It's been a great ride! Decided to sell the 4Runner...

[magnumfan]

Cheapest car you will ever own - is the one you already own

Unless its falling to bits and the repair bill is higher than the value of the car, I would not trade it.

Case in point was my old chevy tahoe v8 4x4. Value at 8 years old and 160k on the clock was about $4k. Repair bill was about $8k to fix its problems. So I traded and bought my T4R.

Sure i appreciate that a new car makes you feel good and all that, but money is money.

if you want another depreciating asset, buy a house!

all the best

Joe

 

[riverider]

Re: Cheapest car you will ever own - is the one you already own

Unless its falling to bits and the repair bill is higher than the value of the car, I would not trade it.

Case in point was my old chevy tahoe v8 4x4. Value at 8 years old and 160k on the clock was about $4k. Repair bill was about $8k to fix its problems. So I traded and bought my T4R.

Sure i appreciate that a new car makes you feel good and all that, but money is money.

if you want another depreciating asset, buy a house!

all the best

Joe

I agree pitching money into a high mileage anything is a bad idea, Also keeping a low mileage problem anything also is a bad idea. Have done both over they years.

Main reason I traded a worthless 03 Kia Sorento with just 10,200 miles for the 08 SR5 2wd v6 4Runner.

 

[riverider]

I'm a pretty recent convert to the 4runner world, having purchased my first one (2008 SR5 V6 4wd) a few months ago. It's a great performer. I've owned lots of different cars (I'm a car guy too), and I traded in a BMW 545i for the runner.

Frankly, I was looking for some reliability to go with a decent ride, and I wasn't getting that from the luxury sedan market. Totally different cars, I know, but I was using way more gas in the Bimmer. Part of the trick is that I'm less likely to push the t4r on the highway the way I would a sports sedan, so I think I'm more likely to actually hit those mileage targets.

If you're looking to save money on gas, trading into a sports sedan doesn't make much sense, you might as well buy a 4-banger.

As long as I can get about 15mpg around the City that is fine. My last truck got 11 at best.:bash:

 

[arouth]

Let me ask you guys this...if I did keep the 4Runner what kind of maintainence costs can I expect? I've got 83000 miles on it now. I had the brakes and tires replaced a while back.

One thing that I did have to pay for was a couple of weeks ago I found out the boots on the front were leaking greese, so I had Goodyear fix it. Toyota quoted me 650 just to replace the boot and Goody year said 500 to replace the entire axel, so I went with Goodyear.

Other than that I've had no problems with it. Can I expect anything else coming up to keep it on the road?

Thanks

 

[riverider]

Let me ask you guys this...if I did keep the 4Runner what kind of maintainence costs can I expect? I've got 83000 miles on it now. I had the brakes and tires replaced a while back.

One thing that I did have to pay for was a couple of weeks ago I found out the boots on the front were leaking greese, so I had Goodyear fix it. Toyota quoted me 650 just to replace the boot and Goody year said 500 to replace the entire axel, so I went with Goodyear.

Other than that I've had no problems with it. Can I expect anything else coming up to keep it on the road?

Thanks

Since I don't know how you have driven off road or at high speeds or if it was used for heavy towing. All I can add is maybe the A/C or water pump radiator and hoses. maybe something in the electrical system Alt. Starter. Battery. Maybe something in 4wd system.

Just knowing what you already have paid for if you feel it's been cared for well and not abused. Trading it off will sure give someone a great head start on their new 4Runner.

 

[magnumfan]

toyota reliability

I have said this on this forum before.

I have a freind with a 3rd gen, with about 250k miles on it.

all he has replaced is tires, wipers, battery and brake pads. he hunts and uses it in 4x4, and we live very close to mountain snow, so it sees snow every year. its typical that toyota anything, gets great reliability, but things do go wrong.

so, if you calculated maybe 1k in repairs per year, (which with tech time at close to $100 per hour is not much) how does that stack up to the cost of buying a new car?

tax, tags, license, dealer fees etc?

you have to be looking at 3 to 4 years with the current car (at $1k per year) to break even to the cost of a new car.

I would, if I were you. Run the toyota into the ground, until the cost of repairs exceeds the value of the car.

which is what I typically do with all my cars. run them until its just not economical to run them any more.

the cost of running it, including gas - over the usage for a year based on average miles driven and the price of gas where you live. normally comes out to only a few hundred bucks per year at most.

i would keep it.

j