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Good luck!
David
I bought a 1999 Trooper in August 2000. It was driven by a regional isuzu rep and had 7800 miles. Since it had never been sold and the gave me the manufacturers certificate of origin, the vehicle was still considered *new*, which qualified if for some favorable financing I obtained privately.
It came with virtually every option offered. Performance pkg + leather + moonroof + woodtrim + hitch + multimeter.
$25,900
I'm considering new shocks. the truck blows around on the turnpike when its windy. other than that I'm very *happy*. the more I drive it, the more I like the truck.
Great looking too! I've got black which looks great in the monocromatic paint.
My kids love it too.
I commute in a '94 S-10 and SWMBO drives a '93 Bonneville (with all of 22,700 miles on it) so the Trooper won't see too much action, but we'll be using it on weekends and trips. I'll be happy to get the first 500 miles on it so I can stay with the flow of traffic. Right now I'm pretty much restricted to the right lane and have to put up with people scowling and shaking the heads (and a few fists) as the zip past. The speed limit might be 55, but believe me, you don't want to drive that slow. Anything under 65 is gonna p*ss people off.
Anyway, I probably won't have much to say on here but will lurk in the shadows and read what you all have to say.
Regards,
Charlie
Oh yeah - in case some of you aren't familiar with it - SWMBO is She Who Must Be Obeyed
My name is Chris Miller. Some of you might know me from Trooper part I where I *ignore* placed my greeting.
Recently purchased 2 LS Troopers and am really enjoying the trucks. Bought one for myself then liked it so much mom and I bought one for dad for Christmas. After seeing what people say they paid,I am very happy with the price of both trucks. can turn you on to a dealer who will beat any price I have seen posted. live in Memphis n. and don't see to much bad weather so they are both 2wd. It has been fun to read everyones posts on this site.
When I first purchased the truck I soon realized it takes some homework to find after market accessories. I would appreciate any ones thoughts on a semi-retail(retail services,not retail prices)web site devoted to catalouging and selling trooper accessories.
Hope everyone has a happy new year,
Chris
I didn't know you had a CR-V. By the way, now that you had Monroe matic on your Rodeo, how is the ride on moderately rough road compares to the CR-V?
My experience with Monroe matic is that the harshness on bumps and dips is tamed and it has better rebound control. I also readjusted the tighness of the upper bushings, just enough to make them bulge SLIGHTLY on the sides (or if with OEM bushings, just enough that you can't rotate the washers by hand). Of course, you can fine tune the tightness. Too tight, and it will pick up all the small road bumps. Too loose, and it will have excessive suspension movement especially at high speed, and the bushing's life will also suffer.
Just my 2 cents.
-mike
However, the tire supplier to Explorer doesn't have the safety belt clip that prevents the thread to fly off if it starts to separate plus it had horrible manufacturing quality standards.
If you just take a closer look at the manual, it states there that additional 2-5 PSI is recommended when driving at high speeds (>75 mph?) for an extended periods of time.
Can we say Grocery Getting Soccer Moms/Dads who should be driving AWD Mini-vans but refuse to! They are the same people who don't notice or check TP
-mike
http://www.carreview.com/reviews/suv/index_byrating.shtml
-mike
Isuzu Forum Spokesman
Edmunds Isuzu Forum
IA Trooper Homepage
Peace.
-mike
I parked next to an older Explorer the other day. Two of the tires were WAY underinflated. I'm familiar with what a tire looks like when it has only 10 or 15 pounds in it, and that's what these 2 tires looked like. They were both on the driver's side, so how can the driver of that vehicle have any excuse for not noticing? Especially with all of the Explorer/Firestone junk going on, you would think that people might take a little bit of an interest in their own vehicles and their own safety. Instead, they'll wait until something bad happens, figure out who else to blame it on, then sue that other person/company.
I'll stop ranting now. Happy new year to everybody.
It looked pretty funny and the premise is that the parents are the world's two top secret agents that get captured, their two kids find out about it and what their mom and dad really do and have to save the day. You know, stuff that happens every day...LOL!
Anyway guess what the mom is driving the kids to school in at the start of the preview. A Dragon Green Trooper Limited!
Then a couple of scenes later the dad (Antonio Banderas) is getting ready to get into an obviously "tricked out for spy work" AXIOM!
Great to see Isuzu getting this kind of exposure and, I think, pretty clever marketing on their part!
Hope everyone's having a great New Year!
-Dave
P.S. - drmperalta, paisan and bluedevils...I agree totally on people who don't properly maintain their vehicles then are the first to blame someone else when they have a problem or accident!
Sad to say that a large segment of our society today refuses to take responsibility for their own actions and are, to hear them tell it, always the "victims"!!!!
Bugs the s**t out of me!
I'll get off my soapbox now...have a great day!
On that other topic, I too am baffled by the lack of basic care people take of their vehicles. When I see an underinflated tire on a moving vehicle, I try and flag the driver at a light. Usually I get that 'deer in a headlights' response that seems to say, "How could I have a flat?" It takes all kinds.
Anyway, have a great year, everyone.
David
Michiline Tires: How do they handle in snow/wet so far? Although I have almost a complete replacement set of Duellers for my Trooper, I'm sure I'll need to get new tires for it eventually, I've heard the Pirelli Scorpions are really good too.
Movies: I just hope that Isuzu doesn't end up like Apple, they are in every movie, but are still broke
-mike
Isuzu Forum Spokesman
Edmunds Isuzu Forum
IA Trooper Homepage
PS: The Hella 4000s with city lights are awsome. I'll write some more in Aftermarket section
-mike
Now, what can I do for the Isuzu Club? Are there other discussions you would like to add? Are you interested in setting up a live chat? Let me know!
KarenS
Owner's Club host
The new software is coming along...
Live chat would be nifty, I'm not sure when is good for people on here.
Thanks again for your help!
-mike
http://www.iace.com/ia/trooper
Having an Isuzu rep involved with the site would be tremendous. I don't know what you could do to help make that happen, though.
Anyway one of these has got broken and he cannot find the same style, apparently any that are offered now are shorter than what he has for the front, if anybody in this forum has an origional set or can point him in the right direction it would be much appreciated.
his e-mail address is lionspride@aol.com.
cheers Pat.
Otherwise the forum is working OK. I haven't decided if I like searching through multiple boards everyday vs having 1 most popular subject, but it seems to be generating a lot of traffic so OK. It is also much better now that we don't have to work hard to login and post messages.
Or just generate a new one called Isuzu General Discussion?
-mike
KarenS
Owner's Club host
The January 30 issue of Auto World Weekly (also www.autoworldweekly.com) has a short take on the 2001 Trooper. It's a "A Week With..." type of article. Only 2 pages, and not as much analysis as I was hoping for. But Trooper press coverage is pretty hard to come by, so any press coverage is a good thing. The article had mostly positive things to say, and the subtitle was something like "Still rugged, but now more refined."
The most disappointing thing about the article was that it didn't give any compelling reasons why the Trooper is a good choice for buyers. E.g. excellent value when you compare actual selling price (not MSRP), quality, durability, etc. I guess that's not something you should expect out of that type of article, though.
By the way, I really like that magazine. Despite the name, I think it's published only every 2 weeks. Lots of vehicle reviews, which is the main reason I read automotive mags.
-mike
The Trooper would undoubtedly win most if not all of the comparisons that it (rarely) gets included in if only actual the selling price was considered. Oh well, I really don't care when all is said and done. The Trooper sells well enough world wide that it will be around forever anyway and the lucky few of us who have bothered to investigate it have a vehicle that only 13,000 people get to buy a year in the US. This is probably the only vehicle I've ever owned that I don't see myself around every corner...LOL!
I'm Marian, we have a '99 Rodeo (I believe that in terms of packaging is similar to the LS version sold in the States, without the power windows/locks, cruise control and CD player...Just didn't want to pay CAN 4K more on those when buying it new)
It is a V6, 4WD, five speed, LSD, 4 wheel disk ABS brakes, skid plates, etc...
It has running boards, brush guard, tail garnishes, bug deflector, roof rack, wind and rain windows deflectors, fog lights, alarm system and only 23.000 km so far.
The price for the new truck was about CAN 29K + tax + some rust/paint/fabric/sound protection(half price) that we bought....The wind and rain deflectors were adds-on from Germany (Expensive, but I thought they'd solve the noise issue when driving with the windows opened. They didn't...:))
I've just changed the OEM shocks with the Monroe Sensatracs and I'm about to put in a CD player/ AM/FM instead of the factory cassette/AM/FM...
The handling seemed to have improved with the Sensatracs (less roll, I think, more in control overall)...
We mainly do on road(highway and some city driving, especially in the winter)...Done very limited off-road so far (e.g. climbing rocks by some lakes in our national parks)
The only times when I've used 4WD Lo was when climbing those rocks or when getting out of deep snow(stuck with the 4WD Hi)...
4WD Hi? On snow, ice, etc...Mainly we keep it in 2WD and I have a feeling that because of the LSD the truck (even if with rear wheel drive) has better traction then our front wheel drive sedan in snow and such...:)
We live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
It seems to me like a great truck!
Enjoy yours!
Cheers,
Marian
KarenS
Owner's Clubs host
Here's a link:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=539533741&r=0&t=0
-mike
-mike
I don't think he's bidding on his own stuff though. That's usually easy to track if someone is doing that. The same ebay ids would be showing up on all of his auctions. I looked through all of his auctions and didn't see the same id bidding on more than one. I'm confident that part is legit, but it does make you wonder where the wheels really came from.
I don't know how familiar you are with ebay, but regarding the price immediately going up... the way it works is the high bidder will only be the minimum bid increment over the next bidder. Right now the wheels are $277.50 The minimum bid increment is $5.00. So even if you bid $1000 right now, ebay will only put your bid at $5.00 over the other persons high bid.
For example, even though the price is now $277.50, the person with that bid may have a max bid of say $300. If you bid $280, then he would still be the high bidder at $285. Then if you bid $290, he'd still be on top at $295. But if you bid $350, then you'd be on top with a bid of $305, besting the current high bidder by $5.00. That's why it's best to wait until the very last minute and just bid your max bid. It's fun to find a hot auction and hit the "reload" button during the last two minutes of the auction. There's usually a flurry of activity.
One other tip... most people bid in round numbers (ie 250, 275, 300 etc.) Many people win by bidding odd numbers like $256.78. I've won auctions by $.05 before by doing this!
-mike
-mike