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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Central California
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Two months ago when I first started looking for a 911 I came across a really nice pearl white '84 coupe. It had 84 k and was really nice. The guy was a Porsche fanatic and knew alot about these cars. He was also a PCA member. Well we negotiated and settled on a price.

He was 3 hours from me so I let him set up the details on the PPi. The day before the inspection I asked for the vin # so I could run a carfax, you know just due diligence. He said no problem and gave it to me. Later I got home and pulled the carfax. This thing had 129k on it three years ago according to DMV records!

I called the jerk up and told him what I just found out and he goes 'oh yeah I changed the odometer a couple of years ago it does have a lot more miles'. I was stunned.

He even had run the car on EBay with that mileage. After I caught him his add on PCA suddenly changed from 84k to 129k and the price dropped. Of course I reported all of this to carfax.

When buying a used car trust no one.
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Old 09-16-2003, 05:14 PM
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