hmm I'm gonna give into more detail and want to see what you guys think.
Car as it stands:
-Couple bought it with ~70k from a "wholesale" dealer who was selling off "rental" cars for a company. Validity of that can be confirmed from a car fax. I pm'ed the member doing carfaxes right now.
-Clock is now 143K
-She drives it to where she works, about 7 miles down the road. All straight road no lights/turns.
-She told me that they used it to drive to cape cod. Not how many times or if it made it. lol But she mentioned they were empty nester's and that they do some traveling. So Sounds like the car had alot of travel miles.
-Car has a brand new waterpump. Its the cleanest thing in the motorbay, and its a damn clean waterpump. lol
-Found receipt in the glovebox for sparkplugs in 03'. They were Bosch plat 4.
-Supposedly the waterpump that was put on leaks...I didn't/couldn't see any signs of the pump leaking, but she showed me a stain on the floor from where it had dripped. Problem is that coolant/coolant overflow house/waterpump are all in the same spot.
-Has two minor comestic spots, but body does not look repainted and headlights are identical. Doors all lined up along with hood and trunk.
-Brand freakin new goodyear triple assurance tires. (don't ask me why on a taurus, but they are new and look sweet)
-Interior is pretty clean, but it has a tape deck...This taurus actually has a bench style seat upfront with no console on the floor. Column shifter FTW! lol
-It was raining so we were in their garage. Car started fine. Actually took off probably better then my 'tour. It had a high idle that dropped within 10 seconds.
-Put it in gear and just drove it back out and back into garage. Trans seemed to go in fine. Motor jumped when it went into gear. So not sure on that one.
The Kicker (imagine peoples honestity!):
-The worst thing I know about the car is that The wife who was there on friday told us her husband uses "amco" or "ammico" (am-me-co) oil and that is a 25000(yes) mile oil. :troutslap: The oil in the car looked like it needed to be replaced. I've seen worse, but if it was my car it would have been changed before now.
-When I was under looking for coolant leaks, The oil pan it coated with oil. I mean every corner of the pan casting was gunked. It was still pretty tacky, and for a 143K motor i'm sure it leaks somewhere. It looks like my 'tour when the filter needed a quarter more turn and was slowly dripping oil. And looking at the drips and coating I think It might be the same problem. And if the oil gets changed every 25k
blackeye
A leaky filter would look like that I saw.
Remember this as well, a Vulcan 3.0 is everywhere. It the motor/trans crapped replacement used would be like 300-500 bucks for both around where I live.
