Do not buy from those crooks! I have a buddy that bought one of their vehicles and they were rotten from the inside. Read their reviews on BBB and Facebook they are a bunch of crooks. The guy writes his own reviews on google also.

What this really means is we should hang onto our trucks because the value is not going down.


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I think if they're gonna charge MORE than what the vehicle originally sold for, then it should be restored to it's original spec at the very least.

I am familiar with Davis Auto Sports. I have a customer with a 98 from them that is really nice. It is clean, has beautiful leather interior, awesome stereo with b/u camera, TRD wheels, cool old school emblems, etc, but he did pay about $17k for it and I have had to fix a few things on it and remind the owner that no matter how nice it is and how much he spent on it that it is still a 20+ year old vehicle with around 200k miles on it. I would have a hard time getting $10k for it around here and can't even imagine paying $30k for any gen 3 runner. I just sold a real nice 02 Limited from FL with 223k for $4k plus an 07 Corolla in trade, I would have taken $6k cash. You can still get these way cheaper than $30k anywhere in the country even CA.

It makes me feel kinda bad cause I have quite a few friends that are also looking for 2nd/3rd/4th gen 4Runners but it's impossible for them to find any at a reasonable price, unless they're on their last leg and/or covered in dents head to toe. It was slim pickings a year or two back, but now with the pandemic screwing the market and overlanding becoming mainstream it's become totally impossible. It sucks watching them hope to snag something at $4-6k and see nothing but listings at $10k and over. I paid $4500 for my rig in early 2020 and I suspect if I had waited till now I'd be spending close to $7500 at the very least, and that's being generous. Hell even the alternatives are outrageous; seems like literally anything with 4x4 is fetching twice what it should be, and certainly far, far more than their 2WD counterparts
But to an extent you can't blame them. With the general quality new cars have been over the past 10-15 years and the current downhill direction they're snowballing towards, people are becoming VERY hesitant/reluctant to buy newer vehicles. Especially EVs.
$17k for 200k miles... I've seen muggings go better than that

My gf was briefly looking for a 4x4 4Runner to replace her aging front-wheel drive Mercedes because we're moving to snowy Colorado. We found several good options for ~$4-5k with ~170k-220k miles but they were all 2WD. the 4x4 examples of the same spec are easily $8k+, let alone ones with great maintenance records.

It's looking like she's getting a Subie instead for now.

I paid $4400 for my 4x4 with 230k miles 2yrs ago. If My mom hadn't wrecked the bumper, I could prob sell it for $7k easy... but I don't want anything else.

The goofiest part of it all is you could buy a 2WD, make the conversion, and still be in for less than what most people are asking for.

Had no idea that Runner are going for this kinda Money..
Bet none of those prices are N/E rustbelt trucks.

Lotta love for the Runner.... I like that.. $4400 with 230k? I have 189k and going through some rough times now... 4WD quit, just threw CEL Codes, Damn rear Diff is rusting away...

I've been following the OP listing for a while now. No way would I pay that. They aren't far from where I live in case my '02 craps out. However I wouldn't care for it to be restored and would like to take one from them before they polish the paint and change out the blinker fluid....

Also just came across this.... Overland Build-2000 Toyota 4runner - cars & trucks - by owner -...

280k miles also...

Not sure what they were thinking with this one. As others have said, there's just not a market for this with 4Runners. They're still way too common for something like this to be worth it. Out west especially you can pretty easily find a very low rust 4Runner for less than half this price. The engines run forever so that doesn't add any value either.

Also, while it looks nice, I personally wouldn't trust the workmanship of a random company-- at least not enough to pay that amount for it.

No Reserve: 2000 Toyota 4Runner SR5 4WD for sale on BaT Auctions - ending April 9 (Lot #45,996) | Bring a Trailer

Another 3rd gen... Still a week left. No reserve. 114k miles.

I'll say this: I'd really want to know about that frame.

I'm in the middle of a full frame swap on my truck, and TBH, that listing is kinda like what my frame looked like after I simply hit it with a rattle can just to hide the ugliness while I was waiting for my donor frame to come through... You can kinda see its "true colors" on the photos of the gas skid.

Yeah, frame/rear axle definitely been resprayed at some point. Not a bad thing, just curious.

yep, prices are going nuts...looked at a 99 4wd with locker yesterday..3rd owner and he has had for almost 10 years, no service records other than a gates timing belt done last year....no idea on LBJ's, brown radiator ( so prob original) 220k miles, torn driver seat, sunroof not working and glued shut, windows are real slow,pass rear does not go up or down, he has never used the locker and it did nto want to kick on... needs tires... ..pictures in add were prob a few years old.....and he is locked at 9.5k and wont budge on price.
there is another ....99 limited, 170k, locker, has a few issues and he is at 11k will need about 1k into it to get it up to snuff ( LBJ's radiator, brakes)
kind of pissing me off.....makes my 2001 look better all the time....but its on its last legs without me throwing in tons and tons $$$$$$$$$$$

side note : they are hard to find good ones up here and price just keeps going up and up, I only paid 4800 for my 2001 in december, but it was a fixer upper ( needed plugs, a coil and a fuel filter, was running on 4cylinders) but its been in a front end wreck and repaired poorly, has more rust then I like, suspension is shot, exhasut is shot, needs timing belt, water pump is now weeping and now that spendy brake master cylinder is acting up, sitting at 290k. Can prob sell for 6-7k the way prices are up here now

2 years ago I paid $3000 for a bone-stock, rust-free, original-owner, 220k, 2000 LTD e-locker. I could have flipped it for a pretty penny with a quick clean-up, but I'd still never have been able to own a 3rd gen now. The market hadn't blown up - and I did get lucky as it was not advertised (word of mouth in the neighborhood). Now it's dirty, modded, dented, and pinstriped but I will never sell it.

Edit - Now we're in a 'steel-bubble' where plate has tripled in price, so armor is going to be a pricey proposition soon til production catches up. Lumber is f*cked too.