this is what my expy has cost me so far....owned it for 4 days. Thoughts?

[NewbieVet]

2004 Expedition XLT w/ leather and 86,000 miles. Clean exterior and interior.

Car was $8,760 at auction including auction fee
$1,000 commission to the dealer
$150 processing
$78.25 title fee
$50.00 tag fee
$90.00 post sale inspection
$644.60 in sales tax

So $10,772.85 for car out the door

$751.86 in repairs (a/c actuator motor replacement, fuel pump replacement, fuel filter replacement, spark plugs replacement and labor)

$1,070 wheels / tires (22inch status canes plus tires)

for a grand total of: $12,167.56

Not sure I feel like this was a good a deal now as I did when I bought it at auction but then again what do I know. Thoughts?

 

[Canadian Expy]

Sounds great to me
I paid like $23,000 used in 2005 and I don't even want to know what I've put in it so far.!!!

 

[SOLISIMO]

Well you can really count the rims and tires lol. But in reality its better to do that now then to be in the middle of something and the truck goes bad.

 

[toms89]

Thats a great deal. I paid $14,800 (minus my trade in) out the door for my 2000 Expy with 82,000 mi on it back in 2005. I traded in an Explorer.....too small.

I hate to admit it but I have spent close to what you paid for your expy the past few months on mods alone for mine. I started out planning just a few mods but lost my sanity somewhere along the way. I can blame it on this forum

 

[FtLaudBlkGT]

Honestly, that is still a good price even with the wheels and repairs included.

 

[walnuts4x4]

thats still a lot cheaper than buying one at a stealership

 

[Soldier777]

Its not bad at all but I have you all beat I only paid $6000 3 years ago with only 56k on her!!

 

[NewbieVet]

I love you guys! Always know how to bring a fella' back up when he's down!!!!

 

[panda24619]

got mine at an auction. customs auction. drug runner. cousin got it for i think 11k put in a new tank since it didnt have one, and we got it for 13k. with low miles. it than sat for about a year since my parents both had cars. then my moms mercades broke and she drove this. no maintenance until i got it. coils going out, and a few other things. so thats a good price.

 

[mudryder18]

Well hopefully you will be done with repairs for a while. I just spent $3100 in the past month on repairs(new gears and transmission seals and transfer case reapair) and i just found out yesterday that it is gonna cost $1200 to fix my air conditioning.

 

[walnuts4x4]

whats wrong with the AC? is it the compressor or the blend door? if the blend door look into the heatertreater.net system... its what I did to avoid taking the dash apart

 

[NC-Expy]

Hey this should make you feel pretty good. My parents bought mine brand new 11 years ago for 48 thousand... lol

 

[mudryder18]

whats wrong with the AC? is it the compressor or the blend door? if the blend door look into the heatertreater.net system... its what I did to avoid taking the dash apart

yea its the compressor it went bad last september and i had a bypass pulley put on cause i wasnt gonna need the a/c over the winter. now im ready to fix it and i need a new compressor, a new dryer, lines flushed and filled with free-on and and some kind of orifice tube thing in the rear has to be replaced.

Hey this should make you feel pretty good. My parents bought mine brand new 11 years ago for 48 thousand... lol

Yea same here, my mom bought mine new in '97 for $42k.

 

[walnuts4x4]

that sucks about AC... mine was blend door and that was a pain in the @$$... so I went heatertreater way....

 

[tallsville]

black expy i got my 03 in 2005 for 20k.

 

[KWT2000]

I traded this for mine strait across, with no tools just the box

 

[DR3W]

Sounds a lil, but good.

My mom bought mine 10 years ago brand new for a hair under $40,000! ahahahah And now all the upgrades i've done to my expy!

 

[NewbieVet]

found the original sticker in the glove compartment...48k (= It's purring nicely btw, they did a great job!! yay me!!

 

[WHOISMOOTOO]

2005 purchased in 2008, for 12k with 60k back when gas prices were thru the roof! I pretty much stole mine

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[alaskanexpy]

i stole mine, $2,500 in august 2010. 98 xlt 5.4 4x4 63k miles, clean as new inside/out. new tires,shocks,brakes. plus its had husky liners and seat covers since new. gotta love connections