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Conflicted TTUE Owner

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After years off the forum I recently rejoined. I live in Tx and own a 2014 TTUE. I bought it used in 2015 from a Land Rover dealer in San Antonio. It is my third vehicle and I don’t drive it that much any more. The previous owner modified the vehicle but most of what they did is not mechanical. They added a bull bar and a brush guard and then added a bunch of lights and light bars. They installed a Kenwood stereo and an amplifier, I believe it has a TRD exhaust and a TRD cold air intake. Would those have been stock or added after market? I have the original sticker and neither of those items are listed on the sticker. It does have the premium security system. It only has about 38,000 miles on it. It’s been garaged its whole life and has no dings or scratches. It’s never really been off road since I’ve owned it. Maybe once when we took it to Colorado a few years ago. Anyway, I’m conflicted whether to keep it or sell it. I lost access to the place where I was storing it so now it’s in my garage and my wife’s Lexus is parked in the driveway. The trees are making a mess on her car and She’s not happy about that. It’s expensive to store a vehicle like this so I need to figure this out. There are a few of these on Autotrader but the prices vary wildly. If I decided to sell it, what would be the best way to do that? I have read the Buying and Selling guides on the forum. I have not yet decided to sell it but I need to find a better storage solution or sell it. I wish I had a 3 car garage.
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It is my third vehicle and I don’t drive it that much any more.
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It only has about 38,000 miles on it. It’s been garaged its whole life and has no dings or scratches. It’s never really been off road since I’ve owned it. Maybe once when we took it to Colorado a few years ago.
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Anyway, I’m conflicted whether to keep it or sell it. I lost access to the place where I was storing it so now it’s in my garage and my wife’s Lexus is parked in the driveway. The trees are making a mess on her car and She’s not happy about that. It’s expensive to store a vehicle like this so I need to figure this out.
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There are a few of these on Autotrader but the prices vary wildly. If I decided to sell it, what would be the best way to do that? I have read the Buying and Selling guides on the forum. I have not yet decided to sell it but I need to find a better storage solution or sell it. I wish I had a 3 car garage.
First off, if you do decide to sell it definitely talk to Kevin @RedRockMotors , he's an excellent resource on what's selling and where.

What's your other car, that the wife's Lexus has to live in the driveway? I would suggest that what she is unhappy about isn't that her Lexus is in the driveway, it's that your house has two garage spots and you're using both of them. If you daily a Bentley then it makes sense for her car to be in the driveway, but then at that point I expect you could afford a house with a 3-car garage.

Unless you're trying to find "car storage", any storage unit that your FJ will fit in will do. What's your ZIP code? That will help get an idea of cost. But at that point, you'll never drive it so what's the point of owning it?

Simple question: if you aren't driving / offroading the FJ, why do you have it? If you just like having it that's fine. Odds are that the FJ will increase in value faster than whatever your cost to store it is.

My advice, as the guy who wrote the buy/sell guide: use it or sell it. There are outdoor car covers that you can put on your other car or the FJ, if you don't want to store it somewhere else. Or, buy a house with a 3-car garage. Wife and I just signed on a house just for the bigger garage, so I can sympathize.

Good luck!
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p.s. if you do find a storage unit, buy a good trickle charger:


And one of these to power it. That way, the trickle charger can always be on but you can turn the light on only when you need it:

in case you are looking for a marketable narrative for the brush bar.

"This is the most aggressive brush guard for your FJ and is available with or without horizontal light protection inserts. Each is built in the USA, and comes with a 4 year warranty. This product does NOT affect the airbag sensors located in the front bumper"

it is interesting...
Why anyone would build such a complicated brush guard when an actual winch bumper with grill guard would be so much more structurally sound (and reversable!) is beyond me.

Any decent impact to this brush guard destroys the hood due to the screws mounted through the hood. The repair is non-trivial -- remove the grill guard, fill the holes on the hood and repaint it -- but if I were in the market for such an FJ and saw this grill guard I'd pass. Thoward, obviously it's not your fault as you didn't put this on there, but this is the sportscar equivalent of drilling holes to mount a giant wing on a collector car.

Here's hoping you find a good shop that can match the paint.
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