About contract engines - Toyota Corolla Ceres, 1.5L, 1993

When I had a “nine” and during the purge of the carburetor the master told me that the capital was struggling for me, I was very upset. In general, I am quite far from any technical autonomy, the word "capital", or even a simple "repair" causes me some confusion - after all, I don’t know a damn thing. Well, absolutely not a drop. My descriptions of “how it was before the repair and how it happened after” can be conveyed to a trained female orangutan - “wow”, nothing more. So, when the carburetor was blown to me for the first time on the same nine, my impressions were like “it twitched before, after it stopped - just class.

So, I became the owner of a tired Japanese woman. She really was (is) tired, and it's not about old age, not at all. It's about attitude. PTSka is replete with former owners - they changed quite often. And I believe that the reason for this is clear to me. Who wants to mess with old junk. Well, who, besides me ... especially the old junk has an ESP, an air conditioner, and one simple word "it was my dream."

So, having seized a dream and poured boiling water on the friendly hands of friends (well, like congratulations and wash), over time, I realized that my ceres is not the ice. A dry dipstick was waiting for my first oil change in the engine. Then one winter, when I met a friend (the previous owner of the car), my silver horse greeted him again with a dry probe, a broken ear of the front spring and racks dead to a dry knock. Then there was a frozen battery, several suspension repairs (grenades, ball, wheel bearings), a completely dead battery due to a dead fuel pump (I turned the ignition until I lost my pulse). Then - zhor of oil, change of timing, burnt oil in the box and a broken cap. It seems to be to hell with her, sell to someone to "break", and that's the end of it.

It's a shame. I felt sorry for my old fighting friend.

Okay. About engines.

Which is better - capital or buy a contract? The issue is very acute, especially in the midst of the financial crisis. On the one hand, for capital you need to a) Buy spare parts and be) Intelligent craftsmen who will sort out inexpensively in the best possible way. All, but not all - what if something else pops up in the process of boring a block? And if and if? And if my mileage is not 200,000 kilometers, but a million two hundred (then the engine is of course an honorary medal - but still posthumously)?

Eh, it was not. I will save up for a contract engine (I decided). Again, this is not so easy in a rented apartment, a financial crisis and a beloved wife (although she understands what is needed, she still needs to be appeased by buying unnecessary clothes at the sales a couple of times a month).

A friend (engaged in the supply of spare parts) found an engine today for 17 thousand rubles with a mileage of some 150 tyk. What-oh-oh? (I asked him in ICQ) - how much? 17 thousand rubles - he answered cheerfully, not quite realizing that I was shocked by the engine mileage.

It turns out that contract engines are not zero five thousandth motors, it turns out).

True, a friend (already another) explained to me that out of these thousands of kilometers of runs in Russia there should not be. Not only are our roads lousy, everything is rather poor quality. Gasoline is a fig, in rocky Japan, where there is no and did not have its own oil reserves, gasoline is much better. Oil, care - everything is best. And I believe in this, I have no doubt about it, but to be honest, it gnaws at me a little, oh gnaws - 150,000 kilometers is almost 4 times around the Earth to go round, there would be such a highway ...

But he had no choice
. I mean