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Uriah · #17 11-16-2005, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Carleton Hughes

Well now,that depends.

I almost bought a 524 on ebay with 117,000 miles and full service records,it wound up fetching $3,500.00 or so which is not out of line since the body and interior seemed perfect,and the seller did display recent suspension repair receipts.

Could always grab an old Peugeot Turbo diesel,still many around,VERY durable,fairly easy to obtain parts for and very comfortable seats.

I've had a couple 505s and finding parts seemed to be impossible... well, hard to do. I couldn't find ANYBODY that stocked spares, and no junk yards within 150 miles of me seem to have any. Oh, and the French seem to like rust. What really got me going with the 505 though, is I thought the economy sucked. Not very diesel like, unless they both had problems I was unaware of. They'd do high 20s, but I expected mid 30s or so...