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Hummer H3For the Hummer driver who wants the rugged look and off road capabilities of the Hummer, but in a smaller size and with a more fuel economy friendly engine.
been looking for an H3 Manual adventure with no luck for a little awhile and thought i would reach out to the forums to see if anyone else has this experience and what avenue they used to find it.
What I'm Looking for:
So i'm being really picky, but I would love an 09+ Adventure with Manual, would like to get it for $13k or less seeing the going rates for typically 5 cylinder H3s. I do understand if one ever goes on sale on a forum people know how rare it is and probably ask more than if a dealer randomly gets a hold of one then they don't really know how rare it is so I haven't looked at forum sales too much.
Reasons:
Manual: I am interested in the manual just because i have always loved the additional involvement to rowing your own gears
09+: for the research i've done the diffs were upgraded and you got Front and Rear Lockers. And I've noticed that
Ultimate Goal: Would like to build an overland vehicle with it, it's not going to be a DD, i have a 2018 F150 for that.
Result after looking for 2-3 months:
1) It appears any 09-10 manual is an absolute Unicorn find far less getting with an adventure package. I have not found one using auto tempest, ebay, cars.com, autotrader.
2) So i started looking for 07+ since I would like to get the 3.7 instead of 3.5. Typically at any given time I'm lucky to see one or two manual adventure H3s with any year.
3) I am willing to have it shipped from anywhere giving that I know how rare it is.
Questions/Comments:
1) Has anyone else looking for this unicorn in recent years and if so how did you find it?
2) I really don't want to give up the manual or adventure series package for the locking diff and lower range transfer case but idk if it's worth picking up a manual h3 without it and upgrading the diffs and transfer case? really would like not too.
3) open to any other input
thanks and would love to join the club with my own H3 one day!
yes thanks for looking, if I remember correctly I asked the owner to send a picture of the dashboard to see if it was really an adventure and it wasn’t because no locking diff button
When you know exactly what you want it just takes patience. It's also still winter most places and many people hold off selling a 4x4 until spring rolls around.
Overland = weight, weight = higher GCWR, H3 with manual trans lowers the overall GCWR significantly (1500lbs).
The GVWR is even lower than the GCWR.
The #s below are for a completely empty H3 (no you or passengers, recovery, luggage, dog, tent, winch, etc.)
2009 H3 Curb Weight: 4,696 lbs
Gross Vehicle Weight Rating: 6,001 lbs
Max Payload: 1,305 lbs (this will include you and all of your gear)
Remember just 1 gallon of water = 8.4lbs
You may want to rethink your plan on using a manual H3 for over-landing.
Thanks for bringing that up, I didn’t think to check payloads, I had noticed the towing was much less for the manual previously and didn’t think to check payload. At 1100-1300 lbs it is a little lower then I would have probably guessed. 4 really heavy people can weight about that much without any gear as you mentioned.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummer_H3
I did notice though that it appears if Wikipedia is right since the manual is lighter it actually appears to have the most payload capacity.
“Maximum towing capacities were 3,000 lb (1,361 kg) for the straight-5 with manual transmission, 4,500 lb (2,041 kg) for the straight-5 with automatic transmission, and 6,000 lb (2,722 kg) for the V8 with automatic transmission. Cargo volume with the second-row seats in the upright position was 25.0 cubic feet (0.71 m3) that could be expanded to a maximum of 62.8 cubic feet (1.78 m3) when the seats are folded down. The V8 models featured the least maximum payload capacity of just over 1,100 lb (499 kg) while straight-5, manual transmission models allowed the greatest payload at 1,300 lb (590 kg).”
wonder why that is?. if both trannys are in third,direct drive,1;1,what is so different?
what am i missing?
i would actually think stick shift would be better.
Looking for an H3 Manual Adventure
