LOL, I washed everything but the Lexus so I have to post in here in car chat.

Gave them both a nice wash!

 

Clean X5. 4.4 right, I cant tell?

 

yep.

 

Some 4.6is rims will look great on it. How many miles?

 

Very clean cars OLT. Look brand new. Nice pics too.

 

Ranger story (I may have told before):

There's an independent Mercedes mechanic in Lansing who's had a series of Ranger shop trucks with the same MB diesel transplanted into them. Apparently, the 4 cyl. diesel from the MB 240D from the late 70s can work in the Ranger. When a body and frame rusts out around him, he goes to a boneyard in Nevada and trucks a clean body home. Last I heard a few years ago, he had about 450K on the engine.

 

 

Agreed, and both trucks have exactly 145k. I specifically look for vehicles that are garage kept with over 100k. They have been treated very well and maintained, but can be had for a song. I used to spend on anything, but these are the days of the smart and thrifty and I have nothing to prove. As long as they have service records and it looks brand new I'll buy it.....cheap.

Many thanks!

I know of many people with 300k on their rangers on the original running gear. You just gotta treat stuff well and hope you got a good one to begin with. I bought a 1997 ranger brand new with 18 miles on it and it was in service 4 times in the first month I owned it for core sand that they never got out in manufacturing and when the engine hit 11,000 miles it was already smoking from where the sand had worn the engine out in the first 4,000 miles they were trying to get it out.

About the rust though, Ford is notoriously horrible at rust proofing. You can pull the headliner in most fords and find open welds rusting, no real underbody corrosion protection. Someone familiar with them can catch it early and make it last forever with about $50 worth of rubberized undercoating.

WOOT.

 

The cars look great! Do you still have that black SC?

 

I completely agree with you OLT. You are a good owner and the Ranger and the X5 look like they just rolled out the dealership's parking lot.

 

Thank ya The BMW is really nice inside too. When I bought it I was looking specifically for an X5, but was blown away with this one which came from Atlanta where a female Dermatologist owned if for most of it's life.











Yup! Going on 9 years now Damn thing won't die, no reason to sell it.

 

Lets see the dirty lexus...

 

What did you do to the gauges?

 

Agreed, and both trucks have exactly 145k. I specifically look for vehicles that are garage kept with over 100k. They have been treated very well and maintained, but can be had for a song. I used to spend on anything, but these are the days of the smart and thrifty and I have nothing to prove. As long as they have service records and it looks brand new I'll buy it.....cheap.

I like your way of thinking.. nothing wrong with a high mileage car as long as its in great shape with service records...

Both vehicles look great..

 

Just chrome rings.


Don't have any pics from recent but......