I’m Sitting in the Best Car Ever Made (And I’m Buying One)

Graev, start your engines, okay, today we have a junkyard Camry, through no fault of its own, the parts came from the junkyard because people crashed into it, a deer jumped out of the way and the guy decided, hey , I'm going to the junkyard and Harbor. The $20 loading spray gun didn't do such a bad job. He had to replace a headlight because the deer hit here. You could polish it more if you wanted, but it doesn't look too bad. He even painted the bumper even though I didn't. I don't use laminated paint, so we'll see how long it lasts, but you can see he did a good job.

He got the aftermarket fender here and this door came from a junkyard because that side broke but he took a hit on the other side and this. it's a door from a junkyard, luckily it's a pretty common gray color and you can see it looks really good, he didn't have to paint it, it came from a junkyard and then we have the same color of these shiny hubcaps that are. Walmart doesn't look bad 35 dollars or four, you can't argue that right now this shows a huge advantage when

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a car like a Toyota Camry, they have sold millions and millions and millions of them so there is a parts market crazy, but there's also a crazy junkyard market because when a car suffers a certain amount of debris it goes to the junkyard, right, my son totaled the Camry.

I bought it and hit it on a telephone pole, so you can't say it fit much. but the engine still ran perfectly fine, so someone got a good engine and transmission out of the deal. It may be that his car may have been hit on the right side, maybe yours has been hit on the left side. Get a door from one that is so common. color like this gray which is a relatively common color, realize that Toyota is not as crazy as the Americans, they don't make cars in 50 different colors, they only have a certain number of colors, which is a plus if you get into accident and I want to replace parts and I don't want to paint those stupid things, but I will say you didn't do a bad job painting this considering you used the cheap Harbor Freight spray gun, but he said he used his neighbor's really good compressor, but I still want I mean, believe it or not, he painted it under an overhang, it wasn't even in a closed garage, so of course there's going to be some imperfections from dust and stuff and of course he broke the law because he doesn't have a paint machine. recycling to absorb all the fumes, but it's not a business, it was his own car, as far as I'm concerned, it's his own business, you know?

It doesn't look too bad, it has 240,000 miles. I mean, it's pretty amazing and that's why I tell you if you want long-lasting seats, look at them they barely get used with all that mileage, now they did the top and did a good job on the lining. things will wear out over time under the hood it's a four cylinder engine now a lot of people are going to say it's a Camry it's a 2.4 on all burn oil well not all burn oil this is an older one this is and '04 now, If this was an '07, it was this 2.4L engine.

I guarantee it will burn oil, especially with 200-something thousand miles, this one doesn't because it's old, what do they say it doesn't?' I don't make them like before, that's the truth for these engines, the original transmission now changed the starter and his wife changed the alternator, but other than that, it has a radiator, while you get hit by a deer, you can see

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ything is new. In Taiwan, who cares? They are just headlights. These things can basically last for

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if you take care of them. That will lead you to a small radiation test. Look what's left of this old woman.

Run it to the odometer and you'll see it has 24. 7 75 Mi on its original engine Original transmission so here we go B idle smooth as can be people were surprised when they first got them with these larger four cylinder engines, how powerful they They are actually, you can't even feel the shifts, that's how smooth it's still as old as now these were always known for being maybe a little sloppy in the corners the noise was the tissues there the Kleenex but it still handles more o less the same as when it was new yes they are a little bit sloppy if you want tight racing but they are smooth that's one of the reasons why Toyota released a TRD Camry because the TRD Camry has a much stiffer suspension and anyone who be a serious driver would like my wife to get one. she hated it, she liked the smooth and regular ride of the regular Camry, so you know you can't have your cake, you need it too, you want a suspension system, get a Camry TRD, so here we go to our little track racing on Tobacco Road, there is Tobacco Road and there is no one behind us so we can take our time and of course this is a normal gear transmission not a CVT it won't wallow like an old engine out of It rides like a CVT, so here we're going to see how it still burns rubber, hey, smooth shifts.

Now let's say you want to pass someone, okay, let's go to the 45th floor. You can see it gets to 60 relatively quickly and even though it has all these miles on it, it's an old car, hey, it still has a nice quiet ride. I don't hear the wheel bearings roaring. I don't hear anything except the tires rolling down the road. Honestly, if you wanted a car that would last forever, it couldn't be the 2004 Toyota Cameron. You could fix everything when you need to, if you need to fix anything. I know I've seen these things with a million miles on them and they still work pretty well.

Listen, it's still as good as it gets and it doesn't have any of those annoying features like the GDI turbo with auto shut-off. It's a normally aspirated 2.4 L 4. cylinder engine with an automatic transmission that can run forever and interestingly has never changed the transmission fluid and still shifts like a dream. I told him not to change it now, so that the temperature does not fade. 240,000 Mi, it still works that well. I've seen these things with 500,000 Mi on them and never a fluid was touched and they are still running. I don't recommend doing that, but that just shows you how difficult these things can be.

Everything still works. It's getting a little humid in here. so we're going to turn on the air conditioning and it's blowing too cold, in fact, it's blowing too cold so I'm going to turn it off and I have to say they were obviously tougher in the past because this thing was hit by a Deer, they fixed it themselves and still works perfectly fine with all the junkyard parts they put on many modern cars with all that excess plastic. Guess what this car would have been totaled for a deer if it were a more modern car. Too much plastic. thin metal I had a guy coming to visit me in Rhode Island, he was passing through New Jersey, he had a deer and that was the end of his new car.

Now, if I was in a hurry, I wouldn't think twice about filling up. on gas and taking a trip to California everything that works the cruise control works the wind those work everything in it works it's a Toyota handbrake it works it's a real handbrake and it's not one of that electronic nonsense even the original CD recorder the AM FM radio still works If you still have CDs and tapes to play and listen to my wife, it

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me miss three hours, from now on it's Spotify, so there you go, well, it's a old car, it's been hit by deer, it's been hit by humans, but still.

It's going down the road, well, if you could find a car like this, I'd say I don't care if it got hit by a deer, everything was fixed, it's fine, it doesn't make any strange noises, it shifts fine now. I have to warn you if you are looking at a 20078 or n with a 2.4L engine, unless Toyota has fixed it, it is probably an oil burner, so in that case you take the bugs out to see if they burned oil and then Don't buy it because it is an oil burner, but these old ones did not have the problem of burning oil, they were the last ones who had problems of burning oil.

Push push, you can put a later model engine in them that you can take out. the two four and I put a modern 25 on it, it will fit with a little modification so it's not the end of the world but who wants to deal with that? If you're

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a used car, you want one with a good engine and this one. The original 240 engine transmission still works like a top, now you know why people bought these things and gave up on American cars that fell apart when they hit 100,000 or less. These things are not even broken in 100,000 Mi and there is an advantage here. questions and answers Francesco Santi says I have a 2002 Lexus ES300.

Should I change the water pump? I am the original owner of a 2002 Lexus ES300 18,000 Mi I changed the timing belt but did not change the water pump how long can I wait? until it lasts, it leaks and I change the pump, what should I do? The car runs perfectly fine, it's fine, it's a non-interference engine, an ES300, so if the belt ever breaks it won't hurt anything. They changed the timing belt. You say there are no leaks or anything in the water pump. I mean I would have just changed the water pump when I changed that Bel timing if I were you because it's a 2002 and even though it has 100,000 miles on it that's it its mileage is still a 22 year old vehicle right but if it doesn't have a leak , just look at it because it's going to leak and you're going to see it dripping down the front of the engine, then you know it's leaking or it's going to start rattling because the bearing is going to go, so you know, yeah.

You're going to have to take it apart and change the water pump. I would have done it when I

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the timing belt anyway because you could too and if you change the water pump trust me buy original equipment don't do it. buy one of these cheap pieces of crap made in china, the bearings are no good, sometimes they will wear out in 15 or 20,000 miles and you will have to do the work all over the place. Get a original O E M water pump when you change it, so if you never want to. To miss another one of my new car repair videos, remember to ring the doorbell.