Why You Should Change All The Fluids After Buying A Used Vehicle.

[whyverne14]

I just finished pumping out the windshield washer reservoir on my new Toy. It was just plain water. Not good with winter coming on here. Reminds me of a story from a while back. There's a 99 Buick sitting right beside my Toy there. I bought that three years this coming March. I got it from one of those small car flippers that I know; they get them from the auto auction, fix and paint them up a bit.

Now that was a warm winter, but then there was a cold snap and that thing started overheating. I took it up to a mechanic and he's running tests on the fan and stuff and I'm poking around with the coolant reservoir. I said "This looks like plain water in here". Sure enough, we drained it and put in antifreeze and it's been fine ever since.

So you gotta check, y'know. I gave the dealer a bit of a hard time, but I didn't really blame him. Who expects that. People are weird, they do things and forget they did them and cut corners and whatever. So you got to check everything.

[Gary_M]

An ounce of prevention is a pound of cure. I've been saying we should have a sticky here with a list of things to be checked or replaced outright when getting a used toy. Nothing like seeing a someone having to do an engine rebuild because of a 30 year old water pump going bad. I've seen plenty of shocking examples here that gave me a "kick-in-the-butt" to get my toy up to snuff.