2007 Mitsubishi Outlander GS w/ 89,000 miles, keep or trade in?
#1
2007 Mitsubishi Outlander GS w/ 89,000 miles, keep or trade in?
Hi guys,
New to the forum, but not new to the Mitsubishi Outlander. I bought my 2007 Outlander GS with 11,600 miles on it for $17,000. Now, 10 years later, it has 89,000 miles. Overall it's in pretty good shape. No major dings or body issues, engine and tranny seem strong. I don't have a hitch, so I've never towed anything with it, but I'd like to get one to tow some motorcycles.
The worst thing it has had to endure is Pennsylvania winters/snow/salt, as I don't have a garage for it. The worst I've had to repair is an ABS sensor one time and the front coil spring broke, as was warned by a recall notice I received AFTER it already happened!
I really like the space/power/towing capacity of it. I'd like to add a toe hitch, aftermarket remote start, and maybe a quality aftermarket sunroof, installed professionally by a reputable company.
I'm guessing if I tried to sell it now, I may be able to get $5000 for it.
But, the more I look at new/newer vehicles for $20-30K+, I'm starting to realize that this vehicle checks most of the boxes I care about....ample storage space, great power, drives relatively sporty (ignoring major torque steer), has selectable AWD, doesn't get too bad gas mileage, etc...
How has the long term reliability been? I've always had it serviced regularly. I have no reason to think that anything catastrophic will happen to the engine or tranny any time soon. The body appears fine, but the salt must have had an impact on the coil spring breaking, even though that was a known recall issue.
My thought is that instead of spending all the money on a new vehicle, that I could put a few thousand to spruce up my current ride and make me sort of fall in love with it again. It's my main family vehicle, I have a wife and 5 year old daughter. It has plenty of space for our annual trips to the beach and other vacations.
Thoughts? Anything I should watch out for as it is heading towards 100,000 miles? I just had the major 80,000 mile service done last year. I put roughly 9000 miles on it a year, as I live very close to my job and usually ride my motorcycle during the spring and summer.
Thanks for any help!
Joe
New to the forum, but not new to the Mitsubishi Outlander. I bought my 2007 Outlander GS with 11,600 miles on it for $17,000. Now, 10 years later, it has 89,000 miles. Overall it's in pretty good shape. No major dings or body issues, engine and tranny seem strong. I don't have a hitch, so I've never towed anything with it, but I'd like to get one to tow some motorcycles.
The worst thing it has had to endure is Pennsylvania winters/snow/salt, as I don't have a garage for it. The worst I've had to repair is an ABS sensor one time and the front coil spring broke, as was warned by a recall notice I received AFTER it already happened!
I really like the space/power/towing capacity of it. I'd like to add a toe hitch, aftermarket remote start, and maybe a quality aftermarket sunroof, installed professionally by a reputable company.
I'm guessing if I tried to sell it now, I may be able to get $5000 for it.
But, the more I look at new/newer vehicles for $20-30K+, I'm starting to realize that this vehicle checks most of the boxes I care about....ample storage space, great power, drives relatively sporty (ignoring major torque steer), has selectable AWD, doesn't get too bad gas mileage, etc...
How has the long term reliability been? I've always had it serviced regularly. I have no reason to think that anything catastrophic will happen to the engine or tranny any time soon. The body appears fine, but the salt must have had an impact on the coil spring breaking, even though that was a known recall issue.
My thought is that instead of spending all the money on a new vehicle, that I could put a few thousand to spruce up my current ride and make me sort of fall in love with it again. It's my main family vehicle, I have a wife and 5 year old daughter. It has plenty of space for our annual trips to the beach and other vacations.
Thoughts? Anything I should watch out for as it is heading towards 100,000 miles? I just had the major 80,000 mile service done last year. I put roughly 9000 miles on it a year, as I live very close to my job and usually ride my motorcycle during the spring and summer.
Thanks for any help!
Joe
#2
Hi guys,
New to the forum, but not new to the Mitsubishi Outlander. I bought my 2007 Outlander GS with 11,600 miles on it for $17,000. Now, 10 years later, it has 89,000 miles. Overall it's in pretty good shape. No major dings or body issues, engine and tranny seem strong. I don't have a hitch, so I've never towed anything with it, but I'd like to get one to tow some motorcycles.
The worst thing it has had to endure is Pennsylvania winters/snow/salt, as I don't have a garage for it. The worst I've had to repair is an ABS sensor one time and the front coil spring broke, as was warned by a recall notice I received AFTER it already happened!
I really like the space/power/towing capacity of it. I'd like to add a toe hitch, aftermarket remote start, and maybe a quality aftermarket sunroof, installed professionally by a reputable company.
I'm guessing if I tried to sell it now, I may be able to get $5000 for it.
But, the more I look at new/newer vehicles for $20-30K+, I'm starting to realize that this vehicle checks most of the boxes I care about....ample storage space, great power, drives relatively sporty (ignoring major torque steer), has selectable AWD, doesn't get too bad gas mileage, etc...
How has the long term reliability been? I've always had it serviced regularly. I have no reason to think that anything catastrophic will happen to the engine or tranny any time soon. The body appears fine, but the salt must have had an impact on the coil spring breaking, even though that was a known recall issue.
My thought is that instead of spending all the money on a new vehicle, that I could put a few thousand to spruce up my current ride and make me sort of fall in love with it again. It's my main family vehicle, I have a wife and 5 year old daughter. It has plenty of space for our annual trips to the beach and other vacations.
Thoughts? Anything I should watch out for as it is heading towards 100,000 miles? I just had the major 80,000 mile service done last year. I put roughly 9000 miles on it a year, as I live very close to my job and usually ride my motorcycle during the spring and summer.
Thanks for any help!
Joe
New to the forum, but not new to the Mitsubishi Outlander. I bought my 2007 Outlander GS with 11,600 miles on it for $17,000. Now, 10 years later, it has 89,000 miles. Overall it's in pretty good shape. No major dings or body issues, engine and tranny seem strong. I don't have a hitch, so I've never towed anything with it, but I'd like to get one to tow some motorcycles.
The worst thing it has had to endure is Pennsylvania winters/snow/salt, as I don't have a garage for it. The worst I've had to repair is an ABS sensor one time and the front coil spring broke, as was warned by a recall notice I received AFTER it already happened!
I really like the space/power/towing capacity of it. I'd like to add a toe hitch, aftermarket remote start, and maybe a quality aftermarket sunroof, installed professionally by a reputable company.
I'm guessing if I tried to sell it now, I may be able to get $5000 for it.
But, the more I look at new/newer vehicles for $20-30K+, I'm starting to realize that this vehicle checks most of the boxes I care about....ample storage space, great power, drives relatively sporty (ignoring major torque steer), has selectable AWD, doesn't get too bad gas mileage, etc...
How has the long term reliability been? I've always had it serviced regularly. I have no reason to think that anything catastrophic will happen to the engine or tranny any time soon. The body appears fine, but the salt must have had an impact on the coil spring breaking, even though that was a known recall issue.
My thought is that instead of spending all the money on a new vehicle, that I could put a few thousand to spruce up my current ride and make me sort of fall in love with it again. It's my main family vehicle, I have a wife and 5 year old daughter. It has plenty of space for our annual trips to the beach and other vacations.
Thoughts? Anything I should watch out for as it is heading towards 100,000 miles? I just had the major 80,000 mile service done last year. I put roughly 9000 miles on it a year, as I live very close to my job and usually ride my motorcycle during the spring and summer.
Thanks for any help!
Joe
Looks and sounds like a keeper to me...maybe some rustproofing. you don't drive it much and you seem like you are keeping up on your scheduled maintenance. I would think you can get at least 5 more years out of it.,,,..Best of Luck
#3
Keep on trucking
Hi guys,
New to the forum, but not new to the Mitsubishi Outlander. I bought my 2007 Outlander GS with 11,600 miles on it for $17,000. Now, 10 years later, it has 89,000 miles. Overall it's in pretty good shape. No major dings or body issues, engine and tranny seem strong. I don't have a hitch, so I've never towed anything with it, but I'd like to get one to tow some motorcycles.
The worst thing it has had to endure is Pennsylvania winters/snow/salt, as I don't have a garage for it. The worst I've had to repair is an ABS sensor one time and the front coil spring broke, as was warned by a recall notice I received AFTER it already happened!
I really like the space/power/towing capacity of it. I'd like to add a toe hitch, aftermarket remote start, and maybe a quality aftermarket sunroof, installed professionally by a reputable company.
I'm guessing if I tried to sell it now, I may be able to get $5000 for it.
But, the more I look at new/newer vehicles for $20-30K+, I'm starting to realize that this vehicle checks most of the boxes I care about....ample storage space, great power, drives relatively sporty (ignoring major torque steer), has selectable AWD, doesn't get too bad gas mileage, etc...
How has the long term reliability been? I've always had it serviced regularly. I have no reason to think that anything catastrophic will happen to the engine or tranny any time soon. The body appears fine, but the salt must have had an impact on the coil spring breaking, even though that was a known recall issue.
My thought is that instead of spending all the money on a new vehicle, that I could put a few thousand to spruce up my current ride and make me sort of fall in love with it again. It's my main family vehicle, I have a wife and 5 year old daughter. It has plenty of space for our annual trips to the beach and other vacations.
Thoughts? Anything I should watch out for as it is heading towards 100,000 miles? I just had the major 80,000 mile service done last year. I put roughly 9000 miles on it a year, as I live very close to my job and usually ride my motorcycle during the spring and summer.
Thanks for any help!
Joe
New to the forum, but not new to the Mitsubishi Outlander. I bought my 2007 Outlander GS with 11,600 miles on it for $17,000. Now, 10 years later, it has 89,000 miles. Overall it's in pretty good shape. No major dings or body issues, engine and tranny seem strong. I don't have a hitch, so I've never towed anything with it, but I'd like to get one to tow some motorcycles.
The worst thing it has had to endure is Pennsylvania winters/snow/salt, as I don't have a garage for it. The worst I've had to repair is an ABS sensor one time and the front coil spring broke, as was warned by a recall notice I received AFTER it already happened!
I really like the space/power/towing capacity of it. I'd like to add a toe hitch, aftermarket remote start, and maybe a quality aftermarket sunroof, installed professionally by a reputable company.
I'm guessing if I tried to sell it now, I may be able to get $5000 for it.
But, the more I look at new/newer vehicles for $20-30K+, I'm starting to realize that this vehicle checks most of the boxes I care about....ample storage space, great power, drives relatively sporty (ignoring major torque steer), has selectable AWD, doesn't get too bad gas mileage, etc...
How has the long term reliability been? I've always had it serviced regularly. I have no reason to think that anything catastrophic will happen to the engine or tranny any time soon. The body appears fine, but the salt must have had an impact on the coil spring breaking, even though that was a known recall issue.
My thought is that instead of spending all the money on a new vehicle, that I could put a few thousand to spruce up my current ride and make me sort of fall in love with it again. It's my main family vehicle, I have a wife and 5 year old daughter. It has plenty of space for our annual trips to the beach and other vacations.
Thoughts? Anything I should watch out for as it is heading towards 100,000 miles? I just had the major 80,000 mile service done last year. I put roughly 9000 miles on it a year, as I live very close to my job and usually ride my motorcycle during the spring and summer.
Thanks for any help!
Joe
#4
Keep it. At 89k miles, that's a toddler still.
I've just done maintenance, which gets a bit painful every 100k miles (timing belt and spark plugs)...regardless if you do it yourself or have someone else do it. As long as fluids are changed regularly as they should, very dependable.
I've just done maintenance, which gets a bit painful every 100k miles (timing belt and spark plugs)...regardless if you do it yourself or have someone else do it. As long as fluids are changed regularly as they should, very dependable.
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