Hi,
Following our issues with Mitsubishi, we're in a market for a used offroader/softroader, on a budget of €6000, excl. registration fees. To say, if we need good AT tires to be fitted after buying, the car needs to be actually cheaper.
In the process of looking at some 4wd and auto trans used cars fitting in that budget, basically there was this 115kmiles Freelander TD4, a bunch of 80kmiles Hyundai Tucson (mostly petrol V6), and a neat Jeep Cherokee KJ but the vendor went AWOL.
Days are counting and wife (who will mainly drive the car) stumbled upon these 2 3-door RAV4, manual transmission, 100kmiles, same gen, one petrol, the other diesel. She actually loves the shape of that car and wanted to own one 3 cars earlier. So now is the chance to.
RAV4 4WD 2 litre 1AZ-FE, MY2000, €3800
RAV4 4WD 2 litre D4D 1CD-FTV, MY2002, €4000
I'm leaning toward the petrol version, for reliability reasons, but I'm afraid of the fuel mileage it would get in this severe duty. And I'm afraid the 1st gear of the manual gearbox to be too "long" to actually take off without playing that much with clutch for leaving home (a 40 degrees, 50 meters slope that I struggle to climb with most sub-2 liters FWD cars, burning clutch or rubber, or loading 100% the engine).
The D4D engine should be more economical in the long run (talking of nothing lower than 20kmiles a year), and most modern diesel cars are well capable of taking off the slope easily, but I'm afraid those high tech Diesel engines could fail anytime and cost a fortune (turbo, injectors, bottom end). Those cars have no real maintenance records on-hand, as usual with those aged used cars.
What's your take on it?
Following our issues with Mitsubishi, we're in a market for a used offroader/softroader, on a budget of €6000, excl. registration fees. To say, if we need good AT tires to be fitted after buying, the car needs to be actually cheaper.
In the process of looking at some 4wd and auto trans used cars fitting in that budget, basically there was this 115kmiles Freelander TD4, a bunch of 80kmiles Hyundai Tucson (mostly petrol V6), and a neat Jeep Cherokee KJ but the vendor went AWOL.
Days are counting and wife (who will mainly drive the car) stumbled upon these 2 3-door RAV4, manual transmission, 100kmiles, same gen, one petrol, the other diesel. She actually loves the shape of that car and wanted to own one 3 cars earlier. So now is the chance to.
RAV4 4WD 2 litre 1AZ-FE, MY2000, €3800
RAV4 4WD 2 litre D4D 1CD-FTV, MY2002, €4000
I'm leaning toward the petrol version, for reliability reasons, but I'm afraid of the fuel mileage it would get in this severe duty. And I'm afraid the 1st gear of the manual gearbox to be too "long" to actually take off without playing that much with clutch for leaving home (a 40 degrees, 50 meters slope that I struggle to climb with most sub-2 liters FWD cars, burning clutch or rubber, or loading 100% the engine).
The D4D engine should be more economical in the long run (talking of nothing lower than 20kmiles a year), and most modern diesel cars are well capable of taking off the slope easily, but I'm afraid those high tech Diesel engines could fail anytime and cost a fortune (turbo, injectors, bottom end). Those cars have no real maintenance records on-hand, as usual with those aged used cars.
What's your take on it?