No doubt. I sure wouldn't be to upset about some little mechanical issue. You more than made up for that in the OEM cosmetic condition.
I'm thinking that one has been parked and garaged in the winters for being that clean and lacking body cancer in PA.
Have you gotten the fuel issue resolved yet? I thought I had posted a couple suggestions in this thread. Never know, I may have and then fell asleep at the computer again and not hit Submit Reply.
Thanks again for the replies, guys. I have been working a lot so I haven't had a whole lot of time to respond, though I have been trolling the forum. I had taken it back to the dealer a second time for him to have his mechanic replace the fuel pump. A second time he got it back saying it was simply out of gas. Filled it up to the top and ran it 200 miles with no engine trouble.
I was driving home from work when I felt the rear get a little shakey... thought I could feel something coming out of line or something. Figured i should take a slower back road the rest of the way home, and five miles further down the road.... BLAM! Whap! Whap! Whap! Tread flying everywhere in my rear view. I got it pulled off the to side and took a look, the rear passenger tire had shed it's tread but was still holding air. Apparently, 20 year old dry rotted tires and highway speeds don't make good friends (Lesson learned
) I did take the time while waiting for the flatbed to crawl under and PB Blast every moving part and bolt I could see.
Put all four new tires on it, and though my wallet was hurting a bit, I felt better about driving it again. Took it to work in the morning, grinning that my new highway treads would help a *bit* with gas mileage, the grease-up I gave it should help with any squeaking I had heard before, and filling the tank up seemed to reset the gauge that had given me the first two false alarms.
I started pulling off at my exit for the jobsite, and it started sputtering on me. I coaxed her across the overpass and into a truck stop... and then she died out. I could keep it sputtering and running while feathering the gas... but it would die as soon as I put it into gear. My first thought.... fuel pump.
So I called AAA for the second time in as many days, and had it towed BACK to the shop it had come from the day before (a rather confusing conversation for the dispatcher, to say the least.) I called the dealer back to let him know that it WAS in fact the fuel pump that he had already agreed to replace twice now, and he called me back saying... get this...
"My guy says he won't do it now because we have messed around with it twice now, and it has just been out of gas. You did buy it "as is." I would do it myself, but I'm too old to crawl on the ground and do it, so I was thinking of how I could cut a hole and get it from the top...) This is the point in which I hung up on him. **** you sheisty used car guy and your run-around tactics and mechanics who slap stickers on stuff that haven't had a proper go-through.... you aren't cutting a hole in my rust free truck. Once again **** you, I said in my head.
Whatever, I did buy it as is... and somehow I got 200 miles out of it up till this point... so another $560 for an entire fuel pump assembly installed... and it's running fine again.