I found my girlfriend a car. A 2006 Mazda6 S, 5 spd, 120k that "needed a motor" for $2000... Well, it doesn't. It's got bad cats. She took it to some rinky dink shop in her little BFE town and someone told her that. She is the original owner and had all service done at the dealer in my city until a year and a half ago then started going to Sears. She gave us all the service records and repairs done on the car. I kind of felt bad driving it out of their driveway knowing the engine was okay. It does needs a few minor things, but nothing bad at all.
Why does that s*** not happen to me? Ugh.
And yeah the only times I had to go get an oem part at the dealership the parts guys didnt even know what an msp was.. then they would just show me the parts diagram on the monitor and ask me to point at what I needed. Yeah...