A month ago I was shopping for a 2nd gen Subaru Outback. Then I stumbled on the Mitsubishi forum here, and now I'm the owner of a 99 Montero. Thanks!
The truck has a little over 200k miles, and I got it for a little less than $2000. It spent half it's life in California before going to Kentucky. Clean history, very good interior and exterior, solid transmission, but lots of maintenance left undone. It has the winter package, and therefore the locker. I wouldn't have known to look for the switch and orange sticker without your posts. Based on the forum's collective advice to others in similar situations as well as the shop's inspection, the following will be done right away: timing belt, water pump, serpentine belts, radiator hoses, plugs and wires, valve gaskets, rotors and pads, shocks, and complete fluids/servicing, tires. Other than removing the running boards and going +1 on tires (to 31x10.5 or 265/75s), I plan to leave it stock for a while. I love reading about the mods, but want to give it some time so I don't end up a regular poster on the 'Mods I Wish I Hadn't Done' thread.
I'll drive it to Tucson in late spring and will put it to use hauling the young'uns and the dog around the southern AZ desert.
Thanks for all the excellent info here.
The truck has a little over 200k miles, and I got it for a little less than $2000. It spent half it's life in California before going to Kentucky. Clean history, very good interior and exterior, solid transmission, but lots of maintenance left undone. It has the winter package, and therefore the locker. I wouldn't have known to look for the switch and orange sticker without your posts. Based on the forum's collective advice to others in similar situations as well as the shop's inspection, the following will be done right away: timing belt, water pump, serpentine belts, radiator hoses, plugs and wires, valve gaskets, rotors and pads, shocks, and complete fluids/servicing, tires. Other than removing the running boards and going +1 on tires (to 31x10.5 or 265/75s), I plan to leave it stock for a while. I love reading about the mods, but want to give it some time so I don't end up a regular poster on the 'Mods I Wish I Hadn't Done' thread.
I'll drive it to Tucson in late spring and will put it to use hauling the young'uns and the dog around the southern AZ desert.
Thanks for all the excellent info here.
