[fastfredracing]

Been through this many times, I've probably flipped over a hundred cars in my life .
Just sold my Boxster about a month ago.
I broke my golden rule, and sold it to someone who I know, actually, even worse. A good customer . I service his 5 series, diesel dually, and his tahoe.
He is with his wife picking up his Bimmer, and makes a comment about how nice that little boxster is, . I tell him that mine is for sale, it is sitting right upstairs. His wife drives it, and a deal is struck in 5 minutes.
I had a window motor regulator going out for a while. I had the oe regulator , and just had not put it in yet. I did that for them, as part of the deal.
I get the window done, initialize the windows, and it works great. They pick up the car the next day, and all is well. He texts me that night to thank me, his wife loves it, and he appreciates that we cleaned it all up for him .
Next week, I get a text, both windows stuck down, cannot roll either one up, and when they are driving, sometimes , they roll up and down on their own.
Took me a little bit to figure it out, but, long story short, the microswitch for the power top, would glitch , or disengage, over hard bumps, or body twist if you are rolling it through some turns. I was able to duplicate it , and make it happen by pushing on the top while driving. I got the switch , and replaced it and the windows work perfect. My wife and I drove this car daily when we owned it, and never once, did this problem happen.
I am guessing they were messing with the top, up and down, and up and down, and fudgered it up somehow, because , on his nitpick list was also that the fabric for the top came out of its place on one side. I also fixed that nc.
But what really alarmed me, is that while I was test driving the car, I noticed that it would not upshift into 5th on its own. ( tiptronic car ). You could manually get 5 th any time with the paddles, but it WOULD NOT upshift on its own.
I am now in panic mode, thinking that somehow, by some horrible struck of bad luck, the trans is going out of the boxster, most likely caused by something that his wife did, beyond my control and I know I am about to enter into an ugly situation with a good customer.
I gobble up a bunch of my time, check fluid level ( already knew it was good , it was my car last month ) Checking for codes, trying to figure out what happened, checking grounds, etc.....
I was full on ready to just take the car back, and refund them , but fudgers... I should not loose my ass, I am 100% positive the trans worked flawlessly when I gave it to them, we drove it every day, and they also test drove it 3 times. I let them take it out for a few hours the one day.
Long story short, I replace a headlight bulb that I notice out, and figured I would double check oil/ antifreeze, and tire pressures for them, and lo and behold.
fr=55 pis, lr=50 psi, rr=14 psi, and rf=29. I just set the pressures 2 days before selling it to them. I would never do this in a million years, even if I was on LSD with a bad case of the flu. I always set them right at factory pressures with a walongacre tire pressure gauge .
I air up the tires, test drive it , and all is normal again . shifts perfectly .
Disaster averted, and wave of relief washes over me. I hate drama. The only reason I sold this car to a customer, was because I knew it inside and out, and had zero doubts about everything being balls on accurate ( it's an industry term) .
They were messing with it. had to be , someone was. You know how it goes. Anything that goes wrong for the next few months, my phone will ring, and it will be my problem
No more friends, customers, or neighbors for car flips for me.
Don't you hate it when you sell something, and your phone rings the next day??
Sorry , long post