Am I new?...if I barely left.....

[mmrseed]

As some may know, I sold my 2wd lifted expy (the one you see below) to get a safer car for my now 16 year old son (he has to drive up and down a mountain to get to school and that truck did not seems safe for a new driver). After spending weeks looking at jettas, passats, taurus', contours, explorers and millions of other cars and suv we found (gasp!) what he really liked....a black expedition. It's not lifted but it IS a 4wd (yay) cheaper on insurance (2x yay) and has 60,000 LESS miles than the one I sold (3x yay), plus, plus even though i has 120K miles it was a fleet car for a police department for 12 of the 13 years it has been on this earth (not a patrol vehicle, as there is no sign of police gear) and so it seems meticluously maintained. The engine sounds brand new so......yay...I'll get some pics up soon of the "new" black expy

 

[nvycrmn]

good to hear he stayed in the family! im sure he will be very pleased with the expy.

 

[rptr00]

hind sight is 20/20 but why didnt you just take off the lift and down size the tires since thats pretty much what you ended up with?

 

[mmrseed]

I would have had to pay for new rims and tires and to lower it...although I didn't intend it this way, I got one with less miles and 4wd and made $3000

 

[rptr00]

I hear ya. it just seemed like a funny twist of fate

 

[Lane24]

Glad to see you are sticking around !!!!

 

[mmrseed]

yup...glad to still be hear...now instead of pestering everyone with questions regarding everything I don't know about 2wd expys and istead pester with questions regarding everything I don't know about 4wd expys...it'll be fun

 

[smo0othride]

I think the expedition is great for a 16 year old... lets them see the road better by sitting up high, is going to "win" when crashing into a smaller vehicle, and won't be trying to fit 8 of their friends into a 5 passenger car (I once had 11 people in my 5 person benz when I was 16). It's good that this one isn't lifted since it won't be as easy to roll. If you want to make it even safer, upgrade the anti-sway bars and put in some new shocks and will be very difficult to roll. I've upgraded the suspension in mine and have drifted around corners without hardly any body roll.

 

[KWT2000]

great to see your still here post some pics of the new toy

 

[JUST4FUN]

yea im going to start your post count at 1 jk