It was a private seller.
I didn't get the feeling of BS artist.. just that he was just pretty clueless about that car.
Yeah.. I didn't like seeing the shiny new lower oil cooler hose.
The old wastegate hose looked like it had rotted off on its own.. didn't look like a cut, and looked like it had been plugged for a while (crud buildup).
Now there's a thought: how many of us who ar enjoying nice powerful accelerations have surrepetiously leaking wastegate hoses?