JorjeM said:
Is this because of what SPA said with the electrical problems?
You'll find electrical devices hidden in the car in places you never imagined.
Those will likely to go faulty over time.
Its not just a computer here or there, there's electrical (multiple) devices in your doors, in the front, on the enige, everywhere. They might test 100% percent good now, but the water and even sludge buildup inside of relays/motors a.s.o. will give trouble. Then you replace the part for a new one, to find out later the connectors are corroding.... needing a new cable.. but coz a new cable is very expensive, a different connector is put on the cable, which does not have the same quality fittings as the original one, which..........
My buddy bought years back a half year old car, which had been in the water, just the front... Things where going wrong, all the time, things you wouldn't normally think off. Bearings, relays, motors, articulators, wires, connectors, cables.....a.s.o....
One day, his blinkers start to act realy weird. So i get in there, search around, pull a relay for the blinker. Relay looks like new, even the relay-base, where all the relays where located looking like new, never been wet...
Open up the relay, like a bucket full of sludge and goo inside.
But then, it all depends on pricing, and if your willing to deal with the problems which can(!) arise, might be a steal, and never see a problem... the thing is, you never know.
