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Latest project!; Saved it from the crusher...
Topic Started: Nov 23 2012, 03:47 AM (870 Views)
Cobrajet25
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Picked up this 1995 4/A LSi hatchback a few days ago from a friend's coworker. The car still ran...usually...but it was starting to nickel-and-dime her to death. It occasionally wouldn't start, sometimes ran rough, and appeared to be running hot.

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It has 216k, but when I got in it and hit the key it fired right up! No rust (except the nickel-sized spot under the rear wiper), tracks down the road nicely, and even has BRAND NEW tires on it. Also had a new battery, radiator, and a freshly serviced transmission. Completely stock, right down to the radio. Even has working AC! :cold

Condition is...dirty. Very dirty. Inside and out. Just like we usually find them. Ironically, years earlier I had randomly offered to buy this particular car before but was turned down. I didn't even know this same car was my friend's coworker's car until I went to pick it up! She told me the car's original owner was her boyfriend's father.

Found out it is in desperate need of a tuneup. Seriously, the gap on the plugs is about 1/8". Probably why it occasionally won't fire up. And a loose plug wire was the likely cause of the rough running. Compression is 150-170 all the way across. I think a thermostat would solve the overheating problem.

As far as I am concerned, any car you can drive away for $250 is a good deal. :rocker
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JoeBob
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Why you Mutt!

Lucky you! Don't see a dang thing wrong from the pictures that a little elbow grease won't cure...
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idmetro
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Very Nice! I had to reread the post header, when I first saw it I thought it said Last project not latest project...
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Cobrajet25
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Went out to start this thing when I got home from work so I could pull it into the driveway and tinker with it. Cranked, cranked, cranked, but wouldn't start. I popped the hood, put the new plugs in, and it fired right up. Some of the most worn plugs I have ever seen.

Pulled the thermostat housing to put in a new one and found it already had a fairly new thermostat...installed upside down.

Gotta love people! :smackface
Edited by Cobrajet25, Nov 25 2012, 02:58 AM.
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Car Nut
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$250 ???? I thought Jesse James was dead already. :lol Nice find. Last one I got was $200 with a knocking motor & cracked windshield. :thumb
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Cobrajet25
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Nov 25 2012, 04:17 AM
$250 ???? I thought Jesse James was dead already. :lol Nice find. Last one I got was $200 with a knocking motor & cracked windshield. :thumb
Thanks! :thumb

A friend of mine, Amanda (who is also my girlfriend's best friend), told me her coworker Nicole had a Metro that was giving her problems. I was at Amanda's work one time, met Nicole, and gave her some advice on the car. Her plan was to scrap this Metro if it kept acting up. I offered to buy it instead. Didn't think much about it until she contacted me a month or so later through my girlfriend and said she wanted it gone.

I told her I would give her more than scrap value for it, and said any yard would likely only offer her $100-$150. I think she was a little skeptical of what I was saying, believing they would offer more because of "all the good parts" on the car. I said nearly all yards buy cars with the assumption that they will not sell a single part, so they only pay for the weight of the metal. She called a couple yards, and sure enough the highest they offered was...$125. I said $200, she said $300. I went up to $250 and she said she would have to check with her boyfriend. A couple hours later we had a deal.

It should at least be a reliable runner now. I did just find it was missing 2-3 exhaust manifold bolts, but it looks like they rattled out rather than broke off.

It sure is D-I-R-T-Y. :shake
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dayle1960
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Fastest Hampster EVER

Interior pics, please. Nice find and I LOVE the rear wiper. That is hard to find on a Gen4 body.
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evmetro


Thanks for rescuing a metro!
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2000Firefly1.3L
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get out the pressure washer :)
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dwarren


Any car that you can drive away with is NOT a GOOD deal..... it's a GREAT deal!! ^o) (even if it is dirty!!) :lol
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Johnny Mullet
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Fear the Mullet

Nice find! Good luck!
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Mythstae
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So do you actually wanna keep this, or is your plan to flip it?
My roommate's car is probably getting totaled, is why I ask.
In Olympia, conveniently enough.
So if you didn't want to hold on to it... :whistle
If it's a maybe, PM me, if you have no interest in that, I shall say no more!

And congratulations on such a great deal! :congrats
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Cobrajet25
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Mythstae
Nov 26 2012, 08:52 PM
So do you actually wanna keep this, or is your plan to flip it?
My roommate's car is probably getting totaled, is why I ask.
In Olympia, conveniently enough.
So if you didn't want to hold on to it... :whistle
If it's a maybe, PM me, if you have no interest in that, I shall say no more!

And congratulations on such a great deal! :congrats
PM sent!
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