Please take a look at this Carfax, for me
09-20-2011, 12:24 AM
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Please take a look at this Carfax, for me
As the title says id like a few of you that have time to go a head and take a look at this carfax for me and tell me what you think. Ill give you a little info about it before you open up the link. (http://www.carfax.com/VehicleHistory...RF65J64F455009)
I went to go look at the car today. Alll around it looked pretty clean inside everything electrically worked and didnt see any problems. But upon turning on the car and putting it in gear there was a pretty rough idle and the steering wheel was shaking pretty rough. When i put the car into park the rough idle went away. I drove the car around the block a few times and the car seemed to shift cleanly.
Now for the outside. The driver side looked good, but when i moved over to the passenger side i noticed in the rear of the car just past the back door starting at the fender it looks like it was scraped agasinst something and buffed out and paitined over a long with a few scraping marks left on the rear fender so im not sure if the actually painted over it or not. But it defenitly looked l ike some of the lip from the rear fender was flattened out a bit. Also, i noticed the door to the gas tank wasnt sitting flush with the car (No, it wasnt locked and the door was closed after. I checked for that) After looking at the carfax i see that the gas tank was replaced along with a "tire" multipule times. Im starting to feel like soemthing happened on that back end a little bit and it wasnt just a little paint scraping. If anyone can give me their $0.02 id greatly appricaite it.
I went to go look at the car today. Alll around it looked pretty clean inside everything electrically worked and didnt see any problems. But upon turning on the car and putting it in gear there was a pretty rough idle and the steering wheel was shaking pretty rough. When i put the car into park the rough idle went away. I drove the car around the block a few times and the car seemed to shift cleanly.
Now for the outside. The driver side looked good, but when i moved over to the passenger side i noticed in the rear of the car just past the back door starting at the fender it looks like it was scraped agasinst something and buffed out and paitined over a long with a few scraping marks left on the rear fender so im not sure if the actually painted over it or not. But it defenitly looked l ike some of the lip from the rear fender was flattened out a bit. Also, i noticed the door to the gas tank wasnt sitting flush with the car (No, it wasnt locked and the door was closed after. I checked for that) After looking at the carfax i see that the gas tank was replaced along with a "tire" multipule times. Im starting to feel like soemthing happened on that back end a little bit and it wasnt just a little paint scraping. If anyone can give me their $0.02 id greatly appricaite it.
09-20-2011, 06:04 AM
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Not everything will appear in a carfax. You already have misgivings. Take it to a trusted shop of your choosing and have them give you a report.
09-20-2011, 09:33 PM
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2002 C32, 2011 VW GTI
upon turning on the car and putting it in gear there was a pretty rough idle and the steering wheel was shaking pretty rough.
when i moved over to the passenger side i noticed in the rear of the car just past the back door starting at the fender it looks like it was scraped agasinst something and buffed out and paitined over a long with a few scraping marks left on the rear fender so im not sure if the actually painted over it or not. But it defenitly looked l ike some of the lip from the rear fender was flattened out a bit.
i noticed the door to the gas tank wasnt sitting flush with the car (No, it wasnt locked and the door was closed after. I checked for that)
After looking at the carfax i see that the gas tank was replaced along with a "tire" multipule times.
when i moved over to the passenger side i noticed in the rear of the car just past the back door starting at the fender it looks like it was scraped agasinst something and buffed out and paitined over a long with a few scraping marks left on the rear fender so im not sure if the actually painted over it or not. But it defenitly looked l ike some of the lip from the rear fender was flattened out a bit.
i noticed the door to the gas tank wasnt sitting flush with the car (No, it wasnt locked and the door was closed after. I checked for that)
After looking at the carfax i see that the gas tank was replaced along with a "tire" multipule times.
09-20-2011, 09:41 PM
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Get a PPI prior to purchasing a car. Any good german shop should charge you about a hundred bucks but it can save you thousands in the future. It also gives you some negotiating power if little things are found.
