Reserved for tomorrow morning...
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Originally Posted by COLB
-- Even if the fuel issue is just a bad DME relay, and not the control unit, you are still looking at a car that requires an engine out service --
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Taking the information provided by the OP at face value, I don't see how one concludes that this car requires an engine out service. To my way of thinking, the seller deserves the benefit of the doubt given the buyer's knowledge of him and the car, and if he says the car was running in April, it's highly unlikely it developed an "engine out" problem since then.
I'm all for considering the worst case scenario and this might just be a case of glass half-full vs. half-empty opinions, but rolling out the laundry list of "while you're in there work" and "if you don't have to... rebuild the engine" is just overkill.
I do however completely agree on the rust issue. A couple of small specs of surface rust maybe, but a mostly garaged, 35k mile car should be rust free. My 911 lives 500yds from the Atlantic ocean and the salt air can cause superficial surface rust on any raw metal (ex. bolts scratched by tools) so perhaps Wilmington encounters the same issue. But anything beyond that is cause for serious concern.