***UPDATE 8-17-06 read below***
I just sold my two '96 GSX's. One was modded and the other was pretty much stcok with exterior add ons and no engine mods. I pretty much have rarely used them in the last two years and they just sat in my driveway. I wasn't in a hurry to sell them and I didn't even have a FOR SALE sign on them. This one guy stopped by about 4 times and made a offer on them (I wasn't home the frist 3) and I decided to sell them for $4K and I through in a bunch of extras (two dollys, vest, new batteries, charger, ski locks ect...). He gave $3800 until I found the pink slips to give him which was fine.
Anyways I sold them to him AS IS with the sale FINAL. I told him the modded ski didnot run at the time and probably needed a ignition coil in which I gave him the brand new part to install. I also told him the carbs needed adjusting and the engine tuned up. The engine turned over but would not run. I even offer to help him with fixing the modded one by eating the $200 he owed me. The stock one was ready to go, it started right up and did not smoke and I never had nay problems with it whatso ever.
Fast forward to yesterday and the guy calls me up and says that the piston was no good. He told me that when he took it out to the lake that it would stall and not run so he tied off the ski to unload his other ski or something. He said the plug was missing so the ski got a lot of water in it and would not even start after that. He now wants to return them saying he that they will cost too much to fix and that the one I started right in front of him has a bad piston and other stuff in which he could not remember what his mechanic told him. His mechanic was in TJ or Rosarito I believe.
Is it possible for the piston to go bad like that even though it started really easy with no smoke? How much would it cost to replace something like that? My skis did sit for a while but I did get all the fluids changed after the last ride when I took them in for a routine maintenance. I don't want to get shafted but I also don't want the skis back. I told the guy I would help every way possible but I don't want to eat the whole thing.
Any suggestions?
I just sold my two '96 GSX's. One was modded and the other was pretty much stcok with exterior add ons and no engine mods. I pretty much have rarely used them in the last two years and they just sat in my driveway. I wasn't in a hurry to sell them and I didn't even have a FOR SALE sign on them. This one guy stopped by about 4 times and made a offer on them (I wasn't home the frist 3) and I decided to sell them for $4K and I through in a bunch of extras (two dollys, vest, new batteries, charger, ski locks ect...). He gave $3800 until I found the pink slips to give him which was fine.
Anyways I sold them to him AS IS with the sale FINAL. I told him the modded ski didnot run at the time and probably needed a ignition coil in which I gave him the brand new part to install. I also told him the carbs needed adjusting and the engine tuned up. The engine turned over but would not run. I even offer to help him with fixing the modded one by eating the $200 he owed me. The stock one was ready to go, it started right up and did not smoke and I never had nay problems with it whatso ever.
Fast forward to yesterday and the guy calls me up and says that the piston was no good. He told me that when he took it out to the lake that it would stall and not run so he tied off the ski to unload his other ski or something. He said the plug was missing so the ski got a lot of water in it and would not even start after that. He now wants to return them saying he that they will cost too much to fix and that the one I started right in front of him has a bad piston and other stuff in which he could not remember what his mechanic told him. His mechanic was in TJ or Rosarito I believe.
Is it possible for the piston to go bad like that even though it started really easy with no smoke? How much would it cost to replace something like that? My skis did sit for a while but I did get all the fluids changed after the last ride when I took them in for a routine maintenance. I don't want to get shafted but I also don't want the skis back. I told the guy I would help every way possible but I don't want to eat the whole thing.
Any suggestions?
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