It is amazing how essentially the "same" car has problems for one individual and none for another. I guess the point to sort that out is the test drive.

I once bought a new Pontiac Grand Prix that had a squeek in the dash during the test drive. The salesman assured me that would be corrected before I took delivery. Never, ever, did Pontiac get the squeek out although they had a opportunities when the car was in the shop for maintenance or other repairs. My take away from that experience is that when you test drive the car and something is just not right, you better assume it may never be right and either walk away or decide you can live with the annoyance forever. Otherwise buyer's remorse can be a heavy burden.

 

We got lucky then huh? Rattle free.

 

Maybe you should do a carfax check on yours. See if you can find out the severity of the accident it must have been in.

 

Way ahead of you there Slick! I'm not an amature auto enthusiast, nor am I an amature at buying vehicles. I did test drive the car, but a few miles doesn't really tell you much, especially when the hatch stops take a little while to loosen themselves up. This problem is quite common on the coupes. Do a search on the forum, you'll see what I mean. There are countless threads about different methods owners have used to combat the annoying rattles common in many of the cars. It seems as though the 'verts have less rattles. Hmmm, probably because they have less panneling and less noise isolation. You probably hear everything else but the rattles.

As for the Carfax, I did my own report, then the dealer included one with the Certified 8/80 warranty. No issues were reported. Well, that doesn't tell much does it? Carfax is a joke. The only thing that shows up on the Carfax reports are claimed issues. Chrysler owned the car before I did. Who knows what they did to it? I did however climb under, around, and inside every nook and cranny looking for welds, over spray, and other tell tale signs of an accident. Nothing. My car's rattles are quite common unfortunately.

 

Maybe it is just an SRT-6 thing. No quite as refined as the Limited models.

 

https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...=hatch+rattles

https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...=hatch+rattles

https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...=hatch+rattles

https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...=hatch+rattles

https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...=hatch+rattles

Need I post more examples?

 

Another one bites the dust.

 

You should sell it before it falls apart.

 

Nah, it looks nice sitting next to my Fiance's SL55AMG. I'll just add it to the stable.

 

It seems to be if you like the look and drive of an SRT-6 you'll like a Vette, and vice-versa. I bought one -- almost bought the other. All my friends with Vettes that aren't just kept as semi-permanent garage decor love the overall package, have at least one story of something stupid mechanical that caused more annoyance than it rightfully should, and eventually either pine for something small and nimble or an H2 so that they can invade Costa Rica. That's pretty much the fate of most two seat sports cars. We get them, give them far less exercise than they were built to get, build contempt over time by familiarity, then come the wandering eyes.

I went through college on a string of cheap, old British and Italian sports cars. The formula was pretty simple. Buy them cheap when the owner was pissed at the car for having just shelled out for a major repair. Extra-cheap if it was a convertible in the winter. Run it until the cost of buying plus what I had to put in the car to keep it going hit what I could sell it for during the warmer months, and then on to the next case. A '72 Spitfire that I frequently would have to break into when the locks would interittently develop a mind of their own. A '75 Fiat Spyder that, every now and again, would seem to get vapor lock at 60mph on the highway and just cut out. An '80 Triumph TR8 with a wire harness that looked (and functioned) like a ball of yarn a cat had been pawing around. And who was the genius that invented the self-destructing semi-automatic transmission that my '73 Karmann Ghia had (or that unprotected nose that lined op so neatly with the rear bumper of pretty much any Chevy Caprice or Ford LTD).

 

I believe benjiboy64 has left the building!