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looking at a 92 245 200

posted by  Honkinmax on  Wed Nov 25 09:09 CST 2009
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Hey guys i'm looking at buying a 92 245. It needs a windshield, gas tank, rear shocks and a rear tail light. The guy wants 1800 CDN. What am i looking at for those repairs? I need to know about the gas tank really everything else is fairly straight forward.

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    looking at a 92 245 200

    posted by  Stickbuilder on  Sat Nov 28 02:11 CST 2009
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    I'll have an 89 245 available later on this coming week. It's a DL with only 170K on the odometer. Well maintained wagon, with many new parts already installed. I can't find any rust on this Florida car. I'd keep it myself, but I don't have room for it. $2500.00 USD








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    looking at a 92 245 200

    posted by  JimN696 on  Wed Nov 25 11:16 CST 2009
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    I found the tank online for about 270.00. You would probably want to replace the intank pump and sender while you were in there. Probably looking at a 400 dollar repair if you did the work yourself using new parts. Parts at the junkyard are a crapshoot, but much cheaper. I would be concerned about the need for rear shocks being something bigger like trailing arm bushing. Worth checking out on a lift to make sure. The windshield installed around these parts (NJ) is about 280.00.








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      looking at a 92 245 200

      posted by  Honkinmax on  Thu Nov 26 01:58 CST 2009
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      Thanks for the reply.

      After sleeping on it I feel the price might be a little high. He's asking $1800 Cdn. The work i listed is what i know it needs. Who knows what else! The body is pretty good, it has a new timing belt, the interior aint bad. All in all not a bad wagon, but not great. We'll see.

      Matt








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        looking at a 92 245 200

        posted by  JimN696 on  Thu Nov 26 03:16 CST 2009
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        When buying a used car, I usually tag another 600 or so dollars to the price just for fixing the little unknown things that always need attention. If you add that to the money you know you have to spend, it runs into some serious money. If the car was fabulous with all the service records, it might be worthwhile.








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          looking at a 92 245 200

          posted by  Honkinmax on  Thu Nov 26 06:40 CST 2009
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          i just got a call and it turns out it just a fuel line leaking and it needs a front strut, not rear shocks. What do ya think?








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            looking at a 92 245 200

            posted by  JimN696 on  Thu Nov 26 06:49 CST 2009
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            I'd still check it out thoroughly. But it changes the economics radically








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              posted by  Sven's Maintainer on  Sat Nov 28 02:22 CST 2009
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              With what is now a long list of work needed, the car really should sell only for a few hundred dollars - in that range the question of US or CN almost doesn't matter. I think the biggest issue is that the seller, instead of reaping nearly 2000 CN from this sale, will be lucky to get 400-500 CN. he might not even get that. He may be very slow to accept that fact.

              I always figure $1000 for unexpected items when buying used. But that includes the possibility of work I can't do myself.

              The front struts are beyond what many driveway mechanics will tackle as you need a spring compressor. Likely the strut mounts should be replaced at the same time. Plus of course, all the other items that were already disucussed.
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              Sven: '89 245 NA, 951 ECU, expanded air dam, forward belly pan reaches oem belly pan, airbox heater upgraded, E-fan, 205/65-15 at 50 psi, IPD sways, no a/c-p/s belt, E-Codes, amber front corner reflectors, aero front face, quad horns, tach, small clock.







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