Been thinking about trading in the Wife's 98 mercury sable wagon for a Ford Explorer. Last night my parents made us a cash offer for the wagon plus their 95 Ford Bronco. So today we went to check out one of the explorers we had looked at and ended up bringing it home.
Its a 1996 Ford Explorer 4x4 Eddie Bauer. Has the small much more fuel efficient V6, 169k on the clock. Only problems is a good sized dent on the front passenger door and a couple of small things with the inside of it. Due to the dent the price sat right were we wanted to pay, $3000.
The sale went easy as well. We walked in and told the owner of the lot that we would give them the bronco plus $1000, as I expected they said no and asked $2000 plus the Bronco. My last counter was $1500 cash and the Bronco and they took it!
Hated to have to give up the Bronco, but it just wasn't getting used, was starting to be a money pit as well so it had to go. Been trying to sell it for the last 6 months and at even $1000 we had no bites.
Going to pick up a transmission filter kit tomorrow and get it changed out. So far we have had to buy 3 new wiper blades, honest people gas cap(locking), chiltons book, passenger mirror motor works but it is really sluggish so I'll be haunting the junk yard for that as well as a center console lid and a rear air vent. The inside looks almost show room.
I'll also dig out one of my extra sets of all weather mats and got a head light restore kit.
It has an aftermarket Kenwood radio in it, I need to pull the trim off and see how it was installed and fix if needed.
Pics, night ones but deal with it:
The dent, back story is that one of the salesmen backed into it. Price went from $5k to $3k for that and they had paper work that showed the frame is still straight.
I lurked this forum last night and got ready to find the keypad code so we could use it and got lucky, the stock code card was in the owners book.
Going to do some more lurking and see if I can find anything on why the fog lights and lighter are no workey.
Its a 1996 Ford Explorer 4x4 Eddie Bauer. Has the small much more fuel efficient V6, 169k on the clock. Only problems is a good sized dent on the front passenger door and a couple of small things with the inside of it. Due to the dent the price sat right were we wanted to pay, $3000.
The sale went easy as well. We walked in and told the owner of the lot that we would give them the bronco plus $1000, as I expected they said no and asked $2000 plus the Bronco. My last counter was $1500 cash and the Bronco and they took it!
Hated to have to give up the Bronco, but it just wasn't getting used, was starting to be a money pit as well so it had to go. Been trying to sell it for the last 6 months and at even $1000 we had no bites.
Going to pick up a transmission filter kit tomorrow and get it changed out. So far we have had to buy 3 new wiper blades, honest people gas cap(locking), chiltons book, passenger mirror motor works but it is really sluggish so I'll be haunting the junk yard for that as well as a center console lid and a rear air vent. The inside looks almost show room.
I'll also dig out one of my extra sets of all weather mats and got a head light restore kit.
It has an aftermarket Kenwood radio in it, I need to pull the trim off and see how it was installed and fix if needed.
Pics, night ones but deal with it:
The dent, back story is that one of the salesmen backed into it. Price went from $5k to $3k for that and they had paper work that showed the frame is still straight.
I lurked this forum last night and got ready to find the keypad code so we could use it and got lucky, the stock code card was in the owners book.
Going to do some more lurking and see if I can find anything on why the fog lights and lighter are no workey.
