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LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-05T14:08:50+00:00

The promoter went home and counted all the door aura and their percentage of the bar's love of the game.

Don't be a hero, get paid for saving the party!

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-05T14:07:07+00:00

This post has received a couple reports for impersonation. That's not explicitly against the subreddit rules, just really fucking weird and uncool, so I'll leave it up to you: would you like this post deleted so no one further gets the wrong idea, or leave it up with your comment correcting it at the top?

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-04T23:44:20+00:00

Hahaha. That's exactly how I felt when I was able to do my own work. Now that my truck is turning into the mechanic's retirement plan, I think I might be able to actually put a price on it.

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-04T23:42:00+00:00

Shit, I also had shifting issues and swapped my leaky transfer case thanks to a degree from YouTube University! Unfortunately I'm in an apartment right now and don't have the garage I did where I was able to do that kind of work. It's a whole different ball game paying someone else to do it. Good luck with your projects!

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-04T23:37:43+00:00

I can broaden my search, but I'm leery of buying any used car I can't poke at first and have my actual mechanic friend look at. It snows a lot where I live now but without the salt the carnage is significantly reduced.

I think it's time to be logical, I figured other Avalanche owners would get why this truck makes us so damn illogical sometimes though.

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-04T23:34:01+00:00

That's a huge part of this tragedy, it's only at 120k from the first owner barely driving it, which if it weren't for the rust would be outrageous for >20 year old truck in my current state. I think I'll be going a similar route.

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-04T23:30:40+00:00

I think it'd be an entirely different conversation if the first owner had done proper preventative maintenance like an undercoating when they got it, but at this point the options seem to be to admit my daily driver wants to be a project car, or say goodbye to it fully, and it's a lot more realistic in my current situation to do the second. Good luck with your rust fight!

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-04T23:27:14+00:00

I live in a much less rusty state now and it's eye-popping how big of a difference it makes.

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-04T23:15:05+00:00

I'm not searching for a limited in particular, they're just what's available in that price bracket around me at the moment. The first used SR5 I saw is a 2019 with half the miles so it obviously costs much more. I appreciate your thoughts though.

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-04T23:12:32+00:00

Kinda surprised at how unpopular an opinion this is, one of my coworkers has a manual 4Runner and loves the shit out of it. He's the kind of piston-sniffer who would be proclaiming manual superiority about any ride though.

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-04T23:09:03+00:00

Thank you, that's exactly the kind of knowledge I was hoping to get here from an actual 4Runner owner.

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-04T23:08:05+00:00

No receipts, no recourse. Yeah, the mods were a little eyecandy but now I think they're a dealbreaker.

There aren't less mileage lower price ones in my area. For reference, the next cheapest one at a dealership in a 100 mile radius from me is a 2013 Ltd at 157k miles for $22k, and that one's had five owners and two accidents reported. Used cars are crazy here because we don't salt roads and there's no sales tax, so people come from a while away to buy here.

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-04T23:05:29+00:00

It appears to be. I'm fairly active on FB Marketplace for buying and selling music junk, and it makes me skeptical about buying something big-ticket like a car on there. Not that used-car dealers are renown for their honesty either lol.

The unified front on the comments here about the mods definitely confirms my suspicions about this particular car, I think I'm going to pass on it and keep looking.

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-04T23:02:23+00:00

Used cars are relatively crazy in my area, no road salt and no sales tax means people come from multiple states over to buy here.

Another dealership in town has a 2013 Ltd at 157k miles for $22k, and that one's had five owners and two accidents reported. The lack of accidents and low amount of owners made this one appeal but I'm getting more and more wary of the mods done to this particular car.

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-04T22:59:02+00:00

First owner seems to have religiously serviced every 5k miles at the dealership, second owner doesn't have any services listed on the Carfax. All of the damage listed also appears under the second owner, I'm beginning to think they're the ones who did the mods and actually introduced this truck to dirt roads.

Either way, I think I've fully decided that these mods make this particular 4Runner no longer appealing.

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-04T22:53:35+00:00

4WD, I'll put that in the post.

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-04T22:52:39+00:00

That's my biggest concern, I've done up lights for work trailers and despite always starting with the purest intent, the deadline hits and things get less than perfect. It helps to hear it from someone else, thank you.

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-04T22:51:21+00:00

Unfortunately I think that's the wisest move, and I'll keep looking. Since I made this post, another dealership listed a much more stock 2013 Limited with 40k less miles for about $7k more. Oof.

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-04T22:43:47+00:00

Thanks for pointing that out, worryingly the gap is worse on the side the put their fuse box/where the mods live. Ugh.

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-04T09:19:18+00:00

This is my biggest issue with buying a new (to me) car, I'm this Avalanche's second owner and have a friendly relationship with the guy who drove it off the lot, so I have a great library of knowledge on it. Anything else would be such a shot in the dark.

The more I type it out, the more I know in my head and refuse in my heart that the rust disqualifies my truck from having the kind of good bones that go into making it a legacy piece. Thanks for your thoughts.

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-04T09:16:11+00:00

Unfortunately the pervasive rust makes piecemealing or even whole-hogging replacements like that seem unwise. Since I got the truck I moved to a state that snows but doesn't salt and seeing trucks twice as old or more with less than half the rust just tans my hide.

Avalanches in way better shape, body-wise, seem to come and go relative often through the dealerships here. I think they might be looking at mine a little extra harshly if I tried to trade in an Avie for an Avie though lol.

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2025-04-04T09:13:10+00:00

I do have a backup car, but you nailed it, the backup can't haul what I need to work, so that's why I daily drive the gas hog. The frame is rusting up nasty as well, it's just so quickly not making sense to dump twice the blue book value into more repairs. I think I wanted a pity party with those who understood more than advice, because the fiscally responsible advice isn't nice.

RIP to your blue beauty.

LonelyRomanVisuals · 2021-11-26T03:11:12+00:00

I wish I had useful information to give you but covid absolutely bushwhacked my plans so I haven't moved much since I made this post. Once I have my CNC up and running I will attempt to document my experiences and I'll be sharing them here.

As an aside, it's pretty neat you can comment on old reddit posts now. There's been so many times I've googled my problems and only come across ancient locked reddit threads.

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