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?

What does he want it for?

Isuzu denver max or Toyota Land Cruiser.

x5 or shogun for me

I wouldn't buy an x5 with that budget so it would have to be a shogun or real off roading then Isuzu.

Mostly road use but "being able to get to sister's house in the Yorkshire Dales during winter bad weather".

Skoda Yeti lol :D

Std impreza?

What would I get? An AWD car and some winter tyres.

But anyway. £6K? Forester and keep the few grand change in the bank for the petrol/running costs. :D

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.

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.

Suzuki Vitara Fatboy

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:D

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.:thumb:

Engines go bang, have a look through autotrader and you should see that alot have had rebuilds.

Good cars, they stole the market in place's like OZ away from landrover where reliability can mean life or death but they cost a arm and a leg, even a old one is relatively expensive.

I'd have a Forester or the Isuzu SWB myself were it my choice.

Thanks for the suggestions guys I'll pass them on!

Forester

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.

https://www.scoobynet.com/subaru-444...ow-milage.html
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...

Mine is a 97 or 98, 3.1D, only thing that ever went wrong with it was a rubber seal on the clutch slave cylinder, even when the clutch wore out 3yrs ago it still got me home, about 5 miles in 3rd gear foot to the floor some how,:wonder: parked it up and it wouldn't move the next day. :lol1:

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. :notworthy

I drive a land rover discovery and he would get a good one for 6k. Parts are cheap if needed and there is a great forum for all your helps and needs.

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

Td5 2 , black with face lift. Good trucks must say and I am getting 30 to the gallon.

Urban School Run :D

Chelsea tractor

Nissan Pathfinder, had mine for 4 years now and best car i've owned.

Don't they have diff, chassis and gearbox problems, had a mate with one and he spent a small fortune on it, I test drove a new one and it did go well mind.

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.

Richard

At that price I would be inclined to go for a disco


Isn't the pathfinder based on a commercial chassis?