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Old 10-10-2005, 06:31 PM
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Question To buy or not to buy? That is the Question!

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.

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Old 10-10-2005, 06:36 PM
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This is alot more relevant than many other threads in this forum. Thanks for your help though!
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This still belongs in Off Topic, not tech, turd

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Run away! Run away! You can do better.
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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.
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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.
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I would have truck checked out by a mechanic. If it checks out ok, then offer $2-2.5k for it.
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