Machinery Photo/Discussion Thread II

kevthegaff wrote: »

I was looking at landcruiser prices, nuts. They reckon their will be a shortage of cars and jeeps coming in from the uk in the near future.

I've been keeping an eye on donedeal over Xmas, mostly out of boredom with being off work for the festivities. I'd formed the opinion that all jeeps had increased in price lately but I'd agree that land cruisers in particular have experienced a price jump in the last few month's.

The older pre 03 body shape are now making either side of €5000 for anything in half reasonable shape and you'd still be looking at a circa 20 year old jeep with maybe 250,000 or more miles. Once you go into the mid naughties regs your talking €10,000 for anything approaching good condition and sub 200,000 miles. There was a clean lwb 08 a few weeks back with I think around 150,000 miles @ €13,500, it's a serious touch for a 13 year old jeep.

I'm of the opinion that the only value to be had in a land cruiser is in the €20,000+ category, unless you know the history of a lot of those lower priced older jeeps they could prove to be a money pit from the outset. I'd say there's more 97-01 models left locally than 02-03, there seems to be better lasting in the older one's. What's people's opinions on the mitsubishi pajero/shogun from let's say 2012 onwards? There not that common locally but look a nice jeep and you'd still have a 3.2 engine.

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Will you be relying on 4x4 breakers yards and Independent suppliers for parts in a couple of years time?
Mitsubishi pulling out of Europe completely, it seems.

Mind you, the same is true for anyone with a Trooper or Land Rover.

Perhaps, I'd forgotten that Mitsubishi had signalled there departure from the EU Market. But is access to breaker parts not a fact of life when dealing with older jeeps?

Nekarsulm wrote: »

It is indeed, in fact the best plan is to buy another one yourself "for parts" to keep the daily driver on the road as long as possible.

Yes although the problem with having a source of spare parts is that there oftentimes only much addition if your mechanically minded. By this I mean that labour costs are still going to make it an expensive endeavour unless you can tackle most things yourself. I'm no way mechanically minded and therefore I'd prefer something that just needed servicing and diesel. Some lad's love working away at a jeep and seeing how long they can keep it on the road.