All,
New member here after following this amazing forum for some time. Contemplating purchase of 2008 GT500 with only 3500 miles on the clock and would appreciate your feedback re two matters and any others you might flag for consideration:
1) I understand early years incl 2008 had ongoing TSB's and parts updates to (try to?) address clutch problems. It appears many of these were done at Ford's expense but a vin search of service history on this car shows no such updates done. It is now long out of warranty so my question is: if I need to do these at my own expense, am I looking at modest cost (a few hundred dollars) or a good deal more, and if the latter, what work would be done and what might it roughly cost?
2) Carfax shows oil change around 1K miles but nothing since except for annual registration renewals, so I can't tell is the car had 3500 miles on it as of, say, 2008 and has mostly sat ever since or it it might have been driven more regularly a small number of miles each year over the last 8 years. I want a reliable weekend recreational driver, not a project, so is this very low mileage a big red flag for a bunch of stuff that may go bad before its time due to lack of regular use? If yes, are affected items of modest cost to repair or are some of them things that could cause me to end up way underwater on the purchase?
I know there are pretty much no guarantees about anything in life but would appreciate hearing some guidance from those of you who have been down this road before. Thanks!
--Leigh
New member here after following this amazing forum for some time. Contemplating purchase of 2008 GT500 with only 3500 miles on the clock and would appreciate your feedback re two matters and any others you might flag for consideration:
1) I understand early years incl 2008 had ongoing TSB's and parts updates to (try to?) address clutch problems. It appears many of these were done at Ford's expense but a vin search of service history on this car shows no such updates done. It is now long out of warranty so my question is: if I need to do these at my own expense, am I looking at modest cost (a few hundred dollars) or a good deal more, and if the latter, what work would be done and what might it roughly cost?
2) Carfax shows oil change around 1K miles but nothing since except for annual registration renewals, so I can't tell is the car had 3500 miles on it as of, say, 2008 and has mostly sat ever since or it it might have been driven more regularly a small number of miles each year over the last 8 years. I want a reliable weekend recreational driver, not a project, so is this very low mileage a big red flag for a bunch of stuff that may go bad before its time due to lack of regular use? If yes, are affected items of modest cost to repair or are some of them things that could cause me to end up way underwater on the purchase?
I know there are pretty much no guarantees about anything in life but would appreciate hearing some guidance from those of you who have been down this road before. Thanks!
--Leigh