warning
I am the 3rd owner of my kit. It seemed to be a good deal at 15K, quick build including the finish kit. I have about 4 years 2000 hours into kit just myself(it is tricked out however). I knew it had issues when I bought it, canopy was a complete redo, including plex. Rear fuse skin had to be replaced, oilcanning on the lower wing skins....
However the pain was all the things I did know know when I bought the kit. An example was the gear weldments had been installed without checking if the wing temp bolts would go through them(common issue). I had remove the gear and the weldments to open them up after the plane was plumbed and wire, there goes a week.
I can be really hard to recover from some errors the might not be obvious at the time.
I pretty much had to rebuild everything the second builder did. Good thing I live close to Vans, I am a favorite will call customer. If it had not been a quickbuild and the 1st builder having done a fair job on the empennage it would have been hopeless. Strongly recommend you have an expert look at any 2nd or 3rd hand kit. In the end I think it would have been cheaper to start with a new quick build. By this time I also realize that really should have built a 10. Well I should really should have just bought a plane and waited until retirement to build one. I have a lot of respect for anyone that builds one of these to completion with a job and a family.