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Originally Posted by random155
Hi, new member here. Long time mustang owner and admirer, but recently started noticing the awesomeness of the 6.2L camaro ss. I have a 2016 2SS lined up to buy. I have two issues I need your feedback on. The first, it's automatic. I dont have anything against auto's but I was really looking for manual. With that being said, I was also thinking I might get tired of rowing gears after a while, and not want to take the car out if I'm feeling lazy. Anyone with auto wish they went manual or vice versa? Second, the carfax has a theft report on it. Basically, a previous owner had the car repo'd. Someone stole the tags off of the car and started blasting through a thoursand dollars of tolls. The owner didnt want to get anymore bills so he reported the whole damn car stolen. Obvious it wasnt stolen, it was repo'd, but its still on the carfax. This is not a daily driver for me, it is a weekend fun toy around car. Here's the kicker, I can have this car for 20k, clear title (34k miles). I think that the price is great and will still have a great time with it, even though its not manual. But, down the line if I decide I want the manual, I might have an issue selling because of the theft reported on carfax. Input?????
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But could be a nightmare. So,...If you buy it buy it for you to enjoy, not resell. I would inspect carefully and if it seems ok price an extended warranty. If you can get an extended GM warranty then you have some protection. Add the 20,000$ cost of car to cost of warranty= total expense. Remember that extended warranties start date is IN SERVICE DATE OF CAR not the day you buy the car but the day and mileage it was first sold. So if you like the car drive it to a GM dealer tomorrow. Learn if you can get an extended warranty. Get a contract for the best warranty offered. Check your math for a good deal. If yes buy car, then the warranty. If not then I would say don't buy it.
So if you can get 7 year 70,,0000 Mile bumper to bumper and 10 year 100,000 Mile engine/ power train for $3,000 you will have an awesome car with 3 years of full and 7 years of power train warranty for a total of $23,000. If you enjoy it for 7 years you are at $3,300 per year or less than $300 a month plus expenses.
For the record I love my 2017 2SS automatic. Good luck to you. Jeff