With more and more travel between St. Louis, Charlotte, and elsewhere, my wife Bonnie and I had been looking for a vehicle to replace our 17 year old Expedition. Having driven two that are in the family, we were really considering the current generation of Explorer but just couldn't bring ourselves to spending that kind of money on a third vehicle in a two driver household.
One of the things that inspired me to take a look at the last generation of Explorers was the satisfaction one of my bosses had with his '05 company Explorer. With more and more out of town work, he had been driving allot of miles. One time I asked him how many miles he had on it, he told me to take a look....
400,xxx miles!
As mentioned above, I have driven the current generation Explorers and really liked the power and how they drove. With the current engine offerings in mind......:
......and using the base 3.5 engine as my baseline, I researched the older, '08-'10 Explorer engine specs:
I was leaning towards specifying the V8 in my search criteria, but what really galvanized that thought was the EPA fuel economy.
Sooooo, I gave a try at searching nationwide for 2008-2010 V8 Explorers under 45,000 miles. About 10 showed up, among them this one owner 2008 Eddie Bauer with 18,5xx miles caught my eye.
The Carfax came up clean, the OASIS showed it had never been back to the dealer for any warranty work of any kind and the original selling dealer was the same dealership that currently had it for sale. The only downside was the location, Springfield, VA., a suburb of Washington D.C. After several phone calls and allot of hand wringing the decision was made to put down a deposit and fly to D.C. to take a look and possibly purchase.
One of the things that inspired me to take a look at the last generation of Explorers was the satisfaction one of my bosses had with his '05 company Explorer. With more and more out of town work, he had been driving allot of miles. One time I asked him how many miles he had on it, he told me to take a look....
400,xxx miles!
As mentioned above, I have driven the current generation Explorers and really liked the power and how they drove. With the current engine offerings in mind......:
......and using the base 3.5 engine as my baseline, I researched the older, '08-'10 Explorer engine specs:
I was leaning towards specifying the V8 in my search criteria, but what really galvanized that thought was the EPA fuel economy.
Sooooo, I gave a try at searching nationwide for 2008-2010 V8 Explorers under 45,000 miles. About 10 showed up, among them this one owner 2008 Eddie Bauer with 18,5xx miles caught my eye.
The Carfax came up clean, the OASIS showed it had never been back to the dealer for any warranty work of any kind and the original selling dealer was the same dealership that currently had it for sale. The only downside was the location, Springfield, VA., a suburb of Washington D.C. After several phone calls and allot of hand wringing the decision was made to put down a deposit and fly to D.C. to take a look and possibly purchase.
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New airplane?? 
haha...exactly. ....but awesome story and glad it went as flawless as it did!
