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Salvage title?
I'd walk away from it now.
You SHOULD be able to get a clean title FC (non-turbo) for the same price.
If you're questioning the salvage title, go talk to your insurance company.
Tell them you're interested in insuring this vehicle and ask for a quote - mention the salvage title.
You'd be surprised how much the insurance company will jack up your premiums due to the salvage title.
Sellers will make all kinds of excuse and reason for a salvage title.
The insurance company does not like to insure salvage title vehicles - expect almost double (if not more) versus clean title vehicle of the same year, make, model.
There could be hidden damage that they don't want to tell you about.
The car is only worth it's major parts.
Basically, in my book, it isn't worth more than $500.
I wouldn't pay anything over $200 myself.
High mileage non-turbo FC's (anything over 100,000 miles) be careful of the transmissions.
The seller states 150k miles on chassis, but the engine / trans were swapped - do you know how much miles on them?
Seller could bullshit the actual mileage.
Also, I'm nervous of the swap...
He mentioned ECU / wiring / engine swap, which is the proper way, but...
S4 versus S5 electrical is not plug & play.
The harness plugs are different, and the wiring is different.
If you're good with electrical wiring, this isn't too big of a deal, but most people are NOT very good with electrical wiring.
This is a red flag...
I predict lots of electrical nightmare problems from this thing down the line.
Seriously, I'd walk away from this car...
-Ted
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