09 PG sport pkg 6mt 18k miles opinions needed please

redline727

UPDATE No Longer for Sale. Decided to just keep it and try and make it work. After looking around getting a different car wouldn't save me to much money each month to seem worth getting rid of something I actually love having.

Hello everyone,
I need your opinions on what I should do with my Z. My situation is I am recently going through an employment change due to some major cut backs at my current job. So I may have to part with my Z due to simply not being able to afford it anymore and having to travel farther for work. If I have to get rid of it I want to do so before I have to rack up the mileage. However I don't know if I can get what I need to to pay off the loan. So I'm looking for some input.

I need to get $28,500 to pay off and sell the vehicle. But I would be interested in offers As well. I still believe selling on my own is better then trading in.

I am the second owner and purchased the car 14 months ago with 10,183 miles it currently is about to turn 18,000 miles in the next few days. I take great care of the vehicle and is garage kept when not at work and has been since I owned it. It's a 2009 Platinum Graphite 370z base with sports package 6mt. It has been lightly modded with the following

K&N Typhoon Intakes ( have original intakes)
Invidia Gemini CBE (have stock exhaust )
Invidia HFC's (have stock cats)
Custom Uprev tuned by performance tuning (Dyno page uploaded in albums)
Clutch helper spring (have original spring)
Steering lock fix pig tail (easily unplugged to return to stock)
Nismo Ti shift knob (have original knob in mint condition)
35% tint sides 20% rear
JDM rear fog from Z1 with short pig tail wired to come on with lights
All weather floor mats (Oem mats in mint condition included and trunk mat)

Car has never been in any accidents and never has been tracked. Oil changes done with redline oil and K&N filter with magnetic drain plug and filter mag every 3750 miles. I have done 3 since I have had it bc I did one right after purchase then a scheduled and then did one early right after tune was done. Tires have about 8000 miles on them and was tracked under the maintenance tab on the cars maintenance tracker. Rims are in great shape only 3 small nicks. No actual curb rash. The nicks are hardly noticeable.

Exterior has no dents. Some minor chips on bumper from highway driving.
Interior I would say a 9 out of 10. 10 being showroom.

So please tell me what you think. Is what I'm asking unreasonable? I would rather not have to deal with a dealership and trading it in bc I'm going to be getting something older and cheap till I am making good money again and can afford a nice car again so I'm trying to save myself that hassle and try not to get beat up on a trade and roll negative equity into a cheap pick up truck to commute in. I'm looking for a help me help you get a great car situation.

So please drop your thoughts and most importantly if your interested PM me.

Plenty of pics in my album so help yourself. And if I didn't cover all the rules to post this let me know and I will correct it ASAP. Thank you all. Oh and I'm in Richmond VA

http://www.the370z.com/members/redline727-albums.html

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Redglare

If I was in your situation I would either
A. Sell of all the mods (or at least the most expensive ones), sell the car a little cheaper then what you owe (by using the mod money you would have accrued)

B. Try to sell to someone who can appreciate a modded car (very small audience)

I think option A would be the quickest.

redline727

Thank you for your advise. My only fear with doing that is I don't have much to sell besides the intakes and exhaust which would net me 1000$ at best which would help but is just a lot of work. Bc then if the car doesn't sell then I may just have to keep it bc I refuse to take a big loss on a trade from a dealer to get something I don't even want.

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Yeah makes sense I didn't know how much money your mods would net you, if it's only 1k then you would be better of selling her with mods for asking price (may take longer)

The good news is that your mileage isn't that high (18k for an 09 is good), I would advertise the car on ebay/cars all those website and see if a buyer shows up.
More good news is that you have sport package, do a search most of the Z's for sale have no sport package so that makes your car more desirable.

richie18

I agree with red.... as long as you have a clean car with low miles and the sport package, you should have a little edge.

But you may want to price the car as if it has no mods even though you do have them on.... I think most buyers would like the car stock and would not want to pay extra for parts they did not really want. Kind of like buying a new car with options you don't want. Or if you're firm on the price, it may just take a particular/specific buyer.

redline727

Thanks guys, hopefully I'll get lucky on this thread. I'll also post on Craigslist and try eBay too! Hopefully I'll get someone interested.

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