| Author |
Message |
gt1953
Samba Member
Joined: May 08, 2002
Posts: 13848
Location: White Mountains Arizona
|
 Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 2:51 pm Post subject: Re: Low Mileage Claims |
 |
|
I enjoy picking apart someone's AKA barn find.
Granted there are some true barn finds, but only on American Pickers.
_________________
Volkswagen: We tune what we drive.
Numbers Matching VW's are getting harder to find. Source out the most Stock vehicle and keep that way. You will be glad you did.
72 type 1
72 Squareback
({59 Euro bug, 62, 63, 67, 68, 69, 73 type ones 68 & 69 type two, 68 Ghia all sold}) |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
helowrench
Samba Member
Joined: August 27, 2003
Posts: 567
Location: dallas texas
|
| Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 6:10 pm Post subject: Re: Low Mileage Claims |
|
|
| pyrOman wrote: |
I don't get it. For one, I am very proud that all my vehicles have at least OVER 100,000 miles if not 200,000!!!  |
Amen,
I loved buying my 71 Ghia with a verified 75K miles on it.
I got it from the 2nd owner who had it since 73, so I was able to verify it.
14 years later, I am rolling up on 220K miles.
I brag about how it has been the cheapest $ per mile in maintenance vehicle I have ever owned.
Everything else broke less often, but cost $$$ each time. Whereas, the Ghia rocked along, and has only stranded me once during that time. Even then, it was a $20 fix (fuel pump)
Rob
_________________
Current VWs:
70 bug vert for wifey
73Thing bucket o rust
73 914 1.7
12 Passat 2.5 Highway cruiser |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
novetti
Samba Member
Joined: August 15, 2004
Posts: 469
|
| Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 8:45 pm Post subject: Re: Low Mileage Claims |
|
|
I don't think rust is the main reason modern vehicles reach the end of their lives.
In my opinion the current Electricals (Harness, Switches, Sensors, CPU's etc) are the main culprit of taking vehicles of the road.
By coincidence I am sending to the dumpster a vehicle this week (a 94' Toyota Camry).
Mechanical is excellent, engine runs strong and has 300k Km on the clock, doesn't burn any oil, AC with the original gas is icy cold, no rust, perfect suspension etc however the main harness is completely rotten and shorting in several locations. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
pyrOman
Fire Master
Joined: July 21, 2003
Posts: 12408
Location: Over 2002 posts deleted!
|
| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 7:27 am Post subject: Re: Low Mileage Claims |
|
|
| novetti wrote: |
I don't think rust is the main reason modern vehicles reach the end of their lives.
In my opinion the current Electricals (Harness, Switches, Sensors, CPU's etc) are the main culprit of taking vehicles of the road.
By coincidence I am sending to the dumpster a vehicle this week (a 94' Toyota Camry).
Mechanical is excellent, engine runs strong and has 300k Km on the clock, doesn't burn any oil, AC with the original gas is icy cold, no rust, perfect suspension etc however the main harness is completely rotten and shorting in several locations. |
Sofaking true! I had an '83 Itsabichy Tredia that kept frying tail light bulbs AND had other electrical issues that kept popping up every time I wash the damn thing! 
So, first I quit washing it, just clean the windows and that was that! The bulbs kept blowing out so one day I tried to find the source of the problem by tracing the taillight wires from the back forward. As the wiring loom kept getting bigger and at every connecting plug, the forkin wire would change colors!?!?! 
Anyway, after FOUR hours and ending up at the steering column with a million other wires, I just cut it there and ran a single wire that would run from the coil all the way around the car to light up the running lights! 
Was I ever glad to find a sucker that gave me some $700 for that POS! 
_________________
Some people are so busy being clever they don't have time enough to be wise. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
cdennisg
Samba Member
Joined: November 02, 2004
Posts: 20271
Location: Sandpoint, ID
|
| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 7:01 pm Post subject: Re: Low Mileage Claims |
|
|
My 87 Toyota pickup has just under 260K and still ticking. That truck has worked so hard for me it owes me absolutely nothing.
I just bought a 91 Chevy Scottsdale with an honest 48K miles. Looks like shit cuz of Chevy's paint issues, but it is like driving a new truck.
My wife has an 08 Toyota Matrix with a verified 90K miles. Bought from the original owner so it was easy to verify. Looking to get 200K out of that one.
Pretty easy to shoot low mileage claims full of holes. Just takes a keen eye for details.
_________________
nothing |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
TDCTDI
Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013
Posts: 12850
Location: North Carolina
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 4:07 am Post subject: Re: Low Mileage Claims |
|
|
What's even more amusing is when a potential buyer looks at a clapped out vehicle that I'm selling & they actually want to believe that it's only got 60,000 on it. I just tell them that it's a 5 digit odometer & that it could have rolled over 2-3 times.
_________________
Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Zundfolge1432 
Samba Member
Joined: June 13, 2004
Posts: 12467
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 4:43 am Post subject: Re: Low Mileage Claims |
|
|
| Many years ago I knew an old guy named Rex. Rex sold VWs, his business model was simple, Earl Schieb paint job, tire dressing ,wash the engine. Always said engines were rebuilt and when questioned on that said " of course it's been rebuilt all VWs get rebuilt don't they" Needless to say Rex sold a bunch of cars. People aren't all that different from raccoons in that they are drawn to shiny things. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
cdennisg
Samba Member
Joined: November 02, 2004
Posts: 20271
Location: Sandpoint, ID
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 8:40 am Post subject: Re: Low Mileage Claims |
|
|
I forgot to mention something. My first type 2 purchase, sometime around 1990, was a 1965 single cab with 19,000 miles. It was real obvious that the mileage was true.
_________________
nothing |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Volktales
Samba Member
Joined: June 21, 2013
Posts: 545
Location: Nanaimo, B.C. CANADA
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 9:26 am Post subject: Re: Low Mileage Claims |
|
|
I have a '62 Beetle that has a genuine 47,000 original miles and has been garaged its entire life and is in beautiful shape. And I don't enjoy driving it because of extreme paranoia that something might happen to it! On the other hand my restored '74 bus is also very nice, but I love driving it. It has travelled close to 300,000 km now with multiple adventures. If something happens to it, it can be fixed up again without freaking out. My last daily driver (a Civic) had 351,000 on it when bought, and is now being passed onto my kid at 381,000. As it is now too nice for a winter beater, an Acura will be the new winter machine. At 402,000 it is just nicely broken in... And before you ask, the kid won't be daily driving a vintage VW for some time yet... Give me the cheap high-milers any day... Incidentally the kid's Civic features the elaborate sound system from my sister's old Jetta. That car made 700,000 before the transmission grenaded. I would have fixed it and rolled it if it wasn't rusting out... Sorry for the off-topic drifting. I do like laughing at so many VWs of sewage quality that are advertised as low mileage.
_________________
1974 "Restfalia" Camper 2000 cc EFI 2001-
1970 Beetle first car, rotten, yard art 1985-
1966 Sunroof Beetle, restored 1998-
1964 Ghia, ongoing project 2007-
1962 Beetle Beryl,original paint survivor 2012-
1970 Savannah Beige Beetle 2012-
1992 16v GTI, 100% stock 2006-
1991 "Terseo", wife's old daily 1995-
1969 Chevrolet CST/10 (family owned since new)
1965 Gold Corvair Monza 2021-
1966 and 1965 Monza 2022- |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
