here is the review of my 2003 toyota
avalon xls
this will be a full review today
as you can see it's in this gold color
and since it is a 2003 it's a facelift
so you get the new grille
new wheels
these look like they've been spray
painted or something but i need to clean
them in general
you also get the facelift tail lamps
but without further ado
go ahead start it up let it run it comes
with your typical
older style toyota key
has older style handle
as you can see
it's a beige interior
with wood grain accents throughout and
some chrome accents
that needs wd-40 or something
anyways let's hop in
oh that leather's hot
as you can see you also get your
facelift gauges as well
and all models after 2003
came with a chrome toyota logo
so without further ado let's go ahead
start it up
does it come with your typical older
style toyota key
i mean
they might actually use this still i
don't remember
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this avalon
does have a hundred and sixty three
thousand nine hundred seventy six miles
so let's go ahead and start it up
it does have a wood grain
four spoke
leather wrapped steering wheel
fully automatic
um driver's side window
and let's go ahead take a tour of the
outside
oh
first turn on our
automatic headlights fog lights
and
hazards
so let's go ahead
oh go ahead and take a tour
it's a pretty substantial looking car
so
it's not much bigger than a regular
accord but it's still smaller than an
impala or a taurus of the same period
as you can see the facelift hail lamps
and turn signals
this
so we'll go ahead cut the lights back to
auto
turn off the fog lights and turn off the
hazards
so let's go ahead and get a few revs
the avalon is powered by a three liter
dual overhead cam vvti 60 degree 24
valve v6 making 210 horsepower 5800 rpm
and 220 pound feet of torque at 4 400
rpm
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uh
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hello
so let's go ahead and roll up the
automatic up and down window
and we'll shut the door
and i'm going to turn this back on
to the left of the steering wheel you do
have your turn signal
turn signal and light stock
to the left of the steering wheel
you also have your mirror controls
which you operate by selecting which
mirror and using it as a d-pad
you also have your dimmer
which you can't really see right now but
trunk release
then on this on the driver's door you do
have your handle
power locks
window lock
all four of your windows which
all
four
gotta unlock it
all four
that doesn't sound good i think that's
off of its track a little
but
all four windows
do work
to the left this or to the right of the
steering wheel you have your
windshield wiper control
on the steering wheel itself you do have
your cruise control
with
on and off here
i don't remember what those mean because
i didn't have crude control on my last
car but
you do have this little pocket right
here
i the only thing i've cleaned on this
car is the steering wheel
it's a bit cleaner than it was before
it's still kind of worn looking but
anywho
windshield wiper
up here you do have your auto dimming
rear view mirror
parking brakes located down there
and this one does come with a four-speed
automatic transmission
selected but or used with a normal floor
shifter these did come available with a
bench seat and a column shifter which is
actually what i was looking for but i
ended up just getting this one because
i didn't think it's worth it because i
just like the car itself but as you see
your gears are also shown in the gauge
cluster
overdrive on and off is selected on the
shifter the shifter itself is leather
but it is also kind of peeling chrome's
still in good condition
it looks like
like peeling a little i don't know what
that is i don't think that's anything i
think
i don't know but they're supposed to be
trim around that but you have the
storage
and you also have
um i think this is supposed to be an
ashtray but i use it as a coin holder
yeah that definitely needs to get clean
then you also have your
12 volt outlet
and a cigarette lighter
as you can see up here you do have your
multi-information display by clicking
display you can sort through average
econ average speed fuel range
trip time instant economy
average economy and we're back to the
beginning
and then if you click reset and adjust
it'll
reset and adjust whatever you're on
but if you click on mode you can see the
time
you've previously selected
zone compass
and the date
and there's the time there and the
outside temp
oh i need to release the parking brake
do you have a older style toyota radio
girl in red and for country with your
upgraded jbl audio system
all six presets
seek track eject disk am fmcd tape
because this does have a logic control
deck
um cassette player
um load tune disk audio control
i don't know what that means because i
haven't tried to figure it out yet rds i
don't remember what that means search
don't remember what that means
i don't remember what that means
um i don't remember that either i think
that's
for
a preview like it'll read the text on
the screen let's see
let's hope
well i can't do that right now because
there's a song playing but
auto or here's your duels on climate
controls with your digital display
you have auto off
um
research and refresh
i mean research
outside air
which i'll keep it on research for now
front defroster rear defroster ac
dual zone climate
oh yes dual
so if you don't want it to be different
you just click that again
temp
fan speed
which still works even though this car
is 19 years old
and your zones
you do have
um
all the
all this is padded
except for here but this is all padded
which is nice
you don't really realize it's nice until
you feel it and then
this car does not creak at all which is
shocking but
um in the glove box
you have your
trunk opener
so this
oops
that prevents this button from doing
anything
but i'm gonna
enable that for now
but you also have cupholders here as
well
here's your center console
up here
so you do have your vanity mirror with
light
which is
kind of creaky
and it gets stuck a little but you also
have your visors for
whatever
sun's out
or
i mean
oh it's for whenever you
open it like this and the sun's
right here they thought about it you
knew that
oh you do also have garage home link
which i just noticed
there it is right there do you have your
dome lights with map lights
i like that mine doesn't have a sunroof
because
they always leak well not always but
sometimes sunglass holder
and back here you do have a dome light
this side also has lights
so yeah that pretty much sums up the
front or
drivers area of the car so i'll go ahead
and get out
all right let's turn it off
[Music]
and we'll go ahead and check out the
rest of the interior here you can see
the trunk opener
as you can see it does work
you just got to make sure that that
valet lock isn't
activated
coming into the passenger side
just like the driver
you have plenty of leg room
um
just telling you right now this seat's
all the way back oh yeah
there are
memory settings for the driver's seat
which as you can see it has a little
wear but it's a 20 year old car like
come on
but
as you can see all padded
very nice feeling here's your glove box
it's massive but it's got some junk in
there right now does come with the
original owner's manual shockingly
but on the door itself you do get
another storage cubby like the driver's
side
um also the driver's side i didn't show
this that you've got that same
storage
but also get your wood grain there as
well
now coming to the back seat
this back seat is massive
now
just so i don't have to take out this
car seat that just put in there
i'm going to sit in this
this is weird
but see i have tons of knee room this
seat's all the way back i'll sit over
there too but the leg room isn't going
to be accurate because i have the seat
up a little
but in the back you do have your vents
and
this 100
watt 115 volt
ac outlet
which is activated by that button
um next under the ignition
um i guess mine doesn't have traction
control because if it had traction
control that button would be there as
well
but yeah
wood grain follows through
all the doors are soft let's touch
material
you get more storage down there as well
i'll show the rest of the
past of the
back seat when i get to the other side
to open the trunk with the remote just
press and hold
it'll beep and it'll open
but third brake light but it's a massive
massive trunk
there's some stuff in here floor mats
and we just had that trying to diagnose
what was wrong with it before we took it
to the mechanic
that subwoofer and amp came with the car
i don't know if else i don't know if
i'll keep it in there because it seems
like it could cause electrical issues
emergency release or whenever
if you're ever kidnapped
yeah we'll shut this
oh do you also have
liners for your trunk engines hinges
moving on
you have your gas cap and it's on the
left side
as normal
but stepping in
man this seat's comfortable
but
as you can see
i'm pretty sure i'm like five five or
five six um
but if this seat were here it'd be right
about here you'd sell plenty of room
my feet
would have no trouble going under
you can see there's tons of space for
your feet to go under
a little bit of a drive tunnel but this
middle seat is actually kind of
pretty wide
i mean it's probably not the most
comfortable but it's probably more
comfortable than a lot of sedans would
be
in the middle
but speak in the middle
you do have
armrests and it's like not bolted in or
something
so that's kind of strange but if you
have your pass through to the trunk
yep
then you can open this and
these cup holders can flip out and you
just have storage but you can actually
shut this and you have cup holders
but you still maintain that
um armrest
just thought that was kind of strange
but let's go ahead and shut that and put
this back
you also get reading lights
on
both sides
next to where the passengers are sitting
you have your
corning cornering handles
as
garrison
from think outside the cube
said
which is
classier terms and
what i have known my whole life
but you do have storage pockets
both sides of the seat and you do have
storage
but once again all the materials fall
through
padded here and here and here
i think this is also padded that's crazy
down there is plastic but that's still
padded
so that concludes this tour
of this 2003
toyota avalon xls
thank you all so much for watching and
have a great day