UZZ32 Information

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Introduction: Blah blah

What is a UZZ32 (align with Wikipedia?)
 Engineering features
  - active suspension
  - four wheel steering

Where are they found?

How common are they?

How to recognise one?

- chassis number 
- UZZ32 struts
- 4 ws
- dash switches 
- dash display
- on the track (ie not leaning!)

Production Timeline

- chassis numbers table
- features change timeline
- optional features table, including date/month/build number where eg sunroofs where introduced

Build plate decoding

- sequence number
- colour code (internal and external)
- driveline code

Vehicle and/or owner's register

- summary table (with columns in the table for key factors?) of which cars are 'known' - 
- individual pages per-car

People

Registered users / editors pages

Hall of fame - 3rd parties

- rob hayden
- vlamos
- smiffie
- neal
- niall 
- peter taplin
- planetsoarer
- darren (hinges
- electronics

Buying

- source
- prices
- things to check
  - is it (still) an active
  - suspension test
  - 4ws test 

Cost of ownership

- Pros & Cons
   - low purchase price, but 20 years old
- tecnical complexity
- potential difficulty in finding parts (and thus cost)
- fuel consumption

Servicing

- workshops (by location?)
  - niall
  - neal
  - smiffie
- service manuals 
  - Lexus SC400
  - Soarer 'bible' CD  
  - Wiring diagram
  - spare parts manual (online or cd)

- DIAGNOSTICS

- diY

- SUSPENSION STRUTS 
  - TOP HALF 
  - BOTTOM (ACCUMULATORS)
- SUSPENSION PUMP
- ELECTRONICS
- SENSORS
  - g-SENSORS
  - HEIGHT SENSORS
- 4WS STEERING  

- deactivating an active soarer

- reasons for and against
- process
- leftover parts

- parts sourcing

   - castle hill toyota
   - amayama
   - lexus / toyota US (eg Carsons)
- spare parts cd

User community

- clubs 
- External websites that may be of interest 
   - alsc
   - soarercentral
   - planetsoarer
 - events

- for sale and wanted

 - parts
 - cars