Kevin wrote: > > It doesn't matter what anyone else will pay for it. Decide what you and your > wife are willing to give up for it, then place that as your maximum bid, > either through e-bay or a snipe program. If you get it, be happy.
...provided it doesn't turn out to be a well-polished turd. I bought a 2.3-16v from a seller who claimed to be a mechanic and admitted it had a noisy rear end. Took me about a minute to figure out the noise was coming from the trans, almost certainly a countershaft bearing. (it only howls when you lift throttle in a gear other than 1:1) If I'd been closer than 300 miles to the car when I bid, I might have looked at it and passed. The rear end noise didn't bother me, as I was planning on using the diff from my 2.5T, but I don't have a spare Getrag laying around.
