1983 Toyota Terecel 4x4, 5 speed. 169779 miles.
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Looks decent on the outside, but the interior is confusing. It has the seats and dash of an '87-'88 T4WD deluxe and then you can see the mismatched door panel with a Canadian Tercel steering wheel to top it all off. The fact that the interior parts don't match would probably drive me crazy.
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I noticed this yesterday, it has a peanut butter side door panel, mismatched seat and yet a Canadian steering wheel. It also has an odd roof rack that also look Canadian, but not quite the same as most I have seen. I wonder what other 'surprises' one will find when you look deeper. Relatively low miles. Too bad it is a DLX.
johnvincent wrote:What's bad about the DLX? It'd be good to know as I continue my search.
Just that it's not an SR5, with the inclinometer and other nice little features (intermittent wipers, right?) and the sweet SR5 badging on the outside. The DLX is still awesome, no worries.
biggest differences between SR5 and dlx are: adjustable cloth seats/vinyl seats (from 83-86, 87 and 88 dlxs had decent cloth seats); tachometer/no tach; inclinometer (in 83 and 84s only)/no inclinometer; wide rub strips/thin rub strips; alloy wheels/steel wheels. i think that's it. it's just a trim package thing and you can easily swap all that stuff between the two if you want to. mechanically, SR5s and dlxs are identical.
the two most important features of the SR5 is the instrument cluster with the tach, and the much nicer cloth seats. the wheels need to be up graded to 6x14 alloys anyway, so the stock steelies are not worth much except as perhaps for studed winter tires.
johnvincent wrote:What's bad about the DLX? It'd be good to know as I continue my search.
Just that it's not an SR5, with the inclinometer and other nice little features (intermittent wipers, right?) and the sweet SR5 badging on the outside. The DLX is still awesome, no worries.
oops, also meant to mention: yes, sr5's have intermittent wipers while dlx's do not. however, i hate the sr5 intermittent wipers because they wipe every 5 seconds which is either too much or not enough. you can install adjustable intermittent wipers in both dlx's and sr5's really easily though, and i think it's well worth it. i put them in my last terc and would do it again to any future tercs:
yes, the '87 seats are totally different and a great improvement in comfort. but the earlier SR5 seats are kind of fun and funky, some actualy like that loud picnic blanket plaid. I am a big fan of the '85 daimond pattern (only year they had it). It seems to me there was an improvement in the padding shape in the '85 and later, over the the '83-84 seats.
You guys know so much about these cars!!! Is there an all-encompassing guidebook I can read? If not, you guys should create one. A visual and technical guide to all the models of every year!
Petros wrote:this web site is the ultimate information source for these cars, if it is ever lost, so will be so much knowledge about them
That's exactly why you guys should get started on a PDF book!
The basic premise: List each year and the various models that were released along with photos and their technical specs.
You could expand on that idea and add known issues or anything that's good to know about each model.
This is totally the wrong thread for this kind of topic but still. Would be an awesome idea! I'd pay $10 for it, could be a neat way to keep the site funded. Maybe set suggested donation and let readers pay what they like for it.
Not mentioning any names......