Hello scotty im a 16 year old getting my first car and I found a 2005 highlander i6 100,000 miles for 4000$ barley any rust no weird noises... is this a good first vehicle? I live in the north were snow is terrible
Those are excellent vehicles Scotty loves them. Buy it immediatly if you get it checked by a mechanic and everything is in good shape. 100k is nothing for those.
They have timing belt, make sure that it has been replaced. Also, avoid the AWD version.
@yaser
he says the snow is terrible
Yes but with FWD, you can drive in snow too. Can’ You?
@yaser
it doesn't even compare
There is always a balance between what you have and what you need to pay for it. If you want AWD, you can buy a 80K car and enjoy driving it although you most likely loose lots of money in near future. The same thing is with the AWD old cars, you may enjoy driving it in snow, but you most likely pay way more to fix that thing. And believe or not, I lived in North and I know the situation, the FWD cars work as fine as AWD unless you drive like a maniac,
@yaser
I agree, I know morons who had 4wd vehicles who still got stuck during heavy snow storms, I had a s10 that was rwd only and that CONSTANTLY got stuck even with 300+ pounds on the axle. I currently drive a lesabre and it's fwd, it has no serious problems in the snow. Technically so long as you drive smart and slow, you shouldn't have any real issues in the snow regardless if it's awd, rwd, or fwd... Unless there's no weight on the axle thats doing all the work. Generally you don't want to have the pedal down when you get stuck, if you're not moving I found digging a small line out of the snow in front of your tires that move works, you want to go forward till you start to slide, stop, keeping that until you're moving, because you can actually break your automatic transmission by constantly spinning your tires and then suddenly getting traction on say asphalt.
