The prick previous owner thread.

[shane96ranger]

Both my Ranger and my Laser had the factory stereos in them, both had hacked wiring.

Apparently the tightwads wanted to keep their aftermarket radios and swapped them back when they wanted to sell.

I guess that makes me a tightwad. I took the stereo and speakers back out of my Ranger when I sold it. I work with the guy I sold it to, and he only listens to stupid political shows anyway. Would have been a waste for him. He was excited it had a tape player, lol.

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[doorgunner]

I guess that makes me a tightwad. I took the stereo and speakers back out of my Ranger when I sold it. I work with the guy I sold it to, and he only listens to stupid political shows anyway. Would have been a waste for him. He was excited it had a tape player, lol.

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WIN for everybody.....!

 

[Jraymer360]

my radio that i took out of mine was rigged..so i just rigged the new one in like that..i'll fix it eventually. i'd rather have 4x4 first.

 

[Andy D]

Somebody did a complete brake job in the past. They didnt grease the bleeders or replace the rear brake hardware. Then the PO parked it under a tree for a year. When a line let go , I had to replace all the brakes again. Funny thing was the brakes worked OK, but when I started getting into stuff, they crumbled.

 

[Brownie Mobile]

For some reason the PO disconnected the relay for the power outlet to turn on only when the key is on, also the power outlet was unplugged when i got it the connector was just hanging about 2 inches away....
Looks like the PO tried to a do it yourself bondo job on the right rear fender, cracked and very wavy also doesnt blend into the good stuff either.
Swapped out a bucket seat for half of a bench seat on the drivers side and took the center console out.
Some how broke the button off of the damn gear selector its a pain in the butt i still cant find a button!
Oh and also never cleaned the damn thing im still vacuuming dog hair out of the back seats.

 

[det107]

Looks like the PO tried to a do it yourself bondo job on the right rear fender, cracked and very wavy also doesnt blend into the good stuff either.......
......Oh and also never cleaned the damn thing im still vacuuming dog hair out of the back seats.

Let's see, fender damage & fur inside truck.......Are you sure it didn't end up hitting a deer ??

 

[Brownie Mobile]

Let's see, fender damage & fur inside truck.......Are you sure it didn't end up hitting a deer ??

lol never thought of that one but i think there would be more damage if the PO managed to slide sideways into a deer when he damaged the rear fender but hey you never know!

 

[--weezl--]

when i bought my mustang, it has a pos stereo in it, worked just fine, but it was poor quality, so i bought a decent one from a pawn shop, took it home, tried to install it myself, not sure what happened, but i couldn't get it in, so i took it, half installed, to a electronics store, asked the guy to do it for me... the wires that went to all the speakers, had electrical tape splices between the door and the body, so when he was installing the deck, he would try it, the stereo would turn on and "one of the speakers would short out" and the deck would turn back off...

so after replacing 5 fuses that were apparently blown in the car (did not know this before hand) and re-running the wire to 3 of the 6 speakers, he gives up, says he can't get it to stay on for more than 1 second... but because it's not working, he won't charge me anything... i think him, hop in and drive away, listening to music... what i later figured out, who ever had installed the previous deck had changed the accessory power wire to key on power... the installer from the electronics store had been trying it in the acc position, and getting a flicker of power, turns on for 1 second and back off...

same car, when coming back from the test drive (private sale) i heard a crunch in the suspension, when going over a small bump/hill asked what it was, i was told a bushing was worn out on the top of the strut... after buying it, found out it was a broken swaybar end link, the two halfs had hit eachother and made the noise... $20 in parts and it was fixed...

 

[shane96ranger]

same car, when coming back from the test drive (private sale) i heard a crunch in the suspension, when going over a small bump/hill asked what it was, i was told a bushing was worn out on the top of the strut... after buying it, found out it was a broken swaybar end link, the two halfs had hit eachother and made the noise... $20 in parts and it was fixed...

The factory end links are garbage. I'll venture a guess that it broke between where the two bushings go in the control arm.

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[85_Ranger4x4]

I guess that makes me a tightwad. I took the stereo and speakers back out of my Ranger when I sold it. I work with the guy I sold it to, and he only listens to stupid political shows anyway. Would have been a waste for him. He was excited it had a tape player, lol

I rerigged the stock radio in my Laser when I sold it.

lol never thought of that one but i think there would be more damage if the PO managed to slide sideways into a deer when he damaged the rear fender but hey you never know!

Deer can do quite a bit of damage when they run into the side of a vehicle too.

 

[Colin]

Oh and also never cleaned the damn thing im still vacuuming dog hair out of the back seats.

Use duct tape wrapped around your hand sticky side out.

The PO of my truck apparently never cleaned in the inside in the 8 years he owned it. I thought I had a tan interior, after multiple, multiple cleanings I find out that i have a grey interior And I could never get the carpet to look clean so I just ripped it out.

Oh and he said he was going to take his good stereo with him but he'd put another one in for me. Well, when I pick up the truck the stereo was just sitting in the massive hole in the dash. Not wired up, no dash adapter , no wiring adapter. It didn't even had the pig tail off the back of the stereo! I had to drive to every car audio shop in my city looking for one, finally a guy sold me a spare out of his tool box. Worked fine after I got it wired up, and put in a dash adapter. There was also a Bon Jovi CD in the stereo from when he last used it. That went into the garbage.

 

[--weezl--]

when i hit play on my stereo in my mustang, i found out there was a metallica cd in it... and justice for all i believe...

shane, it was broken right about halfway actually...

 

[FritzTKatt]

Oddly enough mine wasn't a prick. Just spilled coffee everywhere... but what do you want for the crappy center console and a stick shift? Probly didn't help he used it for hunting.

Laziness made him not replace the driverside radius arm bushing when it went. Reamed itself a nice hole which i had to fill in and grind to match the pass side on the crossmember.

EDIT: and he sold me the truck with an unknown box of bushings. Had advance run the PN and its rad arm bushings...

 

[shane96ranger]

In my opinion, I saved my Mustang from a slow and painful death. Dang near anything that's wrong with it cosmetically was already done when I bought it (by the PO's son)nearly 18 years ago. One of these days I need to find the guy I bought it from and show it to him. He only sold it because he was soon to have two kids under 18 on his insurance.

........... I wonder if he still lives in the same place??

when i hit play on my stereo in my mustang, i found out there was a metallica cd in it... and justice for all i believe...

Bonus. Right before their music went to hell in a hand basket (although I do like the black album a bit).

 

[jhammel85]

Oh Previous Owners..........

I had good luck in the past with my cars but not with this ranger. Heres my list. I've fixed all of these correctly:

Wood on the floor to make up for missing padding (very, very solid floorpans, thankfully)

All the sealant imaginable on the y pipe to cat flange

Blue gasket maker as seam sealer in cetain rust prone areas in the firewall

a mountain of putty that makes up the back fenders (knew this when I bought it)

STAPLES in the radiator hoses inbetween the notches on the clamps. To hold it on???!

Wrong hose used on the transmission cooler lines.

No clips in the fuel filter

Melted coil pig tail. Just used quick connects and shoved them in there. Nice huh?

Ground wire removed from diagnostic plug so the fuel pumps run full time with key on. Did not run for two seconds to prime and shut off.

...and I think that's it. Lets hope there isn't more looming somewhere in that truck. It's been a reliable 3 years with it except for the mishaps caused by the previous owner.