Considering selling the LC for a Grenadier

[Esquire]

If you use a non-mainstream vehicle to do a long road trip across the country and it fails you will be looking at the following choices:

1. A big hotel bill while you wait days for parts to be air shipped to you
2. If the parts will take weeks, then you will have a bill for storage or trailoring to the place that has the parts
3. Once it is fixed, unless the repair facility is near your home, you will have the air fare to go retrieve the vehicle and drive it back or face a 2nd trailoring bill.

All told, it is not uncommon to be out of pocket several additional thousands of dollars just for logistics and be without the vehicle for multiple weeks. So there is something to be said for service and parts network even for recreational vehicles.

Absolutely. Even driving basic mainstream cars like BMW, Mercs, LR, and Audi are a royal inconvenience when you are not in a somewhat metropolitan city. I can't imagine having to mess with a more red-headed step child branded vehicle.

This is why large trucking companies generally go with Freightliner. Every failed part anywhere in the country can be sourced in no time.

Same with Chevy pickups - Tahoes, etc. Parts are everywhere.

I even prefer having a Toro lawnmower / snowblower verses another brand since parts are available and absolutely everywhere.

 

[Marinna]

Absolutely. Even driving basic mainstream cars like BMW, Mercs, LR, and Audi are a royal inconvenience when you are not in a somewhat metropolitan city. I can't imagine having to mess with a more red-headed step child branded vehicle.

This is why large trucking companies generally go with Freightliner. Every failed part anywhere in the country can be sourced in no time.

Same with Chevy pickups - Tahoes, etc. Parts are everywhere.

I even prefer having a Toro lawnmower / snowblower verses another brand since parts are available and absolutely everywhere.

That is actually the primary reason I decided not to get a Rivian. I like the car and it is cool. But I need extraordinary exception handling capability.

 

[RUN-8]

I'm from the same school. Buy a nice main driver that checks 99% of the boxes. And then have a second vehicle which has absolutely no purpose other than to have fun, enjoy, polish, and look awesome.....

Don’t forget a second vehicle to bash, abuse, and use guilt free. Like a 15 year old pickup that is dented, has some rust, is already scratched up etc.

No hesitation to use it as the tool it was designed to be.

 

[RUN-8]

That is actually the primary reason I decided not to get a Rivian. I like the car and it is cool. But I need extraordinary exception handling capability.

The last sentence in your post makes zero sense.

Are you a bot, or are you using ChatGTP to write this nonsense?

 

[Stage7]

The last sentence in your post makes zero sense.

Are you a bot, or are you using ChatGTP to write this nonsense?

Perhaps they meant "extraordinary, exceptional handling capability".

 

[RUN-8]

Well if “extraordinary, exceptional handling capability” is what she needs from a vehicle, a 250 series Land Cruiser is not even remotely in the hunt for checking those boxes.

 

[Roonie]

One of my other cars. This is fun but SLOW!!!

 

[Esquire]

One of my other cars. This is fun but SLOW!!!

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Outstanding looking vehicles and in the right color.
I had a law school classmate / friend who had a 90 2 door in green as well.
Slow is right. And it was surprisingly not problematic over the three years he drove in through law school.

I wouldn’t mind picking a well sorted red, green, or black hard top 2 door 90 as well.

 

[Roonie]

Outstanding looking vehicles and in the right color.
I had a law school classmate / friend who had a 90 2 door in green as well.
Slow is right. And it was surprisingly not problematic over the three years he drove in through law school.

I wouldn’t mind picking a well sorted red, green, or black hard top 2 door 90 as well.

Oh its been problematic!! Every year its something. I have replaced almost everything on it except the engine. But I have fixed a lot of leaks on the engine itself. I have had it since 2018. I also have an older 1988 landcruiser and that has been easy compared to this 1994 beast.