Tomorrow (4/25) I am flying down to St.Louis to look at and most likely purchase a black SRT coupe they have on a dealer's lot...

I am really excited, but at the same time bummed that the new SRT came at the expense of my '07 being totaled. I am hoping to be back around dinner time tomorrow and will post up my first impressions.

Now all I need is someone to say a quick prayer there aren't any dealbreakers when I get down to the dealer tomorrow. All pics I have seen to this point look promising. Luckily I know more about the car than the delaer does so I have that advantage.

Purchase price will be somewhere between 16,000 and 16,500 + tax once I get it back to Chicago.

So in honor of a righteous purchase tomorrow, I am writing this tonight from my balcony outside of my apartment while enjoy a Partagas Lusitania (Feb 04) and sipping a glass of Glenfiddich 12yr.

Thank the Lord for the wonderful weather today and hope it keeps up tomorrow for the return drive.

See you all at the latest on May 3rd in Crystal Lake...be there.

 

I hope everything goes well for ya Matt
I'll be looking here tomorrow night for pics and a update

Gary

 

I hope you have GOOD luck & It's a prefect car.
Have a safe flight & a FUN ride home !!!!!

 

Matt
nobody on this board wants to see this work out for you more than me after my neighbor nightmare.I wish ya the best and hope the car is beautiful

 

I hope all goes well and will be waiting to see the pictures.

 

Wishing you the best Matt. I hope to see you next week driving it to the GTG in Crystal Lake.

 

Well, she is home, safe and sound.

Tino at Saturn of West County picked me up at the airport and was one of the best salesmen I have dealt with or be in the prescence of in a very long time. He truly knew the definition of customer service. As soon as I got to the dealer he offered to buy me a drink (non-alcoholic of course) and offered to have some lunch delivered if I was hungry. I politely declined. He then introduced me to his finance director, Sandy Goldstein, who is another fantastic person to deal with and someone with whom I have been in touch over the past few weeks.

Took it for a test drive and she rode great, she would get up and go when I hit it...until I got passed by a prius. Turns out the IC pump is nearing its death. Something that wasn't a dealbreaker for me as it is a relatively simply fix. I am hoping to either have it fixed by the May 3rd GTG or at least have the Johnson pump in hand for a little friendly GTG install...

I called Valk about 10 minutes after I drove her off the lot and let him know haha.

The exterior and interior of the car are in near flawless condition, with the exception of a few minor scratches on the front bumper cover...which is to be expected over the course of 19k miles.

Final selling price ended up being 16,700 + tax out the door. Which to me is a fantastic price for a fairly low mile car with the previous owner using it as a weekender like most SRT6 owners.

Still haven't paid the tax as I have to do it up here in Illinois...but my overall experience with the dealership was fantastic. If anyone is in the market for a Saturn (I think there was a brief Sky v. Solstice discussion elsewhere) then let me know and I will give you his number and it is completely worth the effort to get down there. In addition, I told him that if he got anymore crossfires on the lot to call me and I would pass along the information so hopefully something may result from that.

The drive back from St.Louis (Chesterfield actually) to Chicago was fairly uneventful, just a nice cruise with beautiful weather until I hit my exit in Chicago...

The only excitement during thte trip was the Dodge Viper ACR that happened across my path. A couple thumbs up later and we were crusing together for about 30 miles....over the speed limit. I didn't do anything stupid especially since the IC pump was deciding when and when not it wanted to work....However, the ACR was quite beautiful and immaculately clean...He obviously loved the car.

Thanks to everyone who PM'ed me with links to SRT's in the area or that they were selling I really appreciate all the help. Thanks also to hawksview for all the help he gave me with the AeroBlue SRT negotiations that were miscommunicated.

I am looking forward to many future GTGs' in the SRT and many many more beautiful days with the permagrin shining.

I thought I had permagrin when I picked up my first Crossfire last April...this one is even bigger.

See everyone at the Crystal Lake GTG on May 3rd and the LET/Eurocharged track day on the 30th.

It is raining pretty nasty up here so I will try to get some pics up tomorrow (if it is nice) or sometime this week.

Thanks again for everything.

 

As Matt said he called me right after the purchase.
Matt, I'm glad everything worked out as you had hoped for and welcome to the SRT6 group.
Glad you didn't need that return airfare ticket from St.Louis.

See ya next weekend !!

Gary

 

I got to tell you Matt, after reading all of Riot's thread, this thread is lot more enjoyable, not being biased here by no means, but welcome to the SRT world...let the mods begin...

 

Gary,

You reminded me of something awesome...

So the story behind the airfare ticket is...

I bought a toundtrip ticket to St.Louis from O'Hare yesterday (4.24) for $213.40 which is a fantastic deal in the first place...

I figured if I didn't use the return trip I could get a credit for it and be able to use it for a later trip..

Well, of course, things worked out and I didn't need the return trip...

As I get close to Chicago I get an email on my Blackberry "your flight has been cancelled" which I assume was because of the crappy weather in Chicago. So I called up United, and wanted to inquire about the credits....


Instead, because my flight was cancelled they offered to refund the value of the return leg to my account... So what did she come back and tell me she was refunding me... $140.xx. Hahahahaha.

So in the end, it cost me roughly $70 to fly down to St.Louis this morning...

Amazing.

The $140 I never thought I'd get back... and almost pays for the cost of a Johnson IC pump I need to instal ASAP. Heck yeah.

 

Sounds like you should go buy some Lotto tickets with a few of these extra $$
Your on a roll !!!

Pick up one for me to please and I'll give ya a dollar

 

Matt,

Glad you found the car to your satisfaction and had a safe trip back to Chi-town. Sorry we couldn't hook up for lunch when you were here, but we'll meet sometime and have a drink or so.

Happy driving!

 

So, the car has of course made it sucessfully back to Chicago. However, I've been having a few problems.

I've been running high temps causing the supercharger to disengage. I replaced the Johnson pump on Sunday figuring that was the problem as it is with most people. No improvement.

So yesterday I replaced the IAT sensor thinking it have been faulty and reading 181 the whole time by default. So I went down to Eurocharged and they replaced it with one in stock. Still no improvement.

So now, we are waiting until Wayne and Tony get back from their East coast tuning tour, as they have the disagnostic machine...Hopefully they will be back friday.

I'm running really really pig rich, burping like crazy on revs...ridiculous.

I'm open to any ideas and suggestions...

Either way I'll be there Saturday for the GTG. I just may be in limp mode most of the time

 

Possibly a MAP sensor???

Not sure if they regularly go bad, but the MAF on the NA cars is a known issue.

 

Researching...

 

I didn't think the SRT had a MAF sensor.
At least not as a part of the CAI

 

It doesn't....it has a MAP sensor. (Manifold Absolute Pressure)

The NA's have a MAF sensor. (Mass Air Flow)

 

DUH
I better start paying attention here
Map, Maf, tpms, and on and on and on
To darn many sensors on these cars

 

LOL.....it's not that bad..... you just need ESP!

 

Haha, no worries Garry. No one's keeping tally. Even if they are thats gotta be like Good Info 1,000,000 v. Whoopsie 1.

MAP measure the air forced in. well the pressure of that based on a bunch of computer blah blah blah I dont know the details.

MAF is more of a volume measure sensor. Volume of air acrossthe sensor over a given period of time...

I think...

All I want is my car to work properly, no matter what sensor is the problem...

Still researching.