Ok guys/gals....
There's a small used car dealer here in town that I noticed had a 92
4-Runner with an unknown amount of miles (the spedometer/odometer is broken.) I'm going to list the problems I found while test driving today & I'd like some opinions on if it's worth it or not...here goes:

Everything inside works: A/C, Heat, all lights, power locks, power windows even the back window. The odometer reads 9756. The spedometer doesn't work. It looked like it might have been smoking a little right when I first left the lot. And to top these little guys off, the check engine light came on when I was going 60 down the freeway. Everything else seems to be in pretty good shape. Gets up & goes pretty good from a dead stop. Brakes will stop me on a dime. THe dealer is asking $3950. The Kelly Blue Book value of the 4-runner is around $5k but without the known mileage, it's hard to be accurate. What do you folks think?

FRED!

ps Oh yeah! It has the 3VZ & it IS 4wd.

 

This is alot more relevant than many other threads in this forum. Thanks for your help though!

 

This still belongs in Off Topic, not tech, turd

 

Run away! Run away! You can do better.

 

Agreed. Not like there aren't about 350,000 others out there. Don't buy yourself problems.

 

if you do have to have it, there's only a few things inline to causing a speedometer to fail on that year. just the gauge itself, the speedometer cable, or the speedometer gear in the transfer case.

 

I would have truck checked out by a mechanic. If it checks out ok, then offer $2-2.5k for it.