@ mkristo all the best with the huggling. Sounds like the car is well checked out and good,but if you haven't bought,ask for service history (to inform your future servicing) and check the engine mounting. Lastly and VERY IMPORTANT,if automatic,test drive it around,pulling it to say 120 kph to detect any problems with gear shifting and wheel alignment (which you can fix at Kshs 1,500 anyway). You see people sell cars for both good and bad reasons. But from your description,you have landed on a good car.
@pilsner,when someone is looking for a 1300cc starlet,(s)he may not be interested in a 1500cc AE103. Remember,not everybody carries cabbages or text books or milk around everyday and even if they did,they may want another smaller and beautiful car for personal use. Mark you,the EE103 and the Starlet all carry 5 passengers. The EE 103 (also known as punda or olwenda) is particularly sturdy and a great car-its like a pickup-wagon. But is also ugly and a hotcake for car thieves all over the country .
@sheep. Your postulation that 10,000km in Japan is better than 30,000km in Kenya is very wrong. It depends on the individual driver and how well the car is maintained. Have you ever visited Japan?
@ simonkabz,One buys a car to drive,not to box with it. In Nairobi,you will find Starlets or even Mercerdes Benzes with wavy panels and in the same city,you will find a Demio with a perfect body. It all depends on how well a car is taken care off. And sometimes you are involved in an accident and the best body work you can get still leaves you with wavy panels.
@ that other person who thinks 450K can get you a Cedia,B15,Vitz or whatever the fourth car was. Do your math again. You will not manage even a Tata nano.
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