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Originally Posted by The HACK
I'm pretty sure everyone knows how costly it is to mod a car the right way. The problem is, the second you start selling a modded car, you almost have to wait for that ONE person in the world that wants the car the way YOU modded it to buy it to get that money back.
I've moved a few "modded" cars before in my life, and you almost have to wait for the person to come asking you to buy the car to get full value. Had a 350Z with just about everything under the sun thrown at it, intake, header, exhaust, coil-overs, brakes, wheels, tires, tune...you name it it's got it. Except for aero/body kit. Wife was sick and tired of the car setting off the neighbor's (and hers) alarm every morning and threatened the big D word unless I sold the car.
Put it on the market, no one went for the price that I thought it was worth. Got a few guys that low-balled and wanted blue-book price WITH all the mods. Took it off market and put up with the daily nagging from the Missus. 6 months later, got a PM from someone all the way across the country asking about the car. Sold it for blue-book plus ~75% of MSRP of the parts that was already installed.
Also had an E46 323Ci, same deal. Everything from the front to the back of the car, intake, exhaust, tune, suspension, brakes, short shifter...etc. Even got the very classy looking factory aero kit on it. One of the mechanics at the shop I always take it to for services that I don't or can't perform always asked me if I wanted to sell the car. Eventually, a pothole damaged the strut tower and would have required about $8,000 worth of repairs, which would have been over the threshold for the insurance company to total. Bought the car back from insurance and sold it to my mechanic and got way more than what the insurance deemed the car is worth. My mechanic fixed up the strut tower and the damage related to the pot-hole impact and drove it for 5 more years before some dumb b*tch decided to pull out of her drive way without looking.
And the 350Z is a pretty common car too, with high secondary market demand.
If I were you, I'd just sit tight and let the buyers come to you. Don't lower the price unless you're willing to part out and sell separately.
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Thanks for sharing your story, it really put things into perspective
