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yamin,Apr 29 2005, 08:57 AM Wrote:Greetings.

My wife is interested in a ZX3 for a fun/commuter car. She has found a 2000 Red ZX3 5 speed with 93K kms on it for $ 6,900 at a dealer. It has a CAI, exhaust, and projector headlights (with original parts). It has black steel rims with wheel covers. It has the power group and sunroof.

This seems like a reasonable price? (they dropped the price by $ 1,000 from 7,900) It has had new wires, plugs, fluids, brakes, injector flush done by this dealer since the trade in last month. Is there any need for an extended warranty? Anything we should be looking for? It seems to run very smooth.

Thanks for any advice. My wife likes the handling and appearance but is concerned about the reliability as she will probably put on around 40K kms a year.

Peter
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If it has a CAI installed, chances are the car has been "driven" take it for a good test drive and listen for any unusual rattles and skweaks. Especially in the hat / trunk area. Also look for any hack mods ie wireing behind the stereo etc...

I say this because I have a friend that bought a Civic (I don;t hold it against him) that was pre-owned by soem guy who had it modded all to crap. The trunk rattled over every bump (presumably from a tooth chattering stereo) the engine was all painted, flaked and crappy. And the tranny stripped out about 15k down the road. Apparently his car was abused in the past. (do you think?)

I'm just saying that chances are...if the guy had the know-how to put a CAI on, chances are there were other things at some point.

And the price seems low.... Are these cars really worht that little these days???? :blink: :huh: :blink: