I watch the market in oz pretty closely. My mate recently bought a 96 troopy with 330k kms on the clock, a vet's wife from a rural township, only something like 60k kms in the last ten years. It was pretty well maintained, always garaged. $25k aud, he hates the hunt and mechanically it was pretty good. He looked for 3 months, I may take a year looking myself.
I hate roof racks on troopies. The gutters are cup shaped and spot welded and then caulked. Roof racks stuff up the gutters and invite debris to live where the roof rack clamps are. It is a recipe for gutter rust.
The stuff listed is mostly feel good hobby bling. I would not even list 'curtains. Not keen on anyone else's bed set up in the back, it limits what you want to do with it. And you can't see what is going on behind and below it.
I rather nothing there so I can see the steel. Don't care how much they spent on the chipboard and drawers, that's their 'trip', and some do get carried away with it forgetting the important stuff like rust or mechanical maintenance.
If you see any rust, guarantee there is much more. If you pay some one to remove rust and paint it, it can cost big bucks. A perfect rust free troopy body could be worth $20k aud, especially if you pay someone to do it. Have a look at the hodgepodge build on here for how far rust removal can go. God knows how much that build cost! But most certainly professionally done. There is some amazing troopy rust removal builds on here.
A more telling list is some sort of service history, if not by a mechanic and done by the owner at least notes when oil was changed, bearing, brakes, tie rods, knuckles, uni joints, injectors serviced, etc, etc. They should not say every 8k kms, diesel is every 5k kms, for engine oil, religious. driveline oil 20-40k kms. Timng belt? water pump? gearbox?transfer? more than that little list.
250k sounds good, but it is possible to fiddle with clocks and it is done in Oz. Seen it. A picture of the engine bay is very telling, it summarises how loved it was.
Take your time mate, oz has probably more loved landcruisers than anywhere in the world. Have a look underneath. I don't like it when the bedding sheets are fresh but rusty underneath the body, prefer it the other way around. In oz there is over 2 million people looking to buy a car everyday, there is more dodgy deals and scammers than ever.
If genuine 250k kms maybe $25k if you are impatient. But get the rust straight away, which could be $2k,$5k, $10k+.
Must admit I just don't even want to sell mine at all, never get it again, know it backwards. I prefer having the seats and I fit bedding and boxes to match the seats, that way it is not a one trick pony.
Look closely around the windscreen rubber and under the floor mats at the floor pans.
