After lots of looking, negotiating with the boss, and various conversations with private sellers, dealers and several visits to the auction, I have bought this as a second car to spread the load from my Lexus GS450h, use for "messier" stuff, work, and for our imminently arriving puppy (tomorrow [emoji106])
Here it is looking at it's best
8 years 10 months old, 10 weeks MOT left, 114,000 miles, superb MOT history but, as a trade in with non dealer history sold at auction, the service book is of course missing but I can see various stickers etc in the car indicating servicing at an independent. It's pretty scruffy in quite a few places, so will need a good amount of work inside and out. I also specifically bought a bottom of the range car, and petrol, to limit costly issues with electronics or diesel stuff - but it's a Toyota so will need to be unlucky for big bills. Also has an exhaust break/blow to, the clutch is high but working fine and the air con is not really cold at all. It has 4 different budget tyres, scrapes and scuffs, is filthy and stinks as it's had dogs in it and ash in the ashtray!
I have many plans for the car but here are some pics to get you started of what lies ahead:
You get the idea [emoji4]
That's some of the worst parts of the car, but other aspects are very good, there is not real bodywork damage and looks like it has never had paint. The paint quality is really excellent metallic and just needs a lot of the TLC it's obviously been missing recently.
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Here it is looking at it's best
8 years 10 months old, 10 weeks MOT left, 114,000 miles, superb MOT history but, as a trade in with non dealer history sold at auction, the service book is of course missing but I can see various stickers etc in the car indicating servicing at an independent. It's pretty scruffy in quite a few places, so will need a good amount of work inside and out. I also specifically bought a bottom of the range car, and petrol, to limit costly issues with electronics or diesel stuff - but it's a Toyota so will need to be unlucky for big bills. Also has an exhaust break/blow to, the clutch is high but working fine and the air con is not really cold at all. It has 4 different budget tyres, scrapes and scuffs, is filthy and stinks as it's had dogs in it and ash in the ashtray!
I have many plans for the car but here are some pics to get you started of what lies ahead:
You get the idea [emoji4]
That's some of the worst parts of the car, but other aspects are very good, there is not real bodywork damage and looks like it has never had paint. The paint quality is really excellent metallic and just needs a lot of the TLC it's obviously been missing recently.
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk