Narrowing down year and model changes
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Narrowing down year and model changes - 3/28/2007 3:08:11 PM
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pikapp232
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Hey Everybody,
I have the double honor of being both a newbie and first time auto(not just hummer) buyer.
My first car was a college graduation present(dad's 2000 Jeep grand cherokee), and after 4 years of 9-5 I'm ready to get something for my taste.
First why I'm an H1 addict. In high school my friends dad owned a white H1 wagon and ski trips to the mountains were that much more fun when we all piled in and hit the slopes. Being in one for those hours got me the bug and I've always wanted to own one. Now I actually see that I have the means to.
So I hit lynch hummer, a few forums and have been doing the research, reading significant changes, hearing the honor and horror stories of certain models. I also looked at ebay, autotrader, even here to narrow down my budget, which is $25-28K and now I wonder what model years within that budget would even be realistic?
In a perfect world I would find a 97.5 model with ctis, heated windshield and upgraded a/c and basic. But I also understand that I may find a 93-95 thats been well taken care of.
Am I on the right track here, can anyone suggest other resources that I look into. Any help would be great, the forums awesome!
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RE: Narrowing down year and model changes - 3/28/2007 3:13:10 PM
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hmcoleap
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You will probably need to boost your budget by about 15k to get into a solid good-condition civilian truck... it would take a pretty lucky situation to find a decent civilian truck of any year and model for a price in the mid to high twenties.
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RE: Narrowing down year and model changes - 3/28/2007 5:58:57 PM
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Hummerfreak
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You will probably need to boost your budget by about 15k to get into a solid good-condition civilian truck... it would take a pretty lucky situation to find a decent civilian truck of any year and model for a price in the mid to high twenties.
 pikapp, but he's right. I myself have been searching for an H1. My budget was around 40K and I am having a hard time finding something in good condition. 
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RE: Narrowing down year and model changes - 3/28/2007 7:49:29 PM
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pikapp232
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Thanks for the advice, the good thing is I can wait for the right deal to come along and I'm not going to blindly run somewhere and buy an H1 just to buy one(although it would rule to do so).
I've seen some mid 90's models on ebay, craigslist and autoextra for high 20's, low 30's. Should I be cautious of those?
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RE: Narrowing down year and model changes - 3/28/2007 8:09:54 PM
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Muddydawg75
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Does it have to be an H1? I can appreciate your budget... but this vehicle also has a higher maintenance cost... as I am sure you already realize...
meanwhile H2's are going to low 30's / high 20's...
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RE: Narrowing down year and model changes - 3/28/2007 10:08:26 PM
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Hummerfreak
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I was actually checking that same H1 out chsnprodigy, until I read one of your last threads! Thanks for the heads up. I live in Las Vegas, so that would have been a HUGE wasted trip.
And pikapp, the ones on ebay do look nicely priced, but if you look at the "completed" auctions, very few of them have actually sold. Most "did not meet reserve"...something to think about.
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RE: Narrowing down year and model changes - 3/28/2007 10:12:04 PM
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chsnprodigy
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No problem hummer freak. It only took me about 5 minutes to make my disicion not to get that H1. The pictures look nice, but the guy didnt even clean out the interior when I went and looked at it.
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RE: Narrowing down year and model changes - 4/23/2007 8:55:40 AM
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hmcoleap
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Not necessarily - there are some good deals to be found out there... a mid-nineties H1 in the low 30's is not uncommon. But, you will likely have to do some degree of reconditioning/repairs to get them into reliable good working order in the long term and depending on the nature of those issues, it could cost you $5k plus right off the bat, or it could be an easy fix.
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ORIGINAL: pikapp232
Thanks for the advice, the good thing is I can wait for the right deal to come along and I'm not going to blindly run somewhere and buy an H1 just to buy one(although it would rule to do so).
I've seen some mid 90's models on ebay, craigslist and autoextra for high 20's, low 30's. Should I be cautious of those?
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