long distance q purchases

[George Tur]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
> Behalf Of Ken Keith
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 9:50 AM
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: long distance q purchases
> 
> 
> Question for my fellow audifans.
> 
> What would you say is the limit as far as reasonable distances you
> have driven or would drive to buy a special car that you found for
> sale, say, on the internet?


Reasonable distance is relative. It revolves around how rare the car is, 
the price, the condition, and how you feel about that particular type of 
car. I've had friends go a 1000 miles for a beat up Chevy or Corvette 
and then pour $$$$ into it, and they were happy about it. For an Audi, 
if it's any thing besides an UrQuattro or V8 5 speed, then you can 
probably pick it up locally, say within a couple of hundred miles, if 
you just wait. The one thing I would recommend is to get someone local, 
preferably more than one person, to take a look at the car. Give that 
person or persons a list of items to take a look at and ask them check 
each item. I know it's asking a lot of that person but that's the only 
way you're going to get past the owner's hype. I've been tempted to do 
long distance shopping myself but my own experience with 3 cars bought 
at 100 to 150 mile distances has been that 2 to 3 visits are required to 
get a true picture of the car. If you're going to buy on the basis of 
one trip be prepared to make it into a project car. My 2 cents.

George Tur
91 V8Q