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What to do before selling?


Boodleboy

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Hi, I'm preparing to sell my 73' Tii in the next couple of months and really just need to gain an understanding of what I should do or have dome to it before selling. It's currently in pretty decent shape, just with a few issues with some of the electronics and such. As of now, what I know doesn't work is the blower fan, windshield wipers and sprayer, odometer (stopped about a hundred miles ago), horn, and the shifter linkage. Out of those the only thing I would definitely aim at fixing is the shifter so that the car can actually be driven (shifter moves freely and stuck in 3rd) I just don't know what kind of return I would get on the others when selling the car and if it would be worth it. Any advice on what should be done is appreciated, I'm coming home from college for thanksgiving and will try to be doing what I can then. 

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All of those things are potentially free (or extremely cheap) to fix so you should fix them. That being said most informed buyers would see past the minor things but you are giving someone a lever to negotiate a lower price than you might be expecting. You also open yourself up to people wondering if you are happy to put up with those minor problems, what else is wrong with the car?

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Carbs: They're necessary and barely controlled fuel leaks that sometimes match the air passing through them.

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Considering that you're a college student, I assume that you don't have the time to fix all if these issues. I would therefore focus your available time to fixing the shifter and the horn, so the car can be legally driven away by it's new owner. The other stuff is easy to fix, but time consuming. So I'd start with these two important issues, and if time (and $) permits, address the other items. Just my 02 cents......

Anthony

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In addition to what the others have posted, change all the fuses with new ones. It's simple and may cure some of the electrical gremlins.

Andrew Wilson
Vern- 1973 2002tii, https://www.bmw2002faq.com/blogs/blog/304-andrew-wilsons-vern-restoration/ 
Veronika- 1968 1600 Cabriolet, Athena- 1973 3.0 CSi,  Rodney- 1988 M5, The M3- 1997 M3,

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In addition to what the others have posted, change all the fuses with new ones. It's simple and may cure some of the electrical gremlins.

+1 this is, on balance, the most likely scenario when dealing with multiple electrical failures.

rtheriaque wrote:

Carbs: They're necessary and barely controlled fuel leaks that sometimes match the air passing through them.

My build blog:http://www.bmw2002faq.com/blog/163-simeons-blog/

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