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Originally Posted by clovis
I ran into the guy with the Toyota Terdcel.
It is not only burning oil, but he says the "ball joint is completely sheared apart". I'm not sure exactly what that means, but the car is inoperable.
He's still brainwashed about Toyota, and thinks they are the greatest cars on earth.
IMO, the greatest cars on earth don't start burning oil with only 97,000 miles on the clock.
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I've been driving Toyotas since the 70's before most people had ever seen one. In all of my families experience with them if properly maintained they last for at least 200k miles if not 300k.
I'm driving a 14 year old 4x4 4-runner now that has never seen the shop. But again I maintain it. Lube changing trans oil, diff oil, engine oil and filters and such on schedule.
Most any car of any make that burns oil at 70k has simply been neglected. Take my dad's 3/4 ton cummins dodge. He put 150k on it and it almost like new. He loaned it to my sister in law for a couple of years, who just drives vehicles until they stop moving before she spends a dime on them, and it's now a piece of junk.
It wasn't engines and drive trains that ran me off from American cars, it was quality in other areas of chassis, body, paint, interior etc.
My next vehicle will be American though, a 1953 Dodge M-37 truck, military power wagon, that I am rebuilding from the ground up.
I would just keep looking until you find a used car in in your range that the model is known to be reliable, and make sure it appears to have been kept up. Decently new coolant, decent belt, clean dipstick without sludge on it, no oil leaks etc. and dry underneath without oil coating the things on the underside and good even tire wear patterns on the tires.
