Taurus G
Super High Output
is one of the most frickin funniest things i have ever tried to do! i saw that hermantown cars had a sho for sale at 2,995. so i figures i would go look at this 93 red atx and see what it like. it had 110350 on the clock and the interior left much to desire, the celing was cut and marked everywhere,the seats were in good shape actually. so the sales guy walks over to me and starts talking to me about the car. he tells me there is a yamaha motor in it, leather, body is in good condition etc..... so i ask him, "what size is the motor" and i get "uuuuuuu, theres more than one?" so i pop the hood and show him that its a 3.2, he started it up and it ran really strong, sounded very nice. from then i said that it was an accident and the body was fixed. He said ya the right front was replaced. so he asked if i wanted to take it for a test drive, and of course i wouldnt turn that down. so got in, backed it up, put in drive and hit the first bump. and all i could hear from the rear end was CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK!!!! bad struts/coils instant thought. so i got it on the road and she has a hard time shifting from 1st to 2nd, super hard shift. i hit a dip in the road and the rear end didnt stop moving up and down for a block after that! and it does pull to the left pretty hard too.so i drove it back and went inside. he asked how the drive went, and i never saw a mans face be that unhappy with my words. "well it needs rear struts, the left rear coil is broken, so it really needs all 4 struts and coils, to be safe and to prevent anything else going wrong. it shifts really hard from 1st to second, and im sure that it will blow a diff. pin soon, plus tha tranny will need lots of work, that most people dont know ** to do. some of the buttens dont work inside on the dash, and the car pulls preety hard to the left. o and there is some hesitation when excelerating from a completestop, otherwise it went fine." keep in mind i was gone for about 2 minutes. he didnt know what to say, so i spoke. "ill give ya 2,000 right now out the door, cash." and his wife looked at me like i asked to buy a new bmw for 500 dollars.:laugh_ti: she was like "is that a joke?" and i was totally serious. so he said i will go as low as 2,400, out the door. "then im walking out the door and going to my car." he actually tried to say that all the car needed was the rear struts and nothing more, and that it would be fine with just that. he just wouldnt believe that i knew more about the car than him, and that really bothered him, lol. i had fun though.
anybody else have stories of car salesman?
anybody else have stories of car salesman?
Sad thing is in duluth cars are way too overpriced. Cars that go for 500 dollars in florida (recall my brother telling me about a 99 taurus se with 93k and a blown headgasket going for just that) would sell for THOUSANDS more up here. I actually know a guy who buys cars from texas from texas for less then 2gs and sells them up here for 6k plus!
