Like home and boat sellers, people who sell vehicles also do some staging to appeal to your emotional side. Compare as many Hummers as you can find. Do physical inspections, bargain aggressively, and let sellers know you are only testing the waters.
Discuss with an experienced friend and sleep over it for some days. It is understandable to be under a bit of pressure because of the limited supply of Hummers. But that makes it even more important to use some restraint to prevent being gotten. Whether you are buying a Hummer or any used automobile product, it is always best to buy low mileage options. These are the people you should look for.
People have bought H1s with less than 20k miles on the odometer and almost pristine engine condition. People who really use their Hummers take exceptional care of the truck because there is no other way to enjoy it without regular maintenance. So even if the mileage is northward of k, you have nothing to fear if the maintenance is solid. In fact, you may be better off buying such vehicles because the owner would have discovered and remedied weaknesses in the engine, HVAC, and other parts.
But if you can find a sparingly used Hummer with a good maintenance record at a great price, go for it. Do you know that you can force dealerships to give you juicy discounts by showing them the price of other dealerships in their area? Few people do this, but some hard-negotiating guys use it to gain the upper hand when buying used and new automobiles.
This might not be possible with Hummers since many dealerships have now stopped selling them. But you can use this strategy even if you are buying from an individual. All you need do is to find two or three Hummers with the same or almost similar specs. Negotiate with every one of them and show each seller the potential price the other will sell. Show them you are going with the person with the best price, i. The fear of missing out will force genuine sellers to make concessions and shorten the time spent haggling over the price.
Many times, sellers quote prices arbitrarily to justify their expenses on the item they are selling.
But even though the Hummer has a high resale value, your job is to get the best truck at the most appealing price point. We will cover inspections later but you want to be sure of the added expenses apart from the purchase cost. If you need to spend a fourth of the purchase price to get the Hummer on the road or trail, take your money elsewhere or keep it.
If a Hummer has issues when you bought it, there is a high chance of it being unreliable and in need of constant repairs. Hummer H3s are perfect for on-road use; they cost far less than their bigger cousins and have better fuel economy. They are an excellent and affordable choice if you are not a heavy off-roader and can still deliver decent mileage. But avoid problematic model years. Most reviewers consider it the best of the first Hummers originally produced by AM General.
Many people consider H2s great in every aspect but some model years of the H3 are notorious for their unreliability. Almost all model years sans the Alpha have one issue or the other. The 92 and 93 H1s were underpowered and suffered serious overheating problems because of faulty HVAC systems. All H1s produced from to have a tendency to suffer an engine block crack. Watch out for these model years of the H1 and have an experienced technician check that you are not buying one with the compromised engine.
The H3 has been a constant source of anguish for many once-proud Hummer owners. Sadly, most of the faults are factory defects which should have warranty a recall of the vehicles. This truck is prone to a blowing head gasket, cracked cylinder, leaking valves, and myriad other issues. Many of the problems were repaired free but you may not get support now that Hummer dealerships have all folded up.
You can look up our article on the common problems of Hummers for more heads up. Horsepower then increased in , up until to HP. That one had a claimed HP and lb-ft of torque on tap. The gearbox was also upgraded to a far better but still kind of shitty six-speed unit. The Hummer H2 was actually marketed as a serious offroader back in the day. Thanks to a shorter front overhang, and a degree approach angle, the H2 could easily outclimb a Chevrolet Tahoe, its mechanical cousin, but would still get humiliated in the trails by a Hummer H1.
Also, utilizing platform sharing techniques, like grabbing bits and pieces from other GM trucks would lower production costs, thus reducing the H2's sales price.
The issue was that the H2 was released at a time when awareness of climate change, reduced carbon emissions, cleaner cars, and hybrid and electric propulsion were starting to be serious things. As we saw, it all hit the fan a few years later in the form of a bankruptcy. Sure, the big, brash Hummer H2, with its fake, hood-mounted tow hooks and gigantic chrome wheels may have looked like a kick-ass idea on a projector screen during a marketing board meeting, but the reality of releasing a foot long, 12 MPG, 6,pound V8-powered G.
Joe monstrosity at a time when your company was about to crumble to the ground, and the world was turning to smarter, greener cars was a totally idiotic move. I picked up this big guy from my friend Remy the same morning my shooter Myle and I were photographing a Honda Pilot. Being a GM parts bin special also means that gauges, door locks, chimes and the entire center console are identical to the ones found in a GMC Express van.
At least the H2's motor lives up to the Hummer nameplate. I put the truck into D through its enormous and plastic-intensive gear lever that resembles something you would use to apply throttle to a nuclear submarine.
It appeared robust until I grabbed it and realized the pump action mechanism on a Super Soaker feels of better quality. A loud mechanical clunk was felt through the gearbox as I moved the lever. The Hummer was in gear, and I was ready to roll. As you approach a Hummer H2, you rapidly realize the entire thing was built quickly to look cool on the road, and nothing more.
All the classic Hummer design cues like the central tire inflation system are actually fake. You first look at the Hummer H2 expecting to drive a super cool military truck like the one Sean Connery drives in The Rock , but it ends up being the equivalent of a Ferrari kit car body strapped on top of a Pontiac Fiero. To others, at the time, the ownership of a H2 was considered a status symbol and a thing of power. Dennis Rodman for example, at one time, was the owner of a customized H2.
Fortunately, the H2 was approximately half the cost of the H1, so although still quite expensive, it was something that many Americans could afford. Although there was an effort to go green, there were those that wanted to rebel. What better way to rebel than to buy an expensive, gas guzzling giant?
The Hummer was created for civilian use, based upon the military vehicle known as the Humvee. In the Hummer H1 became available to the public. It was produced until , meanwhile production of the H2 started in The H2 was somewhat of a lighter, more refined vehicle, yet it could still handle the roughest of terrain.
In the H3 came around. The H3 was not in even in the same ballpark as the H2, as it was even smaller and less powerful. Due to economic reasons, production of the H2 ended in while production of the H3 stopped in
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