Lmao! Amazed the catalytic converters survive such abuse

Okay dude, take a deep breath

That’d be my one hang-up at this price, especially with 175k. How much oil is it burning? My bro has a customer with over 300k on an automatic wagon of this generation, was burning a quart every 300 miles(!) or so, he used some GM Top-End cleaner to try and free up the rings a bit, cut the oil consumption to about a…

“A code reader”

Define code reader.  You talking about a cheapo OBD2 dongle?  because that’s surface level stuff.  On a modern car with 20+ modules to control everything from the transmission to the HVAC to window motors, etc, all on a CANBUS network, you need a whole lot more than a simple OBD2 scanner.

yeah some of these sort of surface-level wrenchers are missing the HUGE increase in complexity that has occured since the relatively simple early days of OBD2 and say, several modules (ECM, maybe a TCM, a BCM, ABS module).  You’ve now got more like 20-30 modules, on European cars, upwards of 50.  Without a decent…

Try changing the ATF on a newer Toyota and compare it to an old 4spd Aisin with a drainplug and dip stick. Brake jobs HAVE gotten more complex as for many (most?) new cars you now need a scanner to access the ABS module when you retract the brake pistons. And in the case of some brands (FCA) you need to pay extra to…

Try changing the ATF on a newer Toyota and compare it to an old 4spd Aisin with a drainplug and dip stick. Brake jobs HAVE gotten more complex as for many (most?) new cars you now need a scanner to access the ABS module when you retract the brake pistons. And in the case of some brands (FCA) you need to pay extra to…

They actually clock in at around 3850lbs with a 454, which is not bad at all IMO for having a massive all-iron big block under the hood.  A base car with the six weighed as little as 3150lbs.

Serviceability not survivability lol

And he’s right on the money. I loved older Toyotas and their simple and fantastically robust 4spd Aisins. Drain plug, dip stick. Change the ATF every once in a while, maybe replace the filter once in a few decades, and the dumb things would cruise to 300-400k.

Whats a fumoto valve have to do with double gasketing a filter?

Wife and I rented a stick shift Diahatsu Bego 4wd for our Costa Rican honeymoon to bounce around the jungle and it was the most fun I’ve had in a rental short of my rentals in Siberia back in the mid 2000s (Lada 2107 that we drove offroad into the Altai mountains)

The big difference is that the old Honda will run rings around the Rio (and be a LOT more engaging and fun to drive) on a twisty back road.

Show us where the muscle car touched you

“I stand by my word that it’s the best Lumina for sale.”

Nope.  Even a quick gander across some midwestern facebook marketplace listings proves you wrong.  There’s an immaculate ‘94 up in Wisconsin with 37k miles listed for $3900.  Again that’s just from a cursory glance

Noticed that as well.  Not sure if other Luminas may have had that two spoke with the wood grain or something, but a “Euro” would most definitely have the three spoke pictured.

IE they’re great trucks

Are Fords, Rams, or Toyotas of the same early 2000s era any better in the salt belt? The Toyotas have the best galvanized bodies, but the frames are probably the worst of the bunch.

I bought a high-mile (289k) Colorado-sourced ‘06 Suburban last summer. Needed a bunch of small neglected things, biggest job was the oil pan gasket. Scored a very cheap set of almost new studded snow tires on brand new OEM wheels. It’s an absolute beast in the winter and an awesome weekend hauler/family road trip rig.…

I’m 32 with a young family and I’ve recently become bitten by the MX bug myself :/

“Lease : pay somewhere between 40% and 50% of the car over a fixed period, then return or pay the balance, then keep it until it’s worth nothing