- Year
- 1991
- Vehicle Model
- 80 Series
- Location
- Idaho United States
- Mileage
- 240000
This is just a feeler ad for the time being.
We have a 1991 FJ80 and a 1993 FZJ80 (3x locked). I need to replace the radiator on the '91 and rebuild the P/S pump. Otherwise, both are good daily drivers.
I bought both wanting to have more redundancy with a good, durable vehicle to get us around with the rough roads around here. Unfortunately since neither is baselined, it ends up feeling like it's twice the work keeping both and I don't have a ton of time. I'm tempted, though not yet decided on pairing down to one and getting something like a Volvo 240 as an alternative vehicle for our family.
I prefer the FJ80. My wife prefers the FZJ80. Both have sunroofs and racks. No poverty packs here, other than the cloth seats on the FJ80.
Part of it might depend on what they're both worth, and I'm not really too sure. They're both great rigs. We don't really need the 3x locked for what we do. Both are very stock rigs.
FJ80 is a blue/grey color with worse paint. FZJ80 is white with better paint, although some rust spots on the back. Carwashes cause leaks with both, although I don't notice problems with either during normal weather when parked outside.
FJ80 has a clunky transmission and some driveline vibrations. FZJ80's parking brake isn't working at the moment. And the brake light turns on, then the cruise control cuts out...
FZJ80 just went past 240k miles. FJ80 is near that, but not quite as high.
In a perfect world we'd keep both and maybe we will. I know Landcruiser prices are all over the place. Only so much time to wrench these days. If we keep the FJ80, I'd like to manual swap it some day. 80 series rigs are a little bit big for the terrain around here. Part of 4x4 use is hunting and we get a lot of tight trees up here. It's definitely not like Moab in this area.
Thanks for reading!
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