RE: Subject: Price - 1990 Audi 200T

["Pat Dooley" <pdooley@gte.net>]

I looked at one advertised for $4300 last week.
The guy's ad expired and he still hasn't sold it.
He has spent over 4 grand maintaining it over the past few years.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-quattro@audifans.com [mailto:owner-quattro@audifans.com]On
> Behalf Of Gorman, Ken (PA62)
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 3:53 PM
> To: 'rglist00@hotmail.com'; 'quattro@audifans.com'
> Subject: Subject: Price - 1990 Audi 200T
>
>
> Ryan previously wrote:
> >> My mechanic is selling his personal '90 200 turbo. [snip]
> >> He's asking 7K.
>
> I have the same car - '90 Audi 200 Turbo (non-quattro) in good to fairly
> good condition.  No dents, leather is perfect everywhere except driver's
> seat where it has worn over the last 10 years.  Most everything
> works.  Auto
> tranny and torque converter replaced recently.  The A/C blows cold and the
> heat blows hot.  The list of parts replaced over the last 20K miles is
> extensive:
>
> New water pump
> New timing belt
> New brake pressure accumulator
> New transmission
> New torque converter
> New battery
> New power steering pump
> New alternator
> New front strut inserts
> New upper strut bearings
> New A/C Blower Motor
>
> All books and records/receipts.
>
> The short list of things that don't work:
> driver's side seat heater
> rear driver window inoperable (possibly a bad switch)
> cracked speaker cover on lower passenger side door
>
> Last year, when the car had 150K miles, I was trying to sell it for $4600
> and had an ad in the Philadelphia Inquirer for about 1 month.  I
> didn't even
> get a phone call.  I placed the car on Classifieds 2000 and didn't get any
> response either.   The car now has 161K miles on it and I've
> decided to hang
> onto it.  I won't sell it for $1000 - it's worth much than that to me.  I
> hope your friend has much better luck than I did selling his car, but it
> sounds like $7K is a bit high.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ken Gorman
>