GON
$100 Site Donor 2024
2006 TOYOTA SEQUOIA LIMITED being auctioned today at Jacksonville, FL IAAI.
I was interested solely as a vehicle that could haul around my Wife, Daughter, and two Grandsons when they come from Denver to visit. Found this dealer maintained until one year ago Sequoia. 2WD so nobody wants it. 198k miles. The SUV was reported as repossessed and pictures show a damage driver door. A closer look showed hood damage, and the passenger side headlight not centered. TITLE SHOWS CLEAN.
The thing that most interested me in this SUV was an extensive Toyota Dealer preventative maintenance history.
Ran a Carfax this morning. Everything looked ok. At 330 this morning, I missed the hood damage. I also missed the driver door armrest was missing. But the ret of the interior looked good. Again, I want to mention carfax looked fantastic. I can handle a repo Toyota that the prior owner had less than one year, that was dealer maintained for the first 14 (of its 15) years of its life.Started to set a price limit in my head. How was I going to pick up the car, drive with a trailer, or take a plane, or even Amtrak. Amtrak has a 0115AM departure to Jacksonville, FL, arrives 0630AM for $60. Take a Uber from the train station to IAAI lot, be first in line for a pickup... car just has to be drivable 450 miles....
Decided to run a supplemental history report called epicvin. It shows some of the carfax data, but also shows prior data like when a car was for sale at a car lot. Asking price as a one owner and 189k miles was $8995 in DEC 2019. It was for sale with all the damage in OCT 2021 for $4995.
Wow, what a surprise. The car, after being a one owner dealer maintained, was for sale on a low class used car lot. And then the pictures. They show the interior was swapped, and imply the front end had a lot of damage. Likely repaired worse than one can imagine. Actually shows this is the second auction for this SUV in the last 90 days, something Carfax did not catch.
Going to post a link to the SUV being auctioned, and also pictures from the used car lot, and then from the first auction. Lesson learned, if it seems to good to be true........ run multiple reports if one can't inspect or hire an inspector.
Somebody is likely going to be a Buyer on this today, and disappointed when they "peel back the onion".
2006 TOYOTA SEQUOIA LIMITED for Auction - IAA
2006 TOYOTA SEQUOIA LIMITED for auction at Jacksonville (FL) branch location. Current Bid: $1,850 - Mileage: 196,912 mi - Color: Gray - Transmission: Automatic Transmission - Stock: 31757928
www.iaai.com
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