2o6 Flip Car thread!

[12,000 RPM]

How much are you in for now?

[2o6]

How much are you in for now?

$2880.64.


However, I still have to get a small body issue fixed. (I was quoted about $450 to fix)

[2o6]

I started going thru the cruze's trash, and the few things left from the previous owner.


It's literally full of scratch off tickets, payday loan receipts, and pawn shop receipts in the two storage cubbies they forgot to check.


The Pawn shop has a 216% APR on whatever they pawned.

The payday loan is 121% APR.



This is actually kinda fuckin sad.

[AutobahnSHO]

Super sad.

[2o6]

After six hours of work, copius amounts of degreaser, an extractor rental, and just plain elbow grease....










Remember, it looked like this


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[2o6]

Also, don't smoke in your car.


https://youtu.be/wAvFdEfF40Y

[93JC]

[BimmerM3]

Yeah I legit got a little nauseous when I saw that video.

[giant_mtb]

Welcome to my life...

Though I don't usually run into a vehicle quite as nasty as that. But yeah...any smoker vehicle? Shampoo the headliner? That's what you get. Spray the headliner and you get orange/brown gunk dripping down, especially right by the window where they hold it and ash.

[mzziaz]

You should make that car flipping a YouTube channel. Im sure it would be popular.

[Xer0]

I'd watch it.

[2o6]

I've thought about trying to write an article for Jalopnik or something

[Laconian]

I'd suggest a TTAC article but that site is a hot mess now

[CaminoRacer]

I'd suggest a TTAC article but that site is a hot mess now

Is Autoblog still a mess of squares? I haven't been back since they did that. Total fail.

[Morris Minor]

Welcome to my life...

Though I don't usually run into a vehicle quite as nasty as that. But yeah...any smoker vehicle? Shampoo the headliner? That's what you get. Spray the headliner and you get orange/brown gunk dripping down, especially right by the window where they hold it and ash.

I thought headliners were impossible to clean without ruining them

[giant_mtb]

I thought headliners were impossible to clean without ruining them

Who told you that...?

[2o6]

Who told you that...?

I think because old style headliners were fabric glued onto fiberboard that would prolly sag if the glue got wet.

But new headliners aren't made the same way. Mine feels like a singular piece of hard felt

[giant_mtb]

I think because old style headliners were fabric glued onto fiberboard that would prolly sag if the glue got wet.

But new headliners aren't made the same way. Mine feels like a singular piece of hard felt

Ah, yeah. Old school ones, that could certainly be the case. Modern headliners are quite stout in that regard.

[Morris Minor]

I think because old style headliners were fabric glued onto fiberboard that would prolly sag if the glue got wet.

But new headliners aren't made the same way. Mine feels like a singular piece of hard felt

Yup that what I'd been thinking - stuck in the past.

[2o6]

Ok, so the Cruze is running pretty good. I actually have this insured (instead of abusing the grace period) and have it registered with Lyft, so I can keep miles down off of the Sonic.


So, the bottom of both front doors had been repaired (or damaged) and shittily repaired and thus, with this being OH, I shopped it around a few body shops. I had a friend who has a guy who does things "under the table" but he seemed too sketchy; he quoted me "Minimum $450" to fix both sides, just from a pic via text. I had a craigslist guy kind of threaten me, when I told him I wasn't sure if I was comfortable dropping my car off with him.

With those being a bust, I took it to a 3rd bodyshop, and after I explained that I was a car flipper, he honestly said "Replace the doors. It's cheaper and easier, and not hard."


So, then I had to find two black doors for a Chevy Cruze, which wasn't super hard. The Passenger door was in town; the driver's door I had to go to down to the OH/KY border to a random junkyard to get a reasonably priced one that was color matched.

I had bought a fender weeks ago, and replacing the doors ($300) saved me $150-200 minimum. And replacing them (with a friend's help) was not very hard. It was actually quite satisfiying. The bolts come off easily, and it's pretty straightforward. We did have to swap the wiring harness on the passenger door. The Passenger door is from a 2013+ LT model, and thus it's wired for power mirrors and the redundant door lock switch that are not present on the 2011-2012 cars. (Notice the RS glue outline in the pic)

I've been Lyfting in the Cruze, and its doing well.









Things I have left to do

- Trunk pad is broken ($9.00 for a china ebay replacement)

- TPMS Sensor in front driver's side wheel is broken ($12 for a china ebay replacement)

- That front passenger side reflector/signal is broken ($11 for an OEM replacement)

- the rear tires are OEM.  (maybe $50 for a cheapo set of used tires)

[FoMoJo]

I wish I had half of your energy.

[CaminoRacer]

Did you go to Bessler's in Hebron?

[AutobahnSHO]

Nice work!!

I wish I had half of your energy.

+1

[shp4man]

How many miles on that? Sounds like you actually like that car, must be a good driver, eh?

[BimmerM3]

Well done. I've had them as rentals a few times and they're pretty decent cars for their class.

[veeman]

My Mom has a Cruze, redline version, which is a factory appearance package and looks real cool without being over the top.  Black grill, black bow tie, black side mirrors, and black wheels with red accents (the car is white).  I like driving it.

[Morris Minor]

One little detail item I like to take care of is to scrub clean the pedal rubber caps. If really worn, they're usually cheap to replace. Not much money or effort to remove a visually detracting negative.

[2o6]

It's gone.


Profit ~ $700 ish.


The shifter cable broke, and I had to get that repaired.

[Eye of the Tiger]

You should look for a diesel pickup truck that just needs something like a transmission to flip. The profit margin is yooge.

[2o6]

You should look for a diesel pickup truck that just needs something like a transmission to flip. The profit margin is yooge.

Cost of entry is also huge.