HAHAHAHA! yea right. anyways, i OWN a celica alltrac st165. i GARUNTEE if you bought it from someone who took care of it, itll be a great car. as for me, i bought mine from a couple who drove it from NJ and MN a few times. they didnt care for the car after it started getting old, and i ended up fixing the things they didnt fix. (cv boots, clutch@120k, exhaust, suspension, etc.) just regular maintenence on a 14yr old car. and for you straight away junkies, i ran a 15.2 on STOCK everything with k&n drop-in and gutted cat. impressive for 14yr old "junk" that someone else wanted to trash.
the reasons why the turbos break first, is because the general driving community dont properly let the engine warm up NOR cool down like it says in the manual. then to make it worse, half of them dont do the regularly scheduled maintenance. even if it was a porsche turbo, if you gave it to the general public, that car would be waste after a few years.
(fyi, the owner wanted $3500 for my car, and i took it for $2000 due to the condition it was in. dont expect to buy a 14yr old car and have it run like its a 5yr old "late gen toyota turbocharged car" ... dUH)
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GTfOURdREAMS
1988 Toyota Celica Alltrac
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