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Underneith of car coated with black stuff?
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Sat, 19 November 2005 05:22
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Hi all,
I am looking to buy a car. Its a Celica, seems in better than average condition interior and mechanically. I had it professionally inspected by SVC and the inspector said overall its better than average, apart from some panel damage. BUT, the entire underbody/underneith the car has recently been coated in this black shit. The inspector said its pretty thick, and in his experience, is usually done to cover up damage. The car is lowered so probably damage from speed humps or whatever else its scrapped but he said because of it he can't tell where or to what extent there is damage and you'd need to get in there with kero to get atleast a fare portion of it off before you know anything. Probably have to get it done by a pro.
I find this worrying. The car is good inside, good mechanically, but this is disturbing. The owner claims he did it for noise/sound insulation, but the inspector thinks thats not the case and also thinks it was done very recently. ie he knew he'd be selling it when he did it, so you do the math.
What are your thoughts? Its been lowered 2" and inspector says has 18" rims but i thought they were 17's. Anyway... damage wise, say it has scrapped and stuff... whats the worst it could be? I dont know much about cars. It runs fine, inspector found the engine etc in average to good cond.... its this whole underneith thing screwing with my head. I just spent $200 to get it inspected with photos, to find this out now...
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Xizor | Sat, 19 November 2005 05:22 |
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1200det | Sat, 19 November 2005 05:43 |
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Xizor | Sat, 19 November 2005 06:13 |
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berad | Sat, 19 November 2005 06:27 |
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Xizor | Sat, 19 November 2005 06:35 |
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berad | Sat, 19 November 2005 07:10 |
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oldcorollas | Sat, 19 November 2005 07:16 |
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Xizor | Sat, 19 November 2005 07:35 |
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oldcorollas | Sat, 19 November 2005 07:41 |
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Xizor | Sat, 19 November 2005 07:50 |
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Dale_ta22 | Sat, 19 November 2005 07:51 |
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Xizor | Sat, 19 November 2005 08:35 |
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Dale_ta22 | Sat, 19 November 2005 09:56 |
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Enchanter | Sat, 19 November 2005 10:02 |
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Xizor | Sat, 19 November 2005 10:27 |
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oldcorollas | Sat, 19 November 2005 11:26 |
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Xizor | Sat, 19 November 2005 22:35 |
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toof | Sat, 19 November 2005 23:14 |
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FST513 | Sun, 20 November 2005 13:50 |
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toof | Sun, 20 November 2005 22:07 |
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Xizor | Sun, 20 November 2005 21:55 |
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mynameisrodney | Sun, 20 November 2005 22:36 |
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Corona RT142 | Sun, 20 November 2005 23:09 |
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oldcorollas | Mon, 21 November 2005 02:17 |
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mynameisrodney | Sun, 20 November 2005 23:26 |
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