Onami

I actually had the same thought Bill. the car is very nice with great colors. $77,500 is a fair price for a 15k car and it is local. I'll try this approach and see what happens. The owner is super ****!!!!

No HTwo O

Great price, and you want to buy from an **** seller.

Onami

Thanks Bill. The market is funny up here. Canadians are willing to pay more for a Canadian car, but will only pay maybe 5% more than US market for a US car even though it costs at least 10% more than US market to get a car into Canada??? I struggted with this when I was selling my 993's last year and ended up having to accept US market pricing for my cars. It was a tough pill to swallow on the silver car. The TT I am considering is a US car, so that is why it is priced the way it is.

TT Surgeon

77,5k on a good 15k car is below market by about 10k imo.
He's a basically discounting it nearly the amount of a topend rebuild, look a it that way. Nice 15k cars are not easy to come by, if you hesitate, chances are someone else will buy it sight unseen. That's been my experience.
GL
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AC/911's

Super ****, but underselling? Those two usually don't go together, I thought is was rare to find a low mile 993 in Canada & when you did, it was more than US market.

Onami

Personally, I don't think it is that much under market for a private sale on a low option TT. Another member just bought a 22K mile car for $68K, so what is 7K miles less worth?

It is rare to find a low mile Canadian TT in Canada, but there are a fair number of US cars in the Toronto area. Still compared to the US, they are much harder to find. That being said, there are also a lot less TT buyers up here

TT Surgeon

I bought a 30k miler for 73.5, another 30k car went for 82.
If I found the perfect 15k mile car in the 70s and i liked what i saw/heard, talked ti whoever serviced the car. I would snap it up without a ppi, too good of a bargain to pass up.

Turbodan

perhaps make a deal with deposit and have his mechanic do the leakdown with you present. don`t see how he could turn that down unless he is hiding something. Mark, what colour is it

Onami

Thanks Dan. It's silver on black. Have to wait 2 weeks to discuss it further as the owner is out of town until July 10th....

AC/911's

If car's legit, which it most likely is, it's a great deal, if it's a 97, it's an even better deal, good colors too.

ronnie993tt

Sounds like a good deal. No expert but Courtney Walsh says he can tell from his computer readings whether a leakdown is worthwhile. He recommended against it on my (then) 8,300 mile car. Good luck.

Mike J

Yeah, I have been told that, but I think an old fashioned compression and leak-down test is better, combined with a scan for codes, etc. I would not avoid or skip this - I really doubt if the older ODBII systems in the Turbo can tell if a single or two pistons are down 20psi on compression (and I have a PST-2 so I have an idea on what is available).

Hopefully someone can correct me if I am wrong here.

cheers,

Mike

No HTwo O

I'd be careful if you really want this car. It could very well be gone in 2 weeks from a buyer willing to pay his price, sight unseen. For example, Willhoit would probably buy this car sigh unseen if it were a USA based car.

Why not give the seller a deposit, conditional on passing a quality PPI?

Onami

He is in Italy...

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