EDIT: I ADDRESSED MIKE ABOUT THIS 1ST, ONLY REASON IM POSTING IS BECAUSE HIS ATTITUDE/LACK OF REMORSE. KARMA WILL GET YOU MIKE.
im sure alot of know mike. he active on the board, buys/sells alot of shit, and has a pretty nice yellow evo. well lemme tell you something… mike is a scumbag.
heres the story. of how mike and i met. he wanted to buy my 93 passat i had for sale last winter. he came out, made the deal, he drove it home (with my plates). well, the car had a problem a week later, some misfire. i offered to come out and diagnose/fix it, he never got back to me about it, so i figured everything was fine. FAST FORWARD TO 10 DAYS AGO.
i arranged to buy his 96 integra gsr sedan from him for $3600. he wanted $4500 but agreed to come down on price because his wife had just scuffed up the rear bumper from backing into something. well, i got to his house to buy the car. bumper was alot worse than he described, but whatever. the car was FILTHY. i mean horrible, gross, everything inside was sticky, but whatever. he took the hard-to-find dohc vtec badge off the back, left the sticky residue, and lost the badge, whatever. the exhaust also rattled terribly, and the muffler was shot. again, whatever, its a used car, no big deal, little shit i can fix. then i looked down at where the car was parked before i went on a test drive. there i found a few oil drips. he claimed the car “leaked nothing, burned nothing” and told me the drips were from his brothers jetta. i looked under the car to find the drips WERE NOT from his jetta, but from the transmission of the gsr. i was kinda pissed, and told him. he said “wow, i’ve never seen that before, the trans has always shifted fine”. he also said he had changed the oil a few times, and so i trusted that if there was anything seriously wrong, he would know about it. so i said fuck it, im sure its something dumb like an axle seal, and left with the car for $3400 ($200 off for the drip) FAST FORWARD TO TODAY.
i jacked the car up to #1 test fit my new lip, and #2 diagnose the oil leak from the trans. well, much to my dismay, i found the oil leak from the trans right away. there are THREE gashes in the transmission, probably from hitting some type of LARGE rock. the car is stock height, so this would not have been from scraping due to lowering. if this was all i found, then i still wouldnt blame the problem on mike, maybe he really didnt know about them, maybe they just happened recently when his wife was driving. again, i would love to give him the benefit of the doubt, but there IS JB WELD ON TWO OF THE THREE CRACKS. if he had changed the oil himself, which i know he did, there is NO WAY you could miss these cracks. Mike lied to me in front of his Wife, his mother, and my girlfriend. what a scumbag.
now i know the car is AS-IS. i know there are no warranties. i know he legally owes me NOTHING. the RIGHT thing to do would be for you to give me some money to fix it mike, but you wont do that.
just wanted to say, FUCK YOU MAN.
Brett
heres that pic i promised.
