Went with my daughter to look at a 2018 Jeep for $23k that she was interested in, it has 58k miles. Carfax showed it came from Virginia. Has had 6 different owners. Has had 2 clutches installed during its 58k mile life (very odd). As an auto shop owner/mechanic I was looking it over while my daughter talked to the salesman.
Check engine light didn't work, I also brought my scanner and they let me scan it (surprised actually), lots of codes hidden by inoperative check engine light, underneath it looked like pond scum all over the bottom, it's a Jeep and wasn't real surprised but it was obvious it hadn't been off road much if at all. They seemed surprised that the check engine light didn't work (they knew). She still drove it and realized they're cool to look at but not drive as a daily for her.
I'm in Alabama and see flood cars after floods happen sometimes, she didn't buy it and enjoyed watching Dad own used car salesman, I think she also figured out ole Dad can be how he needs to be when needed. Never let a used car salesman bully you into a car you don't need/want, they tried and figured out it wasn't happening.
Flood cars usually will end up at auctions in different states, beware and be aware.
I bought a 2013 Platinum f150 in 2020, also in Alabama. Clean, seemingly pristine, no history of wrecks in Carfax, but over the years I've found grease pencil marks on the backside of panels and parts that lead me to believe they were sourced as a "self-repair". Fine. I can live with this
But, the thing you said about floods has me thinking........I noticed that the paint on the bottom of the rocker panels is bubbling with rust. That's not a normal Alabama thing. I've always wondered why/how such a decent condition truck has so much underneath "weathering". Creaky springs, electronic running boards always needing wd40...... Like it was exposed to a weather event.
Ever heard of Lowry Brothers in Boaz? Those were the guys.........
Funny I was just in nearby Albertville, Alabama last month visiting the kids-inlaw and almost bought an F-150... definitely cheaper there than in Florida!
Yeah, people from all over Alabama drive to Boaz to buy cars because there's only a 3% tax in that town. 👍
Side note - Albertville is where they dropped off thousands of Haitians almost overnight. Did you notice that situation while you were there? It was really bad just a few months ago. Totally disrupted the town. Another one of those "drop 2000 people in a small town" overnight, displacement things.
Citizens needs to rise up in their town over that. That is a legit criminal invasion being carried out.
Never noticed [them], only spent a few nights on way back from Pigeon Forge... enjoyed their Buffalo Wild Wings and a smokey hole in the wall called Bucks Bar on Halloween for brews (or maybe in Guntersville, at least nearby. Kids lived in Gunters, now in Alberts, more affordable).
How is Pigeon Forge? Nice place or? Family want to go there for a vacation soon but not sure if it's ideal seeing how things are happening in Memphis, TN as well as all over TN.
Any suggestions for dining as well as family activities if you have them?
Are you MileHiLife because you fly a lot, or is it because you're from Denver?
Lived outside Denver for over 25 yrs... though now bk in Fla where I was born & raised
I haven't, just looked at reviews, some good, some bad. Typical used car lot reviews.
Kind of sounds like normal wear up north but hard to tell. My 20 year old Toyota has a good amount of rust on the bottom and paint is starting to bubble near the bottom
Northern cars rust bad because of the salt on roads for ice, always hate seeing northern cars here in Bama lol. We mainly get surface rust on before major rust rot.