First impressions. — Toyota Carina ED, 2.0 liter, 1997

Accurately for my birthday, by the way, you can congratulate today =) snow piled up. A lot, quite a lot. And I was finally going to start the BZ, because now my impressions are already complete:

Chapter 1. Service.
Here I was not pleasantly surprised. I'm used to the prices of the Sprinter, which is cheaper to maintain than Nexia and almost VAZs. And in this version, due to the specificity of both the engine and the suspension, the prices surprise and amaze, a couple of examples: wheel bearings now cost not 500-600 rubles / piece, but 1800 rubles / piece. Yes, and we must try to find; candles no longer cost 600 rubles for a set of the original, by the way, from now on 1600 rubles; but what can I say if the air filter hell knows what kind of production costs 500 rubles and this is the cheapest option, as opposed to 170r. to Sprinter. In general, you can go on for a long time, but the essence, I think, is clear. Yes, by the way, this is my first car on which I changed the timing and other belts, before that I didn’t have to.

Chapter
2 Yesterday I was happy with the snow, just like in childhood. And, of course, not because you can play snowballs and not because it's "pretty", but because you can finally understand what kind of car I bought. And I did not lose! The entire cost of maintenance goes to the 47th plan. I have never had all-wheel drive before, but here I have it and now the total mass is gently moving, and you are already driving and driving fast, everyone is gently crawling 40, and you are driving sideways 80, this is not transferable, it costs a lot. True, it’s scary, you get used to it over the years of front-wheel drive, you overdo it a little and you already have to catch the car from a skid. But this one doesn’t drift, but it can be demolished, it can drive sideways from a traffic light to a traffic light, but it doesn’t drift and it still doesn’t fit in my head =)

Well, here's how to get started.