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How do you guys think about the beige interior, compared with black interior? If I get the pearl white, I at least would replace the wooden trim asap. Or possibly find a wreck euro and buy out and replace the black interior. But seems it would be a lot of work and luck to do so.
you can always custom trim it, instead of replacing the interior it might be cheaper?
Yesterday I nearly put a deposit on a manual 2003 cl9 luxury, freshly painted. But seller told me he only owned it for 3 months. And there are few hail damage car in his house as well. When I come back home and I did Personal Property Securities Register and found that it is economic written off... Seller hide the facts and finally replied it is a hail damage and got fixed...
i regret getting beige interior :( it gets so dirty! you should get a 2006 and up euro :)! You wont be disappointed! huge upgraded from the car youre coming from!
IMHO mate, hail damage isn't that much of a big issue... Cause realistically, your getting a car with a FRESH respray! Mechanically everything is still perfect..Quote:
Originally Posted by alex804
That car is 2003 arctic blue manual luxury, with full service history, 100K Km, with navi but no rear camera. I am fine with the hail damage, but it would be harder to get it resale in the future.
i'd walk away from it just because he hid the fact about the respray.. if youre still keen on it id suggest you ask for receipts on the repairs or have someone professional have a look. best to be safe and make sure that the paint thickness on the resprayed panels is decentQuote:
Originally Posted by alex804
usually people who fork out the money for a good repair would not hide that fact, just saying.
I do think that he is paying these kind of hail damage car and repaint them and resell them as business cause there were two others hail damage cars & one Holden with bumper not being installed. If he would be honest to me, I may consider it.Quote:
Originally Posted by jzx_andy
Stay out from it i say, clearly he does it as business and if that the case then you cant trust the quality of the repair he definitely got it done for as cheap as possible that's if he didn't do it himself
I'm not a big fan of arctic blue, it's pretty ugly imo. The silver looks pretty average, i think the graphite and black look best especially with the chrome door handles, they really contrast the dark colour of the car. You can't be too picky though when buying second hand, whatever you do just stay away from red.
If you just drive the car by yourself and look after your car and clean and condition the leather regularly beige interior should be fine. If your a little slack or if you have kids i would go black interior.
Things to look out for with the euro are front end shudder and a crunchy clutch which is a common problem.
I wouldn't be touching any car that has been written off. Regardless of how it was written off, when you come to sell it you must inform the new owner that it was written off, it's illegal not too, and a written off car will turn off almost all people.
I would buy the hail damaged Euro if it was at a good price,and if its been properely repaired,as its still a Euro,which has not had any structural damage done to it.
I do agree every single point adamc11 mentioned. Colour is not a big concern to me, just don't like red & silver which makes the car looks boring. The thing I most concern would be the condition of the car. & it should be luxury and manual! Hope I can find a good one in near future :)