I am thinking of selling my Astro as I would like something with better mileage for my every day driver.
I bought it near Boston a little more than a year ago so it does not have Vermont salt damage, although it is losing a little paint here and there (see pictures). It has a 4" body lift in it that I purchased from Overlandvans.com, that is supposed to accommodate 31" tires. As you can see in the pictures I had some issues with wheel clearance and had to do some trimming. It does not look too pretty but does have a coat of rustoloeum on the cut areas. Also, when it bottomed out a few times it cut up the sides of the tires a bit (see in pictures). It will not compromise the performance of them because there is allot of rubber there. The tires are wrangler duratracs and cost me $850 brand new. They only have about 4000 miles on them and have a ton of meat. Regular oil changes every 3000 miles, and fresh rotars, calipers, and pads. Here's where it gets tricky, I put the larger tires on at 100,000 miles, and they obviously change the ratios of things. For every mile the odometer reads the van actually travels 1.1 miles. The odometer reading is 107,266, but the van actually has 107,992 miles on it. make sense? you've got to come take a spin in this bad chicken if you know a thing about anything. You wont find a van in this condition with these miles ANYWHERE near here