rev up your engine now people always asking me what about giant SUVs with
third row seating well you're gonna learn the truth about Toyota sequoias
this is an 07 Toyota Sequoia got the big v8 engine now it's only
rear-wheel drive there's no front wheel drive on it you don't need that with all
this weight got plenty of traction and as you can see inside my row in the
front yeah the leather seats worn Natur know what's gonna happen when I get to
be this old and when you open the back car
what are we find the baby seat there's plenty of room
got the nice leather seats and then more seating and we're not talking about tiny
look there's legroom here this thing has a lot of space as we open the back we're
getting even better view we got nice cargo space there then we got the third
row seats now of course if you take the third row seats out and you got even
more room and if you move los Ford you got even more room I like a trucker le
got the original Toyota here John it for tolling and as we can see on the top got
a big old luggage rack nah when it was now this baby was about $36,000 now my
customer recently purchased it he's gonna export it to Africa he paid about
five grand for it pretty good price for a solid vehicle
like this but what we go inside we'll check the mileage does that 194 thousand
miles on it no I ain't seen it with five hundred thousand miles on I'm so big it
lasts a long time see how this baby starts up turning the
key starts right up now back in a day it didn't come with much so somebody
stuck a Pioneer stereo in it but it still got freezing cold air conditioning
on it nice cool air big out sunroof and check this out it's even got an
entertainment system on it this was the top-of-the-line vehicle when it was new
and being a Toyota everything pretty much still works it's all there so it's
still got a pretty much utilitarian steering wheel it's just got the cruise
control nothing and just plain old interior I mean
look at the spice look at the design this baby has a lot of spaces look at
the legroom and as we check here look at this it's got rear AC and he controls
too this is a luxurious SUV but it's 13
years old so let's look at the data okay we got no trouble codes here so let's
look at the raw data where they can't hide anything from you at least for me
there we go live data this is where the rubber meets the road I can see what
shape this vehicle actually is I'm scrolling throwing so far everything
looks pretty good but we're gonna get pretty deep here short term fuel trim
each Bank is pretty close to each other they're just a little bit off something
with this much mileage that's only subtracting a tiny amount of fuel like
that and pretty much evenly to both cylinders it's an excellent shape for my
parents of these if somebody wanted to perform a full fuel injector cleaning
service where I put my pressurized machine on it would probably make the
short-term fuel stop having to subtract stuff because it would be spraying less
fuel than they are drip a little bit just to get a little bit aged now they
look at the target air fuel ratio 0.996 now 1.0 is perfect so it's pretty close
to perfect for an old vehicle like this check out the variable valve timing if
you remember the genesis I did a short time ago they both were supposed to be
zero zero and then when you look at what they were they were way off it's still
zero it's doing exactly what it's supposed to do it's perfect
as I show it on that Genesis that I don't the degrees were changing they
should remain at zero when it's idling this thing actually has more mileage
than the Genesis head on it like about 80,000 miles yet it's still zero perfect
at idle shows that Toyota is making a much better engine than the Genesis has
in it we checked the misfire counts for them all all eight cylinders are all
zero that's perfect so for such an old vehicle it's an immaculate shape now
let's check under the hood yeah what are we under here we go 4.7 liter v8 engine
but do realize this is a big heavy vehicle 13 miles of
in the city and about 15 miles a gallon on a highway
they are gas guzzlers there's no if and buts about these things most of my
customers that on them they never checked their gas much I asked them what
kind of guest mod you're gonna say it's got to be so bad we don't really want to
know we just fill up with gas all the time but with the coming recession and
oil prices going down hey gasoline is gonna be cheaper for quite some times it
looks like now being a toyota right they don't break down that often but one big
disadvantage of this v8 engine is they had to start or way under there you
gotta take the intake manifold the top of the engine off to replace the starter
bad design for sure but I got my boss go by and look at this it still has the
original starter on it at some point in time that'll have to be changing this is
an expense cuz of that design but it's not a reason not to buy a vehicle the
inner lock braking system still works perfectly heck it's still got the
original radiator it's not leaking look here's something you won't even see
today the headlights are still clear and the new ones
oh hey Frank pretty fast they even used to make the headlights better these are
plastic ones and no ones are cheap as you can see under the front coolers
galore special coolers here found a cooling fan for the AC condenser got a
big old fan for the engine huge I got friends at living deserts they love
these things they don't overheat they are made to
take high temperatures and throw that heat out even the wheels are hauled up I
mean it ain't clean and they're dirty but hey brought me back there's still
solid a few hits on a curb but you can polish that off if you want let's close
the hood jacket first been solid hood do corners pretty smooth yeah it's a big
truck but step on the gas see what happens now that's a big v8 engine but
it is heavy it takes off but you know it's not a
race car you can go fast but it's awful top-heavy I would not advise racing
around in these things like a maniac on curves rides good let's hit these big
bumps in the road so I mean it hands them pretty well it is a truck after all
and it's not gonna ride like a Lexus but it handles the bumps quite well even
with all this mileage on it look at this hundred eighty four thousand miles still
idles no shaking this is a quality giant SUV there's no arguing that hello it's
got cavernous room air so now you know the truth about toy y'all suck wires and
if you're looking for a big three row seating SUV hey it might be what you're
looking for if you don't mind expensive gas bills and here's some bonus
questions and answers well Volvo and technologies in a nose hair Bobo just
recalled a hundred and twenty-one thousand cars after the auto emergency
braking system failed now those automatic emergency braking
systems great when they work but if they can't attack the obstacles they're not
gonna work on it well are they now this is for twenty nineteen to twenty twenty
s60 v60 v60 cross country p90 v90 cross country XC forty xc60 of xc90 basically
it's the whole lineup turns out that this automatic emergency braking system
has a hardware and software incompatibility issue that keeps sensors
from identifying objects so if they don't see something they don't do
emergency braking cuz they don't know where anything's there as per usual I'm
warning you ahead of time they're actually not gonna start recalling these
things until May it's only March now so I'm ice amazed that we can get this
information that there's this problem they're gonna recall them but they don't
recall them for months to me there's something wrong with the system here so
if you own one don't count on that automatic braking system to be working
use your feet and your eyes and your brain when you're driving all these
automated systems say they're still not perfected obviously I mean they look
cute underselling thing and their little ads to show up saving people's lives but
in the real world well you got to use your eyes and your
brain and your feet to slam on the brakes ones necessary like I've said
many times all these automatic driving stuff it's gonna be a long time if
average that they perfect the things Cayla me seven five says I got a
2007 Honda Accord airbags deployed I had have changed then the cars been fixed
but my SRS lamp is still on well it's a Honda and unfortunately there's a thing
called the SRS unit it's usually around the center console and whenever the
airbags are deployed in a Honda you have to replace that unit and it has to be
reprogrammed by a mechanic so I'm assuming you had insurance because you
said that was replaced and the repairs or take it back make them pay for it
and basically scold the people who worked on the car because if they know
anything about Honda's they should know that whenever the airbag is deployed
you've got to replace that SRS you know that's how Honda designs them and if you
don't replace it the lights can stay on so let the insurance company pay for it
they should have done it correctly and the guy who did the work on the stuff is
a shoddy mechanic who doesn't know what he's doing when it comes to airbags, so
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