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2018 VW Passat SE w/tech, 2016 Audi Q5 Premium Plus w/tech, 2006 Acura TL w/nav
I see the NAPA truck with your parts in the background.
In another decade or so, I predict a really mint earlier model will have some value.
This has been puzzling me most of this year. I always thought that most of these cars had high asking prices and thought with everything that has happened this year I would surely see a drop in prices as people under financial stress would start dumping their toys for cash.
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I ended up breaking two of the caps on the u-joint I bought (about a $40 mistake), before I finally got the joint out of there. I bought another this morning, and wouldn't you know it.... ran into the same problem! I have replaced at least a dozen of these things over the years, and I have never once had an issue with them. Maybe I was due, but darn this was annoying.
By the time I was able to get the joint apart again, one of the caps had a hairline fracture in it. Thankfully, though, I was able to pull a good cap off the unit I broke yesterday, and the third attempt was successful... finally! No more issues; all went together without fuss. However, it took about seven hours total (should have been three... maybe four) and cost me $40 more than it should have. All's well that ends well.
I also took some extra time to clean up the bed (swept leaves and detritus out of it, organized the sandbags, etc.) and running boards, and I also conditioned the tires. They are about fifteen years old now and still in perfect condition!
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/616078005760366/ Firebird that needs paint. runs and drives but the paint will cost you
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/711057356128188/ 63 Impala. "Will be cleaned"
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2630478680502392/ This is how you photograph a car BMW 2002
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1526470824227646/ Volvo 780 Ad is hard to follow. Is it off the road for 8 years because it needs a fuel pump
I was able to meet the current owner and hear it start up. 238,000 on the ticker now (only 24,000 in a decade!), and the engine still runs smooth as glass. Not too bad for such a machine.
2018 VW Passat SE w/tech, 2016 Audi Q5 Premium Plus w/tech, 2006 Acura TL w/nav
I never saw my W126 or C43 after they were sold. I saw the E55 once - at a car wash of all places. All of the leased cars have vanished into thin air. I get some kind of automated email update about servicing for one of them, now racking up the miles in southern California.
Not that the condition of this van had anything to do with the current owner, as he only bought it a few weeks ago, but it certainly has had a difficult decade... regardless of only 24,000 miles! I added 40,000 miles in two years, and the car was in substantially better condition when it left me than when it arrived. These last 24,000 miles aged it like 240,000 miles would!
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
It was unique in that it was an XLT but had an Eddie Bauer.rear badge.
It also had a Ford branded bug deflector on the front that I installed.
I walked up to it to get a closer look, but then realized someone was sitting the the front passenger seat, so I tried to just casually walk by
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
I've thought of looking up some old VINs on Carfax or similar, but have never gone that far. I try to just let it go, take care of the ones in the fleet now - live for today, when they are gone, they are gone. On that line of thought, it'd be very hard to sell the fintail without some very serious vetting. If someone isn't going to keep it garaged, that alone would nix a deal.
Sold my '67 BMW through my mechanic. Never met the buyer. Word was they were going to drop in a later engine with a 5-speed.
About a year later, I'm driving down the freeway in the replacement vehicle, and see him coming up behind in my rearview mirror.
It looked great, on alloys, and a little lowered.
But, about 10 years after that, I was driving by another indy mechanic shop that specialized in BMWs, and saw it sitting in the parking lot, awaiting service. Tired looking. (around 1999)
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My Stepdad sold his 83 Chrysler E-class, and a 92 Century that we used to see all the time. New owners treated them well.
2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic / 2022 Ram 1500 Bighorn, Built to Serve
Traded in my 03 Altima, bought new and kept 11 years. Drove it to the church when I got married. Taught my wife how to drive in it. Drove my first kid home from the hospital in it. A lot of sentimental value and it was a good car. Only had 84k when I traded it in, I think. I wonder if it's still out there. It still could be 5 years later.
When I see one with my options and colors, I always glance to see if it's mine, but there are a lot of them, so I never spotted it.
Point of this ramble, the buyer still lives at home (in her mid 30s by now) and still has the car 12 years later. No clue about miles, but it has serious rust on it and some accident damage. Looking quite nasty but still runs.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
My uncle gave my son a '92 Acura Legend when he turned 16 in 2010. It had been my aunt's car (d. 1999), and only had 33K miles.
In 2013, we sold it for $5K, to a local insurance agent. His wife was going to drive it. A year later, his 16 yr old son had some sort of off-road issue, and ripped out the front axles. I saw it sitting at my mechanic's shop. Never to be repaired..
It was a very nice car. I never told my uncle that it was totaled.
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'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
Did get a follow up on one of them, however. We leased a '99 New Beetle, bought it out after the lease, then, a year or so later, traded it in for the first of two Saturn VUE's.
Fast forward 5 or 6 years, and I get a call from a repair shop asking if I was the owner. Told him no, we traded it to (dealer name). He told me the car was at his shop, with a ruined engine (this had the old 2.slow VW lump in it). Not sure what happened to it after that.
Anybody see the latest installment of the M6 saga from JRGo?
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2015 Subaru Outback 3.6R / 2014 MINI Countryman S ALL4
The 2006 A3 was up to 156,000 miles or so, and said it had the front end "repainted" or I'd have been interested in negotiating.
The 2014 S4 was up to like 90,000 miles or so, so high mileage from me, and high mileage from them. Said he was selling it because the gas mileage wasn't great Smiles per gallon.
I'm interested in re-acquiring a B8.5 S4, but I'd prefer a low mileage one.
Maybe it was good that the windows didn't have such a dark tint.
That mighta, coulda happened.
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
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I suspect a VIN search turned up our contact info (we've had the same phone number for 20+ years). Though, why it didn't show the dealer we traded it to is still a bit of a mystery.
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2015 Subaru Outback 3.6R / 2014 MINI Countryman S ALL4
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2015 Subaru Outback 3.6R / 2014 MINI Countryman S ALL4
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
Quarantine life does suck, from time to time. Although today, I get to go to the bank and the post office! Wheeee!
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2015 Subaru Outback 3.6R / 2014 MINI Countryman S ALL4
I never actually saw it again myself after I sold it but a mutual friend seemed to stir the pot between me and the new owner. I had already told that friend that I was pretty happy to sell my Mustang for just a bit over what i paid for it the previous summer. However the new owner of my Mustang paid about 60% more than that to the dealer and wasn't happy about it! How is this my fault? Lol!
There's no way that I could have offered a better price to the new owner because I didn't have it advertised for sale. I'd already found a car that I wanted and needed a cash sale of my Mustang to close the deal. The 2nd dealer who looked at my Mustang made a good offer without even driving it. Apparently he flipped it for a good price and pretty quickly too.
I was thinking Win/Win situation. Didn't bother me that the dealer made a nice profit and I was happy with the new-to-me Torino.
I don't know if the new owner took good care of my old Mustang but I learned that there's more than 1 reason to just let it go. Buyer's remorse is a real thing based on some very emotional triggers and maybe the worst one is money. Why start poking around some potentially touchy issues when the deal is done. It's over.
Just pick up the pieces and be happy
Shocks were most expensive, at over $100 apiece (including labor). Turn signals work again - simple hour of labor, no parts - something was loose where the stalk meets the steering column. I am proud I kind of diagnosed that. Fuel leak was another bit of labor and parts, and then the normal servicing (with 8 quarts of oil and an old style filter, this isn't one that can be done anywhere). Apparently the car is fine otherwise, ran fine on the way back from the shop.
I installed the old shocks in 2000 (I think), and they were from a parts car - nearly new, and free, so I couldn't say no.
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
2018 VW Passat SE w/tech, 2016 Audi Q5 Premium Plus w/tech, 2006 Acura TL w/nav
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
Win some, lose some. Wonder if he will make money on the Optima.
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2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.