Hi everyone,
At the suggestion of a mud member on reddit, I came here to peruse and ask some questions about a potential buy if you guys don't mind.
I currently own a 13 VW GTI and am looking to trade it for a 2000 Cruiser I found with 140k miles. The main reasons for wanting to switch is that I want to go on more outdoors adventures, camping etc, and I need a bigger car to lug around my giant dog (and potentially another coming soon). With that said the cruiser I found is on sale for $13k and since I'm new to these types of vehicles I wasn't sure if that was a decent price. I'm not too concerned with the mileage like I would be if it were any other car since I heard that cruisers were built to last 25 years in a third world country and I've seen stories of people pushing them to 400k miles with adequate maintenance. Is this correct? Also the car is in Nebraska and I live in SoCal so I would have to fly to check it out. Should I worry about rust? I simply want a large reliable outdoors car. I also don't commute much, about 8 miles one way to school everyday. Tuesday's I do head down to LA for dog training and that's about a 220 miles round trip.
Any help, comments, advice would be appreciated.
Thanks!
At the suggestion of a mud member on reddit, I came here to peruse and ask some questions about a potential buy if you guys don't mind.
I currently own a 13 VW GTI and am looking to trade it for a 2000 Cruiser I found with 140k miles. The main reasons for wanting to switch is that I want to go on more outdoors adventures, camping etc, and I need a bigger car to lug around my giant dog (and potentially another coming soon). With that said the cruiser I found is on sale for $13k and since I'm new to these types of vehicles I wasn't sure if that was a decent price. I'm not too concerned with the mileage like I would be if it were any other car since I heard that cruisers were built to last 25 years in a third world country and I've seen stories of people pushing them to 400k miles with adequate maintenance. Is this correct? Also the car is in Nebraska and I live in SoCal so I would have to fly to check it out. Should I worry about rust? I simply want a large reliable outdoors car. I also don't commute much, about 8 miles one way to school everyday. Tuesday's I do head down to LA for dog training and that's about a 220 miles round trip.
Any help, comments, advice would be appreciated.
Thanks!
