Well.... I said I would post and update, so I will:
We all have heard "Don't judge a book by its cover"
And we all know you can't judge a deuce by its photos...
My Dad, my brother and I went to pick up the deuce today, took about 2 1/2 hours to get there. Once there, looked at the truck. Looked "ok", wasn't a great paint job though, but I really didn't care about the paint much in the first place. I was more concerned with mechanical and such, which the dealer had said was zero problems, and he had fixed anything that was wrong.
My dad went with the dealer on a test ride, the dealer drove. My brother and I waited in the driveway. They got back a few minuets later. The dealer got out and said he had forgotten hook the speedometer cable back up. Ok, no big deal...
After my dad got out, he pulled me off to the side. He then told me that the truck had a major vibration in the front end, and he even thought the dealer was going to loose control of it at one point when he went to make a turn.
The vibration continued the entire time they were driving, and was a much worse than the "normal" amount of vibration that we knew the A3 had, and had experienced before in several other deuce's we had looked at a few months ago. But the dealer insisted this is how all deuces drove. But this vibration was far beyond the "normal" cold tire/ctis weight vibration which we had seen first hand in the other A2's or A3's that he had test rode in before.
While we were standing there talking, I happened to look at the front drivers tire, and realized it was missing the ctis counter weight on the rim. This could have been part of the problem, but I doubt it was all of the problem. The dealer had switched that front tire with the spare. But I didn't see a weight on the spare either. So either it had been missing from GL, or he didn't put back on when he changed the tire. I couldn't tell if it had been there, as the rims had been painted gloss black, so any marks were covered. We started thinking if this was forgotten, what else was forgotten...
So in the end we decided it was to much money to spend on a truck with an unknown problem. The dealer got mad about it, but its not like we were pleased either. He had told us it was a fully complete truck, with which he had gone through and fixed any and all problems he had found. And on that info, we drove 300 miles round trip, wasted the gas and the entire day, and still ended up with nothing. We still have to cancel the insurance, after spending so much time trying to find insurance in the first place, and we have to take the cashiers check back to the bank and get that taken care of.
In any case, maybe it is something that the dealer can easily fix, but I hope he does fix it before someone buys it. As I wouldn't have wanted to drive it 150 miles with a vibration that bad.
Thanks guys for all the help and the answers you gave to all my questions and such.
I don't know if I'm going to need the info now, as we're not sure what we're going to do from here. I guess we'll just wait and see.
Thanks Again Guys!