Welcome to Car Exchange Philippines!
We’d like to welcome you to the launching of Car Exchange Philippines.
Around mid-year 2006, I bought my very first car from blogging. It was a Mitsubishi Lancer ’97 1.6 GL, colored red. It was ecstatic and it was my first time in almost 3 decades to drive any four-wheel vehicle. It was practically a joy for me (crosses off one bullet on the wishlist).
I had so many things done to it and have actually gone to various places in Luzon — Baguio, Pampanga, Olongapo, Laguna, Dasmarinas, Tagaytay — yes, even as far as Vigan city.
During this whole process of buying, joy riding and maintaining the car, I thought it was a bit hard for me to find out really helpful resources on the internet about owning one. So, the idea of having a blog to chronicle this journey would be nice. It will come from a perspective of a real newbie driver or car owner. It will be experiential and it will be self-developmental in a sort of way.
What better way to tap into the huge resources just in front of my pad in Evangelista. I am tagging along me best-friend/personal driver/tokayo, here as he is more adept into the intricacies of motoring.
More details and features as we unfold this new blog.
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I am also looking forward to having our new car. And I need some advise. Please see my post on my blog. Thanks.
I’m extremely disappointed about the Toyota Fortuner that I bought from Toyota Cubao. We just got it off the Toyota Cubao dealership and smoke coming from the car in front of me started to come in through the airconditioning. Send it back to Toyota Cubao dealership and they are making us wait for the replacement parts (5 days now). Such a terrible after sales service. To top that, they are hesitant to shoulder the expense as they are saying it’s an act of nature. A rat made a hole in airconditioning tubes and stayed there while the Fortuner was still in the Laguna plant. The reason why we know this is that there are rat feces and dried grass leaved and twigs in the air filter compartment. Imagine breathing air inside your car with microbes of rat feces (disgusting! ).
I have had a very good experience with Toyota Balintawak after sales service. We bought an Inova there. Although we had a similar problem with the airconditioning (total beakdown of the airconditioning unit). They replaced it within the day, they even worked until 10pm.
My advice, check first where you buy your Toyota vehicle (definitely not in Toyota Cubao philippines) . Also, make sure you check the airconditioning filter before your vehicle goes out of the “casa” as the Laguna plant where almost all of the Toyota vehicles come from are parked by the fields expose to the sun (nature).
Check the different dealerships and you will see what a big disappointment Toyota Cubao Center is.