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WashingtonMatt

WashingtonMatt

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Trying to help my daughter find a car, but she's on the wrong coast. Anyone willing to run a carfax?

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It looks super clean, 98K miles. For whatever reason nothing seems cheap on the east coast. She's at Camp Lejuene, North Carolina.
 
WashingtonMatt said:
It looks super clean, 98K miles. For whatever reason nothing seems cheap on the east coast. She's at Camp Lejuene, North Carolina.
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It came from CT. It can look clean all it wants, but she needs to get her little butt on the ground and look at the suspension, steering, BRAKE LINES, and exhaust. Its going to be rotting apart.
 
DRTDEVL said:
Let us know if the janky source I found was correct in that it came from CT.:flipoff2:
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WashingtonMatt said:
She's got a car guy to go with her, so I'll definitely pass that advice on.
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What's the price on this thing?

My grandma bought a 15 focus new, platinum or whatever, sparkly red, tan leather, factory sub, all the options, it's probably got 20k miles. The wheels have curb rash, I think it's drug a mailbox down the side and then fixed by insurance, it spent 3 months at Ford getting the tranny "fixed" like all of the rest of them.

It's on its 2nd or 3rd fan control module, like all of them.

My mom wants it off her books and I'm supposed to put a price on it. If you're going to pay too much for that 2015, you might be better off buying this one and driving it to her:laughing:
 
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I guess so... Someone in White Plains would definitely head 45 miles down the road to a dealer in Milford, CT to make a purchase... and would be far enough out of Manhattan to commute 17,000 miles per year.:flipoff2:

And that means the first 5 years and 85,000 miles were spent in the heavy rust belt, while the next 3-4 years were spent in "rust belt lite.":homer:
 
Ugggh, yeah, I think you are right about being a rust belt car. I'll probably steer her clear of this one. Appreciate the help.

They wanted 7k
 
WashingtonMatt said:
Ugggh, yeah, I think you are right about being a rust belt car. I'll probably steer her clear of this one. Appreciate the help.

They wanted 7k
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Sister runs a used car chain; its quite common for dealers in the NE to ship their cars to auctions in the SE to get higher prices for them. She runs a title history on everything before bidding and finds over half the cars at auction in FL and GA are from NY, NJ, MD, MA, etc.
 
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DRTDEVL said:
Sister runs a used car chain; its quite common for dealers in the NE to ship their cars to auctions in the SE to get higher prices for them. She runs a title history on everything before bidding and finds over half the auctions in FL and GA have cars from NY, NJ, MD, MA, etc.
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Good to know. It's been a pain trying to find something decent. So easy on the west coast.
 
Yep for sure. This one is was about 90 minutes away in Clinton, NC which is why I was seeking a carfax since it would be a lot of driving. She's pre approved with navy fed, and has enough cash to buy outright, so good in that department.
 
DRTDEVL said:
Get the sales staff to take and send pics of this one fresh on their lot. Under 100k miles, only 50 miles away, $1k less, and way more reliable than a Focus.

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I'll pass it on for sure. Nice when the dealers provide a carfax.
 
Linked car came up as an 02 accord for me :confused:

6k for an 02 accord is stupid. Low miles, sure, but its still 22 years old. That v6 is due for a timing belt, valve adjustment, water pump, and plugs. The v6 model autos tended to have probs, but at sub 100k miles, plenty of life left.
Compliance bushings prob got some dry rot and splitting going on.
 
MuntCuffin said:
Linked car came up as an 02 accord for me :confused:

6k for an 02 accord is stupid. Low miles, sure, but its still 22 years old. That v6 is due for a timing belt, valve adjustment, water pump, and plugs. The v6 model autos tended to have probs, but at sub 100k miles, plenty of life left.
Compliance bushings prob got some dry rot and splitting going on.
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Way better than $7k for a 10-year old Focus from the rust belt.:flipoff2:
 
DRTDEVL said:
It came from CT. It can look clean all it wants, but she needs to get her little butt on the ground and look at the suspension, steering, BRAKE LINES, and exhaust.
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Brake lines will reliably outlast all the other shit you listed.

Retards love to screech about them though because "hurr durr safety" or something.
 
DRTDEVL said:
Way better than $7k for a 10-year old Focus from the rust belt.:flipoff2:
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Really depends how much winter use it saw. If it was some retired person's car who never left the house when it snowed it's probably fine at 10yo.
 
arse_sidewards said:
Brake lines will reliably outlast all the other shit you listed.

Retards love to screech about them though because "hurr durr safety" or something.
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Maybe. I don’t know much about rust but I bought an F-250 that lived for 2.5 years in New Yuck from the previous owner. He also lived in AZ and TX the rest of the time. So the only time it had salt was 2.5 years in NY. It was 8 years old when I got it. I blew a hard line brake line within the first 6 months of my ownership when towing a light trailer. Luckily no cars were in front of me. No body rust or paint bubbling. The oil pan had some rust pin holes and the inner door lip had some slight rust you couldn’t see from the outside. I also had a power steering line degrade from rust.

So in my very limited experience the brake line was the first to go followed by the power steering line. Brake lines didn’t outlast anything other than maybe the oil pan. I owned the truck for a year and sold it off as I didn’t want to deal with any future rust issues. Guys from the northeast say it was minor rust but for a Texas truck it was rusty.
 
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I think my folks would sell this one for 8k if you're interested
From AZ, I don't think it's ever left the state. Parked inside until the last couple months.
 
Damn, nice low miles. Unfortunately she's on the east coast and I don't have time to bring something out right now. Can pick up these cars all day long out west. Thanks for the offer though,
 
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