TOYOTA CELICA BEAMS

tattoo man

lads and lassies im looking at buying a 1998 toyota celica ss2,it has the beams engine,now ive had one person say there a bucket off shi*e,to another who would but his life on it??
what do ye think,and if anyone had one whats the ups and downs,does anyone know someone with one??what are the pros and cons???
cheers folks....

cps_goodbuy

hmm,

depends

as a car the celica, its fine
as a sports car, its not the best out there (FWD, heavy, 2+2, etc)
as a sports cruiser, its pretty good

The beams means you get a relatively powerful N/A sports cruiser thats better than the standard versions and not as much to insure as the GT4 turbo (which incidently I feel can't make use of the little extra power)

VVTI Yamaha Redtop is relatively easy on fuel.

It is FWD thus any more power really isn't necessary (t-steer, grip, wheel direction troubles etc)

BuckO'Sit isn't really a well judged opinion, sounds like a comment from a scanger/boyracer :rolleyes:

It is a perfectly good car.

tattoo man

cps_goodbuy wrote: »

hmm,

depends

as a car the celica, its fine
as a sports car, its not the best out there (FWD, heavy, 2+2, etc)
as a sports cruiser, its pretty good

The beams means you get a relatively powerful N/A sports cruiser thats better than the standard versions and not as much to insure as the GT4 turbo (which incidently I feel can't make use of the little extra power)

VVTI Yamaha Redtop is relatively easy on fuel.

It is FWD thus any more power really isn't necessary (t-steer, grip, wheel direction troubles etc)

BuckO'Sit isn't really a well judged opinion, sounds like a comment from a scanger/boyracer :rolleyes:

It is a perfectly good car.

well i used the term bucket of S meself,as he gave the car a very bad reveiw,like they arent reliable etc,like the power wise wouldnt be my concern,its i just dont want to be stuck with an unreliable car,but as i say another mate says he loves them,he had 2 and would buy another..are the beams engine itself reliable??
goodbuy cheers for the input.

Atomic Pineapple

tattoo man wrote: »

well i used the term bucket of S meself,as he gave the car a very bad reveiw,like they arent reliable etc,like the power wise wouldnt be my concern,its i just dont want to be stuck with an unreliable car,but as i say another mate says he loves them,he had 2 and would buy another..are the beams engine itself reliable??
goodbuy cheers for the input.

The engine itself is very reliable.

The celica can come with superstrut suspension which doesn't take well to irish roads and can cause up to 3k to replace however i'm not sure if the ssII comes with it.

There definitely not unreliable anyway

Blitzkrieger

A 'beams' celica is an SSIII. For a fwd car they handle well enough. I know a guy who's had a SSII for three years and loves the way it copes with the back roads on his way to work. The SSIII also has super-strut suspension so should handle even better. The downside is the super-strut suspension is also the only thing I've heard of that always goes wrong on these cars. There's two little bars on the front wheels that seem to break if the cars left sitting idle too long....like on a boat from Japan. On the standard car they're like 80 quid each. For the super-strut they're about 600 each.

cps_goodbuy

engines, body, mechanicals are first class...


I forgot about that suspension! :P silly stupid suspension