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<blockquote data-quote="DOWNS" data-source="post: 441221" data-attributes="member: 21038"><p>"Almost Guarantee" What a joker. Dude's a salesman, for sure. Of the used car variety. </p><p></p><p>"Used it every single day, fuse box had a corroded fuse, bought a new one to stall, but do not have time for a rewire if the fuse box" so he lied by omission in the ad. "Corroded fuse", you mean it caught on fire?</p><p></p><p>"Car has some rust". Corrosion issues are not nice to these things. Depending on where he's been running it in Florida, good chance if you see easy to see surface rust all over it has deeper corrosion issues. I see some pretty nasty looking rust on the side steps/rock rails. I'm willing to bet there's bad corrosion under those. The tub sides are some kind of applique armor or some such that has the company adverts on it. Willing to be the body is rough under those too. Layering two pieces of material together doesn't do well for rust prevention. </p><p></p><p>Another issue is the Bed liner he put in it. If it's not done PERFECTLY and you get a break in that stuff water/junk gets between it and the body and rusts it out at lightning speed. Also possible he's hiding other corrosion under it that you can't see.</p><p></p><p>The Jeep has had an electrical fire. I might consider 5k for a running YJ but for sure not one that's been on fire especially in the wiring. </p><p></p><p>I would start negotiating based on installing a whole new wiring harness and fuse block and not patching it together. You're not looking at a cheap fix or short work labor wise. He can complain about having 13k into it, which, if he's smart, he wrote all that off as a business expense since he's using it for company advertising, but it doesn't change the fact the wiring has been on fire and it may or may not have rust problems. 2k max considering the electrical fire and potential rust issues of all the "good ideas" he had.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DOWNS, post: 441221, member: 21038"] "Almost Guarantee" What a joker. Dude's a salesman, for sure. Of the used car variety. "Used it every single day, fuse box had a corroded fuse, bought a new one to stall, but do not have time for a rewire if the fuse box" so he lied by omission in the ad. "Corroded fuse", you mean it caught on fire? "Car has some rust". Corrosion issues are not nice to these things. Depending on where he's been running it in Florida, good chance if you see easy to see surface rust all over it has deeper corrosion issues. I see some pretty nasty looking rust on the side steps/rock rails. I'm willing to bet there's bad corrosion under those. The tub sides are some kind of applique armor or some such that has the company adverts on it. Willing to be the body is rough under those too. Layering two pieces of material together doesn't do well for rust prevention. Another issue is the Bed liner he put in it. If it's not done PERFECTLY and you get a break in that stuff water/junk gets between it and the body and rusts it out at lightning speed. Also possible he's hiding other corrosion under it that you can't see. The Jeep has had an electrical fire. I might consider 5k for a running YJ but for sure not one that's been on fire especially in the wiring. I would start negotiating based on installing a whole new wiring harness and fuse block and not patching it together. You're not looking at a cheap fix or short work labor wise. He can complain about having 13k into it, which, if he's smart, he wrote all that off as a business expense since he's using it for company advertising, but it doesn't change the fact the wiring has been on fire and it may or may not have rust problems. 2k max considering the electrical fire and potential rust issues of all the "good ideas" he had. [/QUOTE]
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