Kali primitive wants to buy Toyota with bad cylinder

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

The Kali primitive is not to be confused with the Obamaite cali primitive, remember.  The Obamaite cali primitive lives in Vermont and is bitter; the Kali primitive is younger and lives on a ranch in southern Texas.  (Both are of the female persuasion.)

Kali  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Mon Jul-21-08 01:02 PM
Original message

1987 Toyota pickup with bad cylinder
   
What would be a fair offer for this truck? I'm thinking of getting it.

1987 Toyota pickup with camper shell, PRICE REDUCED.
Reply to: sale-711477135@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-06-07, 1:39PM

For Sale: 1987 Toyota pickup with camper shell. Clean Arizona title. Arizona license plates (expired March, 2008.) This pickup features the following:

Starts and runs.
22R engine. (#4 cylinder has slightly low compression.)
Automatic transmission.
Has A/C, but it does NOT blow cold air.
Fiberglass camper with locks. No leaks! Bombproof!
Great interior and very good and clean body.
Excellent tires.
Overall, a very good looking pickup.
Mileage: 179,488.
One hubcap is missing.
Cash only, no trade. Price Reduced to $1700 (obo). Get ready for July 4th Camping!!
Can be seen at 1025 S. Roosevelt Street in Tempe, 85281. Call 480-829-8095.

This item has been posted by-owner.
Location: Tempe-5 blks. west of ASU
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

Original URL: http://phoenix.craigslist.org/car/711477135.html

jimmil  Donating Member  (69 posts) Wed Jul-23-08 11:08 AM
Response to Original message

1. I would see what wholesale is and...
   
See what an engine costs and deduct that. The engine is toast. You could fix it sure, but any mechanic will tell you that you may as well rebuild/replace the motor in it. Most times these sort of deals are given away.

DainBramaged  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Jul-29-08 09:35 AM
Response to Original message

2. Here in NJ it's worth about $50. No lie.

[Chris_]

The camper shell is probably worth more than the truck.
On the positive side, I hear 3-cylinder engines get REALLY good gas mileage. 

[Carl]

Somewhere around 500.00 with the miles and an admitted issue.
If it is slightly weak as posted then it still could go for another 100k miles but can`t bet on that.

Brakes need to be checked as well as the tranny fluid for color.

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

That's pretty rare for a Toyota to have cylinder issues at less than 200,000 miles. Somebody beat the hell out of it. I had an 87 Honda Prelude that had close to 300,000 miles on it and the damn thing still started right up and had almost all of it's balls. Ended up junking it out cuz the body pretty much fell off of it! The Japs made great engines in the 80s.