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Yes....most of these things are a legal requirement now (various auto-braking systems and acceleration prevention systems, lane control mechanisms, etc....the legal requirement is there because of Japan's aging population. There is a huge spike in accidents where old people accidentally pressed on the wrong pedal and could not control the accelerator and brake pedals and did not have the physical flexibility and peripheral vision to steer and maneuver the vehicle accordingly...

Is it the white one ? It did look rather sleek with the larger wheels...in the interior looked decent in the pics but the body does look rather knackered....so the 62,000km might have been rather harsh 62000kms...you have to wonder if it is the second set of tires that the car is running on..if not the original tires have been well..used to the bone... . Did you see this one that is on Autolanka classifieds ? http://www.autolanka.com/view/mazda/6/73774.html Granted the 2.5L is much more fun to drive....and yes..as long as the the structure is in tact the outer panels can always be fixed up properly (get it checked properly at a car checking place or the agents...do not just go by what you see on the surface). At the end of the day...a sparingly used 2L is always better than a harshly used 2.5 at a higher price

Could have been a car that was imported under a gift permit or something. Those permits were somewhat common in the mid 2000s and our car sale guys were using them lwhen and where possible to bring down older cars. See if you can find any document that shows what the import date was. So it could be one of them....it could have been an auction vehicle. But never the less...check check and cross check..if possible even the records with the RMV for anything fishy...unfortunately the customs and import/export departments might not be very helpful in giving any info (although the records should be retreievable on asycuda)

This was imported by CS Car Sales as the original advert from a long time ago says CS Car Sales The car in question has subtle visual differences, so unless someone did some modifications/upgrades to the CS Car sales unit, this is a different vehicle Also..I am pretty usre it would have been more than 10mil after it was first released even a slightly used one was going for the same price of a brand new car, 5 - 5.5mil depending on spec. (.base price was about 4.2mil and ironically the same price these days). WHich in LKR terms would have been about 7mil and when adding tax that would have easily been double ?

For most Toyotas things like spark plug changes, throttle body clean-ups, etc...are in the 40k- 45k km maintenance schedules for normal usage conditions. For harsh usage conditions it is a little bit lower....

The wheels are from a wide body....

Just so you know..when he says do not bother if you feel nothing wrong is not entirely accurate. Depending on the mileage of the car you would want to do some pre-emptive maintenance which will include those things; which means do not think that those items should only be done if something feels wrong.

Front splitter is different....the one we are talking about has sharper edges/wind paths, the one you posted seems to have the stock front bumper... vs

So...the Evo came with BBS wheels all over the planet Yes..the BBSs look much nicer In Japan there are quite a few SST Final for sale. AS I said..it does not fall in to the "Final Edition" category. It is a commemorative model for the last few SSTs. You can see how there is a sticker by the gear lever that says FINAL with a number on it.... https://www.carsensor.net/usedcar/detail/CU9254347339/index.html?TRCD=200002 https://www.carsensor.net/usedcar/detail/VU1099010346/index.html?TRCD=200002 https://www.carsensor.net/usedcar/detail/VU0470824545/index.html?TRCD=200002 https://www.carsensor.net/usedcar/detail/VU1040671155/index.html?TRCD=200002

About the Finance yard statement...I am just going by what some people mentioned in the previous discussion and also because there were a few adverts for it with a lease payment. As for the 17mil price tag...well...only you can decide whether that can be justified as we can always find a reason for it to be not to. For the record..a final edition in Japan costs about 5.5milyen on average and a standard Evo GSR is about 4mil yen... When new standard EvoX were going for about a 3.5mil base price on average (RS being less and the standard GSR being about 3.8 and special variants of the GSR going about 4mil and one even 5mil. These are base MSRP prices...so once you add delivery charges and features it easily adds another 500k-1mil yen. So yes....I believe there were normal Evo Xs that exchanged hands for about 10mil but you have to take in to account that the Final Edition would have been a tad more expensive than the standard when being first imported. Obviously the seller is also milking the fact that it is unregistered, rare car in SL.

If it was reset (manually or because battery was disconnected) it takes some time for the meter to show a reading again. How long has it been like this ?

Uh...no....the Final Edition in Japan has 18" BBS wheels in a different color (?), I thought it was the same all over the planet....If there was an Enkei wheel perhaps that was an option ? Production models shown on press days also seem to have the BBS wheels https://autoc-one.jp/news/2166734/ The SST Final, which does not fall in to the Final edition category does on the other hand have Enkei's with the Mitsubishi logo...

So why was it not registered ? Who imported it ? Who owns it ? Did you get it checked ? Do the ID numbers match up ? Why was it at a Finance company yard (although someone claimed they have nothing to do with it ?)

Seems like the dealer didn't get the car on the voyage they originally planned to....so the vessel has already travelled through SL ?

Buying an unregistered Vitz does not mean you are going to have a clean and honest car (because it is unregistered or mileage says 0). A lot of car sales in SL and their Sri Lankan agents in Japan just buy junk cars (crashed or high mileage examples because they are the cheapest) in Japan and fix them up (including resetting mileages) and sell them off as new vehicles. A SL used Allion or an Unregistered Vitz...due diligence is key...get it professionally checked out. For a used car in SL, yes service records help, especially if they are from a reputed source. People have gotten in to the habit of getting fake records from random garages as well. So..yeah...

That is a long time considering the total voyage time from Japan to Sri Lanka is 16 days on average What is the trans-shipment point ? If it gets trans-shipped (if there is one) at a port like SG or HK then it arrives prety much on time, but if the trans-shipment point is somewhere like Thailand or Indonesia then things get delayed liek crazy as scheduling the forwarding ship at these ports is not very good. Who did you buy the car from ? Sometimes the delay occurs at the car seller's point and no fault of the shipper at all (but the car seller blames the shipper) and happens quite regularly with South Asian and African owned car agencies in Japan. If the car they bought is not in their own region or in a region with a shipping port...they just hold on to the car until they can consolidate a decent stock of vehicles to get their own large career (which makes it a bit cheaper for them)..so it takes time...

What is your definition of issues ? There is no vehicle on this planet that is 100% perfect and can be guaranteed to run for X number of years with absolutely nothing propping up. Do not be the cheap Corolla E100 type owner/user (i.e. pump and run type of owner) Take it to a proper garage (the agent or another extremely well reputed garage who coincidentally are equally busy and as expensive as the agent). Do proper preemptive and running service and maintenance work and on time....do not be cheap..do not use cheap parts from China....do not take it to a maka baas. If you have a Hybrid version that has the DCT...then...learn to adjust your driving so that it does not overwhelm the transmission and its ancillary components (i.e. no AT style crawling along heavy traffic to keep zero space in front of you....and then doing sudden punches and sudden brakes from there....proper starts and stops in traffic which will lead to you having to keep sufficient space with the car in front of you which is a ^&*^%&* threewheel driver is going to creep in to). Yes..there are many who had issues with the DCT...but there are also many who have not...

First and foremost....if the wiring for the Cruise Control had been removed..the proper fix was NOT to remove the stalk as well. Systems like the cruise control are systems that intervene with the acceleration and braking with the car. Yanking these systems off is not a wise idea as none of us know how the car's remaining systems would react (rest assured no one in SL would do a proper de-installation of such a system...). In most countries doing this would be a straight way for the car to fail its roadworthy tests. So take it to Toyota Lanka...get it properly fixed...which may include (and personally I think should be) refitting the cruise control system properly (hard to imagine the agent..who in SL is actually the manufacturer themselves and not a franchisee) would remove it. Also, be prepared to find more gremlins..because there is also the reason as to WHY the previous owner removed the cruise control wiring....

If the system does not completely work and only works in reverse gear it could be because of an anti-theft system as well. In some audio systems, it gets completely locked up (if something has been done for the system to think it has been stolen...like work done by a maka baas) and only unlocks itself in reverse gear or when a surround camera system is activated (which happens as a matter of safety...even if the person is a thief you don't want the thief to kill himself or run-over someone around him/her)

As a side note...the reason why the X and G grades started getting Stability Control and the likes of it is because by law manufacturers were required to have Stability control in all passenger cars sold after February 2019. By Feb 2020 or 2021 (can't remember) all cars sold in Japan are supposed to have braking assist which includes accidental acceleration prevention systems. So manufacturers are rolling these out as standard in Japan. In fact, these systems can be retro-fitted to some older models like the 3nd gen Prius...

Maruti Alto.... You really need to be a bit more specific...also there are quite a few threads on the same subject. We cannot refer you to any of the old ones without knowing what your usage requirements are....(e.g are you transporting humans ? cargo ? pet doggie or fish ? and welcome to the forum...

For the millionth+1-th time...only HYBRID variants of the Vezel (Fit/Grace) came with the DCD...thus ONLY the Hybrids would have the DCD issues ! Gasoline variants of the Vezel (fit/grace) all came with a CVT. Thus...Gasoline variants have no issue with DCDs !!! Because they have CVTs....so yeah...stop spreading the rumor... As for the last questions the OP asked... Before I go on...lets be honest..the Sri Lankan car market and general automotive culture is very backward. Sri Lankans prefer old school technology from the 80s and the 90s where the machinery will keep running forever and ever with just the handy se of a hammer and some spanners...we think a car being like a steel box that does not bend or yield in away during an impact is better and safer for the occupants than a car that completely loses its body panels (because of crumple zones and energy absorption) is weak and worthless. We as an automotive society will buy any POS if its cheap...our idea of refined and and technologically superior translates to paying ridiculous amounts of money for shiny body bits, gold badges and lights on side mirrors and foot holes and kmpl meters. Now... The agent in correct in his facts but not justifiable in their decision but also they are. Yes..the auto braking feature is a pain in the ass when it comes to driving in crawling..sudden accelerating...coming to a crawl..bumper to bumper style driving like in SL cities. The system goes bonkers. Even in Japan on heavy traffic days it is a complete pain in the ass. Yes it can be turned off. Part of the agents'and manufacturers' justification for not offering the system in developing regions such as SL is why pay extra and have a system that is going to be turned off 90% of the time because the system cannot be calibrated properly for local conditions. You need to understand..you pay a lot of money when buying the car...not to the agent or the manufacturer. You pay approximately 100-150%++ of your purchase price to our government. So your 10mil LKR Brand new Corolla is in reality only 2.5mil - 3mil for the manufacturer/agent....and most manufacturers these days do pack a lot of technology the manufacture/agent can service for the region. In Japan..a few years ago the price difference between a car with Auto braking and without it was about 120,000yen on average (i.e. about 200K LKR). So if you bring down a car with auto braking you are looking at a total price increase of nearly 400-500K...local automobile buyers being who they are (see my Before I go on section) and the economy of the country...this is a lot of money they are not willing to spend. Yes...you do get Premios and Prius'and Vitz's with this..but that is mainly because they have no other option as all JDM cars are supposed to have these technologies as standard within the next year or so...(and yes..there is a slight price increment in Japan for the base prices....but it is now a smaller amount rather than the previous average). Manufacturers and Agents DO care a lot about accidents that happen to their cars ! Especially those that can be caused because of the technologies they put in their cars. In almost all parts of the world..the manufacturer can get sued and be held criminally liable if this keeps happening. Again, in SL we are still stuck in the 1970s and 1980s that we do not care about it. So yes...manufacturers are very very concerned about officially offering technologies in different regions. So if a technology cannot be tuned/configured/calibrated to adjust to local conditions...it will not be there. Yes...manufacturers do not care about Premios and Allions and stuff in SL..because they were meant for the Japanese market...so if the car is brought to a market like SL and the tech causes accidents..they are not liable as they never intended to sell the tech in SL. Finally..there is a matter of serviceability....if a technology cannot be properly maintained and serviced by the manufacturers'' local agent, the agent/manufacturer will not introduce the technology until the know-how and other necessary resources are available to do so. This requires investment by the manufacturer/franchise owner(i.e. agent). The bottom line is making investments on a technology that cannot be 100% used in local conditions sort of get a low priority. Even if they do train and equip themselves in the interest of the grey market they do charge the owners dearly for it and considering Sri Lankan car owners most will not pay for it..instead they will find a ay to disable it and keep using it (we live in a country where people remove diffs and prop-shafts of AWD vehicles and cover up engine check lights with black insulation tape)

Simply put..go with what the agent recommends for local conditions. The website would be very general. In most user manuals viscosity recommendations are ranges and the proper viscosity is to be determined based on operating env. temperature. It is only since recently that manuals for Hybrids and other LEVs just started giving a single viscosity in the user manual in the interest of fuel efficiency..but even then depending on the region the car is sold in it might give a different single viscosity. The Audi agent in SL I beleive is one of the more sensible ones...so if they say 40W is more suited...then perhapds you should consider it.

and this is why cars that do this constantly are considered as vehicles being used under harsh conditions...has nothing to do with the car being strictly TC or NA...

Well..pretty much what Matroska said.... If the car is priced right and well taken care of it will sell. In fact an honest car properly taken care of will always sell and there is always someone who will buy it. People are starting to wise up to the fact that 10+ year old cars in SL cannot have just 60K kms on the clock and the mileage is not something to run away from The issue is most of the cars that are around are unreasonably priced just because of a badge and false worship that surround these models and do not reflect a fair and just value for the condition of the vehicle. Now..if you can afford only a .5 million increment on the price...why not just keep using the current car until you save enough money for a decent upgrade ? In the mean time, with that .5 you currently have you can do the required preemptive maintenance and even maybe explore the possibility of some modest performance/visual updates for the car (wheels, intake/exhaust, modest suspension additions, AV upgrade, etc...) ? Obviously if you can find a gasoline Axio 160 series or a Civic..that would be cool as well....