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Oh well - Ebay car report 700 1991

posted by  darius on  Mon Apr 14 16:32 CST 2003
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I bought a car off of Ebay, one that I went to see just an hour and a half south of here, and it seemed pretty good when I drove it - ran smooth, except the front brakes needed work, and that got taken care of. The guy even fixed the a/c for me, replaced a fuel injector, and replaced the tailgate shocks - all for a very reasonable final price. However, I ended up with multiple annoying problems on my beautiful new red 740 Turbo Wagon - the engine runs very rough when the car warms up, esp. at idle when in gear; it may be a bad O2 sensor (the guy who replaced the fuel injector thought maybe)? The lights on the dashboard do not work when the headlights are on, so you can't see them at night and - get this - if I turn on the parking lights and put the car in reverse, the instrument cluster lights come on, but not the lights for the gear shift, and then they go off when I shift out of reverse. Huh? In addition I can't get the driver's seat to move; seems to be stuck on something, and the power steering seems to have a problem because it steers really hard, almost as if it is on manual.

I know this is a bunch of problems but if anyone has any ideas about any of them, please let me know. I bought this car as is, but even so the guy I bought it from did a lot to bring it up to speed for me, but just not quite enough. Help!!!!

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Darius in Albany NY '86 744 GLE, 91 745T






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