Looking at an Evo IX
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Never, ever, EVER, ever, EVER buy a car without checking it out first. EVER. I had to fly from CA to Detroit, MI to take a guy to court over a car that was NOTHING like his ad said. I won, but never got paid.
DO NOT DO IT.
Cheating on the odometers of our cars is as easy as swapping clusters. I think CarFax will list mileage when work was performed. You can use that to compare. Maybe DMV can provide into too.
DO NOT DO IT.
Cheating on the odometers of our cars is as easy as swapping clusters. I think CarFax will list mileage when work was performed. You can use that to compare. Maybe DMV can provide into too.
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Never, ever, EVER, ever, EVER buy a car without checking it out first. EVER. I had to fly from CA to Detroit, MI to take a guy to court over a car that was NOTHING like his ad said. I won, but never got paid.
DO NOT DO IT.
Cheating on the odometers of our cars is as easy as swapping clusters. I think CarFax will list mileage when work was performed. You can use that to compare. Maybe DMV can provide into too.
DO NOT DO IT.
Cheating on the odometers of our cars is as easy as swapping clusters. I think CarFax will list mileage when work was performed. You can use that to compare. Maybe DMV can provide into too.
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I don't know if there is any way to check an ECU for that info. Your best bet is to get a Carfax. You can check mileage on different dates the car was serviced, etc. That will help a lot, but that isn't always fool-proof and sometimes that info is lacking on the reports.
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The person who thought to do that is pretty smart. just looked into it and he charges $5 to get a carfax, obviously owning the unlimited checks for 60 days for 70$. There was 24 requests over 2 weeks, meaning he broughtt in 120$, nearly doubling his money in 2 weeks.
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The person who thought to do that is pretty smart. just looked into it and he charges $5 to get a carfax, obviously owning the unlimited checks for 60 days for 70$. There was 24 requests over 2 weeks, meaning he broughtt in 120$, nearly doubling his money in 2 weeks.
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Update, got the VIN this morning and was able to pull a carfax on the car. I would be the 5th owner, guy who had the car before me has only had it for a few months, and the previous 3 accounted for the rest of the time. Only thing to note was the car failed an emissions test in Colorado in 2014 but no mileage reported since 2014, which falls in the area if It has about 80k miles, which was 62k miles
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Yea.. I got one for ya. Take the amount your about to spend on buying this red evo. And search the market for every single evo you can buy for that price.. if nothing is better then the ONE your looking at... go for it.. just know this is a one time thing and make sure you have no regrets... I personally looked at every single evo there was before I bought mine. I knew when I bought it that this was definately the one.
Mine was garage kept with 1 owner and it was an evo 9 SE with a built 5 speed transmission and a built transfer case/motor with 400 whp. For me this was perfect because I knew I was going to mod it anyways and it saved me thousands and thousands of dollars in mods it would have taken me years to get(not to mention it was built and maintained by CBRD) which says a lot for the quality of work.. no rust and in near mint condition
Mine was garage kept with 1 owner and it was an evo 9 SE with a built 5 speed transmission and a built transfer case/motor with 400 whp. For me this was perfect because I knew I was going to mod it anyways and it saved me thousands and thousands of dollars in mods it would have taken me years to get(not to mention it was built and maintained by CBRD) which says a lot for the quality of work.. no rust and in near mint condition