Im moving overseas and will be selling my car in the summer. Its a 2008 G35, low miles, very well cared for, all scheduled services. Interior is in perfect shape, but I may have ran into my garage a few times...ok, many times. Damage is not major, but a decent amount of dings and touchup paint, etc.

Question is whether I would be better off fixing the body before selling. Would I make up the difference if I sold it for less? My wifes company will give us some money for the loss if needed.

 

Does your garage actually move around? How the hell do you hit it when it's obivously... not moving?

I normally just fix it first and sell it. I hate when these BS stealerships say "oh we wanted to offer you $xxxxx, but since you have this "major" cosmetic damage on your bumper, we would have to take off about $2k."

 

Its a tight parking squeeze, but thats not important right now.

But wouldnt it be a lot more then say the 2K to fix it?

 

I would look on autotrader, cars and fleabay and possibly take the lowest price for a comparable car and take a little off depending on the amount of damage.

It there are only a couple dings, i wouldn't really worry much, but take more off for more damage depending on how quicklyy you want to sell.

 

File a claim with insurance. Put the money in your pocket and don't get it fixed, then sell it. Or if you really want to, get it fixed.

Any insurance experts here? Since he's done this multiple times can he file it as a single incident?

 

Thats the big question, the damage is in more then one area (yea I know, multiple times)

 

How bad is the damage?

If the dents are on the sheet metal, have you looked into paintless dent removal? That might be cheaper than taking it to a body shop.

If you are trying to sell it private party, I think you would probably sell it a little faster for a little bit more if all the dents were taken out.

Selling it to a dealer, I would say that it probably wouldn't be worth it to put that much into it, to get back little.

 

I would probably just sell to the dealer, but not doing a trade in.

 

Post a pic of the damaged area?

If you are just selling it to the dealer, you really won't get a decent deal. And a lot of dealerships just give you a BS over those dings. It all depends on whichever dealership you go to.

 

its a lot of dings in 3 of the 4 corners, I would most likely bring it to where I bought it.

 

Excellent
$22,300
Very Good
$21,900
Good
$21,150
Fair
$19,050

From KBB, so really only 3K difference between excellent and fair. I think it would cost more to repair it

 

Try Carmax to see what they will give you.

I would think fixing it would be the best bet. Most people who will look at your car will think it was poorly maintained by all the dings.

Theres also paintless dent repair that can fix some damage if not major.

 

I don't know. I've tried like 3-4 different dealerships when I was car shopping couple years ago. And none of them really give a crap about KBB value.

And even if they do, what if they look at those dings in 3 corners and say "that's worse than "fair" condition"

 

Maybe, thanks.

 

Good luck man.

 

Carmax is 300 miles from here...

 

dealers dont go by kbb. kbb is still high, they usually go by auction prices now

 

How many times did you fap in the car?

Wait. Nevermind. Don't answer that. And whatever you do, do NOT put that number in your ad, no matter how freakishly high or how impossibly low the figure actually is.

Don't ask me how I know this.

GLWS.

 

Call paypal?


Maybe try Macco? Probably fix it well enough to have some type of ROI when you sell..

 

4 and the dog puked in it once..

 

Leave it as is. You'll almost never get your money back unless its a highly desired vehicle.

 

winner.

 

Donate it. You don't need the money.

 

 

Whiskers.

Oh, wait, I mean, I agree with Ken. You'll never get your money back if you fix it.

 

PM Shoofin. He can give you a realistic value.

 

I remember him posting about it a while back.

 

There's one opening up on the manheim pike in lancaster this weekend or sometime real soon.

 

Still far, any carmax alternatives?

 

I was in a similar situation when I sold my TL. Got a nice scuff/indent along the driver side door pulling into the garage in our new (at the time) house. I buffed out most of it but some scratches and an indent remained. I took it to one of those dentless repair places and they said it would be about $300-$400 to fix... so I just knocked that off the price and didn't have any problems. Actually sold it to someone on here from California. Just took really good pictures of it so they knew what the door looked like.

 

http://www.autolenders.com/

Over in Jersey on Route 73.

 

Take it across the river and leave the keys and a couple of bottles of Tide in it.

 

Thanks

 

Winner winner chicken dinner.

 

Looks like the damage is costing me about 3K off book value.

Anyone want a low mile 2008 G35x 38000 miles - great shape with some minor dings?

 

go by a few body shops and see what they say, if you can get it fix for lets say 1,500 you'll break even, get a better price and you can walk away with a little extra

 

If you can put a truck bed on the back and sell it for $1500, then

 

No time to get it fixed. Im hoping Carsense will take it.

 

Donate it to me.

 

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