FS: 2005 XLT 4x4 XC with trans issue. $6,500
06-08-2012, 08:34 PM
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FS: 2005 XLT 4x4 XC with trans issue. $6,500
This is a 2005 XLT 4x4 xtracab with a 6.5 foot bed and 175,000 miles. It's silver with a gray cloth interior. Except for the transmission, the truck runs and drives great. Engine is very smooth at idle and when accelerating, steering is tight with no shakes or pulling to one side, brakes are firm with no pulsations or pulling when stopping, and the A/C is ice cold.
The transmission has two problems, no reverse and no overdrive. For the first problem, you just have to be careful how you park, always find a pull through space, or if you're on an uphill slope, roll backwards into the space. For no OD, as long as you do mostly in town driving, it's not a major issue. Even if you do get on the highway, 55 mph is still just 2,000 rpm so it's not too bad. The display in the dash shows TRANS FAULT and the OD light flashes so it should have a code stored, but I'm assuming the worse, and that a fluid change or new shift solenoid won't fix the problem.
If you can live with these issues, great, I have it prices thousands below similar trucks. If not, worse case scenario is, if you can do it yourself or have someone that works cheap, is putting in a used transmission. Pick&pull prices are $100 to $150 while conventional junkyards charge from $500 and up.
I'll be selling it in a few weeks and will have more pictures after detailing the truck. The Kelly Blue Book retail price without any issues is over $12,000, I'll have it priced at $6,500. Before anyone offers $4,000 or $5,000, a dealer said if he ran it through a dealer auction as is, it would bring $6,000 to $7,000.
Truck is in Washington DC but I could deliver within a couple hundred miles for free, and for expenses for a little further.
The transmission has two problems, no reverse and no overdrive. For the first problem, you just have to be careful how you park, always find a pull through space, or if you're on an uphill slope, roll backwards into the space. For no OD, as long as you do mostly in town driving, it's not a major issue. Even if you do get on the highway, 55 mph is still just 2,000 rpm so it's not too bad. The display in the dash shows TRANS FAULT and the OD light flashes so it should have a code stored, but I'm assuming the worse, and that a fluid change or new shift solenoid won't fix the problem.
If you can live with these issues, great, I have it prices thousands below similar trucks. If not, worse case scenario is, if you can do it yourself or have someone that works cheap, is putting in a used transmission. Pick&pull prices are $100 to $150 while conventional junkyards charge from $500 and up.
I'll be selling it in a few weeks and will have more pictures after detailing the truck. The Kelly Blue Book retail price without any issues is over $12,000, I'll have it priced at $6,500. Before anyone offers $4,000 or $5,000, a dealer said if he ran it through a dealer auction as is, it would bring $6,000 to $7,000.
Truck is in Washington DC but I could deliver within a couple hundred miles for free, and for expenses for a little further.
Last edited by atikovi; 06-08-2012 at 08:41 PM.
