High mileage 09 Toyota Avensis T4 D-4D (150)?

my3cents

I need a new car for travelling back and forth to the UK while helping out elderly relatives.

My wife loves a friends Toyota Avensis T4 D-4D (150 - 2.2l engine) which they are selling. I like the car but I just hate all the electronic gadgets that are fitted to everything and the car has 160k Miles on the clock. Is that just daft thinking?

I'm used to doing virtually all my own work on petrol cars that are a lot less complex electronically but would the Avensis ever need much?

zilog_jones

I wouldn't be too worried about the electronics, it's all the extra mechanical nonsense associated with modern diesel engines that are more likely to cause trouble - EGR valves, DMFs, particulate filters, turbos, etc.

Just my observation, but I've been in several situations recently where the smoke coming from the Avensis (of similar age to what you're looking at) in front of me was so bad I had turn on recirculation, sometimes even blue smoke! I do not think these are the pinnacle of reliability that Toyotas once were...

If you want a reliable Toyota, go for the hybrids

bazz26

I don't think a nearly 10 year old Avensis had any state of the art technology to be concerned about even when it was brand new. If it's the newer model the main concern was with the electronic parking brake which gave trouble on the early ones. Those 2.2 d-4d engines have a poor reputation around reliability especially with the head gasket, not sure if the 150bhp version was as pad though.

colm_mcm

The 135 and 150 aren’t as bad as the 180 AFAIK

Leonard Hofstadter

Depends on what type of 150 model it is, if it's the D-CAT automatic then it has the same engine code as the 180 model (2AD-FHV), and therefore will have the head gasket problem. The manual 150s and 135s should be OK, though.

my3cents

Its manual. Still can't decide? I've always driven old cars but never bought anything with more than 80k (miles) on the clock, so 160k just seems massive to me?

Whats the worst that could happen - cost wise?

Leonard Hofstadter

my3cents wrote: »

Its manual. Still can't decide? I've always driven old cars but never bought anything with more than 80k (miles) on the clock, so 160k just seems massive to me?

Whats the worst that could happen - cost wise?

Check straps on the doors can go and that results in them needing new doors! We had ours replaced but mercifully Toyota covered the cost of it despite the car being outside of warranty. Other than that, they give no trouble at all, we've had one since new (a 2.0 diesel) and there's 215,000 miles on the clock, every mechanical component on it that commonly goes on diesels (clutch, turbo, dual mass flywheel) is still original, so if that's not reliable I don't know what is!

https://www.toyotaownersclub.com/forums/topic/171984-front-door-cracking-at-check-strap-reinforcing-and-repair/

colm_mcm

Very good write up on the 2.2 here
http://toyota-club.net/files/faq/13-01-01_faq_ad-engine_eng.htm