was trying to race and he gunned it as well, and I figured "What the hell, lets see what this thing can do..."

Of course I lost. At least it wasn't by much, he just kept inching ahead of me in his lane. I was giving it all I had, but I just wasn't any match for the Camry Power. My folks had the same kind he was driving when I was younger and I can remember putting Camaros to shame in that thing.

The strange thing is, I thought the Camry and Celica have the same powerplant...

Anyway, I've seen people on this site sort of laugh when people refer to our Celicas as sports cars. I guess it's true, because short of a bunch of modifications, Celicas just look nice. I can remember a buddy of mine teasing me at a red on our way to work from the driver's seat of his Chevy S-10 right before he laid a patch and left me a half mile behind him as I tried to catch up in my 91 GTS, I just figured my 96 might have more pep in it since it has a hundred thousand less miles on it than the older one did. I guess not.

Oh well, I'm not a leadfoot anyway. I much rather prefer going twenty in a 35 so everybody sees how sweet my car looks!

How much for the sideskirts if you sell them? I'm interested, as I'm sure about 400 other people are...

I'd have a picture here but I'm a clutz when it comes to computers. I've got pics I can email.

205/50/16 Ultra HPR Radial GT tires manufactured by Lee. H speed rated. They ride smooth, grip a corner and surprised me at how quiet they were for a 50 series directional tire.

Bought two months ago, but the wheels they were on didn't fit my 96, so there is less than 150 miles on them. They're just sitting in my barn collecting dust.

If any of you have been reading my other posts about the trouble with wheels and tires on my 96, I've decided to just trash my wheels and try to sell the rubber. I figure people are hesitant to buy the wheels thinking there might be something wrong with them (when there's nothing wrong with them, they just don't center up on the hub) and less people would be paranoid about buying just the tires.

I paid four hundred twentyfour dollars for the tires, tax included. I'll take 200 for them. I'll have them taken off the rims so shipping won't eat you alive, it should be pretty cheap to ship just the rubber.

I'd like to get 200 for them, so please don't offer less. If I can't get the 200, I'll just keep the tires for the day I find some 16 inch rims that fit my car properly.

It would be best to email me instead of trying to communicate through this message board.

My email is DoothaBartman@netscape.net

Yeah, like I said, I hate to be rudundant, but all the suggestions given here petered out into nothingness in my situation. We swapped tires for a new set, still there, 3 different sets of centric rings, no help. Road force balanced all the tires, no help. The shops used the weights that crimp on the outside of the wheel and the ones that stick on the inside, no difference.

I called Toyota to see if the 7th gen wheels have the same hub as the 6th gens, but they don't, so I'm not going to try a set of those.

There are a few of us here that are wanting to find wheels that fit precisely. I myself have had a nightmare of a time getting wheels to fit my car without vibration at highway speeds being a problem (its not the balance either...)

I'm wanting to know about other wheels out there that have bolted on with no problems, retaining the smooth ride and proper handling. Please let us know the manufacturer and model wheel, as well as price, size and offset if you know it. Also include any work that had to be done to the wheels, if any, to get them to ride right. Hopefully there are some wheels out there that work fine and don't give our cars any problems.

I'm sort of of the mind that there are a number of Celica owners that just suffer through horrible rides so their car can look nice sitting in a parking lot. I've tried two sets of wheels myself in pursuit of that, but I just can't stand the bad ride and have had to go back to factory wheels.

Thanks in advance to everyone that helps out.

Well, I hate to be redundant here, as I've written the same stuff about six times on as many different posts, but I've had two set of wheels put on my 96 GT and neither one worked properly. At highway speeds a vibration of the steering wheel and the entire car is present, and it's really uncomfortable. Others here have chimed in with the same problem after I've posted mine.

It goes way beyond balancing the wheels. Absolutely nothing 3 different tire shops have done has fixed the problem, and they've done everything they can do. The only thing that worked was putting the factory wheels back on. Even though the manufacturers claim that everything about their wheel is correct for our application, something is still wrong with their wheels when it comes to exact fit.

Hopefully someone here will clear us up someday soon and you'll be able to make an informed purchase on a set of wheels that won't give you any problems.

Yeah... It's so funny. I've posted about the problem before and everybody always says "check the balance" or "my wheels vibrated until I got the balance checked".

This problem goes way beyond balanced tires. I should know, both sets got balanced about four times each. We even swapped tires thinking the rubber was bunk. And, yes, the tires were the right size. All the shops were looking for any reason besides the rims, which started out being a used set I had on my 91 GTS that worked fine on that car, but they couldn't find anything wrong with the car. So we took those wheels off thinking they were messed up, being used and all, and I bought a new set, brand new, even making sure they were 15's instead of 16's thinking the car didn't like plus size wheels and lower profile tires. Same problem. It's got the wheel shop so baffled that they've agreed to get me my money back for the whole thing. They offered to try another set of rims on an even swap, but then they decided they'd just get my money back to me to avoid the risk of another set not working either. It boils down to the wheels just not fitting the car, so I get a refund.

I wish someone could figure it out, cause those last wheels I had, which are on my profile pics, really make the car look sweet, and the factory wheels suck a fat one.

At least I've got my smooth ride back though. Maybe with the money I got back from the wheels, I can buy the TRD springs I've been wanting...

Dude!

We all need to do some looking into this hub size issue. I've put two sets of wheels on my 96 and both had issues with the hub not fitting properly. Three or four different hub centric rings and centric lug nuts didn't fix the problem. I called Toyota and asked about hub sizes on the different generation cars and they are all different. One set of wheels worked on my 91 but couldn't center up on my 96.

If the hubs don't center up, at speeds over 45 or 50 mph, the steering wheel starts to vibrate horribly as does the car. There's not really a handling issue to deal with, as it will still steer and corner properly, but it does feel like the car is about to explode as you're riding down the road.

The funny thing about the hub issue is the shake will be there one minute and not the next. For just a little while the wheels seem to be centered up and they ride smooth, but you take a turn or make a lane change and they move a little bit, and just that little bit at 70 miles an hour is enough to shake the snot out of you as you drive down the highway.

I say all of this from experience. I've spent the last two months spending almost all of my time away from work in tire shops and the Toyota service center waiting room trying to figure out what that horrible vibration in my steering wheel is. Four shops plus Toyota say it's the wheels not centering up. I put the factory wheels back on and the car is smooth and perfect, except for the appearance...

Why do car manufacturer put such ugly ass wheels on their cars? Mine is doomed to have the factory wheels unless we can figure out just what rims work on our cars.

Maybe we can start a thread asking what rims people have that DON'T have the vibration issue and select our wheels from that group.

It had a Blue Book of 2200 in the condition it was in, and the guy that bought it was really happy to have it at 1800. I didn't feel horrible for getting that. It was less than what it was worth.

And no, you didn't mention all that was wrong with your car.

How could I possibly research the condition of your ride? Am I going to find out the VIN # on your car and hire a detective to locate it and report on what sort of shape it was in? "Uh, yes Mr. Detective. I'm thinking about placing a well researched and documented post online. I need you to travel wherever you may have to and locate a vehicle for me. 1500 dollars plus all of your expenses? That sounds fair to me because, as you well know, I want this post to be as completely researched as it can be..."

It's a little silly to call someone a fool for not being able to read your mind. Your other post said nothing of the condition of the car you sold. In your haste you overlooked logic in your arguement and therefore you don't have one.

Peace.

Oh yeah, my GTS also had hail damage all over the hood and roof.

Well, you might be keeping him at the top of the forum, but you're still coming across as rude and immature. You're not showing very much respect. Scooby basicly said the same thing you did in his post toward the top, but he did it without making himself look like a child.

Everybody wants to get the most for whatever it is they're trying to sell. If you think the price is too high, you can say it, but do it while also showing respect.

Just to let you know... I recently sold my 91 GTS with a cracked windshield, torn leather, flaking clear coat, horrible wheels, two bald tires and about 16 dents with 195 thousand miles on it and I got 1800, so it looks like you got took for a fool on your 92 or you don't know enough about what you're saying to back yourself up, especially with the 4K in mods.

Peace.

How about a way to put a picture in a forum post directly from your computer? Is that impossible? I can't seem to get my pics from imagestation onto a post.

I paid 120 for each, they're American Racing wheels.

I already had a set of 16's I put brand new tires on that didn't work on my 96, but rode perfectly on my 91 GTS. I shelled out 450 for the rubber and now I've got them sitting in my barn along with the rims I can't use and haven't been able to sell here or anywhere else. We tried for about a month to make those suckers work on my car with no luck, doing stuff like balancing them every other day, swapping from front to rear, putting new tires on the rims thinking I had a bunk tire somewhere, truing the rubber to the rim and using hub centric rings. At that point everyone thought the wheels and tires were just too much for the car to handle, since the problem wasn't there with the factory wheels, so to fix the problem and have a nice looking set of wheels I bought some brand new ones in the factory size.

That didn't work either. The tire shop I bought them from has been in business here for 60 years or more, I'm sure they know what they're doing when they order a set of rims for a car. I was present when they were on the phone with the rep from American Racing, so at least I'd think that if the tires shop didn't know exactly what wheel went on my car, the manufacturer would.

The fact of the matter is, the car has been to three different shops, two others besides the one I bought the wheels from, along with the Toyota service center and nothing can be found wrong with anything. No one has charged me any money in all the time they've been attempting to solve the problem, so it's not like they're making something up to keep getting money from me. The only explanation is the wheels don't center up on the hubs, and all four places come up with the same explanation without me telling them that the other places have already told me that.

The place I bought them from has said they will probably get full price returned to me since obviously they sold me something that didn't fit on my car.

I've tried 3 different shops and took it to Toyota. Everyone says the wheel doesn't center up on the hub.

You guys want to sell your wheels?

Well, not to sound rude, but since they're just stock, and I've already got a set that work (I'm only trying to get ones that aren't so damn scratched up) I wouldn't want to spend more than a hundred. Shipping on wheels is a killer, so the price would have to stay low.

I want to get in touch with someone at Toyota who really knows what they're talking about and find out what size hub the sixth gens have. All the tire shops find nothing wrong mechanicly with my car, they point to the rims not centering up on the hubs. Even though we've tried three sets of hub centric rings, they still say it's the wheel not centering up on the hub. If the 6th gen and 7th gen have the same hub, I'd like to try to wait for the nicer 7th gen, but if you guys don't mind the low price, I'm interested in buying.

BlkGT, if the picture at the bottom of your post has your factory rims, those are the ones I have, and those are the ones I'd want. Those are the 6th gen factory rims I think.

Anybody out there have some factory rims they want to unload?

My car won't accept aftermarket rims. I've tried two sets and they both make the car wobble all over the place and make the steering wheel jerk around. The stock wheels don't do that. Three different tire shops all say my rims aren't centering up on the hub, and we've tried three different sets of hub centric rings to remedy the problem with no luck.

I'd put my stockers back on but they're all scratched up. The person that had the car before me was a chick, and they always mess their tires up scrubbing curbs.

I'd prefer the newer style that I've seen on the 7th generation Celicas, the ones with the really pointy, almost nonexistant five star spokes, but I guess I'd be interested in the 6th gen 5 stars too.

Please, reply here if you want, but PLEASE send me an email too.

My email is DoothaBartman@netscape.net

Peace.