Congrats on the "new" car! GREAT find! That's one of the perks of working for a dealership, you can get GREAT deals on cars at times! A couple of years ago, I picked up a '97 Isuzu Trooper with 97k from my dealership for $2,500. Shortly later (one month) when my wife's car broke down, I traded the Trooper in for a Kia Sportage LX v6 4x4 and they gave me $3,500 for the Trooper!!! $1,000 profit and I didn't do ANYTHING to it, except put over 1,000 miles on it! LOL

We LOVE the Kia, BTW.

 

tech, you need to update your list of vehicles in your signature now...

 

Congrats on the car. Does this mean you'll start asking questions? haha, jk.
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Yes I need to update my list. But the car isn't in the driveway yet!!
Have to fix a couple of things first thats why I was waiting till it was acutally home first.

It will be here soon.

 

It is official I have it home.
Had to give it a tune up before I could drive it home.
Needs all 4 rotors which I will have done later today.
Will need lower control arms soon for the bad balljoints.
Needs 4 tires which will go on after the balljoints.

All in all not including the price for the tire I only have to spend about $500.00 to get it all right.

So I have the car for less than $2000.00.
The wife is very happy with it so far.
I will drive for the next week to make sure all is good then time to turn the keys over to her and turn her loose with it.

 

Did youpaint the front bumper? It seemed pretty nasty in the pictures.

 

Not yet just got the car Yesterday.
Once the wife starts driving it she will get the paint buy at her work to paint both bumpers for really cheap. (she sends alot of customers to him)

 

I wish I had an arrangement like that with a paint shop. I'd really like to paint the whole car, but it costs about 1K here.

 

For a good paint of a whole car is like 1k or more here as well.

Cheap paint job like $400.00 but crappy job.

 

Here 1K is a great paint job. The guy does paint jobs for BMW, Audi and Daimler-Chrysler raperships.

 

Here for a really good paint job. Metallic paint nice color will run about between 2k and 3k.

 

Update: Got alot done this weekend.
New Rotors,Tune up, Fixed alot of little things.

Ordered a Boost guage,Air fuel ratio guage,Guage pod, a R bumper cover(If anyone has a spare fog light let me know I need one) And a few other little things.

Going to window tint next week and hopefully the new bumper will be painted and installed.

Still to do soon.
Balljoints (control arms)
Tires (doing tomorrow after work)
Good cleaning on Vent system(Some wack job worked on it before)

Hopefully in a week or so I will have some nice new pic to post.

 

^Jeesh......You sure start getting the goodies quick...

 

Well when you get the car for 2K getting goodies quick is easy. Also knowing exactly what is needed helps a bundle.

 

Had a little spare money from taxes. But going really fast.

 

Wow you're on the ball! I have yet to even look at my taxes

 

It's called life in the fast lane.

We'll be waiting for pics to come out indeed...


JPN

 

LOL with the 4 kids need $$$ so get them done fast!!

 

Any luck on finding seats?

 

NO WAY!!

I wish

Volvo OEM covers $2500,00 for all 4
To have them redone about $1200,00 or so