Any way to fix that?

The car has sat since 2009 but he has started and driven it short distances occasionally since 2012 I think... It's taken him a while to get it right, lol... He doesn't make much money, and sensors are expensive...

 

Maybe a couple quick back to back oil changes might help, like 1000 miles apart.

 

I looked at this car today... What a colossal piece of s&@t! It really was one of the homecoming cars and was really nice... Until you were driving it... Took nearly ten seconds of cranking for it to fire, it idles pretty high when it ran... The trans was in some sort of fail safe mode and it seemed the tq converter wouldn't fully engage and you could vary RPM with throttle input but had to manually shift into 2nd to get it in any gear... Any time I stopped, it tried to stall and actually did twice... I drove about a mile at about 15-20mph and was terrified the whole time... But like the owner said, it never threw a ses light...

 

Run, don't walk away from that one.

 

i'm sure he cleared the codes right before you arrived

 

Unless you are a competent shade tree mechanic with both access to some form of a code reader that will read out the codes in the car and access to parts easily to work on it and the price reflected the probability of about at least a potential grand worth of work, I'd pass.
I actually would not even consider it unless I had some means to read out codes when looking at it.

 

I wish I could have had my ultra gauge with me, it reads codes... But it was in my Suzuki, at the shop... Yeah, I walked away laughing, relieved to not be driving it anymore...