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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / General Car Topics / April 2007

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Best state on the east to buy used?

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Dan in Dover - 05 Apr 2007 14:41 GMT
I'm going to be buying a used vehicle soon.  I will be looking in the
88-95 range.  I live in NH, and many of the vehicles up here are
rotting out by that age.  I'm considering taking a brief vacation
south a few states, and buying while I'm down there.  I assume I'd
need to go far enough South to avoid most snow, while staying north of
Florida with it's 270 degree salt water & humidity.

Is Virginia far enough south?  Am I correct in thinking VA, W. VA. NC,
SC & GA would all be good places to find vehicles that are not
rusting?

Also, how far inland should a vehicle have spent most of it's life to
avoid salt damage?  I assume VA beach isn't too much better than
central NH?

Thanks,

Dan
* - 06 Apr 2007 21:58 GMT
Dan in Dover <danindover@gmail.com> wrote in article
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> I'm going to be buying a used vehicle soon.  I will be looking in the
> 88-95 range.  I live in NH, and many of the vehicles up here are
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> avoid salt damage?  I assume VA beach isn't too much better than
> central NH?

Yup, the Southern vehicles do not have a lot of salt corrosion......

What they DO have, however, is interiors that have been baked to to a
crisp, dried out wiring and warped plastic components from closed up cars
parked in hundred degree weather, engines and drivelines that have been run
under extreme heat conditions, etc.

Personally, I'd rather buy a car that has been sitting under a snowbank for
six months than one that has been sitting out all closed up on a used car
lot in Cariolina for six weeks.
 
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