Dispatched by my company, machdealers, I visited Armac Locação, Logística e Serviços SA in São Paulo, Brazil, and conducted an on-site inspection of the Caterpillar 323D2L excavator.This machine walked today no engine appear to have red flags hanging all over the cab interior, which, to me, means a brand-new stock machine on a dealer lot, may not have turned close to 20 hours or less. Indeed, 5% wear max (or less – it looks brand new and the grousers still look sharp on the track on cat 323d2L, long reach setup tracks) Those black accordion boots have hydraulic lines all over the top, no weeps to be had anywhere on the boom or stick cylinders, counterweight paint is perfect, no chips or dings you see from having worked on construction sites before, and the undercarriage of everything is stupid clean – it was probably pressure washed before the pictures were taken. Free spinning rollers, no oil misting around the final drives (sprockets), no glazing or chipping on sprockets. The problem is it was very cloudy when it was inspected so lighting wasn’t great but I (I’m leveling myself out), examined around the track frame rails looking for cracks or rewelding, no cracks or rewelding, they look factory. Well, then, let me look at the pump body… ok, just dust due to being placed outdoors, no fresh hydraulic dropping down the body.

I didn’t see the wrap on top of the interior torn up, the seat has the gray fabric untorn and there are these red ceremonial flags tied all over as if it just got brought in from China or something and nobody bothered to remove the décor. Glass in the cab is clean, no cracks, door seals seem to be good, operator’s manual was missing from seat pocket although it was a minor inconvenience it wasn’t a make or break for me, I was just about to get done. Engine access panels are closed and no I didn’t break them—this machine hasn’t been beaten it’s just lain in gravel until someone purchased it, that’s a lot better than a really low hour machine which got beat on a poor job site for three months and flipped. Did not see any exhaust stack smoke. Pins are tight.Some scuffing in the Bucket teeth is present but the cab mounted beacons work with no jerking or stalling in the boom so I assume hydraulic pump is ok, etc. You have a long reach, you sacrifice some breakout, get some depth (if you’re putting out footings or ponds, it makes sense) if you’re loading trucks all day then no! I didn’t see any leaks on the machine and ground appears dry under the machine. Other than that, it’s like brand-new iron that hasn’t been put to use so prices will relative to that.