Posted on 03/11/2019 10:49:18 AM PDT by Red Badger
My 2003 GMC 2500 Sierra DIESEL passes air quality inspections just fine thank you.
93 4runner... have had to do the mandatory emissions tests for the past couple of years and it passed both times. We own it and have no intentions of buying a new or used 4runner. Only a fool would replace a perfectly good running car.
Huh? What body orifice did they pull that gem from?
I doubt that a 15 year period ever produced a 100 fold improvement in emissions, even covering the switch from carburetors to fuel injection and catalytic converters.
I drive a 1997 Neon with 258k miles. It doesn't smoke, and the OBDII control system would trigger a code if any of the emissions system was malfunctioning.
They probably got it from a thirty year old Ralph Nader propaganda piece, and think it's true now, because liberals are stupid.
Environmentalism.
They are true believers.
It’s their religion...................
enviro - MENTAL - ism..................
1965 CJ5.
Might have a touch of an oil control problem.
“1965 CJ5”
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!! Good for you.
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2004 Dodge Dakota Pickup
295,000 plus another 88,000+ being dragged around behind our RV.
My wife has a 2002 Dodge Ram. 89k miles.....................
As you said, why replace a perfectly good vehicle? My vehicle is a 1994 4Runner-I keep it up well, it carries my stuff for work, my groceries and everything else and has 4WD for the unpaved roads and rough terrain in this rural area. It can tow a tiny shop trailer if needed, too-no need of a newer SUV or truck that is mechanically inferior or says where I am via GPS-my time, my dime, my business-the only people out here who drive anything other than an older pickup or SUV-or any vehicles less then 10-15 years old are those who live in gated enclaves and only come out to drive to the city-they are not really part of the rural community...
We do change the oil regularly - every 3,000 miles — and we have had two people offer to buy it from us. Never took them seriously to find out how much they'd be willing to pay for it. Clearly it has some value for two random people to walk up to us and offer to buy it from us. Keep this in mind should you ever plan to sell your 4Runner.
Plus, I wonder now many older 4Runners were destroyed under Obama’s cash for clunkers program?
Insanity....
For some reason, it is smarter to toss a perfectly good car for a brand new model that costs a fortune. The car manufacturers and dealerships love it no doubt.
But this is why people are in debt up to their eyeballs.
Plus, modern cars and SUVs are a lot more complicated with all of the bells and whistles that you mention and all of that specialized electronics will be impossible to replace in a few years once the specialized parts become discontinued for newer models.
The 4Runner is a very well made SUV and, best of all, we own it.
the dealer will write the ‘free’ car off on his taxes as a donation, and is encouraged to ‘donate’ rather than sell a trade-in, so it’s not ‘free’ to the taxpayers. And, pulling 15yo cars off the road hurts the poor and elderly - who can’t afford or don’t have the credit for $30K car payments. That lesson was learned in California’s ‘cash for clunkers’ program. But if Colorado wants to learn the hard lesson again...
I get sick to my stomach watching some of those "Cash for Clunkers" videos on YouTube. Perfectly good cars getting destroyed with no effort to salvage anything, including valuable spare parts.
Such a monumental waste and for nothing. Multiple followup studies have shown there was no environmental benefit.
If I am not too picky, it’s halfway acceptable.
However, I am so it’s about a third.
https://cjneil82.smugmug.com/1965-Willys-CJ5-Project/
The photos there are probably way out of date.
I have a small following on Tumblr, mostly because of the jeep project photos I pop with the droid. My GH4 isn’t always handy.
Might explain why I cannot find a dashboard electronics circuit board for our 4Runner. The 4WD light burned out. I could probably remove it and repair it myself. But that is pretty much the only bit of electronics on the car. I am worried about the 4WD pneumatics system. But I have a plan for that — replace the automatic 4WD system with a manual system with switches on the wheels.
‘1965 CJ5.”
You got me by 20 years. :)
1985 Chevy S10 here, Very happy with it, too.
I have a 21 yr old Firebird which passes it’s emissions test every year. It blows no visible smoke. Are these people saying that an old car that passes is 100 times as dirty yet INSIDE of the spec?
There is my dead for the time being 79 K5 as well.
My dad had one of the first S10 trucks sold in SC. He ran it over 300k hard miles.
Thanks for the info-if the time ever comes again where I need a 4x4 with more engine, I’ll remember that-it is a given that I will always need 4WD living and working out here...
I bought my 4Runner from the original owner-who had just bought a 2000 Chevy Suburban 4x4 because he needed the 8 cylinder engine to pull a big shop trailer-he had taken very good care of it, and I paid him with the cash I’d gotten from the sale of my previous vehicle-a 1986 4x4 Blazer, which I sold to a co-worker who needed an 8 cylinder truck/SUV to tow his bass boat-we just keep passing those old, more reliable 4x4’s around out here...
When I take the 4Runner to the mechanic up the road for the 3000 mi oil change next month, I’m having him put in a new thermostat, too-the one in it is at least 11 years old and I prefer to replace it before it starts going out. I had a Toyota once before-a 4x4 pick-up, back in 1986-it was the only new vehicle I’ve ever owned-I sold it to my cousin in 1996...
Obama redux.
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