Hit a snowbank! :(

[Astral]

yeah i wasnt thinking straight you are right; i dont know why i thouhgt there would be no warranty.
They are GTs and i think they have one that is basically loaded minus the navi.. which is what im looking for...

I am going to stop by after work... i have a lot of positive equity on my car (well, *had*, until the little encounter with the iceberg) since i only owe like 6k or less. it is a 04 mazda3 titanium grey. 47,500k miles. Well maintained till recently. they can even have the 3 sets of tires; with the stockers basically brand new. Recent research showed me about 12k for my car. I want to get 4k equity out of my car... do you think is possible? The resale value of this car is high; dealer can turn around and sell it for 13 easy

The dealers won't care about your sets of tires. You will make a lot more money selling those separately. You can raise the issue and ask how much throwing that in will raise the trade-in, but I really doubt it will raise it more than $100.

Is $12K a kelly blue-book trade-in price? How much will the repairs really cost? I could see you trading it in to them for $10K (so $2K less), but I'm not 100% sure how dealers work with slightly-wrecked trades like that. They probably don't want to take your word that it's $1K of repairs, and then it turns out it's a lot more.

 

[ZoomVT]

yes it is a KBB number.. im going to run it again in case it changed since last time. I never thought tires were worth it but every dealer i have been to has asked me about the stockers and how much thread left. very weird.

I know what you are saying; the damage is probably a little more than 1k. i think it will be closer to 1500. I'll take 10k for my car as is right now. i think thats pretty fair.

Excellent $11,750

Good $10,950

Fair $9,610
is what i got from kbb. I would even take the fair value...

 

[Astral]

The reason that dealers ask about the stockers is that they don't want to sell a car with bald tires. When people come to buy used cars from dealers, they are looking for a turn-key experience: get in the car and not worry about a thing for 15K or more miles.

 

[ZoomVT]

well... we'll see.
I am going to call my dealer and ask them to prepare some numbers for me.
I am also going to call my ins agent see what the diff will be...

 

[tsunami]

damn man you'd think you would know how to drive in the snow by now!!! damn import!! lol



hope your repair worries are taken care of.... hopefully with a new ms6... and if they are being pricks about the warranty i say f-em and go get a new one cause thats just dumb.

 

[ZoomVT]

yeah i would not mind an 07 mz3. leather heated seats....hmmmm

 

[bbrich57]

That DOES SUCK, Dude. Even if you do think I'm an old man. (Ha! Thought I forgot about that one, huh?) Nah, Man, sorry to hear that.
These new cars are so expensive to fix but break so easily. I saw an SUV hit the back of a pickup last week, I was right next to it. This was @ a light in traffic and no one was going anywhere fast, but the front bumper practically fell off the SUV. In fact, parts of it did and were lying in the street. I don't think he/she was going more than 5 MPH, if that!! Didn't have time to rubber neck so I didn't get a good view of either vehicle... just a pick up and an SUV.