New from NY (2nd Gen)

Hi all,

My name is Joe, from the Long Island, NY area. I've been looking on and off for a while for something to replace my Blazer that I sold a few years back. I wasn't really sure what I wanted and was looking at some 3rd gen 4Runners as well as older f-150s and Chevy 1500 pickups. A few mornings ago a 1995 2nd gen with 80k and one owner popped up on my Facebook feed and I went to go see it. I was aware of a lot of the shortcomings of the motor (3.0) but I really love the body style and the condition was really great (except for paint fade on the roof and Hood) so I pulled the trigger.

The truck has been maintained by the same Toyota dealership since it was purchased in 95 so between that and the visual condition I feel like I have something that I can hopefully drive for a long time and enjoy. I really don't have any plans to do anything besides keep it all as OEM as possible.. at least for now.

It's not on the road yet but I plan to do that next week as well as bring it by my mechanic and get some basic things done.

I don't have much else to say at this point besides saying hi and introducing myself. I am looking forward to learning more about this thing as I continue to work on it and drive it.

Ill likely upload more pictures during the week. The interior is honestly immaculate and I haven't seen leather in this condition on a 30-year-old car in a long time. I do have the infamous crack in the dash though but besides that it's really nice.

 

Welcome and Congrats on the purchase!

 

Welcome to the forum, Joe! That is a very good find, would be a nice one to own myself.

I hope the previous owner had maintenance records, but since you said the truck had always been dealer maintained, you should be able to access records from Toyota. Big question is if the maintenance is up to date?

Good luck with a very nice looking 4Runner!

 

Welcome

 

Thanks!

Well the owner did not have the physical records but I ran the Carfax and there is maintenance pretty much every year or so from 95 all the way until this year at the same Toyota dealership. Now there aren't too many details on the Carfax so I'm going to call the dealership tomorrow (it's very close to my home) and see if they can enlighten me. I'm assuming that when you take your car into the dealership for things like oil and whatnot they would tell you if something major needed to be done ... so I'm just hoping that the owner actually went through with repairs when needed. I'm especially interested in if it had the head gasket recall or anything else major like that. The owner was a young woman who's been driving it for the past five or so years after it was given to her from her grandparents (the original purchasers), and honestly she did not know much besides the fact that the thing has been babied clearly since day one and she used to just bring it to Toyota and have them do whatever was needed. She didn't even know how to put it into four wheel drive

I don't plan to continue going to Toyota because of cost reasons but I have a very reliable mechanic that I've gone to for many years and I also plan to do a lot of work myself. At this point I'm just going to likely do the basics like a tune-up, flush the fluids, and fix up any seals or leaks and then go from there.