Update of what I ended up doing:
Ended up buying a great condition 2010 Nissan Xterra locally with factory diff locker and skid plates (very glad to have these based on some of the Kyrgyzstan back-roads I decided to take).
Unfortunately at the time I wasn't aware this vehicle does not exist on this side of the planet. I cracked rear leaf springs in Kazakhstan and needed my family to ship the replacement parts to Almaty. This was an unfortunate inconvenience of poor research in the availability of nissan parts on this side.
If i was to do it again i'd definitely look for a 4 runner or car with parts on this end. Maybe one day I'll bring way less stuff and try and buy a Lada Niva hahaha.
4 weeks to go and hopefully nothing else breaks that needs to be shipped from Canada.
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