Thoughts on car history
11-12-2018, 12:51 PM
#17
Burning Brakes
The owner should have told you all of this information because you can bet your butt they did all of the same research you did. If the owner was upfront about everything that would be better, but they're not, run away.
11-12-2018, 05:19 PM
#19
no, the bad thing about knowing is that you are obligated to tell a potential purchaser if there is a reasonable chance that what you know would be important to the potential purchaser's decision. to do otherwise is fraud.
11-12-2018, 05:25 PM
#20
There is six months gap between stolen and recovered. That explains why this vehicle has ended in auction. Stolen car owner reported and got paid from insurance company, and insurance company sold the car through auction (Easiest way to get rid of the car). If the title is clean, that auction 'salvage bid' sells car with clean title through auction. Auction company title is confusion, but call them to check if every car they sell are with salvage title.
11-12-2018, 09:48 PM
#22
Rennlist Member
Thread Starter
Just weird.
11-13-2018, 01:47 AM
#23
Drifting
Some people just don’t understand sales. It isn’t rocket science but I am still occasionally surprised at how inept some people are at selling things.
11-13-2018, 02:09 AM
#24
Nordschleife Master
I notified the owner (private seller) that I'm not interested. Too much drama with this one. I suspect there is something wrong with it because the current and previous owner both are selling the car with less than 6 months ownership. At this point even with a solid PPI I would always wonder. I kind of feel bad that I posted this stuff about it and its here on the internet forever and will follow the car to the detriment of the current owner but nothing made sense until I saw the theft report. It was the top item on the 2nd page, just a single line item. Skimmed right past it.
I think the December, 1969 must be a typo or something. The strangest thing is none of the dates make sense. The watermark on the picture says Feb, 2015 but the Carfax indicates 9/2015. Its reasonable to think the Carfax is wrong but the collision warning matches up with that date.???
Yes, they are asking current market price, $62,000 which is what the asking price was when they bought it based on the google archives from what I can tell. Google is your friend..sometimes. Do your homework folks.
I think the December, 1969 must be a typo or something. The strangest thing is none of the dates make sense. The watermark on the picture says Feb, 2015 but the Carfax indicates 9/2015. Its reasonable to think the Carfax is wrong but the collision warning matches up with that date.???
Yes, they are asking current market price, $62,000 which is what the asking price was when they bought it based on the google archives from what I can tell. Google is your friend..sometimes. Do your homework folks.
02-20-2019, 07:13 PM
#25
Rennlist Member
Thread Starter
FYI this car has made it back to the Chicago area and is now for sale at a Porsche dealer. Buyer beware!
https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/invent...ting=232590956
https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/invent...ting=232590956
02-20-2019, 10:17 PM
#26
I've had surprising luck just Google searching VINs. It's found me forum posts (here and elsewhere) on cars I was looking at and provided eye-opening information in some cases.
02-25-2019, 12:39 AM
#27
Depending on use case, how long you plan to keep it, and how good of a deal you can get.. I wouldn't immediately pitch it out for having been stolen. If I could buy it for 10-15k (that could be 25% depending on which 997.2 Carrera it is) under the going rate and planned to keep it, I might have PPI done and consider it. At or near regular price, no way.