moon928

I first saw the car last night- I caught a glimpse of it out of corner of my eye, sitting in a local dealers lot but not displayed for sale. I don’t know why but I had to stop and see it. I briefly looked at the car and walked into the showroom to find out more. The manager behind the big desk told me they might take it in trade and if I wanted he would be happy to call me if they did. The car is Silver over Blue

On my way out I walked over to the rain soaked beauty and with one swipe of my hand what appeared to be another S4 automatic turned into a low mile 5 speed- I had to check twice at the mileage and the gear shift. I don’t know if they were watching me but I did a jig in right there in the parking lot, jumped into my car and went home.

I had to take a look at the car again in the daylight. So I drove up this morning to get a better look. I was shocked. The rain did a pretty good job of hiding damage to the front bumper cover, drivers side front fender, and scrape along the driver’s side rear quarter panel which was capped off with a small dent. It looks as if someone clipped a stone wall. I wasnt able to snap any photos.

The manager I spoke to wasn’t in but I was able to get the used car manager to open the car. I got the option codes from the rear deck- they are C02, 158, 220, 302?,418,533,650,494,481. I was quoted a price and I couldnt believe how high it was and when I chuckled the used car manager said “ I want to hit a home run with this one” We are going to clean this one up and off to ebay it goes.

I will keep you posted.

jon928se

220 =LSD

chaadster

302=type designated on rear end

daveo90s4

c02 Equipped with catalytic converter
58 Bumpers with impact absorbers
167 ??????
220 Locking differential
330 Radio Blaupunkt Toronto SQR 46, All models,not forUSA
383 Sport seat - left
387 Sport seat - right
393 Forged wheel 8J/9Jx16
474 Sport shock absorbers
639 928 GT
650 Sunroof

Dave

IcemanG17

How much do they want???? My guess is $20k+

tdelarm

Batters up!!! Ya...don't we all want home runs. Whatever.

jon928se

You had me going for a minute their Dave - Hitherto undiscovered US delivered '88 CS or SE ????. Then I realised that your little slice of options decoder wasn't the car in question.

daveo90s4

Jon et al, yes I had intended to post the options based on the codes for the car above, but obviously used the MS excel "copy and don't quite paste properly function" (as only I know how!!)

Here's my revised attempt.

c02 Equipped with catalytic converter
158 Radio Monterey - 86 Reno - 87
220 Locking differential
302 Type designated on rear end
418 Protective side mouldings
533 Alarm system
650 Sunroof
494 Amplifier system
481 5 speed manual transmission

Cheers
Dave

jon928se

You mean you haven't discovered the MS " copy and then and here's something completely different paste function", the one that normally means you end up with a 928 parts list in the middle of the engineering calcs, or a naked girl sideways in your pivot table

daveo90s4

Jon, I don't even get naked girls on my dining room table, let alone my pivot table! Should I be using a bigger macro?? Ha.

Dave

MGW-Fla

yeah they were watchin you no doubt about that.... the little jig in the parking lot probably jumped their price for you about $2k! not that I am in the market for it, but we are all "family" here... we learn from each other's research on prices... .share their asking price please oh please??? Other than somewhere in Boston, its not like anyone would know exactly where the car is at anyways.

heinrich

make sure about the miles. Dealers and others are COMMONLY turning them back. If I were crooked I'd be rich ... very easy to do.

moon928

I wanted to mention I have no affliation with the dealer at all. I didnt mention the dealer because I didnt want to seem like I was helping them.

Iceman you are close they want all of $19 which I would agree with if the car was in good condition but it is not. Who knows I could be wrong but I think it is way to high given the damage it has.

It will need paint and who knows how the car was maintained if it sat outside most of its life. Here is the vin WP0JB0928JS860642 it is not on Chuck Z's regisrty.

heinrich

They pay 3000 on trade.

Courtshark

I'd be more weary of an odomoter replacement than a rollback. 928 odos fail all the time and get replaced. The odometer on my 88 reads just under 11K miles. You are welcome to come look at it and dance a jig, but the truth is it has 100+k miles on it, plus a whole other motor in it!

Lastly with the damage you describe, either this car has lead a very tough life for only 27K miles on the clock, or this car needs a CARFAX check in a bad way. $20k... ha.