The years to buy and the years to skip for 20 Japanese cars and trucks, how to check one like a mechanic before you pay, and how to keep it running 300,000 miles, even in Texas heat.
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Sawasdee, my friend. I was fifteen when my uncle let me hold a wrench in his taxi garage in Bangkok. Our Toyotas ran twenty hours a day in forty-degree heat, and if a taxi stopped, a family did not eat. So we learned to keep cars alive. Not with expensive parts. With habits.
Here in Houston I see the same thing every week. A good man buys the wrong car, or the right car with the wrong history, and he pays for it for years. After Hurricane Harvey, a customer brought me a pickup he bought for a very good price. I pulled up the carpet and found river mud.
I am not going to make you a mechanic. I am going to make you a very difficult customer to fool.
LEK
Each card shows every generation of the car, its engines, Lek's verdict, the known problems to check, and the exact checks to make on the lot.
BuyLek would buy it for his familyCarefulone known problem to check firstWaittoo new to trust yet
Three parts, written as a system you use on the car lot, in your driveway and at the repair shop. A few of the pages:
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Read it. Take it to the next car you look at. Do the flood check. If within seven days you feel it wasn't worth it, reply to your receipt email and you'll get every dollar back. No forms, no questions.
Lek is 55 and has kept Japanese cars alive since he was fifteen, first in his uncle's taxi garage in Bangkok, and for more than twenty years in his shop in Houston. On his channel he shares the habits that keep Toyotas, Hondas and Nissans running long after other cars give up.
He'll tell you which years he'd buy for his own family, which ones he wouldn't, and exactly what to check before you hand over your money.
Lek's first rule: a car with high miles and a clean frame beats a low-mile car with a rotten one, every time. Miles you can fix. Rust you cannot.
No. It's a PDF you download the moment you pay. Nothing arrives in the mail. You can print any page at home, and the inspection sheet and glovebox card are made to be printed.
No. Every check is a look, a listen or a question. You don't need tools beyond a flashlight. The book makes you a smarter buyer and owner, not a mechanic.
Yes. The inspection system, flood check, test drive, maintenance plan and repair-shop scripts work for any car. The model cards cover the 20 Japanese models Lek sees most.
No, and it tells you so. It helps you rule out bad cars before you pay for one, and shows you how to choose your own mechanic for the inspection.
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Reply to your receipt email within seven days and you'll get a full refund.
It's on page 17, and it takes one minute with a flashlight.
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P.S. After every big storm, flood cars get cleaned up and sold far from home. The five-minute check on page 34 has saved my customers more money than anything else I've taught them.
Page 17, the Tacoma card
Page 34, the flood car check
Page 43, the monthly check
Page 45, the fluid color chart
Page 62, the glovebox card