Don't Overpay for your Delica

[deli1733]

that delica rules! i want it

[Erebus]

That's a serious lift. Looks great, but I wonder how well it was done. I'll wait until Jesse has seen it and commented!

[almac]

sometimes i wonder if i overpaid for my L300 ; other times i don't.
i guess its a matter of perspective really.
if i bought a stock deli L300 for say $7-8000, i wouldve had to drop several grand for all the options my bus currently has... 3" lift, 31" boots, camperized, custom rack, water tank & sink, WVO system...
to get er done PROPERLY, i think the lift alone wouldve cost me about a grand. the WVO? maybe another grand.
however, sometimes i wish i had bought stock and done it myself; this way i would know what really has been done. however if i had gone this route, i probably wouldnt have had it on the road for about a month.
it seems that every few weeks, either i or someone else notices something wrong with her, costing me more clams.
in december it was the transmission... ouch!
Last week it was exhaust. yesterday it looks like shocks(wish rancho still had the rs9000 wireless on sale).
i just hope that soon, she will just let me drive her for a while, without any serious issues.

anyways, what it come down to is, do you want to drive it now and enjoy it, or buy it stock and drive it later after everything has been done.

[jessef]

sometimes i wonder if i overpaid for my L300 ; other times i don't.
i guess its a matter of perspective really.
if i bought a stock deli L300 for say $7-8000, i wouldve had to drop several grand for all the options my bus currently has... 3" lift, 31" boots, camperized, custom rack, water tank & sink, WVO system...
to get er done PROPERLY, i think the lift alone wouldve cost me about a grand. the WVO? maybe another grand.
however, sometimes i wish i had bought stock and done it myself; this way i would know what really has been done. however if i had gone this route, i probably wouldnt have had it on the road for about a month.
it seems that every few weeks, either i or someone else notices something wrong with her, costing me more clams.
in december it was the transmission... ouch!
Last week it was exhaust. yesterday it looks like shocks(wish rancho still had the rs9000 wireless on sale).
i just hope that soon, she will just let me drive her for a while, without any serious issues.

anyways, what it come down to is, do you want to drive it now and enjoy it, or buy it stock and drive it later after everything has been done.

Bro. You have some issues with the dollar value and Delica's. It seems that no one can persuade you to see otherwise.

One week you brag and the next you complain.

No offense, but these are all vehicles and vehicles take money for them to be maintained properly.

With your outlook, you could have easily bought a 7-8k Delica and done what Andy did to his (your current one) for another 4-5k (if you can find someone to do that type of custom work for you) putting you at 12-13k. Once you're there, you'd still probably put in 2-3k in mechanical service putting you at 15-16k. This price is quite normal for many current Delica owners if you really want to know. All of a sudden the timing belt skips a few teeth and boom, you're 3k+ into a new engine. What you don't seem to comprehend is that anything can go wrong, even with a newly tuned/maintained Delica.

Seriously. You have one of the coolest, most unique L300's out there, created by a very talented fabricator, and you're complaining.

Ditch your sour outlook and enjoy your ride.

Or maybe just sell it to a very appreciative person and go with your, buy cheap and put money in later, option.