Is this a good deal?

Seems to be about $2000 overpriced for a stock '98.

I think it is a bit steep, but it does have low 'mileage'.

As far as the air bags go, I have seen TJ's have pretty good losing battles with trees and the air bags didn't fire, nor have I ever heard of one going off prematurely.

We actually phoned DC about them after one tree bite. They asked if we 'thought' the bag should have been needed for the impact and we said no and they said there you go...

Oh, we also bought or Jeeps with winter driving in mind. Both on and off road.

Mike

86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail > '98 TJ

Agreed, despite the mileage.

Hard TJ tops go for 1000 USD min. every day in desired markets, like beach communities. I've seen them from 600 to 1500 depending on condition, options, and location.

"Budget" 2" lifts go for 100 US (spacers & bump stop extensions) to

200 (spacers and longer shocks), parts only. 2" spring lifts start at 300. 2" lifts are advertised for 32's, maybe someone has experience with 33's on one....

So at 2" or 3" of lift, you will find frustration with short U-joint life and driveline vibration if you aim to stop your expenditures at lift & tires...

It is common practice to leave the airbags in place on any streetable Jeep....the factory calibrated the airbag deployment sensors to accommodate light off-road encounters with solid objects.

Here is a useful link to the Canadian Black Book db.

is offered thru the Toyota Canada site. Give it a try it works for"all " vehicles up to 10 years old and tells youwhat dealers are paying for the vehicle at auction that week. The 98 with 78,000 Km was low: 6500.00 and high: 8100.00.

OK, thanks again for the heads up guys. Time to keep shopping ...

A friend has a 98 TJ, and it suffers from the intermittant dead dash board problem that is ?common? with this year TJ, so be slightly skeptical of the milage as it might be off a bit.

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Yep. The problem is a ill fitting dash connector. All you have to do is remove it, tweak the spades a bit with a pair of needle nose pliers and put it back.

Lemme see where I put that url.... TSB NUMBER: 08-15-99

You can do some replacement work if you want to, but tweaking usually fixes the problem.

Ah.. down to 21st Jan 2006, 14:54

There are a few other dead dash issues, that might not be exactly what you need. Lemme try that once more... well, nuts. That link is dead now.

Hope the above helps.

You can also check out someplace like:

(root site is According to them, the wholesale price would be around 9800, and retail of $11275. When I was looking for my last car, I found their prices to be reasonably "market value" for central Alberta. I also found that prices in the States have little bearing on prices in Canada, as they're much lower south of the border. If you do a search at you can do a "Value List", which will give you the minimum, average,a nd high range of prices for the vehicle selected. You can then go through and browse the vehicle. From them, a 1997-1999 TJ has an average asking price of $10,079. Less than 10 had an asking price of less than $9,000, and those were all 120,000 to

200,000 km. In fact, they didn't list any that were less than 120,000km, I don't think.

YMMV, I guess. :)

Clint