2nd Jan 2015, 21:30

The car was a 2003, and it was mentioned that the engine was replaced at 70K km. That to me sounds like it may have been a failed intermediate shaft, which necessitates an engine replacement. The IMS failures, the last time I read about it, didn't seem to have a definite cause of failure - cars that were low mileage, fully serviced on schedule, babied, and otherwise well looked after, still had them fail; some have had very high mileage, driven like they were stolen, even ill-treated, and have not had the failures. If I were to get one used, I'd go for the facelift without the intermediate shaft, I think that was from 2009 or 2010.