[s-cars] A little story about a car I looked at buying this summer...

[chris chambers]

Hmmm interesting,

I called "carl"

He is in Miami on business but will send me some pics and the Vin# via
email ASAP. Supposedly he hasn't owned the car very long and needs to
sell it to buy a truck to tow his Mazda RX-7. I specificly asked for
pics of the Odometer, dash..

Sounds like it may be the same car.

He also indicated that someone from Montana had called him recently,
and was sending him pics also. Are any of you the Montana guy?

If not, and this is the same car what should be done next?

Hmmm

Chris


--- Rfeagleye at aol.com wrote:
> --
> [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> I thought I would share this story since the car in the attached link
> looks a
> LOT like the one I saw, although I do not have the VIN to verify it.
> I do
> however, have the Carfax I ran on the car I am going to talk about,
> so if
> someone gets the VIN we can check it out. I saved the Carfax in
> Word...
>
> The car was listed in Autotrader.com sometime in the early summer. It
> was
> local to me, fit what I wanted, and was $12,000, which was within my
> budget
> (although I would have haggled!).
>
> I made arrangements to look at the car. I asked the seller how many
> miles it
> had and he said 48,000. I ask again to confirm, again he said 48,000.
>
> I went to the sellers house to see the car, it was in very nice
> shape, paint
> had some "sandblasting" from driving, but overall was in good
> condition. The
> interior was nice, no rips in the seats, etc. I looked at the
> odometer,
> 48,000 miles. We went for a drive and all was fine. It did however,
> look a
> little more weathered than 48,000...
>
> I asked how it could have such low miles and he stated that he didn't
> drive
> it much, only to and from work occasionally, or something along those
> lines.
>
> I got the VIN and went home. I ran the VIN i n Carfax and low and
> behold,
> ODOMETER rollback detected! The Carfax doesn't say so specifically,
> but the
> e-check in Ohio records your mileage, and the car had about 100,000
> miles at
> the last e-check.
>
> I was at home and my girlfriend was over, so I called her in to see
> the
> Carfax. She had been with me on the test drive of the car. After
> seeing the
> Carfax, she said she noticed that the word "Brake" was backward on
> the dash
> when I put the parking brake after driving, but she thought maybe it
> was
> supposed to be that way!
>
> Makes me think I should have her checking out cars from now on!
>
> I politely said I was not interested...I did not discuss the issue
> with the
> seller.
>
> But wait, there's more!
>
> A few weeks after seeing the car, I was searching the web for UrS4's
> and
> stumble across another Autotrader S4, near my office. The VIN is in
> the ad
> and...well what do you know, SAME CAR! The seller must have traded it
> for a
> new Audi. I called the dealer to ask about the car, and get a
> salesman who
> says he will check out the price and call me back. He calls me back
> and says
> the car is already sold, it was a trade/sell type deal. I ask the
> mileage, he
> doesn't know, and I leave it at that.
>
> I have a friend in the Auto business (Ford Dealership), he tells me
> "Call
> them back and tell them what you know!". So I call the salesman back,
> tell
> him about the Carfax, potential odometer rollback, etc.
>
> He says, "Well, I don't know much about the car, but Carfax is only
> as good
> as the information that is input...yada, yada..." He kind of doesn't
> seem to
> care. So I thought my work was done, then...
>
> BAM...
>
>
http://www.autotrader.com/findacar/vdetail.jtmpl?car_id=105234530&dealer_id=&
>
max_price=&start_year=1982&end_year=1999&address=44134&search_type=used&
>
make=AUDI&model=S4&min_price=&distance=200&advcd_on=n&advanced=n&color=&
> car_year=1993
>
> I think this is the same car.
>
> I thought I would mention it as I do not want anyone to get burned if
> this is
> the same car. As I stated earlier, I DO NOT know the VIN of the car
> in the
> ad, but the description, mileage, and city (only 5 minutes from the
> dealer
> where it was traded/sold recently) makes me believe it is the same
> car.
>
> Again, if someone wants to call for the VIN, we can compare it to the
> Carfax
> I have saved...
>
> Rob Eagleye
>
>
>
>
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93 Audi S4
91 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX
85 VW Scirocco 2.0 not stock :-)
73 Porsche 914 2.0 (67,000 original miles)


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