Hi guys,
I'm considering purchasing my brother's 2009 Ridgeline RTL. I've seen it briefly, and have driven it briefly, but not to a level I would if I were test driving something. He sent me some pictures of it, and cautioned me that there are a few dingers. Areas that I'd probably want to look at, or at least consider, if I bought it:
(1) Front bumper area. In the photo showing the right front corner, it looks like the bumper cover has been pushed rearward just slightly. This is probably not a big deal to me, but I'd still probably want to look at that.
(2) Driver's door ding. It looks like there's a dinger in the lower half of the front of the driver's door. This may come out with paintless dent removal, I don't know.
(3) The big area, obviously, is the driver's side rear door, and the big divot in the bodywork behind it. I'm not all that familiar with Ridgelines, but I'd wager that this would be a major project to fix -- I doubt that those quarter panels just unbolt from the vehicle. I also don't know if there's access behind that for someone to sort of bang that area back out to possibly fill and paint. As for the door itself, I imagine that's beyond repair -- that'd need a new door skin, right?
(4) Wheels. At least one of the wheels has some curbing on it, but I reckon that those are generally easy enough to repair.
The big plus is the interior is still in very good shape -- the leather is supple still and the the seats aren't smashed in too bad. It's an '09 with about 100,000 miles. My brother's father-in-law was the original owner and he used it as a truck, and my brother's used it as a truck. His father-in-law sold it to him last summer when he replaced it with a new Ridgeline before they went out of production.
If I bought it, I'd do the plugs, timing belt, and transmission fluid exchange right away. My wife's car is a 2005 Acura MDX, which has an identical drivetrain (non-VCM 3.5L V-6, 5-speed automatic transmission, VTM-4 AWD system), so I'm intimately familiar with it.
I appreciate any and all opinions on the bodywork I've outlined here. With it being a used truck and me planning to use it as a truck/beach mobile, I think I can live with the dingers...just trying to get a rough order of magnitude -- especially about the dinger in the rear quarter panel just behind the rear door.
I'm considering purchasing my brother's 2009 Ridgeline RTL. I've seen it briefly, and have driven it briefly, but not to a level I would if I were test driving something. He sent me some pictures of it, and cautioned me that there are a few dingers. Areas that I'd probably want to look at, or at least consider, if I bought it:
(1) Front bumper area. In the photo showing the right front corner, it looks like the bumper cover has been pushed rearward just slightly. This is probably not a big deal to me, but I'd still probably want to look at that.
(2) Driver's door ding. It looks like there's a dinger in the lower half of the front of the driver's door. This may come out with paintless dent removal, I don't know.
(3) The big area, obviously, is the driver's side rear door, and the big divot in the bodywork behind it. I'm not all that familiar with Ridgelines, but I'd wager that this would be a major project to fix -- I doubt that those quarter panels just unbolt from the vehicle. I also don't know if there's access behind that for someone to sort of bang that area back out to possibly fill and paint. As for the door itself, I imagine that's beyond repair -- that'd need a new door skin, right?
(4) Wheels. At least one of the wheels has some curbing on it, but I reckon that those are generally easy enough to repair.
The big plus is the interior is still in very good shape -- the leather is supple still and the the seats aren't smashed in too bad. It's an '09 with about 100,000 miles. My brother's father-in-law was the original owner and he used it as a truck, and my brother's used it as a truck. His father-in-law sold it to him last summer when he replaced it with a new Ridgeline before they went out of production.
If I bought it, I'd do the plugs, timing belt, and transmission fluid exchange right away. My wife's car is a 2005 Acura MDX, which has an identical drivetrain (non-VCM 3.5L V-6, 5-speed automatic transmission, VTM-4 AWD system), so I'm intimately familiar with it.
I appreciate any and all opinions on the bodywork I've outlined here. With it being a used truck and me planning to use it as a truck/beach mobile, I think I can live with the dingers...just trying to get a rough order of magnitude -- especially about the dinger in the rear quarter panel just behind the rear door.
