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Best website to sell heavily modified cars?

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voodoojc

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I have a twin turbo 2007 350Z I'm trying to sell, but not having much luck on Craigslist. Are there special websites dedicated to selling heavily modified cars? I'm in the Atlanta area if that matters.
 
Rule of thumb you will never get back what you put in for mods.

Best bet will be enthusiast sites for that specific car who know what it would cost to build a car the same way, and will take into account the major mods like blowers or turbos into pricing. Even better if you are a member and documented and shared your buildup there and people know you and the car. Basic stuff like intakes and exhaust, forget it.

Autotrader maybe, but places like ebay and craigslist are just going to get dreamers looking for their first Z at or below blue book trying to get you to give the car away, or take less than it's worth because they are financing and credit unions look at kbb and don't care about $50,000 in parts.

And please sell it to someone who is an experienced enthusiast who has had cars like that before our at least had a stock Z for while and decided it was easier to buy an already modded car and knows what he's getting. You don't want to see it on the news in pieces a month later.
 
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MJinZ said:
You might want to take off everything and return it to stock... and sell the parts.
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Turbo is a pretty big job. Unless he kept all the stock parts like original intake, headers, didn't drop compression ratio, etc, you can't just unbolt a part.
 
MJinZ said:
You might want to take off everything and return it to stock... and sell the parts.
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Agreed. You will almost always make more selling off the upgrade parts and then selling the car. By doing this, you also increase the buyers market as well, many people do not want a modified car no matter how nice it is.

Your most likely sell for the car will be in the 350Z forums. Particularly if you want to sell it modified (despite the lo$$). Craigslist and Autotrader are a good bet as well.
 
I'd try eBay and list the car as being a twin turbo, but don't go into a bunch of crap about it being custom, or the mod list, that's a turn off to buyers. List the car as is/where is with no warranty expressed or implied. Of course, you need to convey that the car isn't stock but this is a used car, not a new car.
 
There are several reasons modified cars sell for same or less than stock but mostly it boils down to the clueless buyers only going by kbb and enthusiasts expecting the modded cars to have been heavily beaten on. After all, why sell your pride and joy unless it's at the point it just can't take any more?

Optimal $ will be selling the car as close to stock for roughly book, any mods sold on top of that. The odds of getting a premium to that with mods installed is roughly zero.
 
I recently sold my Versa returned to stock within a few weeks. Probably for the same price I would have gotten with all the mods on it (and would have taken much longer)

now im selling off the mods and more $!

i had wheels, springs, cai etc.
 
Word of wisdom: Something is valuable to only those who know how valuable it is

I'd also suggest you either try enthusiast forum, or take parts out. Only enthusiasts would realize the value in those mods.

For average Joe, on the other hand, most of them wouldn't realize the value of the mods. Not only that, some might even take the word 'modded' as the same meaning as 'abused' or 'riced'. For them, most of the mods won't add value to the car for them, in fact, they will concern about the mod and either they will walk away or try to negotiate the price down because of mod is a sign of the owner's abuse for them. Many people (probably most) like stock/OEM condition when they buy used car.
 
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