Tuff Toys - Importers/mechanic

[mosquitocoils]

Hey all, some of you might know me from this site, some might not. Either way, I've had my skyline for 9 months or so, and my journey has been interesting. I've learnt a LOT along the way, about RB's, and about cars in general. I thought I'd share my story of dealing with Tuff Toys.

So around December 08 - Jan 09 I started looking for a car. I had a falcon at the time and wanted something japanese and turbo! Test drove a couple of 180s and silvia's, drooled over an S15 or two but they were plain out of my price range. A couple of months before this, my workmate and I noticed Tuff Toys moved into Virginia, next to All Jap... we both drove past it each day on the way to work and always talked about how much we both wanted a sick car from there... hahaha.

Went in and spoke to them, told them what I was after and they were happy to help me out, let me test drive one of their 180s I had my eye on, and were always happy to have a chat and answer any questions I had - and I had a lot hahahaha.

Their cars were a bit out of my price range, fair enough.

I ended up finding my 33 at another car yard at Motorscene at Albion, simply because it was cheap. Had a friend look it over and I was sold.

Over the next couple of months I took my car to Tuff Toys to replace/upgrade a few basic things:

• Oil, fluids, and filter change straight away
  
• I had them take out the coilovers that were in there and replace with stock shocks and kings low springs
  
• Brake pads/rotors
  
• All 3 of my 3 month/5000km services so far (could do them myself but I need it done by a shop for my warranty)
  

They've also helped me out with figuring out weird noises (boost leak from BOV gasket) and helped me reconnect my turbo timer when its wires came loose in the dash because I was fiddling in there (!). They taught me about my manual boost controller and told me how to connect it/reconnect it (I wanted to DIY it to learn how it worked at the time), as well as helped me out with a multitude of noobish questions from me and have always been more than happy to help me out without charging for stuff like that.

They've never stuffed me around, and I've never been surprised at the cost. If anything 'bigger' had to be done, they've let me know and told me how serious it is and how long until I'd need to do it - which is EXACTLY what I want in a mechanic. If you need anything mechanical done, I'd have no problem recommending them to the skyline community. Wayne knows his skylines and has realistic expectations from them.

Anyway, my two cents. Cheers.

Edited November 18, 2009 by mosquitocoils

[ToMMaH]

You put the stock struts back in with king springs when you had aftermarket coilovers? Now theres an unexpected move.

[mosquitocoils]

Hahahahaha yeah.... to be honest I HATED the coilovers. Waaaayy too stiff for street use which is all it will see while in my possession, other than the odd drag soon.

[KNG13]

Hey Tuff Toys?

is there a web address for them i am thinking of looking for a manual r34 as aposed to my auto and needing some guidence.

[hylian]

Somehow they got me on their mailing list and used to email me every week with new cars they had.

I haven't heard from them in about a year or so and there's no website for them.

I'm not sure what's next to justjap now though?

[mosquitocoils]

Hey guys PM me if you want the mobile number for them... they've moved out of Just Japs property and moving over to the southside from memory

[samuri]

Hey guys PM me if you want the mobile number for them... they've moved out of Just Japs property and moving over to the southside from memory

Tufftoys arranged compliance for my Skyline personal import from japan and were very helpful , I cant compalin about anything.

Moved to

Shed 2 / 298 New Cleveland Road

Tingalpa Qld 4173

Phone: (07) 3390-4277