Took a trip to Vancouver via a rental car to retrieve a 2016 Silverado I bought last week. My son came with to get a small break from staying planted at home. Anyway, get to my truck and the thing has no power steering. This was inspected post sale and no defects were found. Seller (a smaller auction) apologized and a fix is underway, but we need something to drive home now.
Off to the big dealer auction. It’s a ghost town there, usually a very busy place had maybe a half dozen workers. I’m not spending big money on anything right now with the uncertain economy (the Silverado is going to the states and pre sold) so I’m after something cheap.
We end up with this 99 Sienna for a wallet busting $367 after all the taxes and fees, the actual selling price was $100! Fresh big franchise dealer trade in. 340,000k and runs great. Tag on the engine says the timing belt was done at 286k so this little Toyota should be happy for a bit. Quite obvious it was well loved and in typical Vancouver fashion totally rust free. Drives really well but has a clunk from the rear, the left rear shock bushing is done. Other than that the van preformed flawlessly on the trip home.
Decided I’m definitely going to keep it. Since we moved to BC we’ve been missing our “second” family rig. In Alberta we had the 650,000km 2007 Caravan, still have it sitting in AB but there’s no way I’m putting it through the provincial inspection needed to plate it in BC. This Sienna will be a welcome addition to the fam.
I’m always happy to get a good running beater for Uber cheap!
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