another car thread, what to do with a old maxima

[miri]

I am keeping my maxima til this sumer when the Scion C comes out. I can get about $150-250 dealer trade in from it. It has 183K miles. Runs rough but has never broken down or stalled. Starts on first try of ignition every time to. Should I just donate this car or what? Any suggestions?

 

[NutBucket]

Are you sure its only worth $150-$200? A running car will fetch at least $500 usually if its not a complete pile. What year is it? What's the condition like besides running a little rough?

 

[guyver01]

blow it up.

 

[SWirth86]

Sell it for like 500 bucks or so.

 

[FuZoR]

$250 thats it??? what year is this

i say keep it and have some fun with it ;-)

 

[miri]

1992 Maxima. The one good thing about it is the tires. It has goodyears sport tires that I paid over $500 for that have less than 8,000 miles. I think it needs new motor mounts. When it idles in drive it shakes a little but stops if you put in in neutral.

 

[StageLeft]

With some effort you can get more than that. put it in the paper and see if you can score $500 for it.

It was driven hard, wasn't it?

 

[RGN]

There is no reason you couldn't get $500 or better for it. Hell, parts alone are worth that.

 

[miri]

No it has not been driven hard, at least not for the last 3 years when we bought it from my wifes mom. Heh the only reason I do not want to sell to private party is that I would goto the DMV to make sure the car was signed over and I dread going to the motor vehicle department hehe.

Poor old V6. I accelerate slowly in it but sometimes I step on the pedal and the thing still flies. Feel like i am in a rocket compared to my 2003 Civic EX.

 

[Quixfire]

Put it in the local paper for a $1000 and see what happens.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: miri
No it has not been driven hard, at least not for the last 3 years when we bought it from my wifes mom. Heh the only reason I do not want to sell to private party is that I would goto the DMV to make sure the car was signed over and I dread going to the motor vehicle department hehe.

Poor old V6. I accelerate slowly in it but sometimes I step on the pedal and the thing still flies. Feel like i am in a rocket compared to my 2003 Civic EX.

I wonder - if the motor is still good and it just needs new motor mounts you could look into getting that fixed and get well over a thousand bucks if the rest of it is ok.

 

[Thegonagle]

Any car ~9 years old or older with such high miles is worth next to nothing as a trade, even if it's still in very nice shape. It's best from a money standpoint to sell cars like that privately, but sometimes it's not worth the hassle.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Thegonagle
Any car ~9 years old or older with such high miles is worth next to nothing as a trade, even if it's still in very nice shape. It's best from a money standpoint to sell cars like that privately, but sometimes it's not worth the hassle.

If its body is in decent shape and everything else works I'd be surprised if he couldn't get $1500 for it if it's in good running order. If the motor mounts are the only problem I don't know how much they'd cost to get repaired... But you're right - as a trade in, even working, he'd get almost nothing.

 

[Radiohead]

Might be able to part it out on the .org

 

[Pliablemoose]

I donated my 91' Maxima, but it's just because I liked the charity & didn't want to jack with selling a car.

With inexpensive cars like ours everyone & their brother crawls out of the woodwork asking you to finance it for them (wtf, finance a $500-1,000 car?)

Put it in the local paper with a cash only note @ the bottom of the ad.

 

[dirtboy]

Give it to Skoorb.

 

[Ryan]

What kind of condition is it in? Got any pics YOu could easily get $1.5k+

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
I donated my 91' Maxima, but it's just because I liked the charity & didn't want to jack with selling a car.

With inexpensive cars like ours everyone & their brother crawls out of the woodwork asking you to finance it for them (wtf, finance a $500-1,000 car?)

Put it in the local paper with a cash only note @ the bottom of the ad.

It's fuggin sad that a stranger would ask a person in the paper to finance a car, but indeed I've heard of it elsewhere too

 

[DougK62]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
I donated my 91' Maxima, but it's just because I liked the charity & didn't want to jack with selling a car.

With inexpensive cars like ours everyone & their brother crawls out of the woodwork asking you to finance it for them (wtf, finance a $500-1,000 car?)

Put it in the local paper with a cash only note @ the bottom of the ad.

It's fuggin sad that a stranger would ask a person in the paper to finance a car, but indeed I've heard of it elsewhere too

Yeah it happened to me. I was selling $1500 car that I didn't need anymore and a dude asked me if he could make payments on it. I told him that he could but he wouldn't get the car until I got the full $1500 from him - he bitched at me and said I wasn't being fair

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: DougK62

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
I donated my 91' Maxima, but it's just because I liked the charity & didn't want to jack with selling a car.

With inexpensive cars like ours everyone & their brother crawls out of the woodwork asking you to finance it for them (wtf, finance a $500-1,000 car?)

Put it in the local paper with a cash only note @ the bottom of the ad.

It's fuggin sad that a stranger would ask a person in the paper to finance a car, but indeed I've heard of it elsewhere too

Yeah it happened to me. I was selling $1500 car that I didn't need anymore and a dude asked me if he could make payments on it. I told him that he could but he wouldn't get the car until I got the full $1500 from him - he bitched at me and said I wasn't being fair

Haha, lay-away! The sort of person who'd ask a stranger for a loan is just the sort of person who absolutely would not honour it!

 

[Aimster]

I live right next to you (Fairfax, VA). Make me an offer and I'll buy it from you right now.

 

[tnitsuj]

Pics please.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Either sell it for $500, or steal the $500, spend $1 on a brick, and find a cliff.

 

[miri]

Heh aimster. I have a digital camera, i will have to install the software for it, just reformatted my hard drive. Anway my wife has the car at the moment and she is at work. Will take some pictures but wasnt ready to sell now. Was waiting til the summer. Need to buy a new car.

 

[radioouman]

Aimster.... already has plenty of cars.
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