I went and picked it up this morning, she was glad to get the $500. The
new BF was there, turns out he is in the wholesale car bidness, buys at
auction and flips them. He was pretty much a good ol boy, seemed to like
her well enough but she seemed a bit high-strung, who knows. So I
talked to him a bit about this car being wrecked like 4 times, and he
laughed and said yeah, but it still runs, do a little fix up, put it on
CL for like $1800 and you'll sell it in no time. He says that is a
great target market, someone just looking for a fairly cheap car, and
the Benz image! He told her to take the $500 (probably would have gone
lower just to unload it but who knew...) and be shed of the thing. So
if Kleb lacks interest, I'll see what the deal is with the steering, see
if I can fix it, maybe find a new front bumper fascia at the knackers,
or maybe just glue it up and it's good ta go...
It started on 2 pulls this morning and ran fine, so I guess sitting for
2-3months probably got it unhappy. Idles a little rough, but off idle
runs fine. I might put some of that cleaner stuff in the fuel and see
if that even things up.
If I can get it fixed up easy enough maybe I'll just keep it, I don't
know. if anyone other than Kleb has any interest let me know.
She was going to send me the old BF's number, turns out he lives next
island over (on a boat but has a shop somewhere) and I can deal with him
and the wheel.
What we do for these old POS Benzes...
--R
On 10/7/17 7:18 PM, G Mann via Mercedes wrote:
I'll take bets the missing rim and tire were shredded beyond ever being
useful by what ever she hit / ran over / or destroyed on impact... Also I
bet the "Boyfriend" went postal that she destroyed the car and thus his
"demotion to azzholeness".
You never get the whole story with deals like this... just the parts after
editing...
Good luck, hope it's repairable without to much effort..
On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Fix n flip, of course!
(What else if the Kleb of the SE to do?)
Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
October 7, 2017 at 12:10 PM
So I’m here looking at this car, aside from the front bumper fascia
(crashed RF) and a rear taillight it doesn’t look too bad. Clear coat
fading, fairly clean inside, engine bay clean. RF wheel is the spare,
“myassholeexboyfriend” has the rim and won’t give it back. But she has 2
new tires in the garage she says
Tried to start it, it really didn’t want to. Battery fairly low. I put on
jumpers and after about 20 tries to start it and 30min it lit off and ran
fine. Sounded ok.
LR window went down, clunk, won’t go up. I guess AC doesn’t BLOW ICE COLD.
I backed out of the driveway and headed down the street, ran well. Went
to turn and HOLYSH** it was like trying to turn an ocean liner. Helm not
responding captain. I’m thinking she crashed into something and right
buggered the RF wheel and suspension steering bits. I came back to house
and parked it.
Called the girl and told her the issues and offered her $500. She said
another 200 for the tires and it was a deal. Having not seen these “new”
tires I told her we could work that out. So she said deal
So I’m coming back in the morning with the trailer and $500 and getting
the thing then see how badly the steering is Buggered. I have no idea what
I am going to do with it.
--R
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