Should I Trade My Car?
 

As some of you know I currently have my car for sale. My $18000 asking price is WAY TOO HIGH and I realize that but Im just "putting it out there".
Anyways some guy contacted me and wants to trade me a 2005 Evo 8 with 14500 miles on it. In any case I would probably say sure BUT the car has a salvage title. I checked KBB and its worth about $24000 but with salvage title probably alot lower. So what do you guys think I should do? Trade my fully build and done up car for a stock one? So in a sense downgrading.

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That car would have to be absolutely mint to be worth $24000.

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KBB is good to go off of when listing YOUR car for sale, or trying to boost e-peen's. But, that shit is always overpriced.

That sounded like a too-good-to-be-true story, and turns out, it is. Could you run a Carfax on it or anything? I'd do that since it has the Salvage title.

I don't know though, you put ALOT of work into that car, if it were me I'd keep it.

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Keep It!!!

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My initial response is to say, "Do it!" That seems like a great deal for you. I know you've put a lot of work into your car, but its still a nearly 10 year old DSM. Do you know what happened for the car to get a salvage title? Was it fixed properly and by who? Have you checked it out in person yet?

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Well it depends on what it was totaled for, most of the salvage evo's that ive seen on ebay were in a bad accident, but theres a evo on craigslist for 12000 that just needs a front and rear bumber that has a salvage title.

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^ probably needs more than that, just bumpers wont total a car. Has frame damage or something im sure.

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I wouldnt touch a salvaged vehicle ever, unless it was a steal and I knew exactly what happened. Also, trading your car in, they wont give you 1/4 of what you want for it.

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Def depends on the damage that caused it to be totaled, and if it was properly fixed. If all is peachy with the Evo, I would give you a BIG HELL YEA!

In case it's not obvious, I LOVE my evo, WAY more reliable than a DSM ever could dream of being, makes good power with minimal mods, and did I mention OPEN SOURCE tuning tools? $75 cable and you get AEM-like tuning ability from the stock ECU :)

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Also, being its a salvage title, I would only trade if it was straight-up. No cash either way.

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hell no! if it has a salvage title I would not buy/trade shit for it especially becuase if you ever wanted to resell it and it was a couple years older I would think you would have a hard time getting your money out of it. Don't do it!

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Just my opinion, but I think a salvaged-Evo, assuming it was fixed properly and is issue-free, is going to be worth more than any DSM.

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OOh snap, +1 on that one!

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I agree, as long as it was fixed well, you'd be trading for a newer, more reliable and more desirable (in terms of resale) car.

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you should get some pics, and this guy really wants a built dsm. My buddy who bought my car and did a bunch of stuff was contacted by the same dude, but never got pictures and couldnt look at it since the car is in Nevada or something like that. If it was a trade straight up, the car was fixed properly, or if there was even cash coming your way, i'd consider it. CARFAX

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wow, fancy a 3-5 year old car being more reliable than a 10-15 year old car.

Find out what kind of damage happened to the car and go from there. Hopefully it wasn't anything to bad.

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if its enough to total a 30k evo.. it was probably bad!

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blue book on that car is 24k

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Evo values have gone up over the past few months. Its awesome, IX GSR's with more miles than mile are selling now for a few thousand higher than I paid back in November!

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Don't do it!

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The simple fact that the car has a salvage title automatically cuts the value in half, so you can figure the car is worth at best, $12,000. I would look at it closely, and if you don't know what to look for, have someone look at it who does or bring it to a body shop and have them inspect it and see if they can find the repairs. If it passes inspection, I say go for it. Straight up though, no cash involved.

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Wow this seems more like EvoStyle around here. haha As for reliability; I'm sure there is plenty of broken Evo stories out there too. Depends on what you do with the car.

What do you really want out of a car? If the Evo fits that and you were planning to get rid of your car anyways than research the heck out of the salvage issue and request all the info and pics you can to make a good decision.

When I was looking at buying my car out of state I had the seller send pictures of key areas, also had him send audio.

Good luck on your decision. It would be hard to walk away from my car unless it was really for something I wanted and mine is not nearly as far along the mod path as yours.

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Not in 2-3 years. :pc:

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There is no blue book on either car, each is worth what someone will pay. The EVO is a little easier, but I wouldn't buy it without driving it, preferably through a car wash. A 2003 EVO with a salvage title came through the auction the other day and it couldn't even fetch a bid of $7500. Condition is everything on a salvage car.

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if it is that black evo off of craigs list all I have to say is stay the fuck away from it. it would bake a good parts car at best. the car was lanched into a ditch the full rear end is all twisted up. the uni body is twisted up also it has not been to a frame shop so you 12k evo will go way up in price for a slavaged car is 1/2 or less that blue book

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After I sell my eclipse(if I ever do) I am going to be done modding cars(maybe). I just want to get an audi or something nice with maybe wheels and exhaust/intake.
I got another email from the guy here are some key things
The only reason he doesnt want it anymore is because he cant import it to cananda
Its yellow with black leather interior and a sunroof.
He said it was hit on the passanger side. He also said it needs a new AC compressor, Airbags and seatbelts. After hearing that Im going to say no. because fixing that stuff with cost me probably like $3000.

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Air bag replacement isnt cheap for sure.

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To bad its yellow, you can get air bags for evo's off evolutionm.net or ebay for not that much.

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No go, but you should swing that trade idea over to other evo owners, so you have a more sellable car lol.