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Re:Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks by Glawen on Thursday April 20, 2023 @05:54PM (#35646942)
It is just cargo cult. The value of these old Toyota and Honda makes no sense. I was looking to buy an old Toyota because of the hype on internet, but there are not a lot of them being in Europe, and 70% of them had an engine issue (threads holding head gasket were missing, common issue on aluminium engine).

At one point, I pondered buying a Toyota previa with this head gasket issue for 3K and planed to repair it myself. Fortunately I got my sense back and bought a Renault Scenic with no issue at all, 2K and I managed to have also the timing belt replaced. Yes, internet thinks that because it is a French car, it will crumble. Well internet, so far it had no issue and its head gasket is intact.

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Re:Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks by fooker on Thursday April 20, 2023 @11:03PM (#35649347)
Yep, the post pandemic cars from Toyota and Honda especially have been having terrible quality and QA issues.

I've seen a new 2023 4runner with weird panel gaps, unnecessarily stiff handling (compared to a 2020 model), and sunroof motors stopped working after rain.

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