So I am going to look at a clean 1994 80 series with approximately 168,000 miles, second owner since it was one year old, extensive maintenance history available. The seller recently paid a lot of money to have a reputable shop do the following: idle control valve, top end rebuild-head gasket job, valve job and resurfaced head, new A/C and alt belts, cap, rotor, plugs, wires, breather hose, oil change, new radiator and upper rad hose, Toyota coolant, cyl. leak down test. They also got a vehicle inspection with the following items noted as needing repair or recommended:
-Power steering pump leaking possibly at high pressure hose fitting
-rear brakes at 15%
-transfer case seepage at speedo housing
-recommend transmission service
I can probably figure out how to fix that stuff, or not, but I'd like to know if any of it sounds serious...and how much it might be at a shop to use for negotiating the price.
Thanks in advance, I hope to have a new Cruiser pretty soon here!
-Power steering pump leaking possibly at high pressure hose fitting
-rear brakes at 15%
-transfer case seepage at speedo housing
-recommend transmission service
I can probably figure out how to fix that stuff, or not, but I'd like to know if any of it sounds serious...and how much it might be at a shop to use for negotiating the price.
Thanks in advance, I hope to have a new Cruiser pretty soon here!