I don't remember if this is the right spot for this to be here, but mods, feel free to move where necessary.
There's this MK3 Turbo i've been looking at for the past few days now and I'm wondering if it'll be worth the $3800 asking price.
Specs:
-'90 5-spd Turbo Targa. red with grey leather
-120,1XX miles on the clock
-it's a 2 owner car with the last 8 years being female driven
-They have all maintainance records up to the day the car was purchased back in 1990 along with the original window sticker. Everything has been done on time.
-It's bone stock down to the air box
-Brand new Yokohama AVS dB tires ~100miles on them
-clean title but if someone can run a carfax report for me, that would be great.
-head gasket, timing belt, clutch, and distributer cap were replaced sometime last year with factory parts. (they weren't aware of aftermarket parts existing)
-A/C works and blows cold and they have the original targa wrench
-interior shows the usual wear and tear of a 16 year old car.
-no smoking out of the exhaust of any color
Only problems that I saw/was told about with the car were:
-CEL is on due to a knock sensor
-Oil pressure gauge reads 0 when at idle but starts to go up as the car starts to move.
-possible vaccuum leak somewhere or just a loose hose
-hatch needs a bit of a slight touch to get closed
-infamous suprastick is needed to keep the hood open.
What I wanna know is that with it bone stock (and it will remain that way for about a year or so till I can save up some extra cash) is will it be reliable enough that it doesn't spend more than a total of a month of down time within the year while keeping up with regular maintainance routine and will I be getting about an average of 19mpg of city driving while staying out of boost? I'm gonna have my mechanic thoroughly inspect the car on Monday even though he insists that the Supra is a terrible car to get with its billions of problems.
Thanks SM
-Alex
There's this MK3 Turbo i've been looking at for the past few days now and I'm wondering if it'll be worth the $3800 asking price.
Specs:
-'90 5-spd Turbo Targa. red with grey leather
-120,1XX miles on the clock
-it's a 2 owner car with the last 8 years being female driven
-They have all maintainance records up to the day the car was purchased back in 1990 along with the original window sticker. Everything has been done on time.
-It's bone stock down to the air box
-Brand new Yokohama AVS dB tires ~100miles on them
-clean title but if someone can run a carfax report for me, that would be great.
-head gasket, timing belt, clutch, and distributer cap were replaced sometime last year with factory parts. (they weren't aware of aftermarket parts existing)
-A/C works and blows cold and they have the original targa wrench
-interior shows the usual wear and tear of a 16 year old car.
-no smoking out of the exhaust of any color
Only problems that I saw/was told about with the car were:
-CEL is on due to a knock sensor
-Oil pressure gauge reads 0 when at idle but starts to go up as the car starts to move.
-possible vaccuum leak somewhere or just a loose hose
-hatch needs a bit of a slight touch to get closed
-infamous suprastick is needed to keep the hood open.
What I wanna know is that with it bone stock (and it will remain that way for about a year or so till I can save up some extra cash) is will it be reliable enough that it doesn't spend more than a total of a month of down time within the year while keeping up with regular maintainance routine and will I be getting about an average of 19mpg of city driving while staying out of boost? I'm gonna have my mechanic thoroughly inspect the car on Monday even though he insists that the Supra is a terrible car to get with its billions of problems.
Thanks SM
-Alex
