I was hoping to do this throughout the summer, but a bad Monday morning put the project into high gear.
Thankfully all parties involved are ok, there is a saga I will share later but needless to say this poor Rav4 keeps going through the ringer.
Since we are at fault and only had liability only on the vehicle this will be on me to fix.
Mechanically I should be able to get it back to 100%, cosmetically at least 85-90%....
So now my husband is using me daily (ES300) and I am driving my SC400 daily (gets somewhat better fuel economy than the tundra, but not by much
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HOWEVER, this project has now been put on hold for another project... Back story, beginning of this month, my Brother-in-law ignored the need for a new radiator and severely over heated and blew the engine in his '08 Lexus RX350. I went to look at it, cranked it and it had zero compression, done. I advised him it would be best if he pursued a new form of transportation in that it would be some time before I could put an engine in it.
Then my husband had the idea (which I had pondered on the way home from my BILs) of putting a new, used engine in. I could do it cheaper and quicker than putting the Rav4 back together. So some time this week I will be getting that to my shop and slowly getting together all the things needed to get another engine in and just do a whole refresh on the vehicle before handing it over to my husband.
I still plan to fix the Rav4 and make it my daily and eventually off load my SC400 and ES300 and hopefully use the money from those to bank roll into my own trailer FINALLY.
second was his tires, that were just about bald... Made driving in a down pour fun.
