in the air about selling my car
07-17-2012, 05:40 AM
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in the air about selling my car been looking at cts-v's lately, seriously considering selling my black 2002 ws6 m6 but dont really know what it would be worth. I know kbb is between $8-$9,000 private party and most people around here lately think these things are worth gold when selling them. only way the car would be halfway worth me selling is if it was worth $7,000+ i owe like $4,000 left and the rest would be my downpayment for the v. Is it worth $7,000 or should i just keep the car and continue cleaning it up??
The car has usual f body issues,
hood clearcoat was peeling so a friend resprayed the hood and ran the **** out of the clear, paint on car is typical, both fenders are scratched (passenger was there when i got it and driver is from a fender bender hit and run while the car was parked infront of my house
) sail panel clear just started popping, seats are dry and driver seat isnt ripped but its chaffed away like it will eventually rip, and of course i took out my trashed floor mats and by shoes wore 2 holes into the carpet 
and the car has 131,000miles.
only things i've done to the car is trans was recently pulled, cleaned, and replaced the stamped detents with billets(broke stock 4th gear detents)
replaced the factory high and low housings with lmc truck housings and added 8k HID's to low beams and fog lights.
last month installed brand new DRL housings, sockets, and added some LED switchbacks
car has a cutout, I replaced the sail panel subs(forget what i put in but they were highly recommended) sony headunit.
Custom shift handle(a buddy owns a fab shop and when my factory hurst leather **** ripped another friend gave me the factory shifter out of his 06' gto so the fab guy cut down my lous short stick and the top of the factory gto handle welded them up good and clean and thats what it is lol)
back and side windows tinted 5% and the side markers vht tinted black.
I also have the factory speedlines but one has a small lip bend and 3 have curb rash thanks to the previous owner, and all 4 have bad tires.
sorry about the long post but i figured you guys would need as much info as possible. to help me with a value.
The car has usual f body issues,
hood clearcoat was peeling so a friend resprayed the hood and ran the **** out of the clear, paint on car is typical, both fenders are scratched (passenger was there when i got it and driver is from a fender bender hit and run while the car was parked infront of my house
) sail panel clear just started popping, seats are dry and driver seat isnt ripped but its chaffed away like it will eventually rip, and of course i took out my trashed floor mats and by shoes wore 2 holes into the carpet and the car has 131,000miles.only things i've done to the car is trans was recently pulled, cleaned, and replaced the stamped detents with billets(broke stock 4th gear detents)
replaced the factory high and low housings with lmc truck housings and added 8k HID's to low beams and fog lights.
last month installed brand new DRL housings, sockets, and added some LED switchbacks
car has a cutout, I replaced the sail panel subs(forget what i put in but they were highly recommended) sony headunit.
Custom shift handle(a buddy owns a fab shop and when my factory hurst leather **** ripped another friend gave me the factory shifter out of his 06' gto so the fab guy cut down my lous short stick and the top of the factory gto handle welded them up good and clean and thats what it is lol)
back and side windows tinted 5% and the side markers vht tinted black.
I also have the factory speedlines but one has a small lip bend and 3 have curb rash thanks to the previous owner, and all 4 have bad tires.
sorry about the long post but i figured you guys would need as much info as possible. to help me with a value.
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07-17-2012, 08:55 AM
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really?? what should it be worth?? its high miles, far from perfect like i explained. If i could get enough out of the car and get this credit union across from my work to finance me than id love to buy a friend of a friends cts-v.
07-17-2012, 11:50 AM
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Thanks broski.
With the car back in 2006, the Girl who owned it rolled like 15-19k into the already 30k tag for the car, their payments were insane and I paid at that time 16k which as a sign of trust to pay off the loan and they mailed me the title. A total cluster as I held onto the car as collateral and paid like 10k down that if I got screwed I would have parted the car to get the $$$ back.
Long story short, no one wants to deal with cars with liens and most often need a clear title to do anything.
With the car back in 2006, the Girl who owned it rolled like 15-19k into the already 30k tag for the car, their payments were insane and I paid at that time 16k which as a sign of trust to pay off the loan and they mailed me the title. A total cluster as I held onto the car as collateral and paid like 10k down that if I got screwed I would have parted the car to get the $$$ back.
Long story short, no one wants to deal with cars with liens and most often need a clear title to do anything.
07-17-2012, 12:18 PM
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Thanks broski.
With the car back in 2006, the Girl who owned it rolled like 15-19k into the already 30k tag for the car, their payments were insane and I paid at that time 16k which as a sign of trust to pay off the loan and they mailed me the title. A total cluster as I held onto the car as collateral and paid like 10k down that if I got screwed I would have parted the car to get the $$$ back.
Long story short, no one wants to deal with cars with liens and most often need a clear title to do anything.
With the car back in 2006, the Girl who owned it rolled like 15-19k into the already 30k tag for the car, their payments were insane and I paid at that time 16k which as a sign of trust to pay off the loan and they mailed me the title. A total cluster as I held onto the car as collateral and paid like 10k down that if I got screwed I would have parted the car to get the $$$ back.
Long story short, no one wants to deal with cars with liens and most often need a clear title to do anything.
07-18-2012, 01:28 PM
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so what would they get?? the bank wont release the title until theyre paid...common sense, I wouldnt rip someone off and not pay the bank thats messed up. so what else would they get exactly? and I'd also be sure to sign something and have it notarized so theres not even a doubt that i'd screw em over. a buddy of mine just sold a maggied 04 v for $19k when that was exactly what he owed so he could get out of the payment and buy a house and he mailed the check to his bank and had the title mailed directly to the guy that bought the car, there were no problems, it was a smooth transaction.
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I have sold and bought before under these same conditions. These transactions can go smooth with the right paperwork in order. You also have to be a good judge of character and just use common sense.
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^^exactly, only way i could see things going bad is if the bank is super shitty or the person selling is a scumbag. I know enough not to let the car go to its new home until after the check clears lol and i wouldnt expect anyone to buy a vehicle under these circumstances without having some kind of written notarized document stating the whole transaction.
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^^exactly, only way i could see things going bad is if the bank is super shitty or the person selling is a scumbag. I know enough not to let the car go to its new home until after the check clears lol and i wouldnt expect anyone to buy a vehicle under these circumstances without having some kind of written notarized document stating the whole transaction.
07-19-2012, 07:18 AM
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Overall, if you have the title in hand it will sell much faster. If someone wants to come in from out of the area, they don't want to make a 2nd trip to get paperwork lined up. They want to drop the money and drive home. That's hard to do if you don't have the title in hand.
Title in hand and cash is king.