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The Official 'Craigslist find' thread - awesome & awful (eBay, Kijiji, etc.)
My old SVT Focus recently popped up on CL. Looks the same but they blew up the motor and replaced it with a non-SVT motor. Not a chance in hell that car will run right. Not to mention they did an exact copy and paste of my for sale ad from 2 years ago and much of the maintenance list is irrelevant since the original engine was destroyed. I had a feeling the kid would destroy the car and he did. Comparing the SVT Zetec to a regular Zetec is like comparing an S50 to an M50. Structurally very similar but very different.
Good god. the shell and the interior by themselves make it worth it. Too bad i'm a billion miles north of this
1988 Atlantisblau Euro/Japanese 325i Cabriolet
1989 Schwartz 325i - now M50 powered! - now very dead
1998 Toyota 4Runner Limited My 17,000km Big NA National Parks trip!
This thread would be a lot more fun to read if more than two or three people copy-pasted or screencapped the ads, but the ones that are still up are great. Makes me wonder what I missed...
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My old SVT Focus recently popped up on CL. Looks the same but they blew up the motor and replaced it with a non-SVT motor. Not a chance in hell that car will run right. Not to mention they did an exact copy and paste of my for sale ad from 2 years ago and much of the maintenance list is irrelevant since the original engine was destroyed. I had a feeling the kid would destroy the car and he did. Comparing the SVT Zetec to a regular Zetec is like comparing an S50 to an M50. Structurally very similar but very different.
So I emailed them posing as a seller and asked why it didn't have the correct valve cover and got this...
I ran that supercharger kit for 120K miles trouble free and the SVT's bottom end has forged rods. I feel bad for whoever buys this train wreck.
That guy is a dick for trying to scam buyers into buying that swap.
My don't quote me list:
Originally posted by george graves
I could be wrong, but I don't think it's a smog test type of thing. IIRC think it's against CA law to *sell* a dual outlet muffler as a replacement for a car that came from the factory with a single. But don't quote me on that.
found an 88 325iS on Craigslist and went and picked it up for 500$. It needed a fuel filter. It had 125k on the clock and the interior is amazing. it just needs a little touchup paint on the passenger side. I'm stoked!
That guy is a dick for trying to scam buyers into buying that swap.
It's an absolute down grade and takes away the majority of what an SVT is from a regular Focus. I called him out via email and told him if he didn't represent the car as it actually is I would flag the ad.
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