do you guys think i can sell my car?

http://rochester.craigslist.org/cto/4206783343.html

this isn't meant to be :spam:
i just wanted to see what you guys think.

any pointers?

 

I'd buy a cheap battery for it. I would bother looking at a car that doesn't start if I'm looking for a cheap driver

 

I would fix the exhaust and replace the battery and then list it for more.

Sold as is.

 

I'm sure someone will at least buy it for parts, if nothing else. You should probably put a pic in the ad though.

 

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Cheers Glen.

 

I don't mean to be the bearer of bad news, but I doubt anyone would give you $700 for that, and if they do.. once they find out it needs more work than the car is worth they are either going to come back in some way and make your life hell or karma will get you.

You might be able to, just be very straight up that there may be more issues and you aren't a mechanic but they can have someone look at it if they want. Make up a bill of sale. Load your guns. Lol.

I'm fabbing up brake lines for a car from Boston tomorrow and I told the guy to sell it. Super fucking clean paint, interior, I mean spotless. You get under it and all of the steel is layering like a grands biscuit - when that happens to steel it's done. The car has cancer. Structural integrity doesn't exist, suspension parts will literally just explode under the right stress, frames/subframes are done, sheetmetal is done.

I get a lot of cars from up north and they are always nightmares, I charge extra no shit and tell them up front. It is always a disaster. Then I tell them to dump it and buy a car that hasn't been in an environment where they salt the roads.

 

if u lived around the corner, Id buy it for a beater..

 

there's no karmic debt here, man. i'm not being dishonest.

yup, you nailed it.

this is the north. you don't have to tell me about salt on the roads. it's a bitch. and so is the person that's gonna gun me down over $700 (OBO)

 

or get it jumped by someone and let the alternator charge it.

i made the decision awhile ago not to put anymore money into this rust heap. and then i spent a couple hundred more bucks fixing the exhaust. so i'm not doing that again.

and yes, i will make that very clear.
with a bill of sale and signatures.

yeah, i was planning on getting a picture up there. show off those holes in the wheel well, they kinda look like bullet holes...from a 50 cal

 

I May pay that for that.. My purple lumina just gave us bad news

 

death! i knew you'd like my thread.

$450 for you, pal

 

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Cheers Glen.

 

^^^is that used to repair broken brake lines?

this car doesn't have any of those yet. my old chevy cavalier blew a few brake lines though, and my dad fixed it with what i get when i search for an image of compression brake line.

 

I'd be all over it if it didnt cost me that much to get there

 

i hate taurus...those damn converters are so freaking hard to cut off without a hoist

 

I didn't mean to be offensive porkstock, sorry about that. I just look at cars in a weird way. This is the rust mess from up north half taken apart. The truck is so nice still but done structurally. Good candidate for swapping the body onto a non rusted or tube frame and going crazy with it. But a taurus is unibody construction.. the floorpan or floorboard in other words make up the structural integrity of the thing and then subframes which are basically half a frame that support the front and rear suspension, driveline, engine etc bolt directly to that unibody structure. When something like has severe rust the only real way to fix it is cut and weld sheetmetal to the unibody, structural support and new subframes. Plus everything else that attaches to it once you get to that point.

The alternator is designed to maintain a battery charge, keep it at a certain level so all the electronics and computer controlled functions don't go haywire. Who's to say that car doesn't have a bad battery, bad alternator, corroded cables and a bunch of bad grounds because of the rust. Which toasted the ignition module and the cooling fans because of the voltage drop in the whole electrical system. To get it running right that could cost 2 grand easy. That's all I'm saying, I think of the worst case scenario I guess

 

it's been a great car for me. bought it for $3100 about 6 years ago or something. and it runs pretty good, other than the loudness. i doubt the alternator or the cooling fans are bad, but you're right deviate, pretty much anything could go on it...at any time.

what do you expect for 700 bucks? and that's my starting price. asking for 700 gets you offers of like 325, which i got this morning. i asked him what about $475

oh hey, debbie. what's a converter?

 

Catalytic converter...Badd's prolly recycling them. No offense but those Taurus]s are notorious POS when they get old, money pits. yep

 

Being one of the most academically accomplished stoners I've met, this made me lol.

 

That is a terrible ad honestly..If I was you, I would put a battery in it and then write a new ad

the Ford Taurus is one of the biggest POS in car making history

but it will sell if you do a few things and re write your ad