jeffro Posted January 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 Almost the same as my story selling my Regal. Guy finally came out to look at it. Nit picked about EVERYTHING on the car. I start it up in the garage and he hears this noise. It's the a/c compressor. It's been doing it ever since I swapped the motor two years ago. Never had an issue. Just noisy. He comes right off the bat telling me it'll be about $1000 to fix the issue. I'm like dude.. its been like that for almost 3 years and it works fine. Deal with it. Then he hears some noise when he turns on the heater. I dunno.. been like that for ya now... 3 years? Never had an issue. It's clean as hell. From March or so of 08 I put on not even 20k miles. 62k on the clock when i bought it and sold it at 82k in 3 years. Not bad. Then he low balled me. $3000 for the car. I'm like.. no son. I can't do that. Then he .. blah blah blah here and there. Pulls out a wad of $100 bills to entice me. Nope. Not going to happen. The rear tires are shot on the car and he notices that. He says $3300 and YOU call ME if you want o deal (he wanted me to call him if that was cool). I didn't call him. He called me the next day and said "how about $3600 and swap the tires" (the tires I originally had that I swapped were in better condition). I said no.. $3700 and I'll swap the tires. Fine. He came and I swapped the tires. Fine.. swapped the tires and he gives me $37 100 bills. Great. Little did he know that I put on those 4 tires that had a leak in one and two nails in the other. Fuck him. and Thank little baby jesus I don't have to deal with that anymore. el oh fucking el. I was really surprised the dude still baught the car despite the issue. I figured he would have been worried and not buy it. Craigslist is hit or miss, and 90% of the time its miss. ive been having decent luck on CL as of lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffro Posted January 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 Picked up an 02 Focus today with 80k miles. This will be my daily for the next 2 years or it falls apart. Looks like im out of the game for a few. ban me now so im not posting non-car related threads for the next 2 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bam Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 nice jeff, the gold one? i've had 4, great little daily's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffro Posted January 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 how'd you know it was gold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bam Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 how'd you know it was gold el oh el...i'm a craigslist fiend...how do you think i flip so many cars??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acklac7 Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 Picked up an 02 Focus today with 80k miles Hell, it's better then a Prius :marc2: Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do - I drove a 96 Concorde a few years back. Reliable as hell (except for the fkn evaporator-cores and corrosion on the battery terminals). But the 4-door sedan thing got to me after a year or so. If I had to guess that Focus will be gone within a year, your going to miss that boostage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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