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Originally Posted by muleears
Only shortcommings the car has are: 303K mi., very bad paint, small dent in RF fender, trans. has been maintained but never rebuilt, broken sunroof, no cruise, AC is cool but not cold.
What is the car worth $2K, $2.5K? less? Help me decide; should I let it go and invest in a lower mileage 126 or get it painted and continue to invest in the 124 until it leaves me somewhere?
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I strongly urge you not to spend a great deal of funds on a vehicle with 303K on the clock. Sure, perform the usual repairs as you have been doing. Suspension components, engine accessories, door lock actuators........etc. But, realize the engine has 303K and it's on severely borrowed time once 350K rolls around. No matter how well you believe that it's running, things such as valves and chains and tensioning rails just won't last forever.
I'll simply relay a sad story of an SDL that I saw at the shop in Raleigh that does quite a bit of M/B work. Vehicle came in with 425K on the clock with a heavy rattle from the engine. They pull the head, find out the tensioning rail is partially destroyed, and note that the head is cracked in three places.
What do you do with that? He's already into the shop for $1K just to take it down. He can't get it back up for less than $4K and then he'd have a lower end with 425K on the clock. Just senseless.
Don't paint it. Plan on a lower mileage vehicle sometime in the next 50-75K.