Did This Customer Buy a Good Used Car? Bought on a Trip Without Inspection! 

Congrats hope u will enjoy your ride,what about your dashboard ??

Anyone that lives in an area that snows should always buy from Florida. My cars are garage kept and well taken care of.

@@alhassanzayyanu5712 I am not worried about the cracks unless it really starts falling apart. They are a bit of an undertaking to replace from what I understand, so we will live with it

Awesome van! I like that it's FWD and not AWD. I don't care about the dash, that thing looks so good underneath. Great to hear that you will undercoat. Not sure what you paid but there is so much value there. This makes me want to do a Florida trip for my next toyota/lexus.

Good plan on undercoat rustproofing. I tried just using spray cans of it on mine but it's hard to get a thick coating. Use the woolwax gun if you're going to DIY it.

And good mechanics are also hard to find! I took my Camry to the dealer for minor repair and they did a MPI and forgot to close the hood completely! It pop up a little while I started driving and the hook caught it, glad I wasn't going fast!

Well said, couldn’t agree more.

@@VincentScalesmpi?

I agree

The biggest barrier to working on ur car is not lack of knowledge, it’s lack of tools. I’m not buying fuel injection kit and engine stand to use it total of 2 times in my lifetime.

My mom had the ~00 Sienna. I don't know the final mileage, but it was maybe 2018 when she finally gave it to a relative. Of course it was only after she gave it away it somehow needed a little maintenance. Which my parents possibly helped them on. EDIT: Oh and she of course purchased an '18 Sienna to replace it.. although I think nowadays she barely drives it.

I'm sure those were good times 💯👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

@@davidglad As a Toyota master technician and gear head, I kinda believe cars have feelings. I’ve owned plenty of cars that never give me a moment of trouble but the moment it hears I want to get rid of it, the car throws a bit. All the sudden battery is bad for instance. Cars are just funny

@@Trex6767 Whether it's feelings or just adapted to the person who was the owner and out of sync with somebody new, probably truth to that. Perhaps that's the real reason my 06 Camry the other morning could cross 186000 miles only to have the alternator essentially fail. _Yet it still allowed me to drive_ the remaining 12 miles to my office after seeing the battery light , which I wouldn't have chanced on a non-workday or after work. (Since any red dashboard light I'd say translates to pull over as soon as it is safe to do so, I'd obviously not recommend anyone do this.) There was a hint for some weeks prior, but a friend thought the sound was more minor than having to do with the alternator or operation of the vehicle. PS Crazy longer note is when I saw that battery light, I quickly shut my headlights off (it was daylight), turned radio off, and removed a bt accessory using aux power. So my dashboard went dark a split second *twice* maybe a minute or two later but came back on as quickly. It was then I decided to pull off the highway to the nearest gas station. Sitting at a stoplight before pulling in, I realized that dashboard light was no longer on and chose to chance the final maybe 3 miles and arrived safely. I intended on selling the Camry if I found a deal on a new car, but this experience screams at me to *KEEP* it and likely use it as my workhorse even with a new car. As it only took a 173.19 receipt at O'Reilly (their tests confirmed it was the alternator, but indicated I'd probably need to replace my battery a year from now) to replace the alternator and some _loaner tools_ from AutoZone I already was refunded on by returning same day.. and of course a yt video showing how to replace the alternator with a friend coming out.

Hey our 04 Sienna had our starter go out at the same mileage. Absolute tanks

Funny. My 05 with 230,000 the starter went out also!

My 04 Sienna starter went out last year at 175k

​@@hubertl432You must've had a 'Friday afternoon' starter in yours 😂

The dash probably has to do with whether it was garage kept or not.

Battery cars are one of the biggest scams ever. And note how govs just love these evs. Aren't all scams associated with governments?

House of cards…..

Have seen this a lot in California lately, was shopping for a used IS350 and every month if see one for a great price w/low miles. Digging into car history every one of them had an out of state history which coincidentally included being sold into another state just a few months after a major hurricane/flood in the city it had been registered too. Sad thing is, I saw these cars sell quickly, like less than 2 weeks n the lot

@@kevinconroy6606It probably happens a bit less in CA than other states due to many having CA-specific models with additional emissions equipment so the 49-state version can’t be registered there. Plenty of 50-state vehicles that can though.

I didn't have to take it to a shop, I just looked under the front of the van. Luckily it was replaced at a Toyota dealership, I confirmed that after transferring the van into my name and signing up for Toyota owner website. I can pull the history any service done at any Toyota dealership in the US.

Good luck over the next 232,000 miles! 😉

Look into the recall for dashboard. I have 2008 LE and got mine replaced by the dealership several years ago.

I'm in south Florida and my compressor ( 06 Sienna) finally gave out this year ( 2023) . It wasn't even the compressor but the clutch. I replaced the complete unit with a new Denso. I was satidfied that I got 17 years out of the original !

What about possible flood damage with all the hurricanes?

Interesting. What is Toyota’s reputation over there?

They are not that popular. Vw group cars are everywhere here.i would buy one but it wouldn't be first choice for most people

A remarkable amount of Toyota cars and trucks disappear from driveways and parking lots in North America and mysteriously reappear in West Africa. I sincerely hope the one you are planning to buy is not one of those. 😇

@@rightlanehog3151 hahahaha I'm not sure but I believe the cars are well documented..

@@alhassanzayyanu5712 Type - "CBC Tracking Stolen Cars: How They Could End Up In West Africa" in the SEARCH bar and watch for yourself. 😁

He he he!!! That view is normal for Aussie cars. I have 2 of them like that. Having grown up in the midwest rust belt in the 60s to 80s, I really appreciate not having to deal with rust at Titanic levels.

That is on the list. The shops been super busy lately. Once we get a chance to film one we’ll get it done

Probably from the Florida heat

Except the flooded ones.

Please tell me about the rear axle problem that causes the "on and off" feeling. I too have not been able to solve this issue with my 06. Drums in the rear on my van

​@@abyssalsoul6216 There may be a slight warping to one of the components of the rear wheel assembly that worsens over time. This causes the brake drum to angle slightly in relation to the tire, creating an uneven braking pressure as the wheel rotates with the brakes activated. It feels like the strength of the brakes increases and decreases in a sinusoidal manner, varying in frequency depending upon the rotational speed of the wheels. The brakes also make an annoying rubbing sound that starts and stops at the same rate as the brakes tightening and loosening against the tire. I wish I knew exactly what component was at play. But I'm not very well versed in automotive technology. I just recently became interested in The Car Care Nut, so I'm learning now. And I traded in the Sienna many years ago to get a RAV4. So I may never find the answer to this mystery. It had a few mechanics baffled because they couldn't find a way to improve the braking performance.

@@CaveyMoth Thank you for responding. Years ago I renewed the drums with aftermarket ones and what a mistake that was! In hindsight the originals still had some life left in them but I wanted to go thousands of miles more without having to address the drums again. To make matters worse I threw away the originlas before I had time to road test the new ones. Long story short the aftermarket ones produced vibrations that were just intolerable. I even tried different brands , finally keeping the ones that produced the least vibration. It wasn't until I spoke with the technician at an auto machine shop who said that the new ones were out of round and was he right! He resurfaced them and made them true and no more vibration after that. So for a while now I have been experiencing what I believe to be brake judder and seems to be coming from the front. If I step on the brakes at high speed I get the judder feeling which varies with speed. I do not see the steering wheel moving left to right to suggest that the rotor is warped. I may be wrong though. Recently I deglazed the front front rotors to see if the judder would improve but it did not.

Sounds like bad advice to me!

Mechanic is giving you bad advice. Replace the oil cooler lines, an the VVTI oil feed lines ASAP! Especially if the lines are rubber. If they are metal lines, you are good! Lost of oil pressure. Will cause the 2GRFE (engine in the sienna) to self destruct, rather quickly. If the lines ruptures. You won't have any time to do anything about it! If that happens, it's BIG bill time.

Do you know what year they updated it to the metal line? I have a '09.

My 2012 did not have the rubber oil feeder line.