I know a little more about the car. I was planning on purchasing it when it looked like this:
When I first saw it for sale it had 55k miles. From what I know it doesn't have the right transaxle in it, Jiffy Lube or someone trashed the original trans and a used replacement from a junkyard was installed. The owner told me that it was running at a certain rpm on the freeway and I determined that they had installed a 3.73:1 Z52F instead of the 4.10:1 Z54F.
Now it all makes sense... someone posted on here looking for T4WDs for a photoshoot. I was contacted by that person and they were considering using some of mine, but apparently they saw the ad for this one and this one was clean so they used it. It looked much better before with the shiny silver paint, too bad I didn't get to see it in person. Petros was right in the assumption that they were considering using several, as far as I know they were looking for as many as 3. Originally they said they wanted to use silver cars.
Oh well...
2015 Honda Fit EX "Malachi"
2001 Toyota Corolla CE "Eugene"
WOW ! $3K for a 2WD! It will be interesting to see what this winds up going for.
The 55K is cool, though.
Tom M.
T4WD augury?
"Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' Let us go and make our visit." T.S. Eliot - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"Now and then we had a hope that, if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates." Mark Twain
so I wonder where the factory alloys went. how did someone trash a good tranny in only 55k miles? It might be worth getting the proper trans for it (I have one in my garage in fact) and turn it back into a 4x4, but not at $3k, perhaps more like $500.
I forgot to mention it's a fully loaded car - has power steering, sunroof, supposedly a working A/C, and yes, the elusive factory cruise control! Still without the 4WD working, it's not worth very much to me. Not to mention that the owner said that his mechanic suggested that the car was going to need struts and I believe the power steering rack was also leaking. According to the story, it had been sitting in a garage for 10 years and then I think the original owner passed away and then was put back on the road. He mentioned something about Jiffy Lube being responsible for trashing the trans, but I would suspect that they didn't fill the trans properly and thus caused the transmission's demise. I'd rather spend this much money on one of mine and double the power output.
2015 Honda Fit EX "Malachi"
2001 Toyota Corolla CE "Eugene"
