What's my car worth?

[SgtAwal]

Hi-

Was thinking about selling my MP3, but I was wondering what sort of prices people are selling them for.

Here's the vitals:
20,400 Miles
brand new tires Yokohama< 500 miles on them
mint condition
1 rim has a decent sized scratch on it, everything else is invisible from more than 3 feet away.
Interior is immaculate
1.5 years left on the Mazda warranty

side notes:
1. I put the car in the ditch and had to get a rim, front bumper, and sway bar replaced. All work was done by a Mazda certified technician at a Mazda dealer
2. while that work was being done, the car was broken into and head unit stolen. It was replaced with exact same Z828 model, also all work done by Mazda technician.
3.Clunks, bumps, and other misc. things are all taken care of.

How much do you guys think this would be worth selling to someone? American dollars plz. I stopped by the dealer and asked them what they could offer on trade for a MazdaSpeed, and they said it was like 10k, but that's a total rip-off IMO. I was thinking realistically, I could get around $14K US, but maybe I could hose someone into paying more. thoughts?

Thanks for reading!

 

[Stealth5]

$10k seems good for a dealer price...they always rip you off. it all depends on whos looking to buy, i mean, someone who knows what an mp3 is and why its special will be likely to pay more. my friend had a VW Corrado, sorta rare unique cars. he got offers for like 4 and 5k for it, but someone from oklahoma called him up and offered like $9500, becausae he knew what the corrado was, not just a cool looking car.

 

[uclap5]

you arent going to get over 13 i dont think.

 

[Newf]

I'm thinking 12-13 tops, and that's high. The way I look at it, if a car has been damaged at all, it looses a lot of value right away. I don't care how good it was fixed, when I hear that a car was damaged, I won't buy it.

That being said, a front bumper being replaced is nothing to worry about. Would be different if one of the 1/4 panels were re painted or something.

 

[Captain KRM P5]

Not to sound too dishonest here, but if your title is clean (i.e. - no record of the accident), the car is as perfect as she was before the incident, and the damage was as minimal as you say - I would not even make an issue of it or bring it up during the "sale". You'd create headaches over what really is a rather trivial set of cicrumstances that happened to your car. It wasn't totalled, flood salvaged or "boosted by Brian Spillner" for cryin out loud.

That said, I can't see you getting more than $12,500 for the car. Mazdas tend to have less liberal resale values than that of thier Honda and Toyota brethren.

 

[MazdaProbeGT]

Similar MP3's on ebay have a hard time making it to $10K. You'd be damn lucky to get $11K IMHO.

 

[BacDoc]

Theres one on ebay right now with 24K miles. Watch it and it should give you a ball park figure. But if anyone knows it's been wrecked and broken into it may take away from the price quit a bit. But good luck.