Hey Scotty, I found a 1994 Toyota Pickup truck for $2000. It has a repaired frame, not an atrocious rust bucket, interior is in decent shape and still runs and shifts good. Here’s the big kicker though, it has 550,000 miles on it. It also has a brand new fuel pump, new leafs springs, and new exhaust. If I check it out and it still runs and shifts okay, and if the frame has indeed been repaired, should I take a chance on it and buy it? Could it be a decent truck for a certain period of time? Or should I keep looking for another lower mileage pickup truck?
As good as the old Toys are, I would keep looking. And I drive a 1981 Toy truck.
Not with that mileage. You need to rebuild the engine and transmission pretty soon and it will cost you way more than what you want to pay for the truck now.
I wouldn't do that either. The mileage is just crazy. But if you can can the price down more, maybe to around $1k, then why not. It can be a good work clunker for a while and then junk it when something goes wrong.
When a car reaches 500k+ mileage- run away because you would be insane if you really wanted to see if you could get 1 million miles with the original engine/transmission.
