i to bought a money pit ... i feel your pain. but as others have said , it's your fault for not properly looking the car over just as i didn't. trusting the person that is trying to sell you a car is your first mistake.
i bought mine on a rainy cold december night , so outside of listening to the motor , i didn't look the car over an took the owners word on what he thought was all it needed ... yeah right. he brought the car on a trailer because it had no brakes. he told me previously it just needed brakes and rotors, and had a fuel leak. that was it. all he thought it needed to be on the road.
when he got there the battery was dead.
he said the battery was good it's just been setting for awhile...lie number 1 ... the battery would not hold a charge. first $100 went to a new battery.
put new brakes and rotors on he already put new brake lines all the way around. the entire underneath was a rusty mess. the brake lines rusted apart.
found the fuel leak. the fuel feed line was squirting gas. it was so rusted it was beyond repair. when trying to take the line off the other two , return and evap , snapped in half. dealer ONLY items about ...............................$460.
one look at the fuel filler neck told me it wasn't long for this world...$100
first time i put more than 3 gallons gas in ... found the fuel tank hole ...$160 + straps $30 ?
fuel filter....$20
found a leak in the trans coolant line ............................................$ 65 i think it was
both the head lights and tail light assemblies were full of water and trash... $ cheap ebay headlights..,$67...cheapest tails i could find $129
power seat wouldn't move bad switch ....junk yard $40
heater didn't work . blower motor ....$55
DIC didn't work . ebay junk store used..$42
front sway bar was broke....................$100
abs / TC ...replaced two front hubs ...timkens $189
scanner wouldn't communicate with ecbm ...ebay junk yard ecbm...$100
had to replace both front abs wire harness .......$60
all that was even before the routine stuff.
radiator flush
plugs and wires
transmission filter and fluid
supercharger oil
O2 sensors
pcv valve
oil change
air filter
