I think I got got.

[RETed]

Originally Posted by XaulZan

He had receipts from a local shop for replacing the coolant hoses, which were all new (he said one ruptured but that he stopped driving immediately and had it towed).

This should've been red flag #2 and enough for you to walk away.
You basically paid full price for an FC that had a disastrous cooling system compromise.

Side note, shady sellers would use a bottle of "stop leak" to cover up any cooling system problems.
Done properly, you can't tell if any of this stop-leak product was used in the cooling system even if you looked into the radiator cap (into the radiator) or the coolant reservior.
It's good enough to get the car sold, but it usually doesn't last more than a few weeks more.


-Ted

[XaulZan]

Yeah, your right, but I cant take it back, so now I have to fix it. Ive drained all the coolant out and I picked up a new upper hose from Checkers (dosent seem to fit right, Im gonna take it back tommorrow) , the lower hose looks like its stock, and looks good still. Suprisingly I didnt see any oil in the coolant that I drained from the radiator or block, it looks like all the oil went to the top and into the over flow bottle. Im gonna flush the system tommorrow and refill and take it from there. The shop he took it to was in town (honolulu) and it looks like they took an extra piece of hose they had lying around and hacked it with a pocket knife and then hose clamped it on... then charged $220 bucks for it. I shouldve inspected this hose a little more closely before I bought it... oh well.