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Originally Posted by kaisen
They are like any small, cheap car. The original owners barely take care of it (cheap car) then it depreciates and gets cheaper and finds a buyer who is even less able to take good care of it. Then it gets handed down to a kid who beats it.
Pretty soon there is a bunch of deferred maintenance, abuse, and cobbled band-aid repairs. To the owner, the car isn't worth enough to invest in maintenance. Eventually, there are so many little issues that they give up and trade it in, or sell it as-is.
It sounds like you got one of those. No biggie. Make things right and it should be good for years, especially if the new owner takes care of it. Which they likely won't.
If this were a Mercedes, these issues would have been taken care of one at a time, during regular scheduled maintenance visits, and the owners happily open their checkbooks and not think twice.
So why condemn?
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According to the guy that gave it to me this happened all at once, rendering the car dead in a parking lot at the airport. I can't be sure though since we had it towed to us.