Hello, everybody--
This is a great place to be for owners of the discontinued but oh-so-great Avalanche! It's been seven years in March since we bought a 2002 Avalanche North Face. We live in MN, but found this Avalanche online at Bobby Rahal Toyota in Mechanicsburg, PA and had it shipped to Minneapolis, where we then drove down and brought it back home. When we got the truck it was at 65,000 miles. Seven years later the odometer just turned to 87,000 miles. We looked for a nice used one here in MN, but with the chemicals and salt on the highways for almost six months every year we weren't finding a nice '02 to '06 that was rust free. It was nice to finally find a clean, rust-free Avalanche in the color we wanted so we jumped on this on.
Like most North Face Avalanches our used one came without the North Face water duffalo bags but it did have the original small backpacks that fit on the backs of the front seats. The story I've read about online is that the sales staff at the dealerships all made off with the bigger water-proof bags. Being a little OC about these things I tracked two bags down on ebay so we now have the complete set.
I'm looking forward to learning more on fan club site!
Thank you.