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One thing somewhat worries me and it isn't the TIP
I drove sticks for 30 years including 3 sports cars (Alfa, Alfa 914). But when traffic got bad, I switched. I bought a '99 TIP and loved it. Never an issue. Totaled it and bought an '01S TIP. That is how much I liked the car and the trans. Now I live in a rural area and don't miss the manual transmission at all. It shifts for me when I want it to and I can shift it anytime I want by myself. (The 2000-2004s are better in that regard in that you don't have to be in manual mode to shift.)
But the last owner having the car only 2 months somewhat bothers me. Unless he had a transmission failure (rare, BTW, TIPs are pretty darn reliable) and returned the car and the dealer fixed the car and then reoffered it. Was the trans a new trans or out of a wreck? New trans fluids?
Study the warranty contract carefully.
The PPI should tell you the maintenance the car needs over the next 10k miles and you really want to know that with a car that old and with that many miles. They do run 240k miles and more so look for a good one and enjoy it.
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