rev up your engines
check it out a brand new Toyota Avalon
for 28 800 what a deal where can you get
one well first you need a time machine
because this is 2007 that's what it cost
back in the day and yet this old luxury
car can still get 31 miles a gallon on
the highway a Toyota Avalon of course is
Toyota's top and car it had been for
quite some time now they're stopping
them they're not making them in 2023
they're replacing them with the Toyota
Crown they took a look at the pictures
kind of looks like a squash down Camry
all of them are going to be hybrids
four-cylinder turbocharged and engines
don't have the smooth power that
something like this does with a six
cylinder engine they're all going for
the same kind of rating for gas mileage
it's still got good gas mileage I don't
know why they bother worrying about it
but you know that's politicians and
corporations bought this car brand new
for that price he's got 217 000 miles on
it and listen to it
it's still quiet as can be they know how
to make these engines that's for sure
now this is an O7 so it's got timing
chain on it you don't have to worry
about a rubber timing belt my wife's
2002 Lexus or that 2005 Lexus it also
has a timing belt this has a timing
chain still original 217
000 miles the fern oil no now he did
have to replace the alternator that's
the new one but that was just a short
time ago it went all those years that
finally went out he had to put one on
that shows you how well made these are
this still has of course the original
engine the original transmission these
things were Toyota's top car at the time
as you can see when we go in here no
this one was made in Kentucky but they
did a good job we had a Toyota Camry
station wagon that was Megan talking
both of my sons learned how to drive on
it they took the stupid thing over 100
miles an hour they ran into things and
it just kept rolling down the road
realize the engines and transmissions
and everything come from Japan they just
put them together and conduct an
assembly point is what it is now this
particular one is a luxury car of a
different color because you can see he
put these covers over the seat it's got
regular seats instead of leather seats
now if you want things that look good
forever fabric is better it won't crack
like leather it's going to hold up
better we just put these on because he
likes to see he doesn't want to wear
them out but look at the shape they're
in I mean they're still smooth comfy as
can be and there's a lot of room in the
back being a luxury car course you got
heat and air conditioning coming out
here the trunk is just like the lock
system exactly the same cabinet's truck
and the seats pop down if you want get
more space and of course they have this
crazy little hole I guess you can grab
your drinks or whatever's in the trunk
you can hear how solid they are
solid made cars and really everything in
here is about the same it's basically
the Lexus of Toyotas same company yeah
and so it's all it has a lot of mileage
but it sure sounds good we'll see what
the computer says the diagnostic so yeah
but it's new enough it reads it and
while we're waiting we can see he
modernized it put a nice little Pioneer
end right here I like it because it
doesn't have a smart key less technology
the better we'll start her up
it's a little diagnosis auto scan here
we go now the important things are good
it does have fault with the tire
pressure monitors because I'm sure the
batteries have gone bad on them and a
lot of the steering wheel is still in
pretty good shape the faults except for
tire pressure monitor let's see what
that says probably say the sensors are
bad or something dead or not received
from two three four so three of them
learning more the owner agrees with me
he's got the tire pressure gauge you'd
have to buy all the sensors having
reprogram them spend a bunch of money
when the pressure Heats costs 10 bucks
so with that we don't even care about
don't know we're started up with a
little bit live data I don't see
anything odd yet the Cadillac converters
are working they should the front ones
are hotter to 42 242s and the back ones
126 that's how they're supposed to go
you can see it ever never have any codes
this isn't called historical codes and
there aren't any so let's take this
little girl for a spin we didn't hook up
a backup camera use the mirror for that
first thing you notice is it's old but
it's still exceptionally quiet
except for me talking and you have the
smooth V6 acceleration it doesn't need a
turbo it doesn't need GDI fuel
injections it's just smooth power in
Toyota's luxury car of the day and
interesting enough you can see it
handles quite well but it's still got
the original struts on it 217 000 miles
it's still got the original struts now
my West Lexus does too but it's only got
90 000 miles so if somebody tells you
you need struts on your Lexus or Toyota
get a second opinion that's my advice
it's a nice quiet luxury car everything
on it still works you can barely feel it
shift those Transmissions you can take
all those eight and ten speed ones
they're nowhere near as smooth as these
old ones are we'll get to our little
drag strip and come to a stop
since there's no one behind us and here
we go
oh man this thing has power holy cow and
smooth power you step on the gas is
there jerking the snow just smooth power
going down the road okay right here does
somebody have a turbo version of any of
the new Toyotas with a four-cylinder
turbo be it a Toyota or a Lexus please
bring them to me and I will compare them
because I can tell you right now there's
no way it's going to be smooth like that
and there's no way that one of those is
going to have 217 000 miles and still be
running this good not burning in the oil
not making odd noises going so smoothly
riding on a Magic Carpet Ride on this
thing even with the original four struts
and 217 000 miles and of course consider
this one was made in Kentucky it wasn't
even made Japan and I find it rather
funny that this was Toyota's luxury car
he paid twenty eight thousand dollars
for it when he bought it new today the
average price of a new car is like 49
thousand for an average car not a luxury
car like this do I hear bearing noises
no I don't hear anything oh that mileage
everything's still working fine come to
a start it's almost like you're an
electric car it makes hardly any noise
at all and there may be Toyota's luxury
biggest car they made but it still
handles fine and twisties big car but
it's fun to drive okay so they're
replacing the Avalon with this thing a
Toyota Crown which looks kind of like a
squash down Camry to me and of course
the replacement Toyota crown for the
Avalon they're hybrids and they have
four cylinder turbocharged engines
there's no way they're going to be as
smooth as this and they certainly won't
last as long either now they had a long
run with the Avalon at least they didn't
replace them with an SUV like everyone
else or Ford calling the Mustang Mach e
a Mustang when it is an electric SUV and
has nothing to do with Mustang because
these are pretty well made cars they can
last a really long time it's just
basically tail this version Alexis and
that Lexus smooth power they can run
forever they were great cars now I never
owned one we did have a Toyota Crescenta
which was a precursor to this and it was
a great car too in our case though the
leather seats just rotted away if you
remember the ant stories the ants built
a nest under the leather seats we had
cheap covers and we took them off
there's a colony of ants in there and
the paint was all Fading Away an engine
did blow a head gasket because the
crusters weren't inline six and these
v6s are actually much smoother better
engines and those inline sixes were so
as far as I'm concerned this is like the
epitome of what Toyota made for
smoothness and luxury you can find one
of these still rolling down the road hey
pick it up they can run an awful long
time and again 30 miles a gallon in a
car like this hey it's pretty good for
something this smooth that can last as
long as these things last I had a
customers one hit a million miles and
it's still was running pretty much the
same as this one's running but unless
they're not going to make them anymore
so get the old ones while you can
because as far as I'm concerned they
don't make them like they used to people
and cars
and here's some bonus questions and
answers Lily says I got a Honda CRV 2010
with PO420 code for the catalytic
converter Midas wants to sell me a
Cadillac converter what should I do
that's a very common code PO420 it means
that your catalytic converter is working
in efficiently it can be a bad catalytic
converter it could be bad oxygen sensors
giving bad data saying the converter's
bad when it isn't or it can be a problem
in your fuel system or engine what's
running too rich running to lean
misfiring which will put on Burn gas in
the cat and then the cat won't work
right so you say the car works perfectly
fine get the same gas mileage if you
live in an area where they don't do
yearly emissions tests and you can just
keep driving it I had people Tennessee
driving 10 years that way and they still
work perfectly fine because they don't
do emissions testing here if you may
live in an emissions testing area what
you want to do get some catalytic
converter cleaner put in a gas tank put
a tank a shell V their High test gas and
drive it for 200 miles you might find
the light will go off it can and clean
it up so that it works good great now
let's say that doesn't work the problem
is that system is a very complex
feedback system like I started to
explain here you got oxygen sensors the
engine how it's making an air fuel ratio
the catalytic converter that's supposed
to burn on burnt hydrocarbons if your
cat is really going bad it's a Honda
they generally last forever something is
wrong in the system making it go bad
like your engine's burning all running
richerly so if you just replace the
catalytic converter like Midas wants to
sell you and make money you might find
next year you'll get the same code pop
right back up because the problem in the
engine system will just make the new
catalytic converter go bad too so it's
never simple as just replacing the
catalytic converter unless it's a broken
catalytic converter that rattles because
the pieces inside can break out and then
you hit it with a hammer you'll hear
rattle rattle and then you got to
replace it because it's physically
broken but if it's not physically broken
it runs fine it's generally that it's
somewhat dirty inside you might try
cleaning it first and then hope that
works because just replaced and it won't
fix it in the long run something's
making it go out
so if you never want to miss another one
of my new car
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