Stop in for a cup of coffee

No, haven't sold it yet... The youngest kid had some lookers a few weeks ago while I was at work and when he put the battery in mixed the terminals because the positive cable is red... Blew the fusable link so he couldn't start it for them...

I fixed it the weekend after and he messaged them back, but they haven't come to look at it... May have lost the sale...


I have the old 99 cherokee for sale also... Had two immediate replies within a day of listing it... One guy wanted to pay for it with a personal check... I told him I would not release the car until the check cleared and he stopped replying after that....

Then another guy replied and wanted to give me an extra $50 above my minimum to hold it until he could get back in town... He called and asked me for my paypal address and phone number, so I gave them to him... He asked me to check my paypal while I was on the phone with him, then the next time I tried to log into my Paypal to check if the money was there - I was locked out...

I reset my password and got back into paypal and no money yet... He texts me and tells me to look for the link in my email and possibly spam folder for the link for the money transfer... He sent $1150.00 over what we agreed on... When I check my paypal account, there was no money in there... The emails come from an account with the name "[email protected]" and have a double P for the logo, but is not a valid paypal entity... Why would paypal have a gmail address???

I called and alerted paypal what was going on along with my local police... Paypal said that he didn't have access to my account and I would be fine... My local police told me that I was smart to not fall for the scam and if he kept calling tell him to contact paypal for a 'refund' (because there is no transaction for it on paypal - just the three spoof emails in my spam box)...

then another legit guy looked at it a week and a half ago, but found a running one and bought that one... :BangHead: Howevcer he passed along that his mechanic is pretty sure it won't start because of a bad crank sensor which is a common problem with those... I will talk to my buddy and mechanic, Doug, about it this weekend when I go hang out with him.... Doug looked into it and had a jeep expert look also and they couldn't find the problem... we installed a new ECU and it only started 3 times before going out again... For some reason the TPS is sending the proper signal to the computer, but the computer sees it as at wide open throttle... :BangHead: I would think that Doug and the jeep expert would have been able to diagnose a bad crank sensor when they looked at it... That's why I want to talk to Doug about it to see if that would fix it or not before spending money on a crank sensor...

Wow. ...a lot happened in a short time