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  1. J

    buying high mileage FJR

    That's what I told them.... There aren't that many idiots that would buy it at any price, so they better jump on it....
  2. J

    buying high mileage FJR

    I offered $1500 out the door, but I don't think the salesguy is even taking it to mgmt. I'm going to keep looking.. I might call them next week and tell them I'm still interested if I haven't found something else....
  3. J

    buying high mileage FJR

    Thanks for the advice everyone... I'll tell them that I would have to get it for way under what they asking...
  4. J

    buying high mileage FJR

    I figure it will have problems, but it would be nice to avoid engine/tranny/final drive problems that are too extensive... yeah, it's definitely cheating, but it would be fun to just have the thing survive to absurd miles (although 180k is well on it's way to absurd)...
  5. J

    buying high mileage FJR

    I figure $2500 is pretty reasonable if I get 3 or 4 years of service out of it I would be happy. At that point, I would probably part it out instead of trying to sell it with such high miles. I'm hoping the dealer accepts my offer, because how many idiots are going to buy a 180k miles bike at...
  6. J

    buying high mileage FJR

    I agree it's pretty well spent, that's why I would want it for cheap. I definitely am not going to get it for free.... :) They guy who owned it before apparently took pretty decent care of it considering he racked up 20k+ miles/year. I only do about 10k/year.
  7. J

    buying high mileage FJR

    I went and looked at a 2003 FJR with 185k miles. It looked really good, started up from cold instantly, doesn't smoke, no fluid leaks. It has some minor scratches on the fairing where it looks like it fell over at one point. Zero farkles, so I'll need to at least add auxillary lights and heated...
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