Please Help Me As I Seem Obsessed

[youngalistair]

am i crazy? but after reading all the stuff about the vvt engine and its drinking problems .........am i mad to even go look at a vermont estate 100.000 miles for £1200 like i did tonight? am i off my head to think this car could actually be the one that escaped all the oil crisis at toyota am i totally obsessed with the avensis so much that im willing to risk the purchase of a prospective oil burning cat destroyer!!!! please put me out of my misery and tell if its likely that this car will be ok? and not burn litres of oil and i will not have move to texas!!!

[adam_d]

Our old 2001 avensis 1.8 had this problem at around 80000 miles, but went to 86000 before it started using oil past the threshold at which Toyota would investigate it. During this time, it didn't kill any sensors, or the cat, and passed it's MOT perfectly. May have been lucky there

However, they fixed the engine under the extended warranty that was around at the time, and the engine was perfect after that up until 108000 miles, when we sold it. As far as I'm aware, it's still going.

So, my suggestion would be make sure, somehow, from service records or something, that the work has been done. I don't think the problem was sorted til around 2004, but don't quote me on that.

Hope this helps.