Wanting advice on buying a used

[Blanco]

Originally Posted by subiesailor

LOL stick to your guns on the Bronco pricing! I had some joker keep emailing me that I was way over priced. I finally responded and told him sorry dude it sold for ask and the difference between a buyer and seller - the seller owns the vehicle and can sell it for whatever they want. LOL

I love the bronco & so does the wife.
So I'm good with keeping it, but like I said with my studies on line my next rig is gonna be an OutBack.

[Blanco]

So what a better actual Off Road rig?
The OutBack or Forester?

[subiesailor]

Forester has slightly better entry and departure angles due to the shorter overhang but the OB and the Forester are very different regarding comfort and level of trim etc. Think of the Forester as the lower end product and the Ob as the high end product you get the general idea. The difference off road is very little a good rut running up the length of the road is going to end your adventure with either one.

[Blanco]

Originally Posted by subiesailor

Forester has slightly better entry and departure angles due to the shorter overhang but the OB and the Forester are very different regarding comfort and level of trim etc. Think of the Forester as the lower end product and the Ob as the high end product you get the general idea. The difference off road is very little a good rut running up the length of the road is going to end your adventure with either one.

Do you know what a Class 11 is?

[subiesailor]

Originally Posted by Blanco

Do you know what a Class 11 is?

Isn't that the old Bug? Are you asking if the Ob or Forrester can hang with the bug? Power wise yes - suspension travel and entry and departure clearance NO. If you can sort out how to mount the subaru engine over the rear axle and drive line and lop off some overhang your in business. LOL

For rally road type work the old Legacy was hot as is the WRX - which case all you need is grip and some gravel guards in the right spots and drive fast!

If your looking to getting into the super cheap rally stuff a good friend did the 1000 in a built up Nissan with 3ft travel got his ass kicked but loved every minute of it cost him over 1mill for the whole effort. Now he has an old Nissan sentra clapped out that he does some sort of HP rated rally racing in and has a blast with it. He said the number one thing you want in a rally ride is parts availability at local junk yards. Apparently he can find lots of parts for the Sentra ha ha... The subaru would probably be a little tough given I think nissan made more Sentras in 1999 than subaru has made Forresters or Outbacks period LOL

[Blanco]

Might point about the Class 11 was that the are simple with not too much ground clearance & power, so I'm figuring what they can do we should be ahead of them playing around in an OUTBACK?

I would hope anyways the a later model Subie would be better than the old stock bug platform that race's off road?

[subiesailor]

You would be surprised what that old bug will do! Hang up an overhang on a little rut and your stuck - no body work dragging on the ground your on your way. Actually I would say no the overhangs are your enemy on the subaru.

[Blanco]

Originally Posted by subiesailor

You would be surprised what that old bug will do! Hang up an overhang on a little rut and your stuck - no body work dragging on the ground your on your way. Actually I would say no the overhangs are your enemy on the subaru.

90% of the use of whatever Subie I buy will be in the street with the random dirt fun, as I posted pictures of before, I already have my serious off road toys.

['Radobaru]

How about an outback limited with baja suspension? I love mine and rage it on burly Colorado Jeep roads a lot. I don't think I ever hit anything underneath and I am not afraid to ride straight over 8" plus rocks with speed. The SUV's usually have to pull over for me

[Blanco]

Originally Posted by 'Radobaru

How about an outback limited with baja suspension? I love mine and rage it on burly Colorado Jeep roads a lot. I don't think I ever hit anything underneath and I am not afraid to ride straight over 8" plus rocks with speed. The SUV's usually have to pull over for me

Well......

Being I'm gonna be buying mostly to be the wifes main car from my fleet, my plan is when it needs new tires, getting the largest A/T tires that will fit to help in ground clearance & maybe a few minor mods & then consider it done, I say this Hoping I could control the addiction to modifying cars that I have alwYs had.