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"Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle" (1500sand535) 10/29/2018 at 15:46 • Filed to: None

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Frustrated BMW owner goes to autozone, gets code, lists car on Craigslist. There is something about this that cracks me up:

WilliamsSW > Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle 10/29/2018 at 16:03

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I can picture the seller thinking, “Goddammit, not another problem.  Fuck it, I’m scanning it and then getting rid of that POS”

E92M3 > Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle 10/29/2018 at 16:09

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He can’t spend $40 on a new MAF, so he’ll just get hundreds (maybe thousands) less for the car instead...

Party-vi > Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle 10/29/2018 at 16:09

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“Car is a little slow to accelerate”

Yeah, it’s a 325i.

Urambo Tauro > E92M3 10/29/2018 at 16:15

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Maybe I have a wild imagination, but I wonder if he did buy a MAF sensor instead of actually diagnosing anything, and the new part didn’t fix the problem. So now, he’s just trying to get rid of the car, under the pretense that knowing the code will make it an easy fix...

Urambo Tauro > Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle 10/29/2018 at 16:17

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Don’t tell me how many miles it doesn’t have. Just give me the actual number. Geez

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Urambo Tauro 10/29/2018 at 16:30

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This sort of makes sense for cars that are still being driven, so if it has like 14x,xxx miles, I could see listing it this way. It would still make more sense to just say “it has 147,800 miles, but I’m still driving it”.

Future Heap Owner > Urambo Tauro 10/29/2018 at 16:43

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This is what I would assume.

Urambo Tauro > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 10/29/2018 at 16:54

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Yeah, t hat would have been better.

To be completely f air, no buyer is going to split hairs over whether “under 150,000 ” is a reference to 149,734 or 142,012 . But picking a nice round number like 150k   suggests that the actual figure could e ve n be in the 13x,xxx range.

Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle > Urambo Tauro 10/29/2018 at 16:58

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It’d certainly be the top thing to watch for if you were buying this.

E92M3 > Urambo Tauro 10/29/2018 at 17:02

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That could very well be it. I’m always suspicious when someone knows the c o de, and claims it will be an easy fix. So then.. why haven’t you done it?