Bad credit, need 2K for wicked DSM - any ideas?

[khartley]

I have the opportunity to buy a 91 talon awd tsi for $2,000. The guy put $5,000 in the engine alone, and about $10,000 in the whole car. Rebuilt engine, new tires, around 370-400HP. But I have less than perfect credit, and don't have anyone to co-sign. I'm desperate though, this car is too bad ass at too good of a price to pass up. So if anyone knows where I can possibly get 2,000 or has any ideas at all please let me know.

 

[halik008]

definatelly fishy.......

Ther is no way somebody would sell any DSM with "370-400HP" and nrebuild engine for $2000...

smells like bull

halik

 

[khartley]

why would I have any reason to lie? He's pissed off at the car because he put all this work into it, and he drove it a week and blew a bearing or something like that. To fix whatever it is he busted would cost about $500. He said that if I could come up with the money he would give it to me for $2,000-$2,500. And you don't understand that I live 70 miles away from the 3rd richest city in the US - people get rid of vehicles for dirt cheap here. I got my 94 Eclipse for $700.

 

[Jason99DSM]

The 3rd richest city in the US is in Wyoming

 

[khartley]

believe it or not, yeah. but anyways, does anyone know anywhere that gives loans to bad credit people like me?

 

[DSMfânâtic]

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=91772&highlight=plasma

There's some good ideas here.

I especially like the one about selling one of your nuts to science

Good Luck

 

[girlieracr4g63]

So he is telling you it spun a rod??

 

[boostedinaz]

I dont care how much money you have you dont do shit like that. That is how they became rich in the first place. If they all just spent money and let things go for dirt checp then they would be poor after time. You dont even know what the actual problem is but you "know" that this is a great deal.

If you have bad credit then no one will give you an unsecured loan for the most part. You wont be ablt to sue the car as collateral becasue it is to old. I think you will have to let this "jewel"of a car pass.

Michael

 

[yoshimitsuspeed]

If ya want it bad enough you can always sell your body. :laugh:

Not to bust yer ass but I did't even see wyoming in the top 50


Here's a sample (50 top towns) from the Directory of Wealth*:
RANK
TOWN
POPULATION
MEDIAN PRICE

1.
Aspen, CO
5,049
$1,512,500

2.
Jupiter Island, FL
601
1,222,500

3.
Rolling Hills, CA
1,748
1,165,000

4.
Atherton, CA
7,500
1,150,000

5.
Matinecock, NY (LI)
880
1,070,000

6.
Hillsborough, CA
10,589
1,023,000

7.
Belvedere, CA
2,071
986,000

8.
Rancho Santa Fe, CA
12,300
963,000

9.
Los Altos Hills, CA
7,900
960,000

10.
Snowmass Village, CO
1,449
960,000

11.
Purchase, NY
4,205
950,000

12.
Sands Point, NY
2,477
950,000

13.
Saddle River, NJ
3,136
941,500

14.
North Hills, NY (LI)
3,748
895,000

15.
Old Brookville, NY (LI)
1,914
845,000

16.
Old Westbury, NY (LI)
4,204
810,000

17.
Hidden Hills, CA
1,879
790,000

18.
Portola Valley, CA
4,400
787,250

19.
Monte Sereno, CA
3,311
775,000

20.
Ross, CA
1,894
767,400

21.
Brookville, NY (LI) Upper
3,748
765,000

22.
Brookville, NY (LI)
1,560
765,000

23.
Alpine, NJ
1,849
755,000

24.
Beverly Hills, CA
34,116
750,000

25.
Woodside, CA
5,087
7742,500

26.
Kenilworth, IL
2,291
740,000

27.
Green Village, NJ
892
736,000

28.
Montecito, CA
10,000
731,000

29.
Bannockburn, IL
1,595
725,000

30.
Hunting Valley, OH
824
712,500

31.
Gulf Stream, FL
789
710,000

32.
Oyster Bay Cove, NY (LI)
2,240
700,000

33.
Bloomfield Hills, MI
4,587
695,000

34.
Muttontown, NY (LI)
3,107
680,000

35.
Palm Beach, FL
9,894
675,000

36.
Diablo, CA
1,158
672,500

37.
Saratoga, CA
27,527
659,500

38.
Kentfield, CA
6,296
655,000

39.
Mill Neck, NY (LI)
985
655,000

40.
Greenwich, CT
36,504
651,000

41.
Palos Verdes Estates, CA
12,847
650,000

42.
Marina del Rey, CA
7,431
645,000

43.
Bronxville, NY
5,992
640,000

44.
New Canaan, CT
17,656
637,500

45.
Kings Point, NY (LI)
4,821
635,000

46.
New Vernon, NJ
722
632,500

47.
Los Altos, CA
27,988
625,000

48.
Wailea, HI
3,798
625,000

49.
Laurel Hollow, NY (LI)
1,784
624,700

50.
Lattingtown, NY (LI)
1,892
610,000



SOURCE: Government Records & Prudential Real Estate

 

[leakyfaucet]

If that guy is rich enough to throw away thousands of dollars by selling the car for $2000, why can't he afford a $500 fix?

It's bullshit, don't buy it.

 

[Mike1992]

Im also in somewhat the same dilemma, except i have my car to sell for as the down payment on the new 91 awd. I have absolutely no credit and no one to co-sign for me. I think i can get $2500-2700 out of my car as it sits, hes asking $4000 for the awd. I think i can get him donw to $3k though. Im gonna try for a loan.

 

[siceclipse]

I live right between #40 and 44 on the list.

 

[smokey90gsx]

If you have bad credit, dont look for a reason to make your credit worse. Have you researched insurance on this car? When I switched my 98 mustang GT to the 90 AWD, my insurance went up $30 a month! If you dont have the credit or the finances to get a $2000 car- which isnt a lot of money... then maybe you should hold off and wait until a better time in your life to do this. A good car will come along again. This $2000-give-away-car sounds like a scam to me anyway. Think this through.

 

[2gGSX]

i agree with them to not get it..it is definately weird

however..if you really need money
bodily fluids sell well

 

[khartley]

i don't know for sure what actually happened, he said the engine wasn't quite broke in yet and he got on it. The next day there was a knock that gradually got worse. He said it was a bearing, in the lower part of the engine? and that it would actually take about $800 to fix it, because they would have to grind something too. I don't know all of the details. The reason he is getting rid of it is because 1) he's pissed that he put all that work into it and that happened. 2) he's already got another project car 3)his wife is about to pop one out and he needs a family car.

 

[khartley]

so based on these facts, should I just forget it? or sell my 94 n/t and go ahead and get it. because it would be better to get an already turbo car, than to put a turbo in a non turbo car. if anything, i could probably part the car out for more money than i would end up giving for it

 

[Eliminat0r]

hey man even if you live next to a rich city it doesnt mater i live right next door to oakland county the third richest in america and they sure as hell dont sell cars with 370hp for 2 grand. do your self a favor and dont buy it i guarantee its a money pit. o yea that list of the richest cities has to be off bloomfield hill is on there but yet i dont see west bloomfield and i know people are richer in west bloomfield

 

[Tweaker_G]

wow that knocking that gradually gets worse sounds kinda like what was wrong with my car. Wasn't that hard to fix, just had to put a new engine in. After that I learned my lesson about these "great" deals.

 

[Mike1992]

Take the adive from Tweaker_G, bad bearing, or a busted rod, you got metal shavings going throughout the motor ruining other bearing surfaces and scarring things up running it at all. If you buy this car your looking in to a complete motor rebuild, not some half ass job.

 

[eclipse0508]

rob a bank..............


just kidding.....dont really do it.......
and if you do im not responsible

 

[girlieracr4g63]

so based on these facts, should I just forget it? or sell my 94 n/t and go ahead and get it. because it would be better to get an already turbo car, than to put a turbo in a non turbo car. if anything, i could probably part the car out for more money than i would end up giving for it

If the motor is bad...That doesnt leave much more to part out. Sure it has some aftermaket parts on it ,but your not going to get your moneys worth. Save some money, and another one will come along. Dont want to buy a car for that price that you cant drive.

 

[khartley]

I got the facts straight now, he just spun a bearing, that's all. The engine though, had only 350 miles on it when this happened. The engine was built by Bush or Busher racing - out of Iowa. Sooo...still not worth it?
Also, has anyone beat an MX3 w/ nitrous in their DSM? just curious

 

[my95tsi]

wow i still don't believe it. MX3 on nitrous? Who cares, it's an mx3....on nitrous...

I got the facts straight now, he just spun a bearing, that's all. The engine though, had only 350 miles on it when this happened. The engine was built by Bush or Busher racing - out of Iowa. Sooo...still not worth it?
Also, has anyone beat an MX3 w/ nitrous in their DSM? just curious

 

[SiNiST3R]

I got the facts straight now, he just spun a bearing, that's all. The engine though, had only 350 miles on it when this happened. The engine was built by Bush or Busher racing - out of Iowa. Sooo...still not worth it?
Also, has anyone beat an MX3 w/ nitrous in their DSM? just curious

I have at Innis Speedyway in texas he had about 100shot at the time i was still on my T25

 

[khartley]

You still don't believe what? That nice of a car for dirt cheap? If that's what you mean, I will let you know how it turns out, cause I just bought it. Maybe I f*ed up, maybe I didn't. It will be a learning experience either way.