Hello!
Thanks for all the answers!
Here in Argentina the cars are in some ways much expensive than other countries. The trick is that here we have restricted acces to foregin currency as there is a very strict fiscalisation of the economy and money transactions. That give us a black market of dollars that difers a lot of the "oficial" currency parity between pesos and dollars. So its a little tricky to stabilsh the value of the car.. LOL
But to give you an idea.. this car cost me something like $10.000 Dollars (mix between the two dollars price).
The car has 50K on it, and it was always attended in the official Toyota dealer`s shop.
So i have record of all the issues that were none till 2012.
Last year, apparently (talking with the last owner), the car was in a garage affected by a little flood and humidity enter into the car and generated some electric problems.
I checked all the harneses and wiring conditions are perfect. All the electric wiring has not been touched at all .... but when i bought the car it cames with the following problems:
1) The passanger power window not functioning.
Cause: Motor was "stuck" as the mechanical system was jammed.
Solution: WD40 and some little hits of my rubber hammer
2) Front low beam Lights didnt work
Cause: Problem with the rear fog light switch
Solution: Contact cleaner for the switch
3) Stereo doesnt work
Cause: Faulity unit (does not power on, and too complicated and old to waste time on it).
Solution: New stereo, Also discovered that the stereo comunicates digitally with the power amp so I need a special intarface (TYTO-01 harness)
4) Inalambric unlock/lock system doesnt work
Cause 1: The key runned out of battery
Solution1: Battery replaced
Cause 2: The key didnt work either
Solution 2: Make pre check to analyce if the key is recoginced by the reciever: Status YES!
Cause 3: The pairing procedure didnt work
Solution 3: The problem was in the lock motor of the the driver side. The pairing procedure senses the locking status of the driver door but the procedure said that you must use the central lock/unlock button to make the procedure. Isntead I used the switch of that particular door and the key now works. The locking system and the truck opens and close perfectly. but the lock motor isnt working for the driver door. So I will dis assemble it this weekend and try to figure out why the motor isnt working.. it should be a piece of cake.
5) Climate control "air exit selector" doesnt work.
This isnt solved yet, basically the climate control works perfectly but the servo that moves the air exit doesnt operate. This isnt very important for me yet, so i will analyze this problem later.
As you can see this car have several electric problems, some easy some not. But the car is almost impeccable and mechanically faultess.
As you can imagine i have investigated almos all funcions of the car including mechanical services and repair and i can say the car is very clean. I was told about some of this issues when i bought the car. The last owner had 5 cars, this was like a "spare" for him and when the car started to have this problems plus nobody with time to get things done the car stoped to be used.
Mechanically speaking, I will only change the timing belt for the years that belt is in the car. 10 years can affect the belt almost like Kms..
Oil change will be next month.. and in January i am planing to change gearbox and differential oil as I asume that it is not trusty with 12 years inside the car.
I will post some more pictures later!
Best Regards---
Bruce
