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**007** · 02-12-2013, 04:54 PM

2000 Ford Explorer XLT V6 178K miles
ABS light doesn't go out
may need converter but not certain

Brakes are good
has a little rust on the rear fender but nothing really bad and the paint has oxidation

Muffler recently replaced. Still waiting for answers regarding if the engine or tranny have ever been overhauled.

This is mostly highway miles to Kentucky and back.

They are asking 1500

**SAUTO** · 02-18-2013, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Guru

It's loud.

Catalytic converter?

I think everyone assumed torque converter
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**SAUTO** · 02-18-2013, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Big Smoke

Well a lot of the time a CEL is just an o2 sensor or something silly like that. My car has had the CEL on since I bought it, but there isn't anything seriously wrong with it. I have a faulty o2 sensor, doesn't effect the way the car runs, drives, etc. The CEL light being on is annoying, but I am not dumping $50 bucks on a part I don't really need just so the light will go off

It's actually the heater circuit on that o2 sensor.

If the actual sensor was bad you would get terrible gas mileage
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**SAUTO** · 02-18-2013, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by cookster50

Have JASONAUTO hook you up.

he would have jumped all over the older Taurus I sold a couple months ago.
1500 and was LOW mileage, owned by a hundred year old guy since new and he went to the nursing home. family wanted it yo go to the scrapper and I offered then what the yard did.

It drives by the shop every day to drop their kids off at head start
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**SAUTO** · 02-18-2013, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

And now you know what you should do, Guru.

When has this idiot ever been right about anything - ever? It's not called the CoMo effect for nothing.

He's not right here either. It's a good vehicle that's perhaps a little too heavy for the light truck frame it was built on so things like the ball joints and the tie-rod ends have to be replaced a little more often than they would on something like a Tahoe, which was built on a full-sized truck frame.

You're not going to beat the value on a 4WD either, if that's something you really want. It will get fairly lousy gas mileage, though. Ours was getting in the high teens when all was said and done.

I think it's the torsion bar suspension that eats those ball joints.

Blazers were the same way
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**007** · 02-18-2013, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

Catalytic converter?

I think everyone assumed torque converter
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Yeah, I think it was the catalytic converter.

**SAUTO** · 02-18-2013, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Guru

Yeah, I think it was the catalytic converter.

It may actually be the muffler. If it's a dual inlet they are pretty noisy and rust out.

I put one on two Weeks ago for 125. Probably be twice that there though lol
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Edit: whoops just saw they had a new muffler, might just be a bad weld, and those things always find loud to me

**007** · 02-19-2013, 04:26 PM

Its the SOHC V6 engine. Guess I will go ahead and have the mechanical inspection done.

DJ's left nut · 11-04-2016, 10:09 AM

Sadly, I was absent from the board for the Dee Ford draft pick (took a year off after Indy) but my search for the draft thread turned up this old sucker.

Guru, did you end up buying this thing? If so, how'd it work out for ya?

**SAUTO** · 11-04-2016, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Sadly, I was absent from the board for the Dee Ford draft pick (took a year off after Indy) but my search for the draft thread turned up this old sucker.

Guru, did you end up buying this thing? If so, how'd it work out for ya?

Pretty sure it's already tanked

**Bugeater** · 11-04-2016, 11:36 AM

Yes he did buy it and it lived up to the Exploder nickname.

DJ's left nut · 11-04-2016, 12:59 PM

But did it make it a year? You don't get forever for $1,500...

DJ's left nut · 11-04-2016, 01:01 PM

There we go...

http://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthrea...light=explorer

February of '15. Hey, that's 24 months of car for $1,500. That's a damn bargain right there. And you could probably get at least few hundred back as a charity write-off, if not a little more if you sent it for salvage.

Frosty · 11-04-2016, 01:14 PM

Used cars are so expensive right now. You can't get shit for under $5000 anymore, it seems. My first car (in 1980) was a six year old Gran Torino with 33,000 miles for $650. That's around $2800 in today's dollars. You can't find anything with fewer than 100K miles for that (though it could be argued a mid-'70s Ford with 33k miles is comparable to a newer car with higher miles).

My in-laws just traded their 2006 Accord EX with 215k miles for $2125. I wish I knew. I would have given them $3000 and could have easily sold it here for $4-5,000. Most of the miles were highway miles from their frequent trips around the US.

**Bugeater** · 11-04-2016, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

There we go...

http://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthrea...light=explorer

February of '15. Hey, that's 24 months of car for $1,500. That's a damn bargain right there. And you could probably get at least few hundred back as a charity write-off, if not a little more if you sent it for salvage.

Well that's if there weren't any significant repairs along the way, which I believe there was...I mean hell it was an Exploder.

**Bugeater** · 11-04-2016, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Frosty

Used cars are so expensive right now. You can't get shit for under $5000 anymore, it seems. My first car (in 1980) was a six year old Gran Torino with 33,000 miles for $650. That's around $2800 in today's dollars. You can't find anything with fewer than 100K miles for that (though it could be argued a mid-'70s Ford with 33k miles is comparable to a newer car with higher miles).

My in-laws just traded their 2006 Accord EX with 215k miles for $2125. I wish I knew. I would have given them $3000 and could have easily sold it here for $4-5,000. Most of the miles were highway miles from their frequent trips around the US.

Shit, if you think car market is bad, look at the used truck market. It's ridiculous.

02-12-2013, 04:54 PM
007 Shaken. Not stirred. Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: London Casino cash: $13020126 VARSITY	Need opinions on this vehicle 2000 Ford Explorer XLT V6 178K miles ABS light doesn't go out may need converter but not certain Brakes are good has a little rust on the rear fender but nothing really bad and the paint has oxidation Muffler recently replaced. Still waiting for answers regarding if the engine or tranny have ever been overhauled. This is mostly highway miles to Kentucky and back. They are asking 1500
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02-19-2013, 04:26 PM	#82
007 Shaken. Not stirred. Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: London Casino cash: $13020126 VARSITY	Its the SOHC V6 engine. Guess I will go ahead and have the mechanical inspection done. __________________ My dear girl, there are some things that just aren’t done. Such as, drinking Dom Perignon ’53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs.
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11-04-2016, 10:09 AM	#83
DJ's left nut Sauntering Vaguely Downwards Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Columbia, Mo Casino cash: $1179099	Sadly, I was absent from the board for the Dee Ford draft pick (took a year off after Indy) but my search for the draft thread turned up this old sucker. Guru, did you end up buying this thing? If so, how'd it work out for ya? __________________ "If there's a god, he's laughing at us.....and our football team..." "When you look at something through rose colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags."
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Bugeater The Maintenance Guy Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Renovated Bugeater Estate Casino cash: $4002680	Yes he did buy it and it lived up to the Exploder nickname.
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11-04-2016, 12:59 PM	#86
DJ's left nut Sauntering Vaguely Downwards Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Columbia, Mo Casino cash: $1179099	But did it make it a year? You don't get forever for $1,500... __________________ "If there's a god, he's laughing at us.....and our football team..." "When you look at something through rose colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags."
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11-04-2016, 01:01 PM	#87
DJ's left nut Sauntering Vaguely Downwards Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Columbia, Mo Casino cash: $1179099	There we go... http://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthrea...light=explorer February of '15. Hey, that's 24 months of car for $1,500. That's a damn bargain right there. And you could probably get at least few hundred back as a charity write-off, if not a little more if you sent it for salvage. __________________ "If there's a god, he's laughing at us.....and our football team..." "When you look at something through rose colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags."
Posts: 63,171

11-04-2016, 01:14 PM	#88
Frosty Go Beavers! Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Warshington Casino cash: $4728243	Used cars are so expensive right now. You can't get shit for under $5000 anymore, it seems. My first car (in 1980) was a six year old Gran Torino with 33,000 miles for $650. That's around $2800 in today's dollars. You can't find anything with fewer than 100K miles for that (though it could be argued a mid-'70s Ford with 33k miles is comparable to a newer car with higher miles). My in-laws just traded their 2006 Accord EX with 215k miles for $2125. I wish I knew. I would have given them $3000 and could have easily sold it here for $4-5,000. Most of the miles were highway miles from their frequent trips around the US.
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