Faults:

My car radio slowly started to become unreliable with age and the cassette player stopped playing tapes. The Speakers blew as well as deteriorated with age and my tendency to play things loudly. However all are replaced easily with newer speakers and a CD player.

The AC never worked well after I bought it from a previous owner and efforts to fix it were forgotten. This kind of car is meant to be ridden with the windows down.

I did have problems with the brakes, but that turned to be a problem with the service place we were taking the car too.

General Comments:

This car is a lot of fun! The Manual transmission is by far the best feature. I learned to drive in this car and experienced many weather conditions and this car made it easy to get through. There are next to no blind spots when driving, you feel like you can see everything around you. It does however stress on highways at high speeds which is why I unfortunately had to sell the car because of my daily work commute. I would gladly buy another one for fun in the future!

Faults:

The brakes need replacing now. Also a little rust around rear wheel wells.

General Comments:

My first car, and I love it.

It has disk brakes on all wheels. That came in very handy on the ice roads of Alaska. Great ground clearance. One of the better cheap SUV. With only about 120hp it doesn't look like much, but I've pulled out some of the bigger guys that got stuck when off-roading. This truck can hold its own against most out there, it can really take a beating.

I added some off-road lights, and an air horn, but other than that is stock, and easy to maintain.

Faults:

Cost more than I expected to do a simple tuneup.

General Comments:

GOOD: Tough truck; good value for the money.

BAD: Underpowered even with a V-6; it eats more than I do (awful fuel economy).

I bought my Trooper a month ago from the original owner, and my complaints have been few and fairly far between. All in all, I adore this big beast of a vehicle. It was in extremely good condition; only a few rust spots which I think I can repair myself, mar the looks. This truck looks great; I love the older utilitarian feel the Trooper has.

It handles what limited emergency or whim off-roading I've taken it on fairly well; a few hills for the hell of it and a few grassy knolls in traffic jams to get back to exits I missed. The feel was not especially rough, which shocked me.

While I love Truckasaurus, she's not without her flaws. A tuneup ran me more than I thought it would, and the truck still almost didn't pass emissions. Also, the fuel economy on this thing is rough. Supposedly a factory-new Trooper got 17 mpg & change; suffice it to say that my Trooper at its current age/mileage is not making even that underwhelming number. While I do like my trucks to be of a fairly spartan level, the A/C stinks. It was switched to a modern, non-freon system, but while it's cool, it lack adequate pumping power. I still end up having to drop the windows if it's hot.

I do want to clarify, though. I adore my Trooper. While a wee bit underpowered, she does have enough giddy-up to do most of what I'd want it to do. It looks great for its age, and looks like it will be fairly reasonable to maintain once I get more familiar with its guts.

I paid $1,200.00 for it so I ave been quite pleased.