1999 SsangYong Korando ilm review from Australia and New Zealand

It's a complete piece of crap, so please don't buy, and if you've got one, get rid of it...

I bought the car from a second hand dealer in Brisbane, traded in my blown head gasket Toyota Supra and thought I had got myself a bargain.

The sexy looks just made me fall in love, but 3 days later... I took car to work about 65km away from home - it's long straight 200km/h plus highway; you could almost land a plane on it if you are a good pilot.

The car started to stink like burnt oil and started smoking from the sides. I thought it could be the hand brake, but no it wasn't... it was the stupid rust guard paint the dealer put on the muffler. Now that was the first minor problem excused.

On the way back home the car was going all over the road, just like a blind horse. That was overlapped tyres, that were dealer faulty. There goes my first $750 bucks on the car.. oh I actually forgot the antenna (it makes this stupid irritating and embrassing noise every time you start or turn off the car).

As I drive along the rough highway cruising at 120km/h, the whole car is shaking or dancing cause of the bad factory tyres. You can hear a rattling noise from every inch inside the car.. the drivers side sunvisor kept on falling..

At 160000km some electrical fault with a spark plug thingy came up costing $250...

At 162000km a front driveshaft went and it cost me $1700 cause you can't get a second hand one.

At 162500km c.v. joints got changed $490

as, but that wasnt the noise it was acually comming from the diff the "clonk clonk" sound when you try to turn that was $4000.

I decided to sell the car. I drove it for one more km and it cost me more money...

Finally I got rid of it for less than the half price I paid for... the person who bought it called me 2 days later complaining that the engine is over heating so I changed the jammed A/C fan..

Worst car I have ever bought in my life. I would not recommend it to anyone.