should i trade?

[ChazWhiteZ28-]

hey guys, do you think it in my best interest to trade my 95 six speed z28 with 73k miles for an 02 suburban z71 with 185k miles plus 1k for boot? both vehicles have no mechanical issues.

[Camaro96]

No

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[Chris]

No, you can find those suburbans all day long for cheap. Hard to find clean lt1 cars

[superspirit]

I'll vote NO!!!! as said burban's are everywhere, and that is a lot of miles. if you only have 73,000 om your F-body I'd be hangin on to that.

[popo8]

Agreed with the above.

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[ChazWhiteZ28-]

alright guys, thats what i was thinkin too, but then again everyone says f bodys are hard as hell to sell, and i figured i could get that 1k and then sell the burban?
idk. just an offer i got

[383z]

35225

[ChazWhiteZ28-]

What about taking 5500 for my car? I'm kinda needing some money to pay some.bills. I had a thread a while ago asking what my car was worth. And the general consensus was around 5 to 6k. You think that's a good price to take?

[ChazWhiteZ28-]

sold it today for 5500. some jerk off hit the driver side where the fender and bumper meet in the parking conmplex and put and small dent in it. came out on top i like to think. if i ever want another fourth gen in the near future, i will most likely buy a medium mileage one (150k) for cheap and just restore/ build it for fun.

[Catmaigne]

150k is medium? Lolwat

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[ChazWhiteZ28-]

i dont understand. some of these are over 20 years old. the average driver drives 10k miles a year. 10k times 20+ is 200k+ miles. consider these cars dont get driven as much, i consider 120-150k medium miles

[Catmaigne]

It's a performance car and someone's weekend toy, I don't think that applies. By the same logic, a '57 Belair averaging 10k a year would have nearly 600k so does that make one with 400k on it medium? I would consider anything over 120-130k to be high mileage and wouldn't want to work on it. Bearings wear, bores start to get out of round, piston slap and blowby becomes more prevalent, seals leak, bolts shear, and rust gets in your eye. It is really frustrating when a simple header swap turns into a head gasket job when a header bolt has to be drilled out.

[SJx408]

Hey hey now Catmaigne not all fbody cars with that mileage are rusted out POS. My car has 147k and people tell me all the time it still looks like it just rolled off the showroom floor and these are people who saw them when they really were brand new. Perhaps the engine may be aging but chassis and suspension is clean and body has no rust. Of course this is a Cali car and never really gets to see "winter". http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160302/221ecae09ff59abfc622ab06356232ec.jpghttp://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160302/d3ed1ef7f386dbe851a2810b487cf7b6.jpghttp://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160302/084b46ad076cda8abb50267708f57d27.jpg


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[Catmaigne]

I am generalizing, not saying you can't find a well maintained example with high miles although typically that's not the case. But it all comes down to who owned it.
What I am saying is that you can only heat cycle, cold start or load parts for so long. Bolts can gall and clearances open up, nothing you can do about it. Generally speaking, high mileage cars are harder to wrench on. By far, the easiest LT1 I've ever worked on was the Roadmaster with 61k. Never sheared a bolt, balancer came off without a puller, hub can be removed with ease, etc.

[superspirit]

A lot of those problems depend on what part of the country your in also. Out here in the desert region you'd have to force things to rust it aint gonna happen any other way. And it sure is nice to work on rust free 30 year old cars.

[popo8]

Hey hey now Catmaigne not all fbody cars with that mileage are rusted out POS. My car has 147k and people tell me all the time it still looks like it just rolled off the showroom floor and these are people who saw them when they really were brand new. Perhaps the engine may be aging but chassis and suspension is clean and body has no rust. Of course this is a Cali car and never really gets to see "winter". http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160302/221ecae09ff59abfc622ab06356232ec.jpghttp://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160302/d3ed1ef7f386dbe851a2810b487cf7b6.jpghttp://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160302/084b46ad076cda8abb50267708f57d27.jpg


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[SSlowBoat]

I am generalizing, not saying you can't find a well maintained example with high miles although typically that's not the case. But it all comes down to who owned it.
What I am saying is that you can only heat cycle, cold start or load parts for so long. Bolts can gall and clearances open up, nothing you can do about it. Generally speaking, high mileage cars are harder to wrench on. By far, the easiest LT1 I've ever worked on was the Roadmaster with 61k. Never sheared a bolt, balancer came off without a puller, hub can be removed with ease, etc.
My impala had 110k and was in worse shape than the 190k firebird I had, same with ltconvert camaro at 100k

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