by "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
Published 03/06/2017 at 08:12
by "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
Published 03/06/2017 at 08:12
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I need to buy a car for my daughter. I like the price point on this one and the (relatively) low miles. Original owner (bonus points in my book), a mature woman who has obviously not sold many cars. Manual transmission is unusual for RAV 4s that I’ve seen posted and desireable to me because clutches are cheaper than rebuilt automatic transmissions.
The radio and the horn do not work. Could these be simple matters to straighten out?
Anyone out there have any experience with the RAV 4 of this age group?
Thanks.
"McMike" (mcmike)
03/06/2017 at 08:20, STARS: 0
What age group?
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/06/2017 at 08:20, STARS: 0
What year Rav4?
Also if you really care about your daughter you would buy her a Range Rover. Come on, she’s worth it.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/06/2017 at 08:22, STARS: 0
Seller: 40 or 50, from the sound of her on the phone.
Daughter: 19
Car: 19
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/06/2017 at 08:23, STARS: 0
‘98
"Spridget" (dustbustervans)
03/06/2017 at 08:30, STARS: 0
Starter car?!? Starter car?!? A Range Rover is NOT a starter car. It is an amphibious exploring vehicle.
#references
"McMike" (mcmike)
03/06/2017 at 08:55, STARS: 0
I was referring to the car. You never said what gen RAV4 is was.
(19 years old) 1998 first gen RAV4?
"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
03/06/2017 at 08:55, STARS: 0
Why, does your daughter already drive stick and/or have an interest in learning. I know we’re all about the manuals here but it can be more trouble than it’s worth for a younger driver.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
03/06/2017 at 09:11, STARS: 2
Don’t feed the troll.
"Arrivederci" (arrividerci)
03/06/2017 at 09:22, STARS: 1
I think overall they’re good cars - back from the time when a Toyota was really hard to kill if you performed the most basic maintenance on it.
Horn and radio could be as simple as a fuse, or a bad connection. Could be as complicated as an electronic gremlin that’s difficult to source. I’d go with a handful of new fuses and try to fix it the easiest way first, you may get lucky.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/06/2017 at 10:10, STARS: 0
The CL post says 1998.
"davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com" (davesaddiction)
03/06/2017 at 10:10, STARS: 0
Good on you for having your daughter learn to drive a standard.
#LifeSkills
"McMike" (mcmike)
03/06/2017 at 10:24, STARS: 0
Did you include the CL link and I’m not seeing it?
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/06/2017 at 10:30, STARS: 0
Yes to the first part, and “sounds like it” to the second. Kinja strikes again.
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/cto/6029933954.html
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/06/2017 at 10:32, STARS: 0
I like manual transmissions, and certainly many Oppos do. She doesn’t drive a stick yet. I am mistrustful of automatics; I assume that they all fail at some point. I think a manual trans car is a simpler mechanism.
"McMike" (mcmike)
03/06/2017 at 10:37, STARS: 0
There’s a chance that the radio might be flashing “code” or something. She did say the battery went dead, and the radio never worked afterwards.
If she’s the original owner, maybe she has the radio code in a folder with the original documents or something.
(sigh) selling a landscape item with portrait photos.
Why do people do this? She only managed to take one photo that shows the whole vehicle.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/06/2017 at 10:39, STARS: 0
Like a security code as in when the radio gets stolen? Or like resetting the VCR after a power failure?
"McMike" (mcmike)
03/06/2017 at 10:41, STARS: 0
The security code if the radio ever loses power. Like if it’s stolen.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/06/2017 at 10:45, STARS: 0
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/cto/6029933954.html
post id: 6029933954
Kinja strikes again!
"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
03/06/2017 at 10:57, STARS: 0
A manual transmission may have a simplicity advantage. Sure there are some automatic transmissions that are known to be unreliable but for the most part they’re fine.
Effectively, you’re looking at whether you have to replace the clutch at some point, or replace an automatic transmission with a rebuild. As long as you’re talking a normal car with a typical automatic and not a fancy dual clutch whatever, parts & labor cost for each of those jobs isn’t all that different.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/06/2017 at 11:01, STARS: 0
Fair enough; point taken.