Gotlift01
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Loveland, Colorado
I'm usually not a very lucky person when it comes to finding smokin' deals...but finally some luck fell into my lap.
An old co-worker of my brothers ran into my brother a few weeks ago at Qdoba, and mentioned that he was thinking about selling his XJ. After talking with him a bit, he said he'd let it go for $2,000 bucks. The XJ is a '98 with 109,000 miles on it. Had OR-Fab bumpers front and rear, a Yakima roof rack, K&N air intake, H4 conversion head lights, a brand new Sony MP3 deck in it, and some new black steel rims. He also threw in the stock rims for it a well.
So without hesitation, my brother bought it from him. We took all the goodies off of it, and threw them on my brothers XJ.....and I bought it from him for $2,000 as a winter driver for my wife.
Here is some pics. I'm not a fan of the color at all....but for my wife, it's perfect!
It needed a wax job BADLY!! Here is a comparison.... He also removed the trim on the sides, but didn't strip the double sided tape off of it. So it was sun baked badly, and took forever to remove.
The flares were faded to crap...so I did a little masking and painted them up
The interior is flawless!! Cleanest interior I have seen in an XJ....makes mine in my XJ look like a pile of crap!
Overall this Jeep is incredibly clean. The paint could use someone that knows how to use a buffer proper, to go over it again and really bring the color back, but my hand wax did wonders. It also needs some new steering, but other than that it's mechanically sound.
I need to finish painting the bumper caps and put those back on, other than that, all it needs is license and insurance and it's ready to rock! It'll remain pretty much stock...maybe a 3" lift and some 31's, but nothing to exciting.
I think I got a pretty smokin deal on it, and my brother got a great score on some really nice parts!!
Here is his Jeep with the new bumpers and roof rack
An old co-worker of my brothers ran into my brother a few weeks ago at Qdoba, and mentioned that he was thinking about selling his XJ. After talking with him a bit, he said he'd let it go for $2,000 bucks. The XJ is a '98 with 109,000 miles on it. Had OR-Fab bumpers front and rear, a Yakima roof rack, K&N air intake, H4 conversion head lights, a brand new Sony MP3 deck in it, and some new black steel rims. He also threw in the stock rims for it a well.
So without hesitation, my brother bought it from him. We took all the goodies off of it, and threw them on my brothers XJ.....and I bought it from him for $2,000 as a winter driver for my wife.
Here is some pics. I'm not a fan of the color at all....but for my wife, it's perfect!
It needed a wax job BADLY!! Here is a comparison.... He also removed the trim on the sides, but didn't strip the double sided tape off of it. So it was sun baked badly, and took forever to remove.
The flares were faded to crap...so I did a little masking and painted them up
The interior is flawless!! Cleanest interior I have seen in an XJ....makes mine in my XJ look like a pile of crap!
Overall this Jeep is incredibly clean. The paint could use someone that knows how to use a buffer proper, to go over it again and really bring the color back, but my hand wax did wonders. It also needs some new steering, but other than that it's mechanically sound.
I need to finish painting the bumper caps and put those back on, other than that, all it needs is license and insurance and it's ready to rock! It'll remain pretty much stock...maybe a 3" lift and some 31's, but nothing to exciting.
I think I got a pretty smokin deal on it, and my brother got a great score on some really nice parts!!
Here is his Jeep with the new bumpers and roof rack
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