CalumA

Hi Juddian, Thanks for the reply and insight. I have heard that with the foresters but wasn't sure if it was true. I believe the landcruiser is a bit of my budget, especially including the mpg they fetch. I have looked into hilux before and believe them to be pretty perfect yet maybe too big for me. I will reconsider though, what year hilux do you recommend?

Thanks for the reply You recommend as old as that? And that kind of mileage? I know if its got great history you take away a lot of the risks but most of the parts will be 15 years old?

Hi all I'm new to this forum. I come from Scotland and am looking for a car to go wild camping(possibly hold a roof top tent) and do a little soft roading. The car will be going on 1000 mile round trips a couple times a year and easily 500 mile round trips every second month but when I am not on these trips the car wont be doing much mileage, maybe 100 miles a week max. I was between X-trail or Forester but believe the Forester would be the perfect companion for me with reliability, off road and on road ability, practicality and mpg. Which model should I chose? I've been looking at 2.0D 2010 for around 6-7k with around 70k miles. Good option or too many diesel problems, dpf etc? My budget is around 7k. Thanks Calum