A buddy of mine has a gorgeous '97 Eagle Talon with only 55,000 miles, however it's been determined that the #2 cylinder has zero compression.
I'm not a gearhead at all, but his options seem to be:
1. engine overhaul, estimating $3k - 5k (no real quotes yet)
2. donate it to an organization and reap the tax benefits next spring or,
3. ???
Any comments/thoughts would be appreciated. The car is in otherwise great shape and he loves driving it, but it's hard to justify spending a lot of money on a vehicle that is already eight years old. Can it be fixed for less doing something else?
Wasn't terrible at a state park beach. Antelope island maybe. I wouldn't recommend it as a beach destination tho. Figured I was there, I'm getting in it.
The water looked and smelled disgusting with hundreds of thousands of birds sh*tting in there. About as gross as the Salton Sea. When I duck hunted there I didn't even want to touch the water.
It's kinda gross with the algae in the summer but I got in it anyway. Wanted to see the increased bouyancy at work. You can kinda tuck yourself into a ball and you'll just float with your head above water. When dry off you look diamond encrusted with the salt.
We went to the flats too. I dipped a tire on the rental car onto it just to say I’ve been there,but it was still pretty soft from winter melt. After seeing some moron in a BMW suv get dragged out of the muck I had no intention of repeating his stupidity.
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A buddy of mine has a gorgeous '97 Eagle Talon with only 55,000 miles, however it's been determined that the #2 cylinder has zero compression.
I'm not a gearhead at all, but his options seem to be:
1. engine overhaul, estimating $3k - 5k (no real quotes yet)
2. donate it to an organization and reap the tax benefits next spring or,
3. ???
Any comments/thoughts would be appreciated. The car is in otherwise great shape and he loves driving it, but it's hard to justify spending a lot of money on a vehicle that is already eight years old. Can it be fixed for less doing something else?
Thanks in advance. -DB
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