 Hey guys, welcome to another video stuck in a mild traffic jam Thought I would take this opportunity quiet opportunity to Talk to you all Because the faster I go the louder it gets I got me a forerunner I want to explain why I got me a forerunner. What's wrong with this one so far and What I think of it basically so it's gonna be a video of me talking you listening So a little background behind this What's happening and what not? found this car truck SUV whatever I Don't know what to call it. I don't want to upset anyone vehicle found this vehicle on the Facebook marketplace in Houston, Texas Took me about two weeks of looking every day every hour several different platforms Craigslist Facebook I Know several dealers cars that come what not whatever everywhere spoke with the owner several times He sent me pictures of the frame. Yes. I saw the frame before I actually went there. I'm actually flown in from Chicago To Houston yesterday Uber 40 miles or so West of Houston met on the parking lot You know, I liked it. Well, obviously because I'm driving it back 1100 1100 miles Back home, and you know, it's not all rainbows and sunshine. It does have issues. It has 130 Thriller 134,000 miles now and oh, yeah, this is the V8 version 07 V8 and Well, I guess it's not a four-runner. It's it's a two-runner. It's rear-wheel-drive only It's the sport version, which is the middle. I guess the the kind of the poor man's version No heated seats Obviously, no four-wheel lock and stuff like that. No sunroom or sunroom moonroof sunroof, whatever Which I thought it did had it. I didn't notice in the pictures didn't ask whatever my loss But I actually don't care that it's only rear-wheel-drive because well, I'm not Didn't buy it for off-roading. I bought it for daily usage You know vacation trips I Can put my dogs in the back and I can tow light vehicles If you've been following my channel You probably know remember Look we bought a super impresa and we intend to strip it down Make it lighter. No make it a race car and tow it to the events in case of you know Breaks whatever we can always tow it back So that's the reason so what's wrong with this so far what I've noticed Are we getting off the highway now? What's going on over here? I see cops Yes, we are what I've noticed right away and the parking lot is noise What seems like Seemed like at the time from the rear tires There are those off-roading tires and the way you you can tell if it's tire noise Could be bearings to could be rear differential Which now I'm thinking it is rear differential, which is just a bummer But I'm hoping it's gonna be the tires because you know, obviously the thread is It's not your conventional Turing tire thread It's the off-roading thread and the thread is not even it's got these Scales going on, you know, it's not an even thread. It's got it's uneven These tire they're all tires to these tires were put on use from a different vehicle So who knows what happened and the fronts are different too. So we got two different types of tires all right, we got we got My five cop cars Another five or so the construction, you know Pickup trucks with the lights and all and then when I see six or more plows the big highway plows Well, there's no snow on the road. I guess they got hit pretty hard Couple days ago. I'm in Arkansas by the way anyways So, you know, and just I assume it's the tires. It is this whiny road noise Coming from the back because of the of the how the tires look but now that I've driven I actually driven it yesterday I drove it for 350 miles and today for about a hundred miles, so, you know, I So what that's 450 miles. So, you know, it's enough to Kind of get to know the vehicle. So I'm hoping it's not the rear diff There's another whiny noise, which I've noticed right away. It's it's very loud. It's sounds like Your power steering pump is going out, you know that and goes up with our PN you know and Can't really Have a listen, you know, you need a stethoscope or a long screwdriver Put it against the power steering pump or something else whatever could be a an alternator also don't know Sounds like it's coming from the timing cover, but I don't know it, you know What a Component inside the timing cover could be making that whiny noise. So Don't know. Hopefully we'll make it 650 miles to go only So not even halfway So those are the two major things that kind of worry me I'm gonna make their nuts. We got no high beams Both are out Let's hope it's the light it's the light bulbs Got a TPMS light Sensor that's out inside of one of the tires or wheels And there's the little Display telling you the range mileage range temperature outside inside clock the light the little bulb is out and What else I think that is it I've got a little stone chip on the windshield. I'm gonna try and fix that before it Spreads and we got an average mileage of I did not reset this 19.6 had 19.7 yesterday. I went to actually slap in the back, you know, it was nice No, no wasn't if you don't know what it's like to sleep in the back of the Seats flip down. So there's plenty of room if you sleep kind of angled sideways But if you don't if you never slept in the back of a forerunner take a nap on some plywood then you know I will now we're just they all left The pickup trucks in the plows besides except the police, okay, I guess we're we're about to move. Are we yeah Oddly enough, there's a forerunner right behind the cops leading the leading the way again if you've been watching some of my Videos you may have noticed a an old BMW 530i premium version which I've had for almost seven years Beautiful car the e39 You know engines the cars BMWs are just Also straight six engines smooth comfortable All the bells and whistles You know besides the obvious You know like automatic windows up and down all around, you know full power seats On the premium version you've got the headrest up and down But not like you need that You also get the heated steering wheel and Rain sensor flip the wipers on and depends on the Rain on the water on the windshield The wipers just do their thing right you're not gonna touch anything And I'm sure I'm missing something whatever so I mean it hurt me actually sold it. It hurt me. It still hurts me The Now I don't have it anymore was a nice car in great shape hundred and eighteen thousand miles But yeah, it's just not practical for me anymore for my needs So I had to go if I had the room space, you know and money obviously I would keep it, but it is what it is And I was afraid I'm gonna whatever I'm gonna buy next There are not gonna like and I'm just gonna be Pissed at myself For you know selling the BMW But this is my first ever SUV And I like I love it. It's it's awesome drivability is surprisingly surprisingly Not SUV ish If you kind of get what I'm saying so this version the sport version has the hydraulic suspension I forget there's a name for that. I forget literally there is there's fluid inside the shock There's lines going across the frame and you've got some solenoids or some something along the frame and Whatever it goes it Equates to a softer ride especially on the highway and it it shows it Maybe you guys the forerunner guys can tell me I did drive a 2020 forerunner v6 obviously They only made the v8s from all three to O9 and the VVT Was on the O5 to O9. So this is the O7 v8 with VVT so that's 260 some some horsepower and 305 maybe more The torque so So that's the whole reason, you know, it's it's the I guess the the torquey the most torquey forerunner you'll ever get I guess and Because it's only rear wheel drive it can tow 300 pounds more over the all-wheel drive Forerunners which is which comes out to 7300 versus the 7000 For the four-wheel so that's so that's a plus not gonna probably need it But you know always good to have room and with the trailer that I have Gotten two weeks ago or so. I'm looking at After the strip down of the our race car We're gonna be Looking at five thousand pounds. So which is it's not too much, you know, it's it's probably the limit of this Of this of this car truck, whatever and we're stuck again. So going back to the 2020 forerunner I drove it for 200 miles to Wisconsin highway and This drives much better. I don't know why On different tires from the back No bad tires in the rear, but it just wants to go straight the 2020 Had to I had to keep keep it Straight myself. It just wanted to go sway left and right Did not want to go straight It was it's kind of tiring, you know, don't know where it is. Maybe you guys can tell me What's what's what's with that? You know, is it the tires and stuck stuck configuration? No modifications to anything whatsoever stuck tires It I think it had like 15,000 miles at the time Maybe 20,000 miles. So, you know, still semi-new This is a totally Different experience as far as driving goes, you know road tripping and stuff like that And I like it can't say that I don't this seating position is awesome I can adjust the steering wheel tilt and then do that, you know this back and forth I'm actually the seat is actually almost all the way down. I Raise it up a little bit so I can see the Tip of the hood. I don't know. It's whenever you see the hood of your car. It's always for some reason Feels different and this being an SUV it's it's nimble, you know, the steering is very responsive The brakes are there right away It this thing gives you the feedback that you want Man, this thing probably never seen snow and I'm going over snow right now I'm sorry. So this was a California car for a long time then went to Florida Not sure for how many years specifically Miami and it ended up in Texas for several months And now it's gonna be in Illinois But the the the day I get home today So tomorrow when I'm gonna I don't care the temperature there if it's even if it's 15 I'm gonna pressure wash the the undercarriage right away Keep it inside So it dries up and we're gonna spray Kind of like fluid fill but I've got this this product from M soil It's in cans. So it comes out liquid and then it dries up and it becomes kind of Like Like wax basically it's supposed to last A few years longer than fluid film fluid film or wool wax you got to redo it every year or two This stuff supposedly stays on for four or five years. Well depends where you are So, um I plan to spray that everywhere. Okay, we may use Chassis saver Because there is a few you're gonna see the frame. I'm going to show you it's I'm amazed And I'm never buying a car ever From any of the rust built States always going to travel take the time Pay the little you know a little bit of extra money Uh and buy a car from Texas, california Florida what what a little bit of snow and people are going crazy come on Also have a slight Break pulsation in the rear Plenty of pads rotors look good, but they are work to Tell them apart. It's very simple if when you break And your you can feel the pulsation in the steering wheel. It does, you know This number on you Whilst pressing the brake and slowing down Then it's the front rotors if We're doing the same obviously and you you break and You you feel the car doing this or maybe even the s doing this then it's the rears Basically if you feel it in the steering wheel, it's the front If you don't feel it in the steering wheel, but you feel it in the car In the seat, then it's the rears. I'm probably gonna do some changes in here I may or may not install some Heat pads whatever in the seats because I do like heated seats I don't care for the heated steering wheel I may put a different stereo In here I kind of like this one, but it could be better We may do some lights in the front and in the rear when I'm backing up I need oh, yeah, I'm probably gonna do a radio for the rear camera. So I have a screen here Um to see where I'm backing up You know hitching hitching the trailer. I would like some Kind of dim lights Maybe some orange or blue lights somewhere here. So I see what's going on over here So I don't have to hit the light switch during nighttime when I'm driving to see what I'm trying to grab or whatnot I'm gonna tin the front windows side windows. We do have these wind side deflectors things, you know That's nice fix the tpms Sensor replace that Check all the fluids. The Engine oil is is fresh Definitely look at the rear diff fluid Do a oh, yeah, the steering The power steering fluid It's black. It's bad. Number one is the noises number two Or not necessarily not order is the frame seal up Not go not with this into the what besides today Into the salts of chicago of illinois Without sealing sealing up the frame Let's go You know before I bought this I went on Facebook and I joined a few groups forerunner enthusiast groups Uh, fourth fourth generation. This is the fourth generation forerunner And every once in a while there would be a guy You know joining the group already there saying hey, I just got my new Forerunner first or second whatever and I'm loving it, you know I had it for a few hours or few weeks And they're they're all loving it, right? and You know, I'll think into myself You know, we'll see about that, you know, we'll see if I'm gonna love it I don't know if I love it yet, but I do like it and I I know why I know why there's just some Some cars have these Things, you know about them Yeah, you know, you you start driving A certain make and then you Almost never go to another, you know Like if you've driven a subgroup all their subgroups not the new ones. I don't care for the new ones much All their subgroups There's something about them even if it's a pile of crap. It's still There's something about those those cars That just makes you Enjoy the drive. Whatever whatever you're going if it's a store or if it's a trip, you know a couple hundred miles or whatever Same thing with this. It's just something about this That the driving experience. It's just different than then say I don't know a Chevy Aveo, you know or or a Toyota Corolla even or you know something something That's just gets you from A to B. This is this is not just an A to B vehicle. This is This is a different experience I don't know. I can't put my finger on it. It's just you gotta you gotta drive one to to understand Almost drives like a agile sedan big sedan I guess the the responsiveness of you know even even the The get the accelerator the gas pedal. I mean you press on it. It goes engine is smooth. Like I said braking Right away You don't even feel it switching gears same with the the BMW that I had the e39 it had Obviously can't really compare the two the drivability of that is also it had heavy steering Which which I liked actually Not like on some cars, you know down the old Honda Accords Even from the 90s. You just turn the steering wheel with your pinky. You know, there is so light And I think the highway is opening up. Let's see if you can pick up on the noise Can you hear the wind? Perhaps get off the highway. I probably don't hear it I hear it Radio works if I set the volume precisely to 36 all the noises go away Road trip updates just did a full tank Just driving no idling It was 19 6 versus 16 something with the overnight idling So doing 19 6 highway miles. It's not too bad. That's it. You know doing 65 64 65 is what I'm doing all trip So slow and steady Gets you home or something like that. I also had a minivan pass me And about 50 yards in front of me this huge patch of ice It flies up breaks it breaks in smaller pieces and the biggest obviously Like a two feet by two feet piece just slams into my windshield. I mean I thought Something like wipers, maybe the windshields broke, but it didn't thank god. I keep forgetting to check but I think it's all good. I mean it was it was just a giant slab of of frozen ice frozen snow Yeah So I thought once I get home I'll wash it because it's filthy Once I have it on the lift I'm gonna take a closer look So see you later