Some of you may have seen my post a couple days ago looking for a late '90s Explorer 400. I had just sold my streetbike on Thursday and was ready to get a new quad. Friday morning I drove to a dealer about 30 minutes away that had a bunch of used quads, including two Exp's, just two weeks ago. Every single one was sold! Friday night I was surfin' the net looking everywhere I could think. Cycletrader had a couple listed 8-12 hours away from me. I was thinking I'd make some calls Saturday and see if any were worth driving that far. Then I checked the website of a newspaper 100 miles from me. There's this ad for a '98 Explorer 400 4x4. 500 miles, great shape, $3650/best offer. It was too late to call Friday night, so I waited until Saturday morning. The guy said the ad wasn't supposed to come out until Sunday's paper. I told him I saw it on their website. So he asks me where I'm calling from. When I tell him, he laughs and says he's 15 miles away at his cottage and that's where the wheeler is! He was going to take it back with him today to sell it. So I go to check it out. This dude has 4 quads, 4 sleds, jet skis, Harleys, a ski boat, you name it! Because he can't do it all himself, he had the quads (and probably everything else) serviced by the dealer every year. And they get used regularly all year round. I was worried because of the low mileage that it may have sat neglected for a while. Not with this guy!

So, to make a long story short, I got my '98 Explorer 400 and it was only 20 minutes away. He even let me use his trailer to bring it to my house as my trailer has a 600 pound bay window on it right now.

Now I need a new User ID.

 

sounds like a nice low milage unit but i would try to get at least a '99 because on the concentric drive, also the 99's were more modernized with the new speedometer and handlebar controls.