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Originally Posted by Petlizard
Thank you all for the feed backs. For those who are curious, the asking price for this car was $85k and we agreed to $83k for a rare AMG with clean car fax, but no service records since 2017, as the current owner informed me that he does his own services at home.
I'd also asked about passing safety and emission for his state. He let me know that his state (NJ) requires bringing in your license, insurance, and registration for annual inspections. The registration is renewed by mail, and due to Covid, he hasn't received the registration back yet so the car is not currently passing state inspection/emission or up to date on it.
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That is a big sum of money, and I would absolutely not get this car WITHOUT a PPI, so you're right in this case. No service records is not great either (admittedly, I suck at keeping records but do my own work and maintain my cars religiously).
I'd at the very minimum ask what services were done at home, and try to at least gauge if he's knowledgeable.
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