So did you forget to tell us why getting a better version of exactly what you are using now is not the obvious solution?
Any Japanese pickup, any Japanese body on frame off roader with enough towing capacityThink if you actually need 4WD.
A Toyota Hilux, those things are just about bomb proof
Quote from: ezdog on January 27, 2019, 08:16:07 PMSo did you forget to tell us why getting a better version of exactly what you are using now is not the obvious solution?Not sure if you are trying to be funny or unintentionally/intentionally rude, but I do believe I did explain that very clearly.But I’ll do it again; with the tiny budget we have it’s kind of hard to really “upgrade” to anything better.Plus it’s a vehicle that will be sitting outside in a Forrest all year around, and only driving maybe 500 km per year and going through a lot of start / stops and very short drives the times it will be used, all while towing a heavy trailer. Plus the old tractor we had, got vandalized a few times.It’s not really going to be feasible to get anything “nice” and new, or anything that anyone would want to steal.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Hilux is what came to my mind too.It's been around long enough to find an older generation on the cheap I guess.Good luck with the search!
Quote from: MMR on January 27, 2019, 09:42:58 PMQuote from: ezdog on January 27, 2019, 08:16:07 PMSo did you forget to tell us why getting a better version of exactly what you are using now is not the obvious solution?Not sure if you are trying to be funny or unintentionally/intentionally rude, but I do believe I did explain that very clearly.But I’ll do it again; with the tiny budget we have it’s kind of hard to really “upgrade” to anything better.Plus it’s a vehicle that will be sitting outside in a Forrest all year around, and only driving maybe 500 km per year and going through a lot of start / stops and very short drives the times it will be used, all while towing a heavy trailer. Plus the old tractor we had, got vandalized a few times.It’s not really going to be feasible to get anything “nice” and new, or anything that anyone would want to steal.Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI was trying to be neither funny(clearly it seems) or rude.I simply did not understand from your first post why you wouldn't simply replace the one that has been working for you with another one that works a little better than the one that is dying now.To presume otherwise seems to suggest that I could read your mind somehow?Anyway sorry for any confusion that my reply may have caused,I was really trying to understand your needs better.Around here I wold find a small Toyota or Nissan Pickup that looks like crap but runs well for this.I am surprised to hear that a Tractor would be vandalized while a more normal vehicle might not but then who knows why things like that happen anyway really?
They would steal like the shift knobs, buttons, the seat and steering wheel, and then smash up the gauge cluster and different lights.
My suggestion would be to take the money you have now and fix the Daihatsu. You already know what works on it and what needs fixing on it. If you buy another older used vehicle to replace the Daihatsu you are just buying somebody else's problems that may result in an inconvenient walk back to the lodge and some angry clients.