Hi everyone,
I"m new here. I live in the Sierra Nevada foothills in northern CA. We get a bit of snow at our house, and also have a lot of great logging roads to explore. I'm not a hard core offroader. We have a newer Mazda crossover for daily driving, but have kept an older Jeep Grand Cherokee as a backup for deeper snow and trail riding. The Jeep is becoming a bit of a money pit lately, so I am strongly considering replacing it with a LC/LX 100.
Since this isn't an everyday driver, we don't want to spend a lot of money on the car. I'd like to keep it around $10K or less. I also don't want to deal with a lot of niggling problems either! It looks like the 100 series is fairly robust.
There are quite a few '99 LC's in the SF bay area (where I work). The cheaper ones have 100K+ miles. There are two in particular that look interesting - both one owner cars with all receipts, books, and keys. Both have about 145K miles on them, and asking prices are $12.5K. There are a few more 2 owner cars in the area, too, with similar asking prices. There is also a private seller with a '99 LX, 101K miles, asking $12.5K.
Should I consider an LC/LX with this type of mileage?
Most have a towing receiver, but one doesn't. Can these be easily added, or do I need to also add a tranny cooler and other items? I can see occasionally towing a car trailer plus car - no more than 5K lbs.
The LX looks promising, but it has two drawbacks to me: the badge (prefer a Land Cruiser/Toyota label!), and the extra electronics that could be expensive to repair later. Have these early LX470's been fairly problem free like the LCs?
What have others paid recently for early 100 series? I would think the 1 owner high mileage 100's should just under $10K, but maybe that's wishful thinking! The Lexus looks to be priced reasonably, so probably not too much lower on that one.
Any words of wisdom is appreciated!
-steve
I"m new here. I live in the Sierra Nevada foothills in northern CA. We get a bit of snow at our house, and also have a lot of great logging roads to explore. I'm not a hard core offroader. We have a newer Mazda crossover for daily driving, but have kept an older Jeep Grand Cherokee as a backup for deeper snow and trail riding. The Jeep is becoming a bit of a money pit lately, so I am strongly considering replacing it with a LC/LX 100.
Since this isn't an everyday driver, we don't want to spend a lot of money on the car. I'd like to keep it around $10K or less. I also don't want to deal with a lot of niggling problems either! It looks like the 100 series is fairly robust.
There are quite a few '99 LC's in the SF bay area (where I work). The cheaper ones have 100K+ miles. There are two in particular that look interesting - both one owner cars with all receipts, books, and keys. Both have about 145K miles on them, and asking prices are $12.5K. There are a few more 2 owner cars in the area, too, with similar asking prices. There is also a private seller with a '99 LX, 101K miles, asking $12.5K.
Should I consider an LC/LX with this type of mileage?
Most have a towing receiver, but one doesn't. Can these be easily added, or do I need to also add a tranny cooler and other items? I can see occasionally towing a car trailer plus car - no more than 5K lbs.
The LX looks promising, but it has two drawbacks to me: the badge (prefer a Land Cruiser/Toyota label!), and the extra electronics that could be expensive to repair later. Have these early LX470's been fairly problem free like the LCs?
What have others paid recently for early 100 series? I would think the 1 owner high mileage 100's should just under $10K, but maybe that's wishful thinking! The Lexus looks to be priced reasonably, so probably not too much lower on that one.
Any words of wisdom is appreciated!
-steve
