New car, Bought today, hopefully a good buy...

[sarguy01]

Originally Posted by cowmeat

Yeah, I pretty much stereotype certain car ads when looking for a car that's going to cost me thousands of dollars, I jump right over them.

I wouldn't necessarily say I am jumping to conclusions, since I have been living in this market for over 30 years and know it pretty well, but that's your opinion, and you are free to it.

Would it be stereotypical of me to assume that if I saw a camo F250 in Centralia with a gun rack lifted 6 inches on Mickey Thompsons, it was probably driven by a red neck? Yeah, maybe. . . .

To assume a camo truck is owned by a red neck? Yes, you are probably right and you probably aren't going to offend anyone.

2 "se habla espanol" in the ad - all the wiring will have been done with speaker wire, and there won't be an OEM part on the car

But, to say that all cars owned by Spanish speaking people can be assumed to be wired wrong and use the wrong parts? 30 years in the car market doesn't give you the right to bash an entire group of people because you've seen a few of those people make different choices than you when it comes to fixing their cars.

[digital rules]

Originally Posted by cowmeat

Yeah, there's not a CRX in Florida for sale that hasn't been lowered, gutted, swapped, tuned, raced, etc . . .

Yep, I just love the ones with the fart can mufflers They just sound awful to me, but I guess those boy racers think it sounds cool.

[Xist]

Originally Posted by digital rules

Yep, I just love the ones with the fart can mufflers They just sound awful to me, but I guess those boy racers think it sounds cool.

No! They sound fast!

[Fat Charlie]

They call it a #10 can because it adds 10 horsepower.

[ngarover]

Well, I should have the car by this weekend. The Uship is all setup. What I'm leaning towards doing (after a test drive and full fluid change etc) is to find a set of wheels for it that are more of a normal size. I'm sure the ride on 18"'s is not that great... I'm sure I'll be able able to sell the current rims for more than enough to cover new wheels. Then as for the first mod, putting skirts around it. Seems like a simple enough mod as the first one. I've been looking at the belly pans etc, I have the belly pans that cam factory on a 94 E320 I parted out, so I'm going to look at cutting them down to work under this car.

[MetroMPG]

Did you get the car?

[ecomodded]

CARFAX report would be nice to, check it before things go to far, you Probably already did check ?

Looks pretty clean from the Pics , hope your did alright.

[ngarover]

Originally Posted by ecomodded

CARFAX report would be nice to, check it before things go to far, you Probably already did check ?

Looks pretty clean from the Pics , hope your did alright.

No car yet. Guess they had issue shipping with holiday weekend. The car had a full carfax that checked out. Verified the mileage, no special use, no accidents reported.

[Xist]

Originally Posted by ngarover

No car yet. Guess they had issue shipping with holiday weekend. The car had a full carfax that checked out. Verified the mileage, no special use, no accidents reported.

Did they give you an arrival estimate? They did not report a delay?

This is a car! They need to account for it!

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by cowmeat

Two things automatically drive me away from considering a car:

#1 cold air intake - cold air intake equals kid-owned . . .everything done to the car will be half-assed by some 16 year old ricer wannabee and his buddies, from the lowering to the "tuning"

#2 "se habla espanol" in the ad - all the wiring will have been done with speaker wire, and there won't be an OEM part on the car

#1 - Not so unusual even for older folks to just work around one of those ricer-looking air filters.

#2 - Assuming that a Spanish-speaking guy would do a half-ass service just because of Spanish-speaking is not so accurate. Have you never seen any piece of "redneck-engineering"?