In short, I was drunk and was getting a ride home from a friend who is a hardcore JDM car guy. I was stumbling when entering his mark II chaser and the wind deflector (the plastic attached on top of doors) cracked. Plastic had obviously gotten brittle because of sun and its’ age. I was too drunk to realise this at the time. The next day my friend was like “so are you going to pay for the part you fucked up yesterday?”
OEM spare part costs hundreds of euros and as a student I have no way of paying that kind of money. I found cheaper parts on ali express but apparently they don’t ship to Finland because of the, well, ukraine-russia thing currently going on. As mentioned before, this friend is a local HC JDM guy and regularly takes his car(s) to shows/events, and obviously the car is going to look like shit with broken accessory parts.
If ANYONE either has leftover spare parts, scrap cars with potential parts, knows anyone who has either, or knows where to look for these parts, please contact immediately! There is no way I could find spares from a local scrapyard as there are probably less than 10 of these cars in the whole country.
by RaspberrySuitable155
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I’ve got a ’93 Mark II myself. I’ve been looking for these exact rainguards for about 3 years now, sorry to say it might be a near impossible search. I’ve heard the ebay options aren’t bad, they just don’t clip into the oem chrome rail on the roof and instead have 3m tape to adhere with.
Id hate it if my friend immediately asks me to cough up for his extremely expensive showcar with rare parts when that part was sunblasted already for 25 years without replacement before that and was gonna break if the wind blew too hard. When he knew he would pick you up drunk af.
Anyway, i dont think you will find a cheap alternative anytime soon on a Mark II chaser. Maybe on an obscure Japanese parts website you could find something but i would just save up the money and buy an OEM for him eventually. He took the risk of picking you up in his showcar and now he either pays it himself to fix it before another show or waits for the part from you but you need time.
Take a look on Jauce, they’re a forwarding service for Japanese yahoo auctions, get the model code and punch it in there, should be a few floating around.