Lowest price/most miles 'reliable' pickup in todays pricing

[weeve]

Ive read all the chains on here i can find re: pickups but wondered if anyone could help as Ive never had one. Id like a cheap double cab pickup for carting my lads and their bikes about. Prefer isofix so that rules out a few. Dont need to travel far ... mostly 10-20 miles round trip and very occasionally 100m I'd guess. Weekends only type of thing..
Around us in rural land all the cheap stuff has been 'killed on the farm' so I will need to travel. I know one should only buy based on the actual vehicle but I tend to be retarded and wing it and hope for the best... Im assuming 100k miles is fine if they have seen a wiff of a service... so what price is the bottom of the barrel but which should be able to be nursed along for a few years? £7k?

[Macron]

"7k", "reliable", "pickup".

Pick two.

You're looking at ancient diesels, none of which have been owned by Doris to pop to the shops once a week and garaged.

You should probably, set a radius you're prepared to travel, see what's in budget, and go see. Consumables can be pricey, suspension sagging, and bodywork rough. Few interiors will be clean and tidy.

Check those that need cambelt replacements (ie search before you go) to factor in pricing, those are often disproportionately expensive.

With such low miles you will gum up DPFs and EGRs, and you should also take the bikes and make sure you're happy with where they will go. Old trucks frequently have broken lashing points, for example.

Personally I'd look at a van, same Euro 4 or 5 derv, keep the bikes inside.

Oh and check insurance on anything too, few companies accept your NCB "bc commercial", year 1 can be a shocker, and the weights, to make sure you know what speed limits apply.

[weeve]

Thank you. Appreciate the wider discussion, Useful.
7k isnt a limit - just a guess (which shows my ignorance perhaps) - so that one can change for the other two. Van or old MPV would do but 4x4 would be useful hence the current predilection for a pick up. Im the dufus of old diesels (what an allocade) and have an ML which I'll nurse until death (theirs and mine) as it doesnt owe me anything. No children on the way to school to kill with the fumes (except perhaps my own...).

[RVB]

Round here, pickup trucks have become the fashionable school run/shopping car/runabout for blokes, so are in high demand. Unless you're very lucky, you'll probably have to pay far more £££££ than you can imagine to get a half decent one.

Probably a year or two ago, a former work colleague of mine (he works in a science lab, has no need for a truck) who lives near me bought an 'affordable' one that looked good on paper (appearance, age, miles, history, price etc) and it ended up quickly emptying his bank account for numerous very expensive repairs.
I think eventually an unfixable or uneconomical to repair problem occurred or was found, and he had to scrap it, within a year losing the whole purchase cost and all the money he had spent on repairs.

[Macron]

weeve said:

Thank you. Appreciate the wider discussion, Useful.
7k isnt a limit - just a guess (which shows my ignorance perhaps) - so that one can change for the other two.

You can, and if you can find an L200 that isn't a rust bucket, had had the suspension and turbo changed, and the inside doesn't look like it's homed 14 labradors who run around a quarry every day, you might find something that suits at half that. Rare tho.

In or around that 7k budget, Isuzu has the best general rep for reliability, Hilux will always sell, both can still have bits break and rust can set in. Navara's snap, Ford's rust.

For more money (think Euro 6 compliance) you'd get more, but you're taking 50-100% on top of 7k as a reasonable entry point for moderate or good spec with sensible miles that stands a fighting chance of having been a tax dodging private car, and not smashing through dry stone walls. They do exist, but not at 7k.

[weeve]

spot on, thanks.
L200s seem less desirable here...'poorer' farms with old trucks seem to have old izuzus here. Im not a fussy man... it just has to limp about for a few years and not come with dead sheep in it

[georgeyboy12345]

I reckon you can get something decent starting around 7 grand. I think since usage will be relatively light, it should be ok. It's not like it'll be a working vehicle, clocking up hundreds of miles each day. Try to find one with FSH and keep on top of servicing and you'll be alright. Here are some ideas


Isuzu Rodeo 2.5 TD for only £6495
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202303014...


Nissan Navara 2.5 dCi with FSH
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202303205...


Ford Ranger 2.2 TDCi with FSH
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202303175...


Toyota Hilux 3.0 D-4D - a little more pricy, but it's a bit newer, plus timing belt, recent service and should be very reliable
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202301173...


VW Amarok 2.0 TDI - high miles, but it's still got another 100k of life left in it if you keep on top of servicing.
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202106234...


Mitsubishi L200 Barbarian 2.5 DI-D with FSH
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202303044...

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Korando:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202302144...

[braddo]

weeve said:

.... Id like a cheap double cab pickup for carting my lads and their bikes about. Prefer isofix so that rules out a few.

What kind of bikes and what size? Possibly quite small ones if you're talking about isofix?

[weeve]

Thanks for the replies. Just fyi I went to see a L200 locally at 6k. It was actually fine for what I need... would have been just right in fact ....but I couldnt get past the current owners 'dazzle' so will leave that one for someone else .... I also need to make space for it at home before committing.

Re bikes 2x 29ers, 2x24ers full size... but matters not when the rear wheels just hangs over the tailgate. Only got to get them around locally ... the pickup will look like a proper 'yank mobile' with bikes like that - although in the UK it looks like a proper '$ank mobile' obviously.

I care not...the out of towners will be readying their loins for their Easter visits as I type this. Many will be in their beautiful £70k+ Californias with bikes on the back ready to sleep in a stty cold layby while getting their insta angles ready so they can prove they are 'van life'. Good luck to them. We had a new Caravelle Exec 6 years ago but after scraping it more times than any new car deserves on the lanes around here it got flipped for junk cars, air tickets to real mountains and replacement expedition tents so the kids can pretend its the olden days when a bit of graft actually gets you the most reward.

Edited by weeve on Thursday 30th March 20:54

[KTMsm]

Should be able to get a decent double cab cheaper than £7k it's the single cabs that have gone up the most

Just have a google of whatever you like the look of as some have issues with chassis snapping and others have issues with cranks etc

Personally if you're not doing many miles I'd have a look at the American ones - I've had Rams and F150 etc they don't tend to break nor depreciate at this price level