PaddingtonBear
11-13-2006, 08:10 PM
Ok...I'm thinking about trading my s14 for a clean sr'd s13 coupe/hatch. The only color I don't want is red...and preferably black interior. Depending on cleanliness/mods I am willing to add cash. Location matters, no socal/norcal/west coast people, preferably southeast. I'm in Hickory, North Carolina.
***The Car*****
Red 95 SE
157k miles
4 brand new tires
oil changed every 3k
***This is one of those cars that you don't see everyday, it was at a local used car dealer, I am the 3rd owner, the previous owners were both women, no rust, paint is beautiful, all original paperwork/window sticker.
**The bads***
I wanted to be really honest about the car, and by honest, I mean brutally honest. Trust me, it is not NEAR as bad as I make it out to be. I just like to be very thorough and to not hide anything. Other than what I've listed below, this car is nothing short of immaculate.
-5 inch long rip in the driver side carpet, along the edge of the tranny tunnel(you can't see it with the floormats).
- Tachometer only works on occasion. It is a small electrical hiccup somewhere between the ecu and the tach.
-The rear bumper has a weird sort of dent/crease thing going on, it blends with the body lines and is only noticable if you are looking for it. Yesterday, I was backing out of my friends driveway, and I hit one of his brick statues(don't ask). I hit the corner, so theres about a 6 inch long line of various scratches, not bad, but still noticable.
- Two cold-start problems:
1) The car will not crank up right away. I usually have to pump the gas pedal a few times to get it to fire up. This is only necessary when the car has been sitting for hours at a time.
2) Weird gear grinding problem. When first started, the car will grind in first gear when the clutch is depressed. This goes away for the remainder of the day.
-In an attempt to make my door panels a little classier, I tried to remove the fabric insert on the passenger door. However, after many, many, hours of scrubbing with goo-gone...the rest of the glue/foam will not come off, so the insert has a sort of yellowish foam/film all over it. I am in the process of sourcing another.
-In the smack dead center of the windshield, there is an extremely small crack. It was there when I bought it. All total, about 1/2 to 1mm in diameter.
Other than that, this car has been wonderful to me and I haven't had any problems to date. A/C blows ice cold and heat is TOASTY. It's bone stock besides the shift knob, Sony xplod, and the front bumper.
http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/4909/mychad001gb6.th.jpg (http://img47.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mychad001gb6.jpg)
http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/5349/mychad002pm6.th.jpg (http://img362.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mychad002pm6.jpg)
***The Car*****
Red 95 SE
157k miles
4 brand new tires
oil changed every 3k
***This is one of those cars that you don't see everyday, it was at a local used car dealer, I am the 3rd owner, the previous owners were both women, no rust, paint is beautiful, all original paperwork/window sticker.
**The bads***
I wanted to be really honest about the car, and by honest, I mean brutally honest. Trust me, it is not NEAR as bad as I make it out to be. I just like to be very thorough and to not hide anything. Other than what I've listed below, this car is nothing short of immaculate.
-5 inch long rip in the driver side carpet, along the edge of the tranny tunnel(you can't see it with the floormats).
- Tachometer only works on occasion. It is a small electrical hiccup somewhere between the ecu and the tach.
-The rear bumper has a weird sort of dent/crease thing going on, it blends with the body lines and is only noticable if you are looking for it. Yesterday, I was backing out of my friends driveway, and I hit one of his brick statues(don't ask). I hit the corner, so theres about a 6 inch long line of various scratches, not bad, but still noticable.
- Two cold-start problems:
1) The car will not crank up right away. I usually have to pump the gas pedal a few times to get it to fire up. This is only necessary when the car has been sitting for hours at a time.
2) Weird gear grinding problem. When first started, the car will grind in first gear when the clutch is depressed. This goes away for the remainder of the day.
-In an attempt to make my door panels a little classier, I tried to remove the fabric insert on the passenger door. However, after many, many, hours of scrubbing with goo-gone...the rest of the glue/foam will not come off, so the insert has a sort of yellowish foam/film all over it. I am in the process of sourcing another.
-In the smack dead center of the windshield, there is an extremely small crack. It was there when I bought it. All total, about 1/2 to 1mm in diameter.
Other than that, this car has been wonderful to me and I haven't had any problems to date. A/C blows ice cold and heat is TOASTY. It's bone stock besides the shift knob, Sony xplod, and the front bumper.
http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/4909/mychad001gb6.th.jpg (http://img47.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mychad001gb6.jpg)
http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/5349/mychad002pm6.th.jpg (http://img362.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mychad002pm6.jpg)