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During the inspection we did find the one of the O-ring that is connected to the oil separator line is leaking. Investment to repair oil leak is $ 211.83
Wow $211. For comparison, I'm selling that replacement o-ring on eBay for $4. You can fix this yourself in less than 5 minutes.
The other repair quotes seem high for a dealer - Many of the items you can address yourself for far less or not fix at all such as the interior wood cracking. That could be replaced with a carbon piece or simply a carbon wrap.
After a month of talking back and forth, flying to Detroit to look at the car, spending $600 on a PPI and getting emotionally invested in buying a car like this...
I'm proud to report................................ the seller changed his mind.
No joke, he pulled back after the PPI came back with those numbers and decided to keep the car and maybe convert it to RHD and ship it to Australia.
Seriously, I don't get upset over much, but this really sucked.
That is crappy, he can't be serious about trying to convert it to RH drive - that would cost a fortune in a modern car (it costs enough in classic cars where all that is required is steering rack, pedal box and dashboard)
Don't give up, there will be another and you will be rewarded with finding it and enjoying it
Sorry to hear this. I had a similar out-of-state experience where after much back and forth on the purchase, a price was agreed upon. Two days before I was to pick up the car, the seller decided to keep it.
In the end I found a similar car with nicer color options.
You know that old, Saying "if it wasn't meant to be". Which I'm sure you don't want to hear at least I wouldn't if I were you. However everyone else is correct there are other cars out there and you're probably wind up with something better in the end. Sometimes buying from a dealer even though you pay a little more, finding a slightly newer car with the chance of a preowned warranty is the best route.
Ive gotten a swing of luck though, found a Meteroite Silver '11 S- the color I wanted originally and it has the B&O sound system, plus it's a lot closer.
I'd be pissed after wasting over a grand. Like the car I flew to Florida to look at that was supposed to be pristine, yet far from it. And when you point out all the issues he just shrugs like "it's a used car", yea, one that after 30 emails of picky questions nothing was disclosed. Wasted $700.
But this guy, is just crazy!
Glad you have a bead on what you really want, because honestly you should have never settled for anything less to begin with. Keep us posted!
I really didn't know what to say other than "wow" when I read the text I got.
Some people are ******, the guy is 83 and has more money than brains- he bought the car 2 years ago, drive it 200 miles and decided he didn't like it.
Now, come time to sell- I'm guessing he can't stomach the loss on value the car has eaten. So rather than do the right thing, he posts the car above market, thinking it's actually below market and then screws me over cause his porridge wasn't *just* right.
Sounds like the kind of person who came from money, not having earned it themselves.
Its okay though, serious first world problems.
Ill just bask in some theoretical karma when it hopefully comes my way in the form of that Meteorite Silver S.
