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:jawdrop can't wait for more!
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Freaking sweet. Need more details, ASAP
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:foottap
HTC DNA, Williamsburg, VA
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Nice - my guess was close - I had the e46 m3 right! Congrats.
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Just got home, having issues. Will post tomorrow.
Quick details are '04 IR/IR 6MT 86k 19" OEM CSL's and PSS9s
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Hmm..deserves a new project thread imo. ;)
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and to be completely honest, it will be a project, though it was not supposed to be.
So to be totally honest with everyone, I should be thrilled with this purchase and at the moment I am not. I flew to Minneapolis to pick up the car after working closely with the seller to make sure this was the deal for me. We had exchanged 30+ emails with each other, and I had asked the obvious questions about the car, what was wrong with it, what had been done to it, how well it had been cared for, ect... I guess I really underestimated 2 things, 1) the power of a PPI and 2) the complete and total piece of mind you get from buying something from a fellow member/enthusiast (such as was the case when I got my ZHP from Eli).
I'm not going to sit here and make a laundry list of things I have found wrong, a good majority of it is cosmetic with a few small mechanical items as well, but I am simply going to say it is partially my fault for not running over the car with a fine toothed comb before handing over the check. The car was parked in a dimly lit garage and instead of taking it outside, I took his word for the condition and even waived off driving it to the bank just to save the gas in the tank for my ride home. Shame on me for buying a car I hadn't seen in daylight let alone even drove. It really sheds light on the fact of how much of a stand up guy Eli was when he sold me the ZHP, describing more the small minor faults of the car to me than boasting about all the great stuff on the car so I knew what I was in for.
Needless to say I am now in a bit of a bad spot, but my plan is to document everything wrong and go back to the seller and ask that those things be addressed out of his pocket book (at least a good portion of them) to sell me the car in the condition I thought I was getting. Unfortunately for me, I have no leverage here as the check was cashed and the bill of sale was signed by both parties so he really would only have to do this out of the goodness of his heart (I do still have the title which I haven't filled out yet, it only has his signature so maybe that's at least 1 thing). Hopefully when he sees all of this stuff on paper and I cite the descriptions he gave me of the car via email he will feel inclined to make things right somehow.
So until this is all sorted out it is with a semi enthusiastic heart that I will be driving this car and trying to figure out what to do.
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Damn. Sorry to hear Seth and good advice. Let us learn from this.
Can you/Will you list some of the more major items you got tagged with?
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Eventually as I get it sorted out yes. Right now it's looking to be:
Swiss cheese looking paint on front end -/hood (rock chip heaven)
-side mirror 4" deep scratch
-front fender rash
-misaligned front bumper on passenger side
-misaligned side skirt same side (possibly a diver error minor accident running over something?)
-cracked fog lens on drivers side
-2/32 tread tires... Rears more like 1/32 and shredding quickly, had black tire spray all over car like I was at a track day
-2 rear bumper scuffs bigger than a thumb
-both door handles stick hard when opening from outside ( he told me about the drivers door before i left and said it was a common easy fix )
- missing clown nose
- blown left rear speaker, P.O. had stereo set to fade only fronts with no bass when I left and found out
- cig lighter is loose and loses power frequently
-creeking noise from front suspension at low speeds and take off (either the pss9s or maybe control arms or bushings?)
-alignment pulls left
-high speed vibration in steering wheel, could be flat spots on tires or something else in suspension.
-rear plate bracket busted - I knew this.
Also tires were at 45psi after 45 min of driving on highway and a 15 min cool down for lunch, seemed way too high even for 19's.
Car was also quite dirty even though he said he cleaned it. Dog hair inside and dried dirty rag soap residue all over outside.
He told me he had a recent PPI too, checked date of receipt - 7/09 lol.
- Goin' H.A.M. Mobile
