I just bought my 1st 3rd gen runner yesterday from Deathmage here on the board, an let me say that I love this thing.It's a 99 SR5 4x4.I drove roughly 1,200 miles from 5am to 10:30pm to get it.I'm not too impressed with the mileage so I have to do a complete tune up,throttle body cleaning,and take the Yakima snowboard racks off to see if there's a difference.I'm going to stick a chrome grill gaurd on too.It has 165,000 on it but has about 1,000 on a rebuilt motor and I only paid $7,900!

 

nice looking 3rd gen. long drive huh? grill guard....go tjm! or are you going to keep this one fairly stock?

is that a 350z?

 

It will stay pretty much stock,except for a few cosmetics.Yeah,it's a Z,it belongs to the guy I bought the runner from,it is sweet though.

 

Nice runner

 

sweet runner. are u planning to sell those snowboard racks? wondering if i can use it for my surfboard...if ur gonna sell it, let me know i might be interested.

have fun with the 3rd gen, i love mine

 

i'd say you're not gonna be able to use the snowboard racks for your surfboard, it's too fat to fit in there.

and jedi, do yourself a favor - don't get a grille guard.

 

gotcha. thats a lot of miles for a 99. how come the rebuilt motor?

 

I guess he did something to the motor and broke a connecting rod and fried the pistons so he had it rebuilt.For the mileage,my 87 has 250,000 and my 91 had 200,000 so I'm not worried.For the price,I couldn't say no.Why no grill gaurd?

 

oh the miles, i didnt mean it was something to be worried about at all, just i have 126 on my 99 and i feel that i drive a lot, thats all. im not worried at all either.

i think by no grill guard, he probably meant that if you get into a front end accident, it can do more damage than protection. i had one on my last 4runner, and experiencing grill guard, stock bumper, and tjm, by far i like the tjm. if i were you i would either leave it as is, or get a real bumper.

 

Good advice on the grill gaurd,I never even though about that.I do want to find a billet grill or something to clean up the front end a little.

 

One choice on this....Satoshi!! believe me youll love it

 

^ yeap.

 

just wish you could do it to the stock 99 grill (satoshi)

 

Godzilla did it...



Maybe I'm missing something.

 

I bought a used 97 grille.

 

but you CANNOT do it with the stock 99 correct?

 

correct. not like the 96-98 grilles.

 

Nice 4runner. How much for the snowboard racks? I'm interested if you plan to sell them.

 

How much do want to give for them?I don't know what they're worth but for a fair price they're yours.

 

Nice, CLEAN truck! My fav color too.