Gang,

I'm looking into doing a trade for my 2005 3rd Gen TL with tech package and 84,500 miles for a 2008 3rd Gen TL. My current car needs a windshield, new tires in the next 6 months and has a braking issue. The delaership has offered $9500 for my car and I have requested a year worth of XM to be added.

The newer TL has 64k miles, no tech pakage, has a warranty left and is priced at $18,900.

Talk to me!

 

$18,900 seems a little high IMO.

 

free XM? go for it.

but no, i would not do that trade.

 

Price way to high. I got my type-s for 21k with less miles.

 

So you're thinking of going from NAV to NON-NAV?

 

A key to trading your car in is getting free XM for a year? You know that all you have to do is call them up when its about to expire and say you know someone who go 5 months for $25. Ends up being ~$80 for the whole year...I'd just ask for the extra money then you can spend it however you want.

 

The XM is only about $100 upgrade (i get offers from them every few months for this).

I got my 2008 Base with Nav and approx 37K miles for $21.5K about 1.5 years ago.

I'd suggest talking them down a little. Here are the NADA values
(southwestern region - add $1325 retail if it's certified):

Rough Trade-In --- $13,725
Average Trade-In --$15,250
Clean Trade-In -----$16,500
Clean Loan ----------$14,875
Clean Retail ---------$19,475

Auction Values Date Range: 10/29/2012 - 11/4/2012
Low Auction -------$11,756
Average Auction --$14,706
High Auction ------$17,681

 

18k without navi is kinda high.

 

The free XM was just that fact that I have life time XM in my current TL. My current car has an interest rate of 3.99% but my bank offers a better interest rate 2.5% for newer cars.

It was a chance to get a fresh, newer TL...

 

not a good idea.

 

Very high

 

Your extending your payments though. It's nice to not have car payments/owe people money.

 

Beezle, I wasn't looking for your smart ass comment. Thanks to the rest for the comments.

 

Take it how you want but it's relevant and true. Why would you give up nav and lifetime xm for the exact same car minus a few miles and technology and extend hat you owe even more? Why don't you finish paying your car and then really upgrade to a new body style or different car while still keeping your TL?