So it was originally a southern car until 2015 when I bought it. Put 70,000 miles on it to now arrive at 200K. It's been a remarkably trouble free car (engine wise, anyway) and I've done a lot of the maintenance myself and have had all of the recall work done by the dealer. Always oil changes and recommended maintenance along the way. Coolant flushes 4 years ago, transaxle and plugs 50K miles ago, new 2Ktoaster battery 4 years ago (replaced by me and still going strong!), front wheel bearing replacement, front and back shocks and struts and sway bar, headlights replaced, combo meter replaced by me, cooking fan cleaned, air filters change reliably, trunk handle/button replaced by me, new windshield 2 weeks ago (ice and snow...). Needs a 12v battery, lots of the underbody panels and mudflaps/guards are missing and has a small rust hole under the rear passenger door. 50+ mpg in the summer and a relatively smooth ride. Has only failed inspections over small issues like lights or needing new tires. It was in an accident with previous owner so the hood is a little crooked. Sell? Hold? Possible price? KBB has this model in "good" condition at 3950. I'd say more because of the new battery and combo meter and tight maintenance schedule. But hey, I'm asking you!
With rust crooked hoods and all the plastic missing I doubt it but then again I'm old school and everything now is supposedly five times worth what it was 3 years ago etc I'll wait all that out I bought a car in better shape than this at the beginning of the pandemic for $2,000 It's the ugliest Prius in class an '09 gold with the tan velor interior Pure ugly junk. But it's a work vehicle everything on the car works gets 45 to 47 one miles to the gallon I don't think I'd ever seen it go over that for longer than a few seconds I've run thousands of gallons of gas to this thing. I've never seen any of this 50 51 miles to the gallon nonsense. So I'm thinking that's driving style or something that's making that happen there's no way we will ever see that our Gen 3 same thing people claiming they're getting 55 never seen much more than 48 49 and driving like it so I don't know maybe it's the heat North Carolina or something I have no idea.
The used car market is always strange, easy to make or lose money depending on things. I still wince about my first upgrade in 74 from a vega to a firebird. 3 months later the gas crisis hit and the vega was worth more than what I paid for the 'bird. And the 400 cubic inch pontiac was worth less then trade in on the POS vega. You obviously have developed a relationship with this car, so I have to ask what will you replace it with? But enough of that gen2 pricing is whatever you can get right now. All 3 of ours are worth more than the purchase price but the problem is the jump to a replacement is pretty big. But if you do want to sell try 4K, and if you want to get the highest price wait until gas spikes again and/or June when all the school grads are looking for their first car. Yours would be an excellent candidate.
I was thinking around 4K too, because new battery and KBB is around there too. Hadn't thought about June and graduations! Great point. Yeah, if I should sell and just get another of the same thing, that might not make alot of sense. I guess it's a testament to how much I appreciate this car!
I'll think about that, interesting idea. What aspects of the car do you think would be most useful to judge? Probably everything I guess since I see some dealers post like 30 photos of the car, LOL.
beauty is in the eye of the beholder so id say general photos each side and interior and that should say enough. I personally just bought a 08 in excellent cond with 217k and clean title very well taken care of for under 3k...of course it needed the abs accum replaced which I did myself and saved the $3k repair bill.
OP - I'd be very interested in your car and I'm relatively local. Please DM me if you're interested in selling. Thanks!
