I was looking for a s2k that I can drive when the weather is nice. I don't plan on ever taking this thing to the track or anything.
My concern is that this car has been in an accident back in 2016 that cause the insurance company to declare it a total loss. Also that it was towed recently for mechanical issues.
I talked to sell and her says that car was tow due to a bad timing chain tensioner. That was fixed. It also has a small rip in top and issue with EPS.

He wanted $9,500 but said would consider $7,250. Should I be running away from this thing? Offer lower?

All the clean S2k seem to be prices around 13,000+. Thats out of my budget for a toy card (as my wife puts it). I figure any issue mechanical issue it has should be fixable...

 

It doesn't take much damage to total a high mileage ap1. With that said, without seeing pictures of the damage its a risky purchase.

ps. I used to buy/fix/sell salvage cars and currently own a rebuilt s2000.

 

I asked the seller for photos and he doesn't have any unfortunately. It happened in 2016.

 

Unless you have experience inspecting and identifying previous damage or know someone who does, its a risky purchase.

 

It will never be an investment but if it runs and drives well you've got a hell of a ride for $7k

 

Seems to me its had a hard life.

 

I'd avoid it. Looks like it was a pretty bad accident. Look at the damage reported, that's almost every panel, lol. And it doesn't seem like it was ever mechanically fixed correctly either with issues ever since. Considering the person who bought the car, totaled it within a month, took a year and half to fix it AND still came out with problems and are now trying to sell it a month after they had to have it towed...I'd wager the person is trying to offload something they are tired of trying to fix and cut their losses.

Unless you have the time AND money (cause parts for this car are not exactly cheap) to fix it up I think you'll be sitting with a dead car in a year.

Maybe see if you can talk him down some more. At $6500 it starts getting interesting with possibility of parting out the car and recouping most of your $$$ back if it dies.

 

It doesn't look to bad to me. If it runs and drives, at $7250 it seems like a pretty good bargin. 119K miles is not bad at all IMO, as there are 200k+ cars all over the place.

Drive it and see how it feels and listen for any odd sounds. Don't look for it to be any kind of investment though. Buy it to drive and keep forever, cause you will get almost nothing for it when you sell it. Just like the current seller.

Good luck with your decision.

 

He sent a Video and it seem pretty rough. One of the edge of one of the door, Rear bumper, and rear quarter panel has issues.
Here is the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFWM...ature=youtu.be

He lowered it to $6,500. So tempting.

 

Run,run...