Treasureroom
Active Member
I have a friend who is a multimillionare and owns an XLR. He is not into cars at all, he is into yachts. The XLR was owned by his 80 year old father until last year when the father died. The father maintained the car well but I know my friend and his 18 year old son beat on it. The car is still in his deceased fathers name so it’s a one owner car. The XLR is no longer under warranty.</SPAN>
Millage is just 17000 miles and the interior and exterior are perfect
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Problems</SPAN>
The tires have flat spots form the car sitting for long periods. They will need to be replaced.</SPAN>
The message on the dash board says something like “Speed limited to 80 MPH” and “SERVICE RIDE CONTROL
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The serpentine belt is squealing bad. But after about ½ hour of driving the squeal went down considerably. </SPAN>
The car seems to bounce a lot at bumps in the road at high speeds.</SPAN>
DVD nav disk is all scratched up and cant be used. </SPAN>
The car lived its life in a shore town at a house right on the beach. Salt air. The XLR does not appear to have any rust but EVERYTHING there rusts must faster than normal. </SPAN>
All other systems and mechanicals on the car works perfect. No accidents. HOWEVER the car was stolen by the current owners girlfriend in 2010. She had the key and took it cause she was ****ed at him. He did not know who took the car and call the police. He ended up pressing charges on her. No damage was done, the car was shut off and located using on-star. I don’t know if this will show up on the car fax as I forgot to write down the vin.</SPAN>
Price $25000 firm. He wont budge on the price.</SPAN>
While my friend is a multi-millionare, I am not. 25K is almost exactly half my savings. This could potentially be a great deal. But if it ends up costing me another $5 k in repairs, I am not interested. My friend does not actually want to sell the car. He does not care about it. He is only selling it because I am pestering him about it. He is not going to fix anything before he sells it and the nearest Caddy dealership is 1.5 hours away so a pre-purchase inspection is not really an option.</SPAN>
LMK your thoughts. Please email me at xx7xx@hotmail.com</SPAN>
Millage is just 17000 miles and the interior and exterior are perfect
</SPAN>
Problems</SPAN>
The tires have flat spots form the car sitting for long periods. They will need to be replaced.</SPAN>
The message on the dash board says something like “Speed limited to 80 MPH” and “SERVICE RIDE CONTROL
”</SPAN>
The serpentine belt is squealing bad. But after about ½ hour of driving the squeal went down considerably. </SPAN>
The car seems to bounce a lot at bumps in the road at high speeds.</SPAN>
DVD nav disk is all scratched up and cant be used. </SPAN>
The car lived its life in a shore town at a house right on the beach. Salt air. The XLR does not appear to have any rust but EVERYTHING there rusts must faster than normal. </SPAN>
All other systems and mechanicals on the car works perfect. No accidents. HOWEVER the car was stolen by the current owners girlfriend in 2010. She had the key and took it cause she was ****ed at him. He did not know who took the car and call the police. He ended up pressing charges on her. No damage was done, the car was shut off and located using on-star. I don’t know if this will show up on the car fax as I forgot to write down the vin.</SPAN>
Price $25000 firm. He wont budge on the price.</SPAN>
While my friend is a multi-millionare, I am not. 25K is almost exactly half my savings. This could potentially be a great deal. But if it ends up costing me another $5 k in repairs, I am not interested. My friend does not actually want to sell the car. He does not care about it. He is only selling it because I am pestering him about it. He is not going to fix anything before he sells it and the nearest Caddy dealership is 1.5 hours away so a pre-purchase inspection is not really an option.</SPAN>
LMK your thoughts. Please email me at xx7xx@hotmail.com</SPAN>