{"id":247,"date":"2014-06-03T22:40:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T06:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.evanyamoto.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2014-06-03T22:40:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T06:40:41","slug":"restored-4runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/03\/restored-4runner\/","title":{"rendered":"Restored 4Runner"},"content":{"rendered":"

My father-in-law got another new car so my wife wanted his old ’98 Toyota 4Runner. \u00a0Her siblings weren’t sure why she wanted it because it was so beat up and dirty.<\/p>\n

I was pretty surprised with how bad it was but I thought I could fix it up a bit. \u00a0The paint was so dull and lifeless and interior was really dirty. \u00a0It was also used a farm everyday so it was full of this fine dust in every crevice.<\/p>\n

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I don’t remember where I started but I threw out the old mats and vacuumed it a few times. \u00a0I sprayed it down and left bowls of vinegar, which is supposed to absorb smells. \u00a0I then took out the seats and cleaned the carpet with some spray cleaner and a power drill with a brush attachment.\"\"<\/p>\n

And I used my Porter Cable and supplies that I bought for my BMW and it cleaned up great.\"\"<\/p>\n

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And of course, all of my cars have a USC license plate frame! \u00a0I’ve never really liked gold much, but it definitely fit on this car.<\/p>\n

The best compliment I got was when we parked\u00a0it at my father-in-laws and he didn’t even recognize the car!<\/p>\n

I drove the 4Runnner for a couple of years until this happened:\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This was shortly after my second son was born. \u00a0My older son and I went to pick up food and then it felt like the car just dropped. \u00a0I was pretty surprised to see the front tire like this. \u00a0It wan’t as bad as it looks, but it was a little scary. \u00a0I got it fixed and it drove better than ever, but my mom didn’t want me to drive it anymore.<\/p>\n

It was originally my brother-in-laws car, so I gave it back to him. \u00a0He’s fixed it up even more and it looks great. \u00a0Despite this accident, I really think this 4Runner can last for ever. \u00a0I had to almost 200,000 miles and I felt like it would hit 300,000 easily.<\/p>\n

This 4Runner and my wife’s Tacoma from this era are some of the best cars they’ve ever made. \u00a0The only knock is that they seem to have a bad clear coat that you’ll see on just about every one of these cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My father-in-law got another new car so my wife wanted his old ’98 Toyota 4Runner. \u00a0Her siblings weren’t sure why she wanted it because it was so beat up and dirty. I was pretty surprised with how bad it was but I thought I could fix it up a bit. \u00a0The paint was so dull […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cars","tag-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}