Up for sale is our 98 XC wagon. It's is a well-maintained example, purchased a little more than a year ago with 162k miles on the clock. We've put less than 6k miles on the car driving it around town, and on trips to San Antonio and Houston. We bought the car last winter because it was a great example of a car I remember fondly from my childhood (I totally grew up in those rear-facing seats)! Anyway, this XC is a nice example of the genre that we're sad to part with, but we just got a great deal on my one true vehicular love (E38 7-series BMW), and need the driveway space.
A summary of the known maintenance history follows:
- Timing belt replaced at 130k miles (with a stamp in the logbook from Austin Vol-Tech, one of the better swede shops here in town)
- Fuel pump replaced by Vol-Tech within the last ~15k miles (with paperwork)
- Both front CV axles replaced by me ~5000 miles ago
- All brake pads and rotors replaced by me ~3000 miles ago
- Blown out Nivomats replaced by me (with low mileage units sourced from a forum member here) ~500 miles ago
- Front spring seats replaced
- Brand new NGK spark plugs, Bosch distributor cap & rotor, and Bougicord spark plug wires, installed by me ~750 miles ago
- Several oil (Castrol) and filter changes during our ownership with high-quality filters.
- Drained and filled transmission on alternate oil changes, no issues.
- New serpentine belt (not installed yet, it's on my list to do this prior to sale)
- New Philips headlight bulbs
- Reasonably new tires (replaced just before we purchased the car) with PLENTY of tread, along with replacement/warranty certificates from Discount Tire (paperwork will be provided with sale)
- I've had this wagon up on the lift multiple times, and I'm hard pressed to find any rust on it at all! (Honestly I have no idea why anyone in TX wanted a Cross Country in the first place, but here we are...)
- Freshly detailed, and the paint shows quite nicely
All of the above being said, of course it's an almost 20 year old car, so it has a few small issues as well. Here they are listed below, in the interest of full disclosure:
- Front seat leather is cracked (this isn't too bad, and the foam is not visible, but it's worth mentioning)
- Steering wheel vinyl covering has worn away at the top of the wheel (though it's in great shape around the rest of the wheel)
- A couple small trim pieces that cover the bolts that hold in the ceiling handles are missing
- A couple of small (nickel-size) door dings and a little road wear on the bottom edge of the front bumper (as one would expect from a nearly 20 year old car)
- It's probably due for a PCV refresh...there's no smoke puffing from the dipstick hole, but on the other hand, I don't have any record of it being donein recent times, so it'd be on my preventative to-do list.
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Given all of the above, I have the car listed elsewhere locally for $3375, but for forum members let's make it $3100. What's more I'm happy to be a little more flexible with forum members, since I know the wagon is likely to go to a good hime. I can accept cash, cashier's checks, or credit cards (note that a 3% fee will apply to credit transactions).
As far as delivery, I'd prefer not to deal with the hassle of shipping, so locals (Austin, SATX, and hey, even the DAL/HOU crowd is welcome) are preferred, but hey...if you want it and you're from elsewhere, let me know and we'll figure it out!
If interested, shoot me an email at [url]mailto:[email protected][/url], as I'm pretty lax about checking PMs here.