"Men think men don't niang, I walk crazier than you, ok? An overbearing man should be overbearing. "
I don't know why, this car of Toyota Overriding (Prado) has always been regarded as a man's car. Although weak, it is really loved by people, especially men! I feel that Toyota bullying is a car that all men can't bypass. We have a car fan who is a cross-country enthusiast and an overbearing car fan! However, due to various reasons, this dream has not come true.
This year, with the policy of stopping production and importing cars in parallel, overbearing cars are even more mythical! At the same time, affected by the policy, the demand for large-displacement off-road vehicles exceeds the supply, and a number of hard-core off-road vehicles such as Kuluze, Le Tu and Pajero, led by bullying, have become hot cakes. So he also has a tendency to get farther and farther away from his dreams. Finally, he was fed up. He is going to look online first, have an eye addiction and get to know the market by the way. However, when I saw the quotation, my heart was half cold. Last year, I was going to buy 20 10 years of overbearing money, but this year I can only buy more than 0 years.
It's time to make a hero. There is no way to make others hard enough to catch the policy express and make themselves a wealth management product. Fans are heartbroken, are they doomed to miss it? So he gritted his teeth and stamped his foot and decided to buy it, but fans could only choose to buy the old one. He took a fancy to an imported Toyota Prado 2.7L in 2008, which was quite expensive, and he dared not consider 4.0 at all. However, with such a long age, the condition of the car has to be said separately. The seller said that there was nothing wrong with the three major parts of the car, and the appearance was only painted a little, so the condition of the car was absolutely unknown. But the fans were still worried, so we found the car that we had been paying attention to for a long time. Let's take a look at the car overview first.
Vehicle model year: 2004 model year? Toyota Prado (import) 2.7L automatic GX
Date of production: July 2008
License date: June 2008165438+1October.
Expressed mileage: 6.5438+0.4 million kilometers
Guide price of new car: 465,438+0.2 million.
Seller's quotation: 199800.
Basically, the Prado (imported) seen in the market in 2008 are all models 04 and 05, and the guide price of the new car is not needed at all, because the market of this car is really incomprehensible to ordinary people. In 2008, the new car was 400,000 yuan, and now we can quote 200,000 yuan. Who but Prado can fight the first world war? Of course, the market price is absolute, some people buy and some people sell. Let's do a good test. Let's see how awesome this old guy is.
First of all, observe the appearance, but I don't have much hope for the appearance of this car. First of all, the color is too bad. I have used the car for more than ten years, so I won't say much about the appearance defects. Fans also say looks are not important. Just look at the three major items and accidents and blisters? All right! However, the inspection process is still indispensable. Let's take out professional equipment and look at the paint value first, so that I can further accurately judge the accident. Although it can be seen with the naked eye and experience, people can't get wet when walking by the river. Be careful to sail for thousands of years!
You can see that the left front fender has traces of sheet metal painting; There are sheet metal marks on the right rear fender accessories; Although there are many flaws, there are not many internal injuries; The left back door is only painted, and there is no sheet metal repair.
And the left front door is the same, there is nothing unusual, and the original car paint is also available, but the original car paint of Toyota Prado is still a little thicker than other cars owned by Toyota. There are no repair marks on the right front fender, roof and hood, and there are also some on the hood, as long as they have not been replaced. Please confirm later. The appearance study is here first. On the whole, it's not bad for a Toyota Prado that hasn't run in yet. No major problems have been found so far. The most important thing is to look at the three big pieces.
Then check the engine compartment. In my impression, Toyota Prado is a powerful and reliable symbol, but this 2.7-liter inline four-cylinder engine has a maximum horsepower 163 and a maximum torque of 246n·M, and its power is not as good as Highlander. This is a bad cross-country injury, but it still can't hold everyone's love for it, so I won't comment much. Do my test carefully.
In the engine room, check the screws of the engine room cover first, and no disassembly marks are found; However, the headlights have traces of disassembly; But no signs of disassembly were found in the frame part of the engine room? ; There are no signs of removing and replacing fenders on both sides. Removing the headlights should not be caused by a major accident, but should be combined with other places.
Subsequently, it was detected that there was no trace of disassembly and replacement of the fender beam; The structure of the girder has not changed, and there is no sign of deformation or disintegration. The engine compartment looks good, too Fans say that buying this kind of car for more than ten years is to buy a stable three-piece suit, and the car shell is free.
Let's check the engine part. The legendary Toyota Prado, which has a running-in cost of 200,000 yuan, has already started an engine of10.4 million kilometers, which will be announced soon.
First, it was found that the water pipe of the engine was disassembled; No disassembly marks were found on the engine bracket; The problem is not big.
Then I found that the valve cover was disassembled; The compressor shows signs of replacement; There are also disassembly marks on the thermostat; But no traces of disassembly and maintenance were found in the engine. The overall situation is that some vulnerable parts have been removed and replaced, which is still reasonable.
Next, I detected that the battery power is a little low, but it can still be started at present, so I will pay attention to it later. However, it is recommended to change the oil immediately after buying a car. Needless to say, this is an unwritten rule for used cars. The engine room has been checked here, and it is generally good. After all, it was 12 years ago. I'm afraid only Japanese cars can have this performance. Let's look at the interior.
Toyota Prado's central control design is still practical, but now I can't stand this greasy feeling.
And the steering wheel is black and shiny, as if it had been oiled, and the function in the car is normal? But it doesn't have many functions, haha ~ Compared with the function of the car with tens of thousands of dollars now, it's a drop in the bucket, but the people who buy this car don't want its functions. If they want those high technologies, wouldn't it smell good to buy a new BYD car?
You can see that this Toyota Prado instrument is as simple as ever, with the same appearance, and there is no fancy design at all. However, when testing, it was found that there was something wrong with the idle speed of this car. Although there is no fault light, it still needs further inspection. Look at the obd computer first.
However, no fault code was found in the engine, and there were fault codes in the airbag, but they were all historical fault codes, which should be caused by the disassembly of the instrument panel and the inner seat. With my years of experience in car inspection, I feel that the interior of this car is not simple, so let's go on!
Sure enough, when checking the internal skeleton, local rust was found; In some narrow places, there are obvious traces of water. Look at this thick sediment trace. It can be seen from these places that there must be water in this car.
Then I checked the cushion part, and it can be seen that the corrosion is serious, and the water inlet part is at least above the cushion, which belongs to a moderate immersion vehicle. This is the untreated part, the seat is not dry, and it will rust after a long time. In fact, as long as the general water is treated in time, it will not leave too much rust. Serious rust is generally in a long-term humid environment. Combined with the airbag failure of the whole vehicle, it can be concluded that the vehicle is seriously wading, but after treatment, there are always some details that need to be found by our inspectors. Moderate foam cars like this will cause more serious hidden dangers, which is more terrible than accident cars to some extent.
Because blisters flooded the lines and electrical equipment, just like this plug, it would lead to excessive line resistance and lead to failure, or the line caught fire, which might lead to out-of-control steering wheel and even vehicle spontaneous combustion! Imagine that you are driving at a high speed and suddenly the steering wheel fails or the car catches fire. What kind of scene is this? So I first told the fans about the current car condition.
Fans said they still wanted to see the car first, so we went to communicate with the seller about the road test and chassis. However, the seller said that if you want to try the road frame, you have to pay a deposit first. Let's try the road and put it on the shelves. Is he still in business? However, in view of the blisters on this car, the fans then went to negotiate with the seller. The seller said, "Is it abnormal for this car to go out to play with water or something?" Why don't you drive a Prado and buy a cross-country car? That's true, but as buyers, their positions are different. Of course, they don't want to buy a faulty car. In the end, fans and sellers broke up in discord.
Finally, when I walked with my fans, the fans said that he looked at the market price of this car online. The quotation is about 17 and180 thousand, and the transaction price is about150 thousand, which should be the normal condition of the car. Today, the price of this 199800 is really high, but he thought that a higher-priced car would be more reliable. I didn't expect a high-priced car to be a soaking car. It's really too much. Fortunately, he found us to help him test. I think it's good to buy a car regardless of what is expensive, but it's more reliable according to the normal market price, don't you think? First, senior high school students think that buying second-hand cars is not cheap; second, don't think that a high quotation is necessarily good, because some people do business just to grasp people's psychology and sell defective products as fine products. Let's buy it at the market price.
Ok, that's all for today's test assignment. Thank you for reading!
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