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Hi,
Here’s some advice!
Well I have to say that’s the way it goes sometimes! But not all is lost if you expect it with a dash of reality baked in!
With that said, it’s not so surprising as this car is a 1992.
Who keeps a car that many years and drive it so little?
The speedometer is a little thing and they do fail. So replacements can come from anywhere or as it be, get set back if it’s an analog type?
Interesting that you say BS, because “The odometer was changed and the readings after that are also inconsistent. There are no honest people in the world anymore.”
Yes, it illegal to sell a car that way, but you have only “looked.”
So far, there is no law that can care at this time!
I doubt there is any “teeth” in it anyway, at this juncture, because of age, it’s an “As IS” car!
Bill Clinton once said, “It depends on what IS, IS?”
Politicians do things and we emulate from there! Blame them and then us!
The Lies being told lately are what it IS!
When the dollar stops working, then we will know where the “Buck” truly stops!
As for the high water marks, that continue to decline in this country, we will have to think better of, or demand more of ourselves to stop it!
Don’t look at the running global debt clock either!
Misinformation or misinterpreted information is game of thorns!
Use speedometers as a reference to look at or explain some more or less wear!
Otherwise it’s for gas consumption!
Don’t always believe Car Fax, as they have an out! It’s called “As Reported.”
Many places are outside of that network!
I do all my own work and they get nothing, even when I buy tires! I mount and balance!
This has always bothered insurance companies lately and now they want mileage updates or want you to put a tracking App on you phone for a $50 savings after a year or more!
House the same way in State Farm commercials!
Give me the break up front and a little trust becomes a two lane road again!
I venture out on my own to find my cars or they sometimes find me as a good home!
I picked up a white 1992 and a white 1993 like seven and four years ago, respectively.
White cars weather well and are probably have the best resale value, IMO.
The ‘92 had 243k with my first Volvo with an automatic.
It’s was from a very reputable refurbishing person, The Wagonmeister.”
He sources connections or auctions or does only worthy cars under a contract.
He goes over the car and details them from top to bottom and end to end.
Within a few months in that ‘92 I ended up driving coast to coast, to a cruise ship, due to an air flight cancellation for a hurricane. A limited window existed! Not an issue one!
The car now has 270k on it but it sat during COVID for ten months.
So in this scenario, mileage can and will vary for various reasons!
I’m now contemplating when I should change the transmission oil in order to keep it shifting as great as it has been. I’m not sure of what type of oil is in there except maybe it’s what the owners manual suggests?
We both were suspicious that his Previous Owner may have had transmission worked on because he said it was really clean when he got under it.
He said rest of this car was about the dirtiest one he had seen but when details one he knew it would cleaned up! He said, “It was a jewel in the rough!”
Mileage was and still is irrelevant!
My newest a 1993 was in a BB advertisements out of Reno, NV.
A second owner as the first owner was Hertz car to private Arizona company?
It was just turning over to 203k with a M47 manual transmission.
I needed a trip for my birthday as a present to myself so I might have had shiny glazed over eyes!
It had a new tires and a clutch.
The struts were shot to pieces and the transmission seemed to shift a little stiff when compared to my 1991 with 281k that I bought 15 years ago with 187k on it. Again mileage varies!
I had another spare M47 in the wings for my 1991 so I didn’t let it bother me. That turned out to be a mistake!
I don’t blame the previous owner. I have bought so many used ones, as I have six over many years, it was about time that I got a worn car. It foolish not to think so!
I’m suspicious that she when had the clutch changed, after her boyfriend passed away, that she got truly short changed.
Someone put an unknown different oil in the transmission and in about 5,000 miles it got really noisy!
A Bad bearing in the front part or main shaft is what I now suspect? Still looking for good information!
My spare M47 came out of a 1990 PNP wagon and from a broken speedometer.
I suspect with a reading of 132k?
I also have its complete engine and computer set aside! All for $450 Ten years ago.
I wish I could remember if it had a tow hitch. Not uncommon for a wagons as that might explain a more?
The transmission had semi dirty ATF in it, but I think the car was scooped up over parking tickets or was impounded from the San Francisco area from some clues inside.
It’s now in the 1993 and it turned out to be just less than half as noisy.
It’s still in the 1993 and going “OK” with some Synthetic Fuchs oil in it, as an experiment and it hasn’t gotten any worse?
Lesson here is, don’t put faith into any of the 240’s speedometers!
I have repaired and change my around over the years. I even have to think on them to calculate what’s really there!
The 900’s could be as similar to any 240 story, like above, on the BRICKBOARD.
If these cars could talk, as they are old enough, with a set of complex stories about themselves.
They are organ donors or being a recipients for their owners who loved them!
That in itself, would speak in various languages like a cartoon movie!
Keep looking with an open mind as these “Red Block” power trains with a decent body, still has value.
It purpose in life, is to serve out a time, to the right person!
Phil
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