mc222

Well, It was time to part ways with my beloved CL-s. I can't say she was the best to me, but I deserved it. I sure did have fun ith the car, but after getting married and hopefully soon starting a family - I needed to make a change.

So I figured you CL-S owners would be interested in what the trade in value was.

My CL-S had the following:

• 118k miles
• normal wear and tear
• A brand new Tein suspension ( let's not get into it)
• Sirius
• CAI/Headers/03 tails/Greddy exhast, and aftermarket rims - and I can't forget the machined dials and turn signal rings that one of the members sold years back.
• 6 tranny's
• 1 previous accident
• and probably some other things I am forgetting.

As you know - these things are not the best for resale, but I thought they were all tastefully done.

I ended up getting $6,100.

I was thrilled with this consdering I was offered less 12 months ago. And considering I did not have to pay an extra 6% of $6100 , on my new vehicle - It worked out good for me.

So with Gas prices high, I did the econimical thing, and I bought a SUV . To be honest, I only put about 10k miles on a year and it realy isn't a huge deal to me. I have a 3rd car for long trips and my wife has a Jetta, so we do have feul efficient options.

Anyways, its a Black 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee (V8) - what the hell is this flex fuel thing???...It only had 8,800 miles on it with Leather, Sunroof, heated seats, remote start, yada yada yada...I got it for $19k...So the bottom line is that I paid only 19k for a car that fits my needs and has all the same features as the CL-S...minus the Xenon lights, the pickup, and most importantly - I mis the CL-S seats...they were awesome!

I only have a camera phone pic, but here is the new vehicle....My first ebony beauty...

SlickShiftNall6

iTrader: (4)

Flex fuel means you can run it on 87 octane ethanol gas.

RYANGP

ah you should have parted out your '03 tails i gladly would have given you my '01s


congrats on the Grand Cherokee, they're pretty nice cars

02CL-TypeS

dam I would have bought the intake off ya.

CL-Slick

iTrader: (7)

I would have bought your headers.

GreenMonster

Ouch... but the resale value doesn't surprise me...

aznboi2424

iTrader: (10)

should have put it back to stock as much as you can and sold the other stuff on BM. theres easily 1k at least right there.

but if you were to give me 6100 for my car right now, i would take it. Of course parting out the mods first.

type_speed

how did you end up replacing 6 trans?

mc222

The tails were the only things I could of sold - I had already sold all the other OEM stuff.

As for the trans - I have no clue! They just kept going. The last two were a real mystery to me as for the last 3 years I never raced it, never gate shifted, never torque braked... Hence my wanting to get rid of it.

ScottyNorq

87? We only get E-85. Since when do they make an E-87?

ScottyNorq

E-85 is about a dollar less then regular gas here so thats a good option.

kabota

However you lose gas mileage using E85 and everything that I have read claims that dollars per mile is higher when using E85.