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I went this little BHPH lot yesterday to look at a 98 4Runner that appeared to be a pretty good deal. While I was looking at it, a guy who worked there was trying to turn his Suburban around (tight quarters) and backed into my truck. I was less than thrilled to say the least. My truck now needs a new bumper which just makes me really happy. He said he didn't see my truck, I'm thinking "how can you miss a 1-ton black Dodge Ram??"  Anyway, the 4Runner turned out to be a reconstruct, not something that bothers me a whole lot. It drove nice, had a lot of miles on it, but seemed to run well. They offered me $1500 for my Sebring and they would pay the shipping from Fairbanks. I think I'm going to pass on it and keep looking. I can do better I think. They had a 2000 4Runner with 135k on it that I also drove, really nice truck, but something gave me the creeps about it, couldn't put my finger on it. I'm pretty much limiting my search to 4Runners, Pathfinders, and possibly Explorers depending on how they are mechanically. Trying not to spend over $5k for this beater. Yesterday confirmed to me that I do need a beater, these Anchorage trips stress me out about having my black truck down here. Would be nice to have an SUV that the dog can go with us in, we can take fishing, down the back trails, just in general use it for everything. Course I still need the black truck for towing that huge horse trailer of mine.
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Replying to: akangl (Mar 15, 2007 8:58 am) You should have listened to Terry: "STAY AWAY FROM THE CAR LOTS!"
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Great pics there...guess y'all really do like the TSX wheels! Let Anony know that I'm loving my 1st Honda...it's an awesome car! I also thought about her when I purchased my Si wheels on EBAY. Didn't she have a couple of the '05 Civic Si's? The Sandman 
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Glad you are loving your Civic. I know you thought about it long and hard before taking the plunge! We had 3 of the 02-05 SI's. The first one was a white 02 that met it's death after I owned it 3 weeks. A car turned out in front of me (her fault) and the SI gave it's life for mine. So I replaced it with an identical white 02 Si which was cursed. So we traded that one for a GS300. Not too long after Gee bought a 03 Si that we kept for 2 years and 40,000 miles. Great cars. Not as obviously sporty as the 2000 Si we had though. |
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Replying to: jbollt (Mar 15, 2007 1:06 pm) LOL, yeah yeah yeah, that was a first for me, especially at a car lot. Then someone decided to scratch the heck out of my tailgate at the hotel I'm staying at, all in all, my truck is not enjoying its stay in Anchorage. |
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| Once bought a car at the local Ford dealer and abcked his brand new car into one of the new cars on the lot! He was too embarrassed to report it to the insurance company - and he was a tough guy to embarrass! Paid cah to fix both cars. | |
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Replying to: rockylee (Mar 13, 2007 5:35 pm) I do like it though, better than the other Escalade I had.
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Replying to: nvbanker (Mar 15, 2007 8:56 pm) Have you test driven a new 07' Slade?  Rocky |
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Replying to: akangl (Mar 15, 2007 8:58 am) I almost bought a '97-'01 4runner (when they were current) a few different times. Have you checked what's available on fee-bay? Personally, I wouldn't buy an Exploder, unless it had a warranty, & even then I wouldn't buy it. BTW, are the BHPH people going to pay for your new bumper? |
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Did something today that is out of character for me really, but financially it was a great decision I think. Its not like me to step down to an older cheaper vehicle at all, I usually go the other way. I hate to say it, but Terry was right, I didn't *need* the Ram. I ran across a super nice 2001 Dodge Durango SLT Plus the other day for $12,500 at a dealership where a friend of mine is a sales manager. He appraised my truck and put as much as he could in it, diesels seem to be all over the place, he had 6 sitting on his lot with far less miles than mine. I wasn't too bad off in it and put down enough to cover all the negative equity. When it was all said and done my truck payment has dropped by more than 1/2, along with less insurance costs. Not to mention I have a far more practical vehicle with my daughter's ever increasing medical equipment, she has at least 4 bags when we travel. We still have 2 diesel trucks, plus the Durango, AND the Sebring, lol. I plan to pay the Durango off in 18 months, shouldn't be a problem with as little as I owe on it. |
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