This is our family's long-lived lax/hockey/fishing/gear-hauling beast. It's been great to us but it's now showing its age and we're letting it go cheap as a result . . . selling several thousand below blue book value to leave room for the items required to pass MD inspection.

The vehicle:
2003 Toyota Sequoia SR5 with many 'limited' upgrades, including all leather seating, heated seats, power mirrors, sunroof, grill guard and more. Updated Jensen AV system includes onboard navigation, am/fm, cd and usb, iPhone and other multimedia inputs/outs. Automatic trans with 4.7 L V8 with 4wd. 163,000 miles.

This is Toyota's flagship full-size SUV and it's served us extremely well through the years. We've owned it for more than 10 years now, with the first owner a S. MD attorney/mentor who gave our young family a good deal on it way back when. It's been religiously maintained by Toyota shop or local import experts. All electrical components work. No tears or rips in seating or headliner. Clean carfax. Seating and seat-belts for eight -- and in comfort. Front and rear a/c and heat controls. Includes Yakima powder-hound roof racks -- for two snowboards, wakeboards, four pairs of skis or nearly a dozen fishing rods.

The Good:
• New BF Goodrich tires with lifetime puncture/road hazard warranty (installed 5 mo's ago).
• New battery
• New steering rack and steering components -- and all new high-pressure power-steering lines.
• New exhaust from engine back to tailpipe in the last year -- including catalytic converter.
• Timing belt at 56k and 106k.
• Always synthetic oil changes at regular intervals

• Kelly Blue Book is more than $8000...you'll steal it for thousands less than that - I need room in my garage and driveway and don't have time to tinker with this.

The Bad:
To pass MD inspection:

Needs front brake calipers and rear pads and rotors.
Needs one rubber boot.
Needs rear shocks.

Other items unrelated to inspection:

Rear window latch is broken so you have to lower the window to open the end-gate -- we've done this repair twice previously (these are prone to failing). About $250 -- we've just lived it with it that way since it was mostly driven by our college-age son the past year.
4x4 button blinks intermittently -- been told it's the 'actuator' switch that needs cleaned and serviced. 4x4 seems to work though so we live with the blinking (or just tape over it?).
Car enjoyed a couple of operator error incidents -- once backing out of the driveway into a trailer and 'smooshed' right rear bumper and part of lens and once which mushed left rear fender. Result of these miscues is that the truck has been painted. Because these all occurred in the past year and we didn't want to run up our insurance tab with our new driver we let him attempt the repairs. Result of that effort is a bit of a bondo, Duplicolor, wet-sanding experiment. Pics don't look bad but truth is that you can see the defects in person and in the daylight -- some areas are worse than others. All are operationally meaningless but aesthetically marginal. Interior of truck is in excellent shape though and engine is immaculate. In fact, truck has clean Carfax (see pics for actual report...and save yourself $54).
Truck also has a divot in roof from loading the otherwise-excellent Yakima roof-rack, result is that the sunroof won't open all the way -- again, no harm-no foul unless you desperately need a full opening roof.

So, there you have it, warts and all -- our long-term leather-seating chariot has to find a new home -- and probably with someone who can turn a wrench or wield a paint gun (or know someone who does). Of course, if you're just using it to beat around town or the farm and don't mind the 'warts' then put some brakes and shocks on her and enjoy the inexpensive path to a great new ride.

Super low reserve, literally thousands below online blue book 'fair' condition value. We just need to make room in the driveway...but please no offers to pay with bearer-bonds or Nigerian prince sheckels (although might consider partial or compete trades for boat or jet skis).

Thanks for looking, any questions, please ask!

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