Hello Help Needed On A Purchase

[rae14s]

hello all iam in the market for new car I owned a 03 avensis 1.8 vvti a few years ago great car great fuel economy but it drank oil and only done 60 thousand miles it was its only down fall iam looking at 03 to o5 cars now avensis or verso iam led to believe that diesels are trouble is this so my main concern is that are all 1.8 engines going to gallop oil I know they change piston design on later 05 cars but my budget wont stretch that new idd like to know are all 1.8 vvti engines going to use oil iam not sure which direction to go thank you all iam looking forward to your thoughts ,rae in very wet mid wales

[FROSTYBALLS]

The AD series of diesel engines have an early history of head gasket failure/heavy oil consumption.

See the Honest John Good & Bad section of the Corolla Verso review - http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/carbycar/toyota/corolla-verso-2004/?section=good

This highlights that some of the VVTi engines can display heavy oil consumption after 40,000 miles - but this doesn't mean that all will.

[Devon Aygo]

As you are aware the 1.6 & 1.8 vvti engine where only fixed from late 2005 onwards, so oil consumption may be an issue, look for history of an engine repair including a short motor and you should be fine.

2004 > 2005 2.0 1CD diesels are good strong engines just make sure the cambelt was changed at 5yr/60k

2005> 2.2 2AD engine can suffer head gasket/oil consumption issues, look for history of an engine repair including pistons/short motor and you should be fine.

[rae14s]

so will all 1.8 vvti use a lot of oil or is it pot luck I want to buy one but oil issue worries me ive looked at few and asked none ive seen with a short motor change ,rae

[FROSTYBALLS]

As I said in the above post: "This highlights that some of the VVTi engines can display heavy oil consumption after 40,000 miles - but this doesn't mean that all will."

[rae14s]

hello ive seen another for sale vin number is nmter16r80r050115 how do I find out if this is a revised engine do I have to ring Toyota thank you ,rae

[rae14s]

well I wrang local dealership about vin number upgrade never heard off bigger piston upgrade great help they were ,rae

[Devon Aygo]

well I wrang local dealership about vin number upgrade never heard off bigger piston upgrade great help they were ,rae

That's because there is no such thing, Toyota switched from fitting modified ( not bigger ) pistons to fitting short motors to the affected cars a long time ago.

The chassis number you posted is before the fix so could potentially suffer from the oil consumption issues on the Verso you need the last 5 of the chassis number to be higher than 54936