Few more.

Looks clean but not pristine.

Funny how the same vehicle can be affected differently.  Mine is fine by the back door, my d/s rocker panel is starting to go, your frame looks better than mine.  If it had like 75,000 miles I'd say $3500 was a fair price, but over 100k $3000 sounds about right.  Hope it works out for you.  Make sure you listen to it when you first start it up, that will tell you a little about the timing chain tensioner.  Dave

Dittoes on what Dave said.  It IS a 2000, it DOES have high mileage and the frame area DOES have significant rust taking hold.  If you end up buying it, take a weekend and invest $50 in some POR-15 and clean the frame area and coat it with some POR-15.  Bolt on parts like engines and trannys can be replaced.  Bad sheet metal on the frame and body is more difficult to repair and rarely lasts.  Good luck!

I love the V6 the way it sounds 2' proflow to 3' out back and the power you are not in the slow lane. Running 235 70 16  tire is 29.5 tall . 2.5 lift did a little triming on the platic  a lot of fun to drive. Have fun with your new car.  Also Gv is made Japan.

track, my buddy is going to look at it, not me.  It's actually in Michigan near him.  He's owned over twice as many vehicles as me in 15 years so I figure I can mostly trust his judgement.  I will pass on the listening for the timing chain clatter tidbit.  My GV and XL7 did the same thing.  The XL7 sounded like a loose chain on a bike until I got it fixed under warranty.

npr, yes, I have Rust Bullet sitting here waiting.  Figure I'll take a weekend and hit The Blazer and it if I get it.
The guy says it came from back East in Massachusetts so lived a city life and then the guy he got it from retired to Florida soon after getting it so it sat out several winters in a garage.  That's about the only reason I'm not completely leery of it.


Toy, no GV's here.  I had the 2.5L and 2.7L and wasn't terribly impressed with either, especially not the mpg.  Sticking with the good mpg 4-cyl and plain jane.  Might throw some 235/75R15's on it, dunno.  It has two sets of wheels and tires - stock Tracker with 205/75R15's and a set of Vitara 16's with 235/70R16's.  Both are highway treads though.  I'll probably sell the Vitara wheels and bigger tires.

You know for what it's worth, you might just want to hold onto those rims, put good road tires on the 16's and studded snows on the 15's, just a thought.

Eh, I run truck tires year round.  Either siped muds or siped aggressive AT's.

Thinking I'll sell the 16's as the tires are a lot more expensive for them.

The pictures around the latch area of the back door look similar to how mine was about two or three years ago.  If you look very carefully you can see the seem of a tall, narrow panel and all the rust seems to be confined to just that one panel.  I honestly don't think they coated the inside of that one particular panel with anything useful at the factory.  It rusts from the inside out so sanding/repainting doesn't really make the problem go away.  Mine got bad enough that I finally had the back door unable to latch so I had to do some repairs as you can see in the pictures.  If you buy that truck, remove the tail light and jack stowage door and spray some waxoil in there to coat the inside of it on a regular basis and then treat the outside.  Wish I had done that.

waxoil: http://www.roversnorth.com/store/p-5726-waxoyl-rust-inhibitor-clear-500ml-aerosol.aspx

Yowch.  Thanks for the heads up man.

My buddy went and saw it.  Said it's actually in fairly good shape, drives nice, and it passed the list of stuff to check that you guys gave me.  The rust other than the back door/tail gate thing isn't bad, but it is there.  Good shape overall but not excellent by a long shot.

Only problem is the guy's pretty stuck on $3500.  My buddy didn't want to haggle with the guy to spend my money so I'm going to do it.  He says it's a $2600-2800 vehicle.  I'm going to offer the guy $2750 in green paper cash and see what he says.  Won't go over $3000 even with all the doodads.  The 15" Tracker wheels and 205 tires are all I'm interested in anyway.

Think he was insulted by my offer.   Didn't even try to negotiate.  Says he'll just keep it and drive it.

Well, he can keep it and hopefully he finds that half ounce of gold he seems to think is in there somewhere.

Going to start looking in the south and west.  Fine one in genuine "no rust" shape.

Keep looking then.  You'll find one.  You'll be so much farther ahead finding one that isn't rusty at all.