Re: C-GTlopin' update

[audidudi@delphi.com (Jeffrey J. Goggin)]

>There was an account in the UK Club Newsletter (I posted it here) of someone's 
>serach for an ur-quattro.  One of the cars he was blithely offered had zero 
>compression in #1.

If anyone drives a car that only has 80% of the cylinders functioning and
doesn't notice it, they *deserve* to be stuck with it!  I had a friend buy a
Volvo turbo-whatever only to discover later that someone had installed a
non-turbo exhaust manifold and exhaust ... apparently, they couldn't afford
to rebuild the turbo and had all the other parts on hand.  I still can't
believe he didn't notice this while driving home if not before...

>Another thing to check is that all the warning lights have bulbs in them.
I've 
>met two people recently who've bought cars that were showing permanent
warnings 
>- one brakes and one engine warning - but the sellers had removed the bulbs to 
>disguise the fact.

Well, you've got me there ... of course, I doubt any pre-purchase inspection
would have caught this unless the underlying problems were also discovered.
Perhaps in the UK, sellers don't mind you poking and probing around their
cars but that's certainly not the case with private sellers here in the US:
I once had one refuse to let me jack the car up with the floor jack I
brought in order to take a good look underneath; another wouldn't let me
touch anything under the hood!  I can only imagine their reaction had I
asked them to lift the carpeting or remove a piece of trim to check for rust...
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