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Originally Posted by Matt Monson
It's not always that simple. Years ago I had a '68T I was selling. I knew little before my ownership. When I went to sell it the buyer sent in professional to do a PPI on it and inspect it. We both looked it over together. We didn't see anything.
The buyer gets the car shipped to LA and starts teardown for bare metal windows out respray. Then it became obvious it had been hit on the driver side and poorly repaired. But paint on the car we couldn't tell. It was a bad repair, but even a bad repair can be good enough to be invisible.
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Agree, you can only do some much
reasonable diligence before it becomes cost prohibitive and in most cases, a waste of time. Sounds like in the case you mentioned, you did all you could do and then some - caveat emptor.
In this case, the car in question. I just thought the seller might have been a bit more knowledgeable about the current condition notwithstanding the accident. Not surprising though dealing with independent dealers hence the reason why I lost interest very quickly.