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Mitsy has lost faith in Diesela as her daily, more due to the fact she may need to mount up at a moment's notice and drive down to her folks' place in Miami. Her dad is fading rather alarmingly.

She started on a hunt for a replacement, Craig's List and other local on-line ads... budget dictated a used car, my only request was that she find "Grandma's Camry." Well after a month or so, every one we'd see was either already sold or in such poor nick I'd not touch it. Last Monday she came across one still available, so we made arrangement to go look at it. 2002 LE version. On line less than an hour. White, spotless interior, 180K miles. Turns out it wasn't "Grandma" but an engineer(!) from China. Single owner and a pile of maintenance records over an inch thick! Everything documented from tire rotation and oil services to any repairs done. Made the deal and now we have "MAI TOY" in the group. Factory shop manuals are on their way and even though I've been into a few of them owned by friends, this is the first non-euro car in our stable and I want "the horse's mouth" for anything I may need to do to it. Now to find a scanner for it... wish us luck, she's on her way to Miami as I type.
 
Good luck with the "new" car doc. We have had a Toyota for a year and a half and no problems at all.
Sorry to hear about your FIL.... These are trying times; we just went through it with my wife's mom. Best of luck.
 
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Doc - congrats on the new wheels.

What are your plans for Diesela? I'm interested ...

Tom M.
 
Elliot said:
Sorry to hear about your FIL.... These are trying times; we just went through it with my wife's mom. Best of luck.

THX, Elliot. He's a tough ol' bird but this time the devil's got 'im by th' coat-tails. At 85 he's decided he won't go through chemo again, wants to be home and as comfortable as possible.

Tom said:
What are your plans for Diesela?

Well, Tom, We'll be keeping Diesela for the time being. The main issue was an overheat on a Miami trip, thermostat broke (two-stage thingie) and a cascade of events with cooling issues was a result. Had to fit a NAPA 'stat in Miami, not the right unit but we got her back to the hovel and got a proper 'stat put in. I've flushed out the system, replaced the water pump but any sustained run over 3K RPM sees her temp go up. I've a new radiator to install but since it was fine around town and th' 'mits' only work transport, I couldn't chance having it totally V.O.R. (inop) for days. Now the radiator will get replacing and some other needed fixes taken care of. If it takes disabling the car for a couple days, no big deal now.
 
"We'll be keeping Diesela for the time being. "

OK - thanks for the info. Please let me know if/when Diesela says Auf Wiedersehen!



TM

 
Doc,

And don't forget to get an "Amana" or "Kelvenator" badge for it -
it's even White,like a refrigerator should be........
 
This one is the four-banger. At least it's a twin-cam. :smirk:

Doug said:
And don't forget to get an "Amana" or "Kelvenator" badge for it -
it's even White,like a refrigerator should be........

Don't think I haven't considered that, Doug!

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Those are the perfect getaway cars - Noone could describe it,
other than "it was a White car".
 
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