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Volatile Occasional Poster Registered: October 2002	soarers Sun, 12 January 2003 00:07 i was recently in bateman's bay waiting outside allens for my girlfriend and her sister to finish shopping... i spotted what i think was a '91 cressida in a nearby caryard and thought i might check out what's changed since my old '82 cressida (cressidia if the official keyring was anything to go by ) so i sat in it, had a looksy... it was still nice. i get out of the car... and HELLLLOOOOOOOO BAY-BEEEEE!!! no prizes for guessing what car i noticed for the first time, sitting in front of me with a v8 engine, full electrics, leather seats, 18" wheels, flawless metallic black paint and 47,000k on board! my first sight of a toyota soarer... i was hooked, to put it mildly... ever since that day (3 weeks ago) i've been spending every minute of spare time finding magazines with reviews, looking at webpages with more information, asking people for their experiences with this car... then 2 days ago i found out that some INSANELY good deals can be had by importing the cars directly from auctions from japan... until february that is... what an evil turn of fate... get me hooked to the balls on a fantastic car... show me that it can be had for what's basically pocket change in the car market... then taking it all away with the new import restrictions... so... i'm hardly going to give up on getting one, but i'm a little worried about buying a soarer in australia privately, since by now the car would have had at least two owners and as far as i'm aware the process of modifying the odometer reading is a very simple one for someone with the right tools, which means that i can't be sure what condition the engine really is in, being a bit of a car laic myself... what would you recommend to look out for as signs of wear and tear on soarers? what are the actual problems with having a car that's done a lot of kilometres? my '82 cressida had done 460,000 by the time i sold it and it ran just fine... wasn't leaking oil at all, nor was it stalling or running bumpy or whatever... lastly... would anyone living in canberra with a soarer be able to tell me what their fuel consumption is like and whether that's driving normally, or driving like you should drive i guess the type of engine and transmission would help too i know there are a few soarer owners in canberra, let's hope they read this post thanks guys [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	soarers	Volatile	Sun, 12 January 2003 00:07
	Re: soarers	Remedy	Sun, 12 January 2003 00:44
	Re: soarers	Ollygt	Sun, 12 January 2003 00:59
	Re: soarers	Bounty	Sat, 18 January 2003 01:24
	Re: soarers	Soarer	Sat, 18 January 2003 05:53
	Re: soarers	Ollygt	Sat, 18 January 2003 10:28
	Re: soarers	ttsoarer	Sat, 18 January 2003 14:21
	Re: soarers	ytri	Sat, 18 January 2003 16:50
	Re: soarers	Remedy	Sat, 18 January 2003 20:39
	Re: soarers	Ollygt	Sun, 19 January 2003 11:32
	Re: soarers	87seca	Sun, 19 January 2003 14:28
	Re: soarers	TA22-3SGTE	Mon, 20 January 2003 10:47
	Re: soarers	Ollygt	Mon, 20 January 2003 11:23
	Re: soarers	Bugman	Mon, 20 January 2003 11:40
	Re: soarers	Remedy	Mon, 20 January 2003 21:40
	Re: soarers	CrAiGzEE	Wed, 22 January 2003 11:20
	Re: soarers	SmellyTofu	Wed, 22 January 2003 13:46
	Re: soarers	Nark	Wed, 22 January 2003 22:51
	Re: soarers	rvrolla	Thu, 23 January 2003 01:07
	Re: soarers	Volatile	Sat, 25 January 2003 00:36
	Re: soarers	Soarer	Sat, 25 January 2003 01:08
	Re: soarers	ttsoarer	Sat, 25 January 2003 03:30
	Re: soarers	Soarin	Sun, 26 January 2003 11:01
	Re: soarers	Ollygt	Sat, 25 January 2003 10:34
	Re: soarers	Volatile	Sun, 26 January 2003 00:28
	Re: soarers	BigK	Tue, 28 January 2003 07:56
	Re: soarers	Volatile	Thu, 30 January 2003 04:48
	Re: soarers	biased99	Thu, 30 January 2003 05:37
	Re: soarers	BigK	Thu, 30 January 2003 09:30
	Re: soarers	biased99	Thu, 30 January 2003 22:04
	Re: soarers	BigK	Fri, 31 January 2003 13:55
	Re: soarers	biased99	Sat, 01 February 2003 00:58
	Re: soarers	Ollygt	Sun, 26 January 2003 00:40
	Re: soarers	Soarer	Sun, 26 January 2003 10:55
	Re: soarers	87seca	Tue, 28 January 2003 11:19
	Re: soarers	wannatoy	Fri, 31 January 2003 00:22
	Re: soarers	biased99	Fri, 31 January 2003 00:46
	Re: soarers	wannatoy	Fri, 31 January 2003 02:39
	Re: soarers	biased99	Fri, 31 January 2003 04:31
	Re: soarers	Ollygt	Wed, 05 February 2003 10:28

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