I called them and they said the wagon's price is 17k. By the time I got to their car lot, it was already sold. I was suprised once I was there to see that they had three more 96 VW B4V Passat Tdi wagons. These guys are really into their diesels and appear to really know what they are doing. I looked at some of the other wagons and they were all gone through with lists of replaced parts and they said they drive all the cars to assure reliability before selling them. I'm actually currently working a deal on one of their wagons and am very excited they offer full service for my future mantinance. Ionly has 130k on it now but I still asked to verify the milage. They provied me sequancially dated, past service records. Carfax agreed so I pretty much figure these guys are straight up, especially since they've been in business since back in the eighties.
Anyways, I asked them about the dasher deal becuase I just assume the worst when working with used car dealers. The manager showed me the sales folder for that car. The dasher was actually consigned on their carlot by some guy that lives in Bellingham WA. The guy 'Matt' that bought it from Nice Cars owned a company "Green Truck Biofuels". They experiment in alternative fuels. His plan for the dasher was to run grease in it. The manager told me that he held the money for a whole week and told Matt to call him if there was any problem. I read the ad that Matt posted and he says its in California so it must of ran fine, I don't know. I guess we all know what happens when using grease causes problems.
Just thought that I would share my experience. I'll report back if I have any complaints. So far, I'm really impressed though. I've never seen so many pre-2000 dated Volkswagen diesels for sale at one place. This isn't like any of the car lots that I've been to in the past. I was also very impressed with their mechanics and have heard very good things about their quality of work as well as honest ethics.
~Cheers
Bob is the original owner of Nice Cars and Forrest has been his manager for about 10 years. Bob has "Sold" the business to Forrest a few times, usually when they are about to get sued. Bobs real name is Robert Croker.
Bob is the original owner of Nice Cars and Forrest has been his manager for about 10 years. Bob has "Sold" the business to Forrest a few times, usually when they are about to get sued. Bobs real name is Robert Croker.
Forrest's real name is Forrest Barlow, he also goes by Forrest Fritz, the screen name Forenzo, as well as Maxwell Dreaver apparrently.
I am of no relation to either of these clowns, other than having a good friend who worked there for some time. I just used Forrest's alias as a screen name just to be an ass
I'm going to try and have a friend make a trip out there as a customer so he can write down the visible vins on some of the TDI's they have there.
Maybe someone can carfax your vin since it sounds like you neglected to do this before you bought your car. It will be interesting to see if there are any discrepancies between the mileage you were told and what was reported.
Well, I promised an update.
When I see results like this I have to ask myself who hired these people and how much in tax payer dollars are WA residents paying them? Also, what is it that these people actually do during the day for what they're being paid?
That car was in Forrest's girlfriends name....sneaky bastards. Hey, why not have 2 shady Nice Cars threads on the first page! Hi Bob and Forrest! Hows life as a couple of shady used car salesman going? Sure looked busy at your chopsho....errr dealership last time I went to breakfast at Hilltop.
You should also send Mr. Larson's contact information to slummy, if you haven't already.
I've found that when comments come back with sub-par performance ratings that govt bureaucracies rarely follow-up on those. What was reported is not what they wanted to hear so you don't matter anymore.