Which 4x4 would you buy for £6k?
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Which 4x4 would you buy for £6k?
Friend of mine is asking what he could get for around the £6k mark?
Old or new doesn't seem to be much of a consideration, I've looked and can see anything and everything from X5s to Rav4s...
What would you get?
Old or new doesn't seem to be much of a consideration, I've looked and can see anything and everything from X5s to Rav4s...
What would you get?
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I had an Isuzu SWB - great car for very little money. Good budget option. Honda or Rav4 for the reliable/boring one. Jeep Cherokee for a big cruiser option? Hyundai Tucson/Sportage/Terraca or Kia Sorento are a cheapish newer type. Xtrails are decent at the top end of this budget. Volvo XC70/90 look nice but pricey to fix. Personally I'd go for a Forester with decent tyres.
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Oh, we did buy a Forester with this exact set of requirements in mind for a smidge under 2,000 and hasn't missed a beat. Cruise control on mways and AWD with low range box just in case. Heated seats and the toys for winter motoring. Will sell it on for what I bought it for when the time comes.
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I had an Isuzu SWB - great car for very little money. Good budget option. Honda or Rav4 for the reliable/boring one. Jeep Cherokee for a big cruiser option? Hyundai Tucson/Sportage/Terraca or Kia Sorento are a cheapish newer type. Xtrails are decent at the top end of this budget. Volvo XC70/90 look nice but pricey to fix. Personally I'd go for a Forester with decent tyres.
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I've had one for 8yrs now, not driven it for over 6 months, went out in the fields yesterday and today to pick potatoes, connected the batteries turned it on first crank started and away I went, just given it some paris dakar style driving and it's still sweet as a nut.
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If you look at a Isuzu avoid the 3.0 DOHC diesel at all costs.....great for about 6 years and 80K then big things start going wrong. INjectors failing, sumps filling up with diesel killing the engine, sensors, turbo, to put it bluntly that engine is a pig. International motors are still mopping up from the fall out.
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Good shout, this with a set of winter tyres would be epic for the budget.
Haggle down to £2k for a car with barely more than delivery mileage...
Good shout, this with a set of winter tyres would be epic for the budget.
Haggle down to £2k for a car with barely more than delivery mileage...
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It's been epic, going back and forth to the Uk, put it on it's roof off roading, totally abused on a daily basis for 6 years and still just does what it says on the tin, whilst being very car like to drive and yet brilliant off road, gets the title of best vehicle i've ever owned hands down.
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Discovery 2 or 3, I had a 2 with the facelift lights, only had knobbly tyres think they were general grabbers,bit noisey on the road but off road I didn't get stuck anywhere, went round thetford forest and Brandon off roading...... Much fun
Paid 3495 and 750 on tyres
Paid 3495 and 750 on tyres
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Pathfinder has lot of reported dual mass flywheel problems, guy at work has got stung by one, - luckily most of it was covered by the warranty.
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