Recent content by castint

I'd done a two hour radius from here already. I guess I'll start looking in GA/FL. Hard to get out as my work week is spread out over a 6 day period.

I looked at this one. Clean for the most part. Interior was great but a little musty. Engine compartment was really clean but some parts - pulleys and what not - were horribly rusted. Frame had been painted over within the last year or so. In some areas it looks like it was missed and in others...

I've looked at a dozen or so in the past month. The last two...so much rust. Found an 05 limited with 89k on it. All records, amazing condition. Pulled into his driveway to look at it and the entire hitch assembly was brown. My daughter (teens) said "ugh, that doesn't look good". Got out...

Aye, good catch! Can't believe I missed that one.

First one had the timing belt done at 72k. Nice records, everything was done at a dealer. The 2nd has nothing at all - that's odd.

I've been looking at 4th gens for a while but haven't seen any w/o badly rusted frames. I've always loved the look of 3rd gens and have decided to consider one of those instead. These are what I'm going to look at this week. Any feedback is appreciated. I live in Western NC (south of Asheville)...

This post (and many others mentioning frames) has saved me a from a bad buy. I looked at a decently 2005 in TN over the weekend, as I pulled into the lot the first thing I saw was the rusty frame. Crawled under it and it was a mess. The sales guy gave me a sad look, then said "you should see the...