Looked At A Ba Today, What Do You All Think?

[JimmyXR6T04]

it'll only be slow until I put two turbos on it I'm keen on a phoon or GT with charger

[Chargin]

http://www.carsales.com.au/used-cars/priva...matchallpartial

38000 k's Jan 03, premium sound, leather and Blueprint with new tyres.

Asking $27000, said he would take 26k. (Ive had a close look at finances just now and I can do 25k.)

What do you think of the car and pricing? I took it for a spin and drove well enough but...

-the brakes squeeled on forst few stops until they warmed up.

-When sitting at idle and going from P to D there was a definate mild clunk from the rear of the car, same going into R. Whats this noise, is it the diff gears just getting a nudge from the slight movement of the driveshaft when engaging gear? Do all T's do this?

-The car has had a respray, blueprint was the original colour though, the guys wife said there had been a few nicks and bumps etc so they got the whole thing fixed up.. looked pretty good though.

Not sure I like the leather seats though, I think they must be the sports ones, but I havent seen pics of what they should look like.

PS stopped at a ford dealer on way to see car and they had a GT boss 290 in the light silver colour with the orange striping, WOW they look awesome really tough. (Im a mopar nut through and through, got a 360 Charger in the shed so I dont say these things easily!)

[ZAP]

I would think that he would take $25k and it would be a fair price (so would $26k). The respray is a bit of a worry, I would get it checked out by a panel beater to make sure it has not had hail or a big hit.

Does it have premium brakes, you can tell because there are offset grooves in the rotors, the reason I ask is they squeel, where stockos shudder.

The clunk is normal as it is a factory fitted option in about 50% of autos and 90% of manuals.

Sports leather have suede with little donut pattern. The sports lether only came with the Luxury pack in 04/04> build cars. The normal leather is a smooth shiny normal looking leather and they are dark grey. Anything else would be aftermarket or retro fitted.

Nice having a charger, I have owned 7 Valiants, including a VH 265 3 speed Charger, an origional track pack RT/E38, 2 x 245 Centuras, CL 318 Wagon+sedan and a Galant race car.

[Chargin]

When you say factory fitted option, you mean its not a problem but a lot of the autos have this noise?

It was the lady owner who owned it who told us about the respray, she seemed pretty genuine and offered the information herself without me asking anything, so I doubt they are trying to hide a crash or anything like that. Did surprise me though. I was more worried about the quality of the job, whether the paint starts to peel or craze in 12 months etc, Ive heard of some horror stories before.

I spoke with her husband on the mobile, and he said the brakes had been machined because of shudder under warrantee, so I dont think its got a perf brake package.

These seats sound like sports leather after your description, they werent the normal type of smooth shiny type leather, and they had the xr logo in the backs so must have been aftermarket fitted huh, they matched the back seats too so the whole lot must have been done.

I didnt really like the door trims either, they were all black and looked very plain, I cant rmemeber the exact details now though.

[ZAP]

Yep most BA's have clunk in one form or another.

The shudder is very common and machining is a temp fix. You will need to look at getting better non factory pads and rotors in the future.

As for the LEather, you can just pull the skins off like seatcovers, so it is possible they bought them off eBay or swapped with another person.

[Chargin]

These seats have the long bar that runs right accross the width of the footwell to enable moving the seat back and forward... if you know what I mean? The standard seats have just the small lever at the side.

[tab]

No - the bar is standard on the falcons buddy.

[Chargin]

Hmmm Im sure one I looked at at a dealer just had a small level at the side.. must be confused.

[Laner]

blueprint with silver stripes......what a legend set-up.... looks good if ya ask me

[Fat-Tony]

Hmmm Im sure one I looked at at a dealer just had a small level at the side.. must be confused.

←

You are, even XT Falcon's have the bar