[KamasPrairie]

It use to be a hunter had to read the sign .. hoof prints in the mud or hard pan .. to bring home the bacon so to speak. Modern sleuths, have different sign to read.

I am looking for a bigger car and the trail has been a crooked one.

Here is a typical used car with two threads .. the verbiage of the seller who can all to easily "turn back" the mileage .. and the seat, worn off finish of the steering wheel, etc. If a car seat looks all crumpled up .. it could have gone at least 150,000 miles. Did your car seat look this way at 78,000?

Question: Has this car only traveled 78,000 miles .. 2/14/12 In a couple of days this ad could be pulled because it was sold.

Salvage titles should never be purchased .. one owner vehicles still in the hands of said owner .. are a better venue.

http://boise.craigslist.org/cto/2756371683.html

[Jomar]

good old cl.
We have found many good deals on it, but you do have to know what you are looking at.
Some car seats are built pretty cheaply, or if owner gets in & out a lot will show more wear.

We look for other wear /abuse areas, doorframes, pedals, undercarriage, the condition of the engine & wires under hood.. does it look like it has been taken care of or neglected.

[KamasPrairie]

Originally Posted by Jo*mar

good old cl.
We have found many good deals on it, but you do have to know what you are looking at.
Some car seats are built pretty cheaply, or if owner gets in & out a lot will show more wear.

We look for other wear /abuse areas, doorframes, pedals, undercarriage, the condition of the engine & wires under hood.. does it look like it has been taken care of or neglected.

I needed an ATV to irrigate on .. set water every morning and evening or in tight water years just let it run to the bottom and not soak any, keep it moving, changing water for four days, moving it every eight hours. You either have to walk the tops and bottoms of the fields using a car or much better to have a small motor cycle or at 75 .. an ATV.

I drive to Boise and look at this Honda Rancher ATV and the tires were wore off, it was dirty and the guy was telling me what great shape it was in .. his repair paper work quit two years after he bought it and two years were unaccounted for so I pulled the seat and looked at the air filter .. the whole area was full of leaves and the filter was solid dirt and the dip stick was extremely dirty .. I passed on it and bought a new one for six thousand something .. two year old model $1500 under the new ones and brand new.

I watched the mileage and at the end of the first month .. August .. I had put 50 miles on it. We installed 900 feet of 10 pipe and two diverter systems so there was construction going on also. That ATV and my front end loader New Holland keeps this old dude going and takes so much work off me .. I stack hay with that front end loader going up a row of bales pushing one up to another .. getting out once to load two bales into it .. get six and put it on the trailer without getting off and go get six more and then stack 12 on the trailer. I had a stud colt ruin my rotator cuff and I was never to lift anything over 25 pounds .. what a hysterical laugh. Those bales are 75 to 150 and you learn to throw them by kicking them with a knee.

This is where I learned to operate on Cats Claw for tendon problems and Tamanu Oil for hay fever and joint pain, cuts and bruises, and behind the ears for balance .. I fell off the hay stack ten feet high, backwards when a string broke, had hooks for chains on the side of the bucket and caught my Wrangler pants on the hook going down .. stopped falling with my head inches from the ground .. and my pants were half jerked off .. but I would have .. should have .. been dead with a broke neck. From the top of my hay stack I can see into Nevada to the South .. and the Bitterroots 200 miles to the North East. It is high.