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BaT listing with AI-slop photos

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.036 Hoonigan™, E500E Boffin, @DITOG
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This is a dumpster fire of epic proportions. Check out the cobblestone floormats (matching the pavement), the missing radiator in the engine compartment, and door window frame half missing. There's probably more. Read all the comments from the bottom up. Everyone is awaiting David Duke's failure analysis report with bated breath.

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AI or not the Caddy Northstar w/ 81K miles is about to if not already a motor leaker. It can only be fixed by approximating $2,500.00 R&R the motor out of the car.

How do I know this. My wife insisted on having one a 2005 Caddy DeVille. It started leaking at about 80K miles. Oil spots all over the driveway thru 140K miles when I donated it to Kars for Kids. BUT that’s not all now she has a second 2005 Caddy DeVille with 93K on the clock leaking oil all over the driveway. The wife insists on a big car for safety and she likes the 2005 Caddy so she drives it and I clean the driveway.

BTW; Both were purchased with around 25K miles and they both started leaking around 80K miles.

My advise DONT buy a Caddy with a POS Northstar motor.

The rant is over.
 
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AI or not the Caddy Northstar w/ 81K miles is about to if not already a motor leaker. It can only be fixed by approximating $2,500.00 R&R the motor out of the car.

How do I know this. My wife insisted on having one a 2005 Caddy DeVille. It started leaking at about 80K miles. Oil spots all over the driveway thru 140K miles when I donatrd it to Kars for Kids. BUT that’s not all now she has a second 2005 Caddy DeVille with 93K on the clock leaking oil all over the driveway. The wife insists on a big car for safety and she likes the 2005 Caddy so she drives it and
I clean the driveway.

BTW; Both were purchased with around 25K miles and they both started leaking around 80K miles.

My advise DONT buy a Caddy with a POS Northstar motor.

The rant is over.
I read that around 98% of all Northstar powered cars are still on the road. The other 2% made it home. 🤣
 
You can follow the oil trail home!:jono:
The Northstar V8 is infamous all the way to Sweden, so bad is the reputation. 🫣

And I love the Seinfeld episode when Jerry bought his parents a Cadillac and getting the entire neighbourhood into a major hissy fit, and when they wanted to return it he said ”it’s got the Northstar system” referring to the cylinder deactivation, and his parents replied ”we don’t use it”. 🤣
 

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