I fear you are right about the front end damage
When the difference in paint is obvious in pictures, its worse in person... I personally probably wouldn't consider it because that doesn't speak well for it being properly repaired ...
I fear you are right about the front end damage
How do you figure the front end damage? I didn't see that in the pics, I'm just not spotting that.That things definitely had some front end damage and also suspicious that they put an air freshener in there. Pretty sure these are known for oil consumption issues too. Hard pass for me.
How do you figure the front end damage? I didn't see that in the pics, I'm just not spotting that.
Air freshener, ok that does raise a flag, why leave that when everything else was cleaned up? smoker's car?
1.8L engine, that checks out though. It was the 2.4's that drank oil, after 2007 or so. The 1.8's drank in the what, 1998-2002 era? I want to say the worst that this 1.8 would see is an intake manifold leak, I think some of them had that problem, otherwise it's a pretty solid engine with a pretty solid 4AT behind.