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Old 07-01-2014, 09:09 PM
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Pic 1

Is the exterior paint color beige / light brown? Look at the trans tunnel near the drive shaft, lines on the right of pic show some brown also.

Between the tunnel and lines running top to bottom, there is a crease in the floor from running over something. ( also see scratch on plastic at bottom of pic. This isn't a big deal unless the floor was welded back together or there is other body damage from the car falling off the road. Look closely at the front control arms, oil pan ,bumper for damage.

Catalytic converter is missing as in cut out and pipe welded in, look at stubs and off angle pipe. ( not center resonator as another poster stated.)

There is a bit of oil on the trans cross member.

Pic 2

Follow scratch down floor, plastic cover and towards lower control arm inner pivot. The lower control arm has a plastic cover that looks cut very near the inner pivot. There also looks to be some plastic cover damage on the outer end as well.

With such a fresh aftermarket exhaust, I'd think it was damaged when car ran over something / fell off the road.

Rear brake rotors look new.

Pic 3

Not much interesting here, looks like a new brake hose.


Factory MB undercoat is rubber and is very good at hiding rust on it's own, poke around a bit for soft spots. There is nothing in the pics that I'd reject the car for.
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