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

[chris chambers]

Don't know if this car is still for sale, but I got the Vin some time
ago emailed to me at another addy. the vin is WAUHP84AXPN051905

Is this the same vin?

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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