Bought a used 250 Transit in March 2026…
Bought a used 250 Transit in March 2026 at auction with Pensky auctions. I searched the vin online checked the car-fax all came back clear. Picked it up and drove it home. Later I was driving and the cab filled up with smoke, someone had bypassed a blown 300a mega fuse under the seat with a piece of wire, could have burned the whole van down... Later I found the Van had been wrecked and taken to a hatchet job body shop, I pulled the headliner and saw someone had run it under something so they cut out the roof and glued in a new panel over the remains of the old one, never even primed the new panel so the white paint is peeling and didn't stick, the seam sealer looks like it was applied with a tongue depressor. Pensky has records and knows they paid someone to attempt repairing this vehicle but none of this was noted on the vehicle and there are no records of its history. The buying experience was good but the van is junk and not worth what I paid.