'96 Bronco purchase?
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'96 Bronco purchase?
I have a '99 ranger with 91,000 miles and am looking at a '96 eddie bauer bronco that has 171,000 miles. That's alot I know. I was going to trade my ranger for it, but am concerned about all the miles on the bronco. It runs good and the carfax report came back clean. They want to give me $4000 for my trade in and I believe they're asking $7500 or $8000 for the bronco. Its had 3 owners but it looks like it only had one.
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Two years ago I paid $5,600 for my EB one owner 152K highway miles. Looked like new except for driver's leather seat splits. Got all the maintenance receipts with it. Transmission and rear end had be upgraded by Ford warranty.
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Check to make sure no body work has been done in critical areas before you start thinking about buying it. Maybe they want more $ for it b/c they just paid someone to slap a whole bunch of bondo on the tailgate and repaint it. You'll be awefully disappointed in a few months when it starts to crack through.
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I picked up my 82 for 2000 and it came with a 4 inch lift kit 35 inch tires rebuilt trans brand new exahust driveshafts and a 2000 mi warenty. So I think they are trying to rip you off.
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Price seems a bit high but I have 160,000 on mine and its really holding up well. Its all in the maintenance. if you can verify that and it has good compression and the tranny and transfer seems strong it should be ok but any vehicle is going to require work when the milage gets that high. Also 3 owners is a little scarry. You would probably do well to shop around a bit.
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First off whats wrong with your ranger? 2nd why would you want to go to any vehicle with almost twice as many miles as your current vehicle? Did you put all the miles on your ranger yourself because if you did you drive alot. Personally I'd said 7500 for the trade in on the ranger and 4k for the bronco. 171.000 miles? Personally to me thats a time bomb regardless of how well it was maintained.
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