Purchase and First Impressions of the Car — logbook Toyota Caldina 1998

First impressions and data about the car drove me into a stupor! I confess honestly .. when my father called and described what this car is like ...

Agree! many are accustomed to the fact that for domestic cars mileage over 200 thousand is already a tortured car ... So when my father announced the figure of 323 thousand mileage on this Kaldina, my first impression was the same ... and besides, that 98 and not 2001 as expected. and it was still doused a year ago (((Some negative emotions were
Radovolo that at least 2 liters and not less))

I was a little upset. I expected something better, but as my father conveyed the words of that man — “You’d better not buy it for this money on the market! there will be an engine and a suspension that will need repair, but here the car is without a catch
! )) Especially since I sell it to my friends once they asked me to fit a good car"

Well, after thinking for a minute, my father and I decided to take, or rather he had already decided to me. A foreign car is still a foreign car, and this is trifles for it))) Well, what if it is not perfect in appearance, but without a catch for sure!
We'll drive for a year or two and change it. The man said 4 years is enough boldly if you follow her normally)))

We took all the cars like this, from friends (except for the Volga only) and it’s better to overpay a little but be sure)))

Ugh ugh ugh but so far all our machines have served well!

The second impression was when I saw her live 2 days later!

As I came home from the city immediately behind the wheel, run in. I'm almost used to the right steering wheel.
I drove foreign cars of acquaintances only on mechanics, but sat down on this one and, out of habit, looked for a clutch pedal with my left foot in the first minutes of driving)))

But it quickly passed and got used to it!

There is nothing to even compare with our auto industry. In the cabin, you feel much nicer and more comfortable, the automatic gearbox just doesn’t strain you (although earlier I was categorically against the automatic machine, and although I myself never drove an automatic machine))))) but I was firmly convinced that the mechanics are better)

Engine 2l. I’m not bad luck, I’ll say, I tried to press the pedal to the floor so it presses into the chair and turns up to 6 thousand almost lightly), compared to the 15th former)) I’m happy with the dynamics! For some, it seems like a vegetable, but this is quite enough for me with my driving style, and even more so for my father))

Noise isolation, of course, is no better than in the Soviet one, on a flat road there is silence, but on a bad road everything rattles.
In general, almost the same as on the 15th I had))

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YOUR HAND AND SOUL HERE WILL NEED TO APPLY!

Well, now a couple of cons

- Broken left mirror

— Stove motor for replacement (rattles something strong, the bearing must have crashed)
— On the back door in the cold, the lining for which to open the door burst.

- The most collective-farm thing that I didn’t like was that the owner screwed a white handle to the back door on 4 self-tapping screws, they say the plastic native breaks in the winter and this norm ((So collective farm, and even on a foreign car ...
+ to this I became a member of the "Sports Club Rally Siberia" ))))

- There is a crack on the windshield with the letter T. well, the man says don’t change, it makes no sense to spend money)) this is a common thing and not new for a long time

He threw off 5 thousand on these jambs. My father asked for more, but he said that it would be better then for us to adjust the summer tires to half the price. we have 16, and such a dimension is expensive))

But on 16 wheels it looks great. I can’t even imagine how it would look like on 14 relatives))) It would be more casting.eh ... But even with these caps it looks like casting. Father thought when he took the casting and did not even pay attention to the fact that the caps))
It is still not very noticeable)) This moment made us happy!

That seems to have told everything! I already have plans in my head for what to do in the summer, but that's another story))

Thank you all for your attention, especially if you are not too lazy to read!
Comments are welcome))))