Buying an egg (Toyota Estima) and importing it from Japan

Congratulations Dan Zafr to this beatiful Toyota Estima!

"After nearly 7 months of scouring Japanese auctions, I finally found my white EGG. Won the bid this morning and she'll be here by the end of the month. Super excited for our adventures together " - Dan Zafr

Dan puts his hand on this low milage TCR20W from 1998. Looks to be in very good condition.

Tell us how it works out Dan!

What he paid:
28K Yen. After transportation to Vancouver, Canada, DOT approval, new tires and all the paperwork, $6300 CDN

This is a TCR20W
Rear axle difference

TCR10, TCR20: Differential and axle are in one piece
TCR11, TCR21 are independent suspension.


Kosic Leung: "Once owned both 20 and 21 Really quite a difference on driving."

Butt Welding Sheet Metal on a Previa With A Mig Welder

Time to fix the rockerpanel with some sheet metal and welding. Some pictures and a video of the work I did.

Special thanks to Staffan for helping me with his great advise and valuable thoughts!

This is the Mig welder. ESAB.

Rustprotected it and this is how it turned out

Car seat covers :)

Car seat cover in the Previa, diffrent styles

Fold in the arms on the inside of the shirt and voila, you have a seat cover

Pork and shop car cover in the Previa..

"No matter the cost I will not let this one go..."

Found this on the Internet

"So after loosing my last baby last year to head gasket 😕
Look what I found. And what a find it is
It's a 1993 with only 114k on the clock in immaculate condition inside and out all it needs is a new alternator which is in the process of being repaired hopefully I will have it on the road next week so excited can't wait. This is the last car I will ever buy. from now on anything that goes wrong with this one no Matter the cost I will not let this one go." - Laura

Picture from Laura, it's a Toyota Previa from 1993 she won't let it go, no matter what cost.

Yes, we love our vans. :-)

Spotted a Toyota Previa on the roads of Dalarna here in Sweden, short video of it

Yes, what a nice Toyota Previa we spotted on our way up to Sälen! A beautiful light turquoise / light greenish one.



This is on the road closeVenjan.
Filmed from a Hyundai Santa Fe V6 (manual)

Removed seats in Toyota Previa, view of layout

Previa interior Pictures.



Pretty roomy if you remove the front passenger seat.

Fitting a towbar to the Toyota Previa

This is a two part videoserie I've made documenting how to fit a towbar to a Toyota Previa / Tarago / Estima.

Hope you find it useful. :-)

The brand I used: GDW a complete kit.

Part 1


Part 2

The towbar has just been unpacked and trying it out.

Insert Points of towbar.

Close up, not to much rust.

Had to remove the plastic bumper and the framepart to fit the new nowbar "inside".

The bolts were pretty rusty, so had a work removing them and welding new nuts.

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