Tacboy61, are you going through a dealership to purchase this vehicle? If do, who? If you can take it to a dealer to have them inspect it, I recommend going to Gus Paulos in West Valley. Before going into the service drive stop by parts and say hi to Todd. Tell him Connor sent you by. That should help you or in getting a tech that is worth his weight. I seriously recommend avoiding Larry H. Miller and Jerry Seiner. I've never had a good experience with them. Murdock in Bountiful is decent to deal with too, but only their service department. Sales department sucks. If you need body work, do avoid Gus Paulos. Their body shop manager does everything to avoid warranty work on stuff they've done. I have an album on photobucket to show it too.
As for your location, Utah loves to pour the salty on the road during the winter, so I'd definitely check the under carriage for rust, rot, and west that could be getting ready to leak. Inspect the body thoroughly, especially the wheel wells, bottom of doors (specifically the inside of the rear doors), etc. Also take the VIN to a Chevy dealer and have the service department can pull up its service history. Find out if all the recalls have been addressed, ie heated windshield wipers, interior chrome door handles, ecm/trans/bcm have the updated programming. Does the service history reflect TSBs being addressed, ie, oil consumption, evap cvs, etc? If appearance is an issue, is the dash cracked (left side of drivers info hump and/or near passenger airbag)? If not, had it been replaced? If it hasn't it might crack soon.
I'm sure there is something I'm forgetting, but I've tried to be as informative and straight-forward as possible. If you have any questions, please feel free to shoot me a Private Message. PMing is probably best since I'll likely forget I responded to this thread. To send anybody a Private Message on this forum you will need a minimum of 10 posts.
