hey everyone my jdm car finally arrived i talked about it in another video for the
those of you who have watched anyway it's here it came about three four weeks ago i've been a
busy guy i did a video the day i got it so and of course when it's coming off the truck so
i'll get into those in a few minutes i just wanted to talk about the experience of buying a jdm car
from a dealer i bought it from bpro in alberta and then the car arrived in bc canada can't get this
car in the states yet we will be able to in a few years so the auction grade was four out of five
and you'll see when i do the video now uh from three four weeks ago i walk around the car inside
and out and just kind of point out some things so it was four out of five it was very true the
grading sometimes you hear the grading is not worth the paper it's written on i think it is i
bought many cars from the auction being uh having a dealer's license and stuff and usually they're
pretty accurate but again from japan i've heard that they're not but this one was it was a real
four out of five and the i think it was a b grade interior um so anyway the they did translate the
inspectors notes uh prior to me bidding on the car and when i bid on the car all i had was a budget
uh maybe four or five pictures of the car and the actual auction sheet was
which was mostly in japanese some of the numbers are in in english but anyway uh the
they do have a translator over there this company the broker and uh this is what i got so i got uh
obviously grade four interior b mileage was 60 267 kilometers here's the miles for that
it was a manual transmission white it has service records which i'll show you later
the um it was a swapped uh automatic to manual transmission which i wasn't crazy about but i had
low kilometers so i took the trade off and knowing that you know the engine had 10 less horsepower
and different you know didn't have the titanium valves on on the altezza when it is the automatic
uh it was a trade-off but they did leave the original engine as you'd see as you'll see again
which is kind of bittersweet um less little has horsepower but it is the 60 000 kilometer engine
uh the only thing that was switched was the ecu and the transmission i found out when i got the
car which is which was i'm happy with um clutch had been replaced obviously at the time they
changed the transmission um or did the swap had an aftermarket aftermarket muffler the
interior and exterior cleaning was done trd high response muffler is what they call the muffler
and then it gives the inspectors report which kind of contradicts some of the stuff we just heard
seat was worn interior slightly dirty i guess it's after the cleaning was done
uh maybe it makes sense whatever some scratches on the trim scratch scratches on the wheels
rust on the undercarriage some parts uh which actually turned out to be just normal rust
from like rain over 21 years right there was nothing major there was no rust on the body
of the car at all minor scratches and dents on the body and a chip on the windshield
so before i get into the video from a few weeks ago that i recorded i did actually get
this thing if you can see it there it's just an fm band expander
radio expander 18 megahertz so of course in japan on fm you go from like 76 to 90 and we're like
89 to 108 um megahertz megahertz um so you you won't get fm radio i want i was going to switch
out the head unit not a big deal but again i want to try to keep the car original and
it's kind of cool cruising down the road listening to a cassette i'm pretty old i guess but um
that was where i uh again ten dollars money wasn't really the big deal on this one because
you can get a head unit for like 500 but 10 bucks so anyway the i will be posting more updates as i
do some tasteful upgrades on the car i'm not not modding it a lot i'm going to try source
some parts from japan i've looked at some sites kruber or whatever it's called and
a bunch of guys have some have some leads on that on youtube so i will be doing some mods wheels and
maybe some suspension but i'll uh i will post back as i go and how that experience went
uh enjoy the video and check back like i said for more updates on the car
oh you got to move that one yeah
no no no take your time oh this is my personal car oh i'm the only one stupid enough
to import it from japan i'm shooting pretty nice on the inside
that's it
so all in all it's a pretty clean car here was the bumper
sorry my fence is kind of shadowing it there but you can see
if i can yeah here you go yeah nice big marks on it
i might replace the bumper so not a big deal the grill you can see the grill here
is corroded or whatever over time at the bottom there again not a big deal it's a 1999 car
but it is in really good condition the tires there's three different kinds of tires on it
these are the falcon on the front one of them rides like crap so this is falcon zx or something
and this one is yeah this is also the same this one had a toyo on the back one of these was toyo
not this one i don't think oh yeah this one was toyo and the other one was a different brand
altogether anyway i'm gonna change out the wheels and tires i like the original wheels so i'm gonna
obviously keep them uh you can see how dirty it is here i don't know if you can see it in the video
one of these one of these side marker lights was of course the lights are like yellowed
from being in the sun oh this one i don't know if someone tried to or someone had switched it
out or if these the original let me know in the comments if you know these are the original but
yeah you can see it's like come apart there again i don't know if somebody switched it
if they're originally yellow i think they might have been break sir i'm gonna switch them also
some nice breaks the here's here's what they put on the windows over there
i have no clue what any of this means
it's they're like run numbers and stuff again anybody knows oh this is this is the ship that
came on the karishi or whatever it's called karayushi leader that's of course the car
the engine who knows the date or something the run number
no clue 1882 it could i think that's something to do with shipping this japanese no clue
yeah so let's let's check out the car piece of yellow marking paint on on the back here
don't know what that means anyway these are just auction things
here is the right the back here's that uh trd high flow muffler the nice toyota key
i don't know in if the is has the same kind of on the side the buttons on the side but
trunks good all the the
spare tires underneath it it's still there
it had no gas in it i filled it up with the best stuff this is made in japan
oh that was for the uh yeah for the import i'm guessing for the taxes
another info that's just the shipping from the shipping company
but anyway you can see here it's just my booster pack looks good looks really good in here
again on this side
very good uh my wife was like what's this button here so i guess this must be a japanese thing
this is actually a flare and it sits right in here
yeah like that i guess you need it by law mats are really good
i don't know what they're talking about war in the sea oh i see it on the other side there
that's what they're talking about right there on the seat is a little bit worn
and right there not a big deal but all in all very good condition
mirrors fold in automatically
and i'll show you some things inside the car that kind of caught my attention which was nice
they did leave the original steering wheel from the automatic car
the down and the up on the back i'll probably change that steering wheel also damn it's bright
sun's going down our sun's getting ready to go down here's the
manual they put the little sticker which is nice if you can see it there
hand brake everything works three pedals so yeah they did they did a really good job on the swap
i'm happy to say they drove i drove it for 20 kilometers or so and it drove really good
battery was dead so it's still i'm gonna put it on a charger
yeah there it is over there 60 000 kilometers
uh stereo from japan does not go to the same fm frequencies as we have
i'm guessing i don't think you can change it it only goes up to like 90 points something
90 and it goes back to 76. so different fm frequency over there i don't know if i can
change it i guess i'll find out uh yeah i'm gonna shut it off i'll show you show you under the hood
now again this is the gauge this is the uh the gauge from the automatic also and where is it
redline the sun is shining my eyes somewhere yeah so it redlines at the at just 7 300 or just over 7
000 like the automatic instead of the 7 800 for the manual um again yeah ultimately i prefer
i prefer the uh the higher red line but i'm not planning to drift or beat the crap or modify
this thing too much just visual stuff here is the oil change sticker it was done at 60
100 kilometers and 10 w 30 so that was just done maybe that's what they mean by service records
over there they don't actually have a booklet with service uh yeah let's check out under the hood
so here is the beams the good old beams engine that has the
the tower the cross bar strut tower sorry strut bar what is it called let me know in the comments
strut tower bar looks like it's maybe off another car or rust i don't know it's
i think it might be off another car because there's not that much rust on the rest of this car
uh needs a good cleaning this this engine but again hasn't been modified um
timing belt was done can somebody translate the rest of this stuff sorry let me see here
it's there 60 100 kilometers and then something else in japanese i don't know if it has a date
anybody can translate i'd love that in the comments
also whatever this means 4 8 l 5 i no clue this is a this is from this car because it has the
g2 which means it is from an automatic car this is an automatic engine
and then also down there where it says 100 000 kilometers um i don't know what that is again
if that's like a service interval or if something's been done and it has to be
done again at 100 000 again anybody that would be nice um yeah there's somebody's mess like
maybe when they did the transmission they took the engine out missing a clip here again 60 000k so um
but it's a 99 so i don't expect the world
and then here's here's a battery looks kind of small the tray is like way bigger than the battery
so i'm thinking this is not the right battery for the car
anyway replace the battery
i like how the hood strut brace the hood brace i guess it is tucks up in there
yeah i think that was it for under there
so
first things first clean this car scrape all that crop off the windows uh tires brakes
i'm gonna put new brakes i just don't like old rusty brakes uh suspension well coilovers
front and rear rear sway bar most likely stereo for sure i'm gonna switch i wanted
to keep the original i like original but yeah i'll put a double din yeah you can see the
you can see the scuff there pretty good i think that was somebody at the shipping
one during shipping but whatever i'm go i think i might replace that whole bumper with
something let me see it's hard to see sometimes if there's been accidents stuck to that panel gap
yeah it looks like it could be a little yeah this one's definitely thicker
but all in all i think it's uh i think it's pretty representative of what i did buy