mark for sale local with 180k

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would you guysbe afraid ofa vehicle with this kind of mileage. the car is really cheap. and its a 1998 model btw. opinions?
 
i bought my 98 lsc with 209k on it for $1,350. mileage dont scare me, i can tell when the miles are hard miles or pampered miles.
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the pictures are supposed to get emailed to me. i just dont know when. the price is 1500 and i figure if i can get him down to around 1 than ill be in good shape. ill just see how it goes. if i do buy it you guys will get some pics
 
mossbergman said:
the pictures are supposed to get emailed to me. i just dont know when. the price is 1500 and i figure if i can get him down to around 1 than ill be in good shape. ill just see how it goes. if i do buy it you guys will get some pics
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Looks are very deceptive. Loads of retards go to the car wash all the time and keep their beaters looking spiffy but skimp on keeping up the car otherwise. Plenty of beautiful junkers get sold to buyers who get burned and then they go to get parted out and crushed everyday (many I am sure, thanks to Jamie, lol). If you are scared of the mileage, ask the right questions. If you do not know the right questions, do your research. But overall, the big question ought to be: Does it have records indicating very well kept services, maintainence, fluid changes, etc? If the seller can't prove it is well kept, regardless of what you ask and what he replies, he may be lying. If it's still a good looking and well maintained ride by the time it hits 180k, most all the parts on the car that wear out would have been serviced or replaced.

A car with no records and 70k is scary, probably as much as any car over 200k. I'm with Jamie here. Great upkeep is better than Low miles. Of course, it's beat up or something, I'd seriously reconsider buying it at all. All Mark VIII's regardless of odometer readings are a headache waiting to happen unless they are treated right.

Probably against the opinion of some others, though, personally I feel that a '98 lsc with any mileage that has been impeccably maintained for $1500 is a good deal. If the owner has spent that kind of time on keeping the car nice, it's worth his asking price, as low as it is. Unless he is super flexible, why only buy the car if he will take $500 less? It's not gonna make it any better to have saved $500 if you throw a rod in a month regardless of whether you can rape the previous owner by throwing him a grand. I can see negotiating a junker, to pay for repairs, but a car priced at rock bottom isn't making anyone rich. I'd be willing to bet that most sellers who are obviously taking a loss on value are hiding something anyway.
 
mike thanks for your insight. its not that im the kind of guy that says my :q:q:q:q is stuff and your stuff is :q:q:q:q and low balls the crap out of every body i want to buy something from, it just i dont have $1500. i can squeeze $1k and no more its just a case of having an extra $1500 lying around, and if i had 15 i would give it for that car.
 
I wasn't trying to insult you or question your integrity, I was just trying to be sure I illustrated my point. GL buying it!
 
pics havnt come yet. if i dont see them before tommorrow im gonna assume its gone or he doesnt wanna sell anymore. btw if any of you guys has a mark in decent shape for cheap in the kansas nebraska oklahoma colorado mo area shoot me a pm. thanks all
 
My high mileage Mark is pretty much what is expected when you buy from a dishonest seller. It was not a well maintained car for a long time, it was a leased car for 4 years, then it was sold used, the buyer drove it and sold it to a dealer after putting 100k on it of rough miles. After that, during the past 8 years it was well maintained for another 50k, and I have had it since October. I have been putting effort into getting it right and now it's not a bad car at all, it is definitely worth fixing up the rest of the way, but all of the stuff that got ragged on and neglected was beginning to need time invested and it costed me me. Things that were still "ok" when the last guy owned it are now in need of mending, which is the true reason he was selling: The fact that high repair costs were around the corner, not that he just wanted to spend more on his Audi. I have been slow to progress since I bought it with my very limited amount of extra cash as a fun car to fix up when I can afford it. I was all set to keep on going and do my next stage of repairs on 2-3 issues until I found out a good friend no longer wants his '97 that has more potential. He agreed to sell me the car for as much as I was going to spend on my next round of work on the car I have. I decided to upgrade.
 
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