steering racks can be an issue. take it to a car park and do some general manouvers, if its broken you should be able to feel it in the steering easy. as for the oil, it gets talked about non stop here as if EVERY avensis burns oil at a silly rate. This isnt true, my car goes through about a litre a month which i do approx 3000 miles in that time. with 80k on the clock if its got a full service history then its not a bad buy.