CAUTION!! STAY AWAY!!! - Atlanta - 1999 100 Series

Guys, So this is by far the most ALARMING thing I have seen on a CARFAX Report.

This truck is currently for sale at BMVW Auto Sales in Union City, GA (10 miles from ATL)

160,000 miles, asking 9,000. It was imported to Africa and exported from Saudi Arabia, back to GA..Not to mention a front end colission See images below:

Please I encourage you to call these people about this truck. You will see the absurdity of buy here pay here lots!!! STAY AWAY

CL Posting: http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/ctd/4132116601.html

 

[JQ11]

Please I encourage you to call these people about this truck.

So do you want us to stay away or call them

J/k man - appreciate the heads up. Rare to see the export then import that's for sure.

 

[Joenetworkpro]

LOL Call them to see how clueless they are about reality!!

The dealer even said "I think its been painted"

Poor Land cruiser, if only it would have stayed in GA! (and not been wrecked)

 

[OregonLC]

Are you sure some guy didn't just ship it over for a personal safari? Doesn't seem that alarming to me.

 

[marshotel]

Are you sure some guy didn't just ship it over for a personal safari? Doesn't seem that alarming to me.

Agreed- There's nothing wrong with a little overland trip from Saudi to Mozambique during the dry season... sounds like an awesome trip. If the PO bothered with the expense of shipping the vehicle back and forth, they probably were not pinching pennies to save on maintenance.

I see no reason to stay away (in capital letters) just because the truck spent 6 months in East Africa.

Hell, I spent longer than six months there and I turned out okay.

Are you sure there is actually something wrong with the vehicle, or are you just ALARMED by the mention of Africa on the carfax?

(East Africa is in fact pretty similar to Georgia in terms of climate and topography, but the roads are a lot worse.)

 

[re_guderian]

two of my four cruisers have/had accidents on their carfax and neither was worse off for it. It happens. Offer 'em 7 grand!

 

[OregonLC]

It doesn't look like GA has the same data reporting that OR and WA have (or maybe it's a CarFax vs AutoCheck thing), but on the vehicles I've looked at with an accident shown there's also a case number. Put that case number into the state system to request a copy of the report. In WA there's a $9.50 fee, but it's worth it. I had one where the seller said it was 'just a parking lot scrape' but in reality the WSP report showed major damage, side impact, other vehicle had air bad deployment and was totaled. If you can't determine for certain the extent of the prior damage I personally wouldn't buy it. If from a Private Party, they should have pictures.

 

[PapaSmurfj80]

I saw that too when I was looking and called them a bout it. It definitely raised some red flags. I don't think most rich dudes would go to the expense to ship their cruiser to Africa, when they can get local ones for the same price of the shipping.

The truth is, in my search for a cruiser over the last few months, I've taken a day or two to think a deal over and in that time some broker from Africa bought the cruiser and had it shipped over there. This has happened twice. The real question, was why did the cruiser come back? I'm sure it's a good story, but I'll take my chances elsewhere.

 

[roma042987]

It probably belonged to someone in the military or a government employee they get personal vehicles shipped all the time.

 

[Woodman]

While I will agree that it is always preferred to read a Carfax listing one owner and in a town you know well with lots of maintenance info from garages you either frequent or recommend, I don't think that a dealer selling an exporting/imported cruiser is automatically a scam artist. Information is good to know but it is by no means the gospel. The vehicle will tell the tale better than any piece of paper can. Personally I like the idea that a rich guy shipped his cruiser across the pond and then loaded a downed wildebeest to the somewhat inferior stock roof rack and I'd pay more for pics. And it is equally as likely that some bad bad dudes might have used it to traffic blood diamonds or to make their daily rounds to the mines to pass out UN rations while delivering a beating or two for the lower producers, or the mundane transfer of the vehicle for a gov worker. Regardless, if the vehicle is a POS, it will present as a POS and what the paper says ultimately will be trivial.