It looks like we will be moving about 150 miles away and I’m going to have to keep my work down here until I can replace the income closer to home. Which means I’ll be driving about 500 miles a week and we all know the gas mileage stinks but that’s not even really the main issue. The wear and tear and mileage on the vehicle is the issue.
I have a 2005 LX 470 with 270,000 miles on it meticulously maintained no rust drives like it’s brand new but I don’t particularly want to put 25,000 or 30,000 miles on it in the next year until I can replace my income closer to home and it’s my daily driver. I planned to do an AHC sensor lift, put all-terrain tires on it a roof rack maybe a storage system in the back possibly upgrade to king springs and maybe do a rear bumper. I didn’t wanna do anything crazy to this thing because I’m not really a rock crawler. I just wanna capable bug out off-road vehicle that looks cool as well.
I also have a 2003 Camry with about 170k miles on it. Which I’ve done a lot of maintenance on all new suspension new steering rack front end tires starter alternator things like that. It runs good but I don’t know if I’d want to rag that out either and kill it.
I could sell my LX 470 and buy 570 with lower miles newer that I’d be into payments again but I have a newer platform to build upon. I could buy a used LX sedan or Camry both of which lower miles and newer then my older Camry which my wife drives and drive that for work or I could just chance it leave my LX with the wife and take the old Camry.
What would you guys do in this scenario? Remember I might have to do this for a year to a year and a half which Will definitely put some miles on the vehicle. Obviously reliability is a high factor that’s why I go with these vehicles. Thanks.
I have a 2005 LX 470 with 270,000 miles on it meticulously maintained no rust drives like it’s brand new but I don’t particularly want to put 25,000 or 30,000 miles on it in the next year until I can replace my income closer to home and it’s my daily driver. I planned to do an AHC sensor lift, put all-terrain tires on it a roof rack maybe a storage system in the back possibly upgrade to king springs and maybe do a rear bumper. I didn’t wanna do anything crazy to this thing because I’m not really a rock crawler. I just wanna capable bug out off-road vehicle that looks cool as well.
I also have a 2003 Camry with about 170k miles on it. Which I’ve done a lot of maintenance on all new suspension new steering rack front end tires starter alternator things like that. It runs good but I don’t know if I’d want to rag that out either and kill it.
I could sell my LX 470 and buy 570 with lower miles newer that I’d be into payments again but I have a newer platform to build upon. I could buy a used LX sedan or Camry both of which lower miles and newer then my older Camry which my wife drives and drive that for work or I could just chance it leave my LX with the wife and take the old Camry.
What would you guys do in this scenario? Remember I might have to do this for a year to a year and a half which Will definitely put some miles on the vehicle. Obviously reliability is a high factor that’s why I go with these vehicles. Thanks.
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