A lack of pictures, if they don't do a reasonable job photographing the car all the way around, if it's over/under priced wildly. There are likely far more signs but I'm not terribly savvy as I've never gone to buy a used car through CL myself.
Some advice some people would give you is to not get too overly attached to one specific car ad, and to remember the golden rule of if it's too good to be true it probably is. At the end of the day if you can schedule a test drive and the person selling is comfortable with you looking under the hood and stuff, cool. If not, you'd probably be best avoiding it.
Jonathan Adams
How are Japanese parts? Cheap as american or like middleground between euro and us?
Matthew Phillips
also Im not much for automatics, mostly driven manual all my life but I have this preasumption that anything automatic with less than 5 gears is shit. Is this totally wrong by me for thinking so or is it?
Joseph Cook
That depends on the car in question. Your Toyota Corolla or Honda Civic is far more numerous in the states and are generally seen as 'appliance' cars, making their parts much more common and cheaper as well. If you buy a higher 'tier' of car like a Lexus then you may be paying a bit more simply for the brand--I have to imagine it's somewhat similar in Europe where a Volvo may be cheaper to buy parts for than a BMW simply because of the brand, even if both are fairly cheap in and of themselves due to commonality.
Can't say. I've done auto all my life. Though it should be more a matter of opinion than anything. And if you don't like it when test driving you don't need to buy it. Just try not to get terribly upset about the rarity of manuals in the states. Generally only performance/sporty cars that 'should' be manuals [WRX, Miata, Mustang, etc.] are the ones that exist in any capacity in the states and there will still be autos to be picked around.
Carter Bailey
Crown victoria
Parker Anderson
SF isn't even that bad these days, it's mostly investment bankers and CompSci people now.
Logan Roberts
I was just in SF. If you are parking on the street, prepare to have your windows smashed and bumpers crushed.
Mason Johnson
>snow may or may not be a problem. If it is, don't even get a coupe. t. someone i cannot disagree with more. get snow tires. i fucking dailied an 03 miata in the winter in boston with blizzaks and it was the best winter daily i've ever driven. traction when you want it, fun skids when you don't, the only difference being a lower gear and more throttle. it was so fucking awesome
Alexander Ortiz
Dont come to the bay area. Theres way to many faggots here already. Stay out.
Ryan Young
wrong
its got a huge homeless problem and faggotry is still rampant in the streets
