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Offline eaglebeek

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Re: Buyers remorse
« Reply #15 on: April 15, 2014, 08:16:05 PM »
Buyer's remorse? A 1997 Chevy Blazer. To add insult to injury, I bought a set of tires for it. Shortly after buying the tires it developed a bad oil leak that cost $900 to fix. Then fuel mileage fell to about 12mpg. I had no idea what would be next. I got rid of it. I'm sure I just got a bad one, but it's soured me on GM products. :eagle:
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Re: Buyers remorse
« Reply #16 on: April 15, 2014, 08:27:01 PM »
Quote from: eaglebeek on April 15, 2014, 08:16:05 PM
Buyer's remorse? A 1997 Chevy Blazer. To add insult to injury, I bought a set of tires for it. Shortly after buying the tires it developed a bad oil leak that cost $900 to fix. Then fuel mileage fell to about 12mpg. I had no idea what would be next. I got rid of it. I'm sure I just got a bad one, but it's soured me on GM products. :eagle:
I can totally relate to that eaglebeek.
Bought my 1st ever brand spankin' new vehicle (an '05 Chrysler PT Cruiser), babied it, maintained everything properly (service records, etc.) and had problems with it since 9k mi (even the service dept. had a hard time tracking it down & it took until it hit 19k mi for them to find it, turns out it was the oil sending unit).  And just last summer (with just 43k mi on it) it started hemorrhaging oil.
My replacement list on this car:
@ <18k (8/1/08) NEW stock radio.
-@ <19k (8/29/08) NEW oil sending unit (dealt w/ since 12/22/06 <9k).
-@ 43k (7/19/13) NEW timing belt & tensioner, water pump, engine gasket pkg, oil pan, head resurfacing. = $,$$$
-@ 44k (9/25/13) NEW oil sending unit.
AND it still needs a new case plug, leaking oil around it since last years work.

This has soured me on Chrysler products. Buyers remorse? Yes! I probably should've stuck with Ford.
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Re: Buyers remorse
« Reply #17 on: April 15, 2014, 10:17:09 PM »
Wow, I already hated PT Cruisers and that just reassures me on my hatred! I just think they are hideous!
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Re: Buyers remorse
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Re: Buyers remorse
« Reply #19 on: April 15, 2014, 11:09:13 PM »
Quote from: Eagle Groupie on April 15, 2014, 10:46:29 PM

:rotfl: When I heard the price of the repairs I wouldn't have minded that at all. In fact I told the guys that if it "accidentally" fell off their lift it wouldn't hurt my feelings a bit.
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Re: Buyers remorse
« Reply #20 on: April 16, 2014, 11:39:46 AM »
Well, I probably should say this, but I regret buying the big Eagle aka Rockhopper. It's cool as heck and I've had a little fun with it, but there were a lot of little things that needed to be done and there are a couple left. I've got at least $11,000 wrapped up in it and not even getting any offers at $6,900. If I would have put the money I'll be losing into my other Eagle, it would be like brand new.
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Re: Buyers remorse
« Reply #21 on: April 17, 2014, 10:59:47 AM »
I bought a 2000 Cherokee XJ that was a rusted piece of :censored:. They had filled it in with bondo then repainted the vehicle (really nice job at that!). When I was having the rocker panels replaced the thing caught fire a bit. Regret buyign that PoS.
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Re: Buyers remorse
« Reply #22 on: April 18, 2014, 03:08:28 AM »
'03 E350 van. I expected to make money. Not lose it on that one. Trans cost me $4,000 to fix.
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