Rogviler

Yeah, I think that's another area where people make a mistake in valuing their car. If you have a $1500 car and a CV joint goes out, spending $1000 to get the axle, tire, and bushings replaced doesn't make it a $2500 car, it's still a $1500 car. On the other hand, if you don't get it fixed you can't sell it for $1500 because you're basically passing on the $1000 bill to someone else.

I see it all the time where I live. Making a car a whole car again doesn't make it worth more, it sets it back to the baseline.

Don't even get me started on those money order scams. It took me forever to sell my car and some rims on Craigslist because I'd keep getting flooded with that stuff (or "click on this link" scams). It seems that putting "no scammers" in the listing works fairly well though, which I think is funny.

-Rog

onlyaudis

looks like a Lemons car at this point.

i have a line on a good running fairly original 4000Q and may end up trading the current owner a paint job on his other 4000Q (with turbo conversion) to get it.

Clean 4000s are getting very hard to find these days. Its easier to find sports cars from that era than 4 door sedans.

anyone know about fixing dead A/C in these cars? can you upgrade them to later model compressors with some custom brackets?

Razor B

That applies if you have a baseline for comparison, like the KBB, or that other one that I never use. But, once it goes past 20 years, like all 3 of my vehicles, all you have to work from are comparables. So, then you have to search the auction sites to find out what the items are actually selling for and compare their condition to yours. Unless you happen to have a stack of receipts to show what has been put into the vehicle to make it whole again. Then you have some justification to say that the whole is worth the sum of the parts. Especially if you know that you could sell the parts for more than you are asking for the vehicle.

These 4000 and 90 body styles with the quattro option are getting much harder to find from what I have seen. I have been tracking this site, eBay, and Craigslist for the past 3-5 years trying to see if I could find a 90 body in decent shape, but in need of the mechanicals. Between the three sites, there used to be 8-12 listed and in various conditions at any given time. Now, if I see one, it's in too good of shape to justify swapping the new parts to it from mine.

What model were you considering? From what I have seen, the 80/90 and 100/200, 4 and 5 cylinder blocks have the same casting shape on the front of their engines and use the same 3 belt set up. Once they changed to the 2.7 or 2.8, though, I can't help you there.

jh0104

Ill sell ya mine dirt cheap, but you gotta pay shipping. Compressor, condensor and evaporator, i think its called.

onlyaudis

are they on a car now and working? if not, that's what I already have! That stuff just goes bad once the system is opened up and the compressor is left dormant for a long time.

onlyaudis

some 90 Quattro's show up here in the SF Bay Area maybe 1 or 2 a month, and in the last 6 months, a few were good looking cars probably one owner. 4000Q's though, forget it. maybe 1 or 2 beaters every 6 months.

this is a fun search engine to finds stuff listed anywhere on CL.(and will eventually get shut down by CL because they do not allow this kind of thing)

http://craigslist.thingweb.com/

Razor B

I've noticed some nice 90s and 4000s with descnet bodys on the west coast, but they are often in very good condition all around.

This is a very big help though. Thanks

SpedhedEd

This one is sweet. I am looking for a car for my kid. Wish this was closer to my home in Vermont.

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hn...141673572.html