Well, I've been stalking a lot of good threads over the past couple of weeks, so I figured I would stop in and introduce myself. I bought a 1998 TJ Sahara edition a couple of weeks ago. It's in great shape for having over 200,000 miles on it!
I was actually on 'vacation'. By vacation, I mean took a week off, drove from Oregon to Idaho to paint my Mother-in-laws kitchen. My bonus had come in the week before, and my wife and I had agreed that it was time to buy the jeep I had wanted for a long time. So here I am 800 miles from home perusing craigslist for a jeep. I had a self-imposed budget of $5000, and was primarily looking at YJs, but an occasional TJ would hit the radar. Well this one pops up. It's three hours south into Utah, has high miles and I scroll on. But I kept going back to it. The dark green/tan combo in the Sahara package is just a sexy vehicle (I know you all agree).
I may have gone a little above my budget, but the PO met me half way. So, I meet a guy I don't know in a dark parking lot of a Love's Truckstop to exchange a good chunk of change for a jeep. Took a bit of a chance only seeing it in the dark, but the PO carefully walked me through everything that he knew to be wrong with it, and I had the knowledge that he had just driven it almost two hours to meet me, so I figured it would make it to Idaho. It did. But, I trailered it home from Idaho to Oregon.
Just realized after writing all of this, I don't have any pictures on my computer, so I'll get those posted in the next post.
For now, it is just baseline maintenance. It needs new shocks, some new hard top seals (Also came with a soft top that is in great condition), it's currently sitting on 33's with no lift (which causes quite a bit of rubbing) So, I have some stuff to sort out.
I was actually on 'vacation'. By vacation, I mean took a week off, drove from Oregon to Idaho to paint my Mother-in-laws kitchen. My bonus had come in the week before, and my wife and I had agreed that it was time to buy the jeep I had wanted for a long time. So here I am 800 miles from home perusing craigslist for a jeep. I had a self-imposed budget of $5000, and was primarily looking at YJs, but an occasional TJ would hit the radar. Well this one pops up. It's three hours south into Utah, has high miles and I scroll on. But I kept going back to it. The dark green/tan combo in the Sahara package is just a sexy vehicle (I know you all agree).
I may have gone a little above my budget, but the PO met me half way. So, I meet a guy I don't know in a dark parking lot of a Love's Truckstop to exchange a good chunk of change for a jeep. Took a bit of a chance only seeing it in the dark, but the PO carefully walked me through everything that he knew to be wrong with it, and I had the knowledge that he had just driven it almost two hours to meet me, so I figured it would make it to Idaho. It did. But, I trailered it home from Idaho to Oregon.
Just realized after writing all of this, I don't have any pictures on my computer, so I'll get those posted in the next post.
For now, it is just baseline maintenance. It needs new shocks, some new hard top seals (Also came with a soft top that is in great condition), it's currently sitting on 33's with no lift (which causes quite a bit of rubbing) So, I have some stuff to sort out.
