Another New Canuck

mawz · Feb 24, 2012

I'm living in Toronto, an IT guy just finishing up an educational upgrade to be an Electrical Engineer specializing in IC design.

I just bought a near-mint 2000 Ranger XLT Supercab 4x2 with the Sport package and just about every option on it. ~125000km and it had obviously been babied. Sweet little green truck which I'm looking forward to owning for a good long while. I won't be doing anything crazy to it, but it will get a selected set of upgrades over the next few years to improve performance and utility. Its mostly my daily driver but will also be seeing light off-road and general fun use.

Green Beauty by mawz_models, on Flickr

Green Beauty by mawz_models, on Flickr

The only short-term upgrades I'll be doing are a tonneau cover and possibly a set of more dirt-friendly tires.

Grey_04 · Feb 24, 2012

welcome to trs.. dam clean truck congrats.

K.Strong · Feb 24, 2012

Welcome! Very clean truck.

mawz · Feb 24, 2012

Thanks for the welcome.

The truck was a real lucky find, I was looking for a real cheap one, but checked a used dealer that normally carries higher-end stuff only just because the family's had good luck with that dealer before. And they had this little gem sitting in the back of the lot. They'd only kept it because it was so unusually clean and low-mileage for a 2000, the dealer normally only deals with 1-5 year old vehicles. Couple hours later I was signing the papers for it.

Mark_88 · Feb 25, 2012

Welcome to TRS...very nice colour...and it looks really good...

Did you have a look at the frame for rust??? Not that you should worry too much if it was babied...but worth having a look at and maybe plan some preventative maintenance...always pays off in the long run...

Oh, and if you have some extra cash you might consider rust proofing the body regularly...

escort_gts · Feb 25, 2012

Nice truck. Welcome aboard.

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mawz · Feb 25, 2012

Mark_88 said:
Welcome to TRS...very nice colour...and it looks really good...

Did you have a look at the frame for rust??? Not that you should worry too much if it was babied...but worth having a look at and maybe plan some preventative maintenance...always pays off in the long run...

Oh, and if you have some extra cash you might consider rust proofing the body regularly...

The frame's good on rust, it's been kept up and is undercoated. The bumpers were shot (it's a Northern Ontario-sourced truck, so salt was getting up there in the winter) but the dealer had replaced them. And yeah, it will get regular undercoat treatments since I'm planning on keeping it long-term.

06RangerXLT · Feb 25, 2012

Welcome! Why dont you check out the canada section and join the ontario ranger club. We have a facebook page as well, with i believe 106 members ATM. A meet is planned for April 29th in brantford.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/OntarioRangerClub/

mawz · Feb 25, 2012

06RangerXLT said:
Welcome! Why dont you check out the canada section and join the ontario ranger club. We have a facebook page as well, with i believe 106 members ATM. A meet is planned for April 29th in brantford.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/OntarioRangerClub/

Already joined up and hopefully I'll be able to make it out to Brantford

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