CSB3: Florida, YOHB?

[riceburner]

lol I'm 120% not a strong guy, you'd have me in arm wrestling all day long

humbleness is wisdom

i too am a softhands pansy

 

[Saabingti]

Yeah, it's certainly not perfect......but it usually gives me a decent list to start from. I was just hoping someone else had a suggestion for that "secret handshake" search engine that pulls everything from CPO's all the way down to shady facebook listings.

I have three dealers working on numbers for me so far......but I cast a wide net while car searching. I don't usually have such a short timeline like my daughter does right now though. She needs a replacement car by this weekend, so I'll probably be sending a deposit today or tmrw for a weekend pickup.

I actually wonder if something like Chat Gee Pee Tee could do the aggregation and optimization for you. "please search sites 1 2 and 3 for [model] [years] [options] and present the results as a list of URLs organized first by price and then by mileage"


I'm not at all an AI techbro truther but that seems like the sort of thing LLMs might be good for.

 

[Jmitchell4873]

I actually wonder if something like Chat Gee Pee Tee could do the aggregation and optimization for you. "please search sites 1 2 and 3 for [model] [years] [options] and present the results as a list of URLs organized first by price and then by mileage"


I'm not at all an AI techbro truther but that seems like the sort of thing LLMs might be good for.

Yeah.....I've heard of that AI powered gee pee tee stuff......but I'm also scared of skynet taking over. That is a good idea for someone who wants to try an AI powered experience though!

 

[cb1111]

Civic and Accords are great. +1
I'd use FB marketplace. Only if you want a clapped out piece of crap that is either wrecked or stolen
I'd even browse CPO inventory at my local dealers. That works - more money but a better chance of getting a decent car

See bolded comments above.

I also had a friend who bought a couple of cars from those lease turn in sites - usually decent cars that someone wants to sell as the value is higher than the residual.

 

[cb1111]

Yeah.....I've heard of that AI powered gee pee tee stuff......but I'm also scared of skynet taking over. That is a good idea for someone who wants to try an AI powered experience though!

Nah...., in this case it is just Google search on steroids. You don't need the Pee thing - it just speeds it up for you.

 

[Nineeightyone]

Marketplace is definitely more of a caveat emptor situation, though I sold my Jetta wagon on marketplace and that was probably one of the best cared for mk4s on the road at that point

CPO is great for a degree of peace of mind, though if you're gonna void the warranty anyway... Wife's 18 Mazda was CPO and that was nice when she had speaker issues, but overall we've not needed the warranty (knock on wood)

 

[aspro_gti]

If you have a good eye for what's a shitbox and what might be decent... it's worth checking facebook. It just takes more time to message people, ask them questions, and be thorough with when you're inspecting the car... but that's where you'll find your bargains... especially if you negotiate down based on things you find wrong with it.

You'd be surprised how much of a moron CGPT is... you ask it to calculate your top speed based on numbers you give it (drag coefficient, frontal area, hp, weight) and it gives you a different answer each and every time... no kizzy.

 

[aspro_gti]

GMA T50 shoots flames!! I dream of one day sitting in one. That and sitting in an F1 (the dream car... the holy grail).

 

[Saabingti]

If you have a good eye for what's a shitbox and what might be decent... it's worth checking facebook. It just takes more time to message people, ask them questions, and be thorough with when you're inspecting the car... but that's where you'll find your bargains... especially if you negotiate down based on things you find wrong with it.

You'd be surprised how much of a moron CGPT is... you ask it to calculate your top speed based on numbers you give it (drag coefficient, frontal area, hp, weight) and it gives you a different answer each and every time... no kizzy.

"For sale is my tastefully modded GTI with all the goodies. FBO, lowered, upgraded turbo. Adult owned, always well cared for and driven responsibly, never hooned or raced."


The GTI in question:

 

[cb1111]

You'd be surprised how much of a moron CGPT is... you ask it to calculate your top speed based on numbers you give it (drag coefficient, frontal area, hp, weight) and it gives you a different answer each and every time... no kizzy.

Yep, I asked for competitors for a particular company (not even remotely car related) and Gee Pee came back with Ford, Chevy, VW, Mercedes, BMW.

When I went back with "but the company I was asking about isn't in the automotive industry" Gee Pee came back with "yes, you're right, I'm sorry. Here are the major competitors...." and that was actually right.

 

[Saabingti]

You'd be surprised how much of a moron CGPT is... you ask it to calculate your top speed based on numbers you give it (drag coefficient, frontal area, hp, weight) and it gives you a different answer each and every time... no kizzy.

TBF, I don't think CGPT was necessarily trained on aerospace engineering PhD courses and CFD.

 

[Jmitchell4873]

See bolded comments above.

I also had a friend who bought a couple of cars from those lease turn in sites - usually decent cars that someone wants to sell as the value is higher than the residual.

I've called several of the lease return places before. Some of them seem cool......... but more than a couple seemed slimier than the "buy here pay here" lots.

CPO would be the ideal vehicle for my daughter......but the cars with a decent warranty included in the deal seem to be towards the high end of her budget.

 

[aspro_gti]

TBF, I don't think CGPT was necessarily trained on aerospace engineering PhD courses and CFD.

CGPT does know how to plug shit into an equation, given that it gave me the equation... and even still it knows better than to change its answer every damn time I ask it to do the same exact thing (same input... different output every time).

 

[cb1111]

If you have a good eye for what's a shitbox and what might be decent... it's worth checking facebook. It just takes more time to message people, ask them questions, and be thorough with when you're inspecting the car... but that's where you'll find your bargains... especially if you negotiate down based on things you find wrong with it.

Many on FB are curbstoners that put lipstick on a pig and sell it as a racehorse. There are so many things that can go wrong and nobody on this board can look at a car that is "fixed" by a curbstoner at their place of business and find the problems.

I've taken every car that I've bought to a trusted mechanic who spent a couple of hours with it on a lift. Of the six or seven cars that I've looked at second hand, only one had no issues, The others all had hidden serious issues that were disguised with baling wire and chewing gum. I bought several of them, but figured in repairs into the price.

 

[cb1111]

TBF, I don't think CGPT was necessarily trained on aerospace engineering PhD courses and CFD.

One problem is that the data it uses is old