Now That My Xr6t Has Big Power.... (300+rwkw)

[RAP1D]

Yeah keep at trying to sell it, its a hot looking car and has the go to match so it will impress anyone that's looking for a T and has an idea of what needs to be done to turbo cars to make them go.

As you know, you wont get your 10k back, so maybe work out what you can remove and sell on its own, and then ask alittle extra from whats left on the car...

[bjc]

I know how you feel, have been trying to sell my supercharged ute for over 6months now and I am flexible on the price. Its just getting someone to make an offer instead of the 'How much boost do you run' questions!

[iTec]

try selling a stocker at the moment... it aint any easyer then selling a modified car!

[jetute]

Hulk people have assumptions on why are car is modified and how it has been treated.

A stock car will always bring more than a modded car due to most people assumptions.

I do not see why a workshop or dealer has to tell you that it will devalue a car as this topic is a regular in every car forum.

You can always strip the car back to stock and sell the performance parts.

Dealers will also be more reluctant to buy a modded car as they need to warrant the car for the next owner and will also have more trouble moving it.

As for the next car, you will have the same problems if you mod it as well.

is this really the case?

I doubt this... heres a just a couple of guys who got more for their cars than they would have stock.... this is not to say that they did not lose money on their mods, im sure they did. But having these mods got more interest in their cars and a better value at the end (over a stocker)

02STOCK sold his F6 for almost what he bought it for

F6 RAPID jsut sold his after not even trying so hard (as he said)

It does not matter if the car is stock or modded atm... these cars are just not moving that well.... there are way more stock cars for sale atm and these are not selling any better ...

modifying is not about making money, or increasing the value of your car... its about the enjoyment... and its worth every dollar.

As zap said.. you can always sell the bits seperate... this will make you a few extra dollars on top your sale if that's what you are really after.

[hulk xr6t]

Hey,

This is no way an attack on the shops that modify XR6T's.. In my case they did a very very good job. I agree that if you get use out of the mods then its not money really lost as you have a more exciting car. In my case, Ive modded the car, never ever run it, hardly ever drive it, just sits there lookin pretty.. So my enjoyment is limited. Ive done maybe 2000km since modifying it..

Im just abit sour that people wont even pay $1 more for the mods, zippo. The car also appeals only to true XR6T enthusiasts... a much smaller market...

Of the calls I get, they say "I can get a BF2 XR6 Turbo for $XXX amount". The coppers have flooded the market with thrashed BF2 XR6 Turbos with about 40,000km and no factory options.. Its kills the resale of our cars..

Even if I dont sell this beast... Im not exactly losing... 300+rwkw is not a bad consolation prize.. oh well Ill tell the Mrs... I just have to drive this... haha..

If a XR6 Turbo is worth around $22-25k today (a good one) what do you think it will be worth in say 2 years?

[Scubzz]

its gonna be hard to sell any car with more than 4cylinders with the price of petrol. honestly which of us now on an average salary would go buy an xr6t with the price of petrol I know I wouldn't as much as I love mine its just to pricey to run on a regular basis

[MUZ580]

I sold my modded T very quickly and easy, I bought it for $27500, spent about $10K on it and sold it for $27500.

I was very happy with that as I got at least $10k worth of fun out of it.

[senna_T]

Last time I checked most people (including myself) buy cars to drive, not to trade in or sell in the future. Sure its a slightly different story if you are leasing a car through your business because you have to budget around the next one.

Enjoy your car if you can mate, if you have the time to leave the car sitting under your car port why not just keep the ad in the paper and see what comes of it. If you aren't fussed either way it shouldn't matter how long it takes!

[Trish]

Hulk, Where are you? I know someone in the Melb area looking for a T.

Cheers,

Trish.

[Ghosti]

I have to admit, when buying my T, I was looking for something completely and utterly bog stock.

One reason was that I didn't know enough about modding T's and wouldn't have known if the mods that were done to the car were safe or reliable.

Someone could've told me "oh it's tuned to run 10psi with a fat exhaust, big wog cooler and cai" and I might've been getting an overboosting timebomb which if it had exploded, I wouldn't have had the cash to repair straight away, leaving me carless and shattered.

Another reason for my choice was that I was pretty keen on the "journey" that everyone talks about. So far I'm having much more fun learning about, planning and anticipating my mods than I ever would have had if I'd bought a 300kw weapon straight up. Although that might be more of a personal thing.

My point is that the layman will be weary of a modded car for a bunch of reasons, doesn't matter whether it's a reliable, well looked after "pride and joy" (such as yours) or a flogged out, badly done, traffic light hero.

So the only thing I can think of is maybe try to focus less on the carsales/tradingpost avenues and post around on performance and enthusiast forums, like this one, fordforums and I'm sure there's a million others.

If people have the knowledge to understand A: what you've done to the car and get the idea that you knew what you were doing when you did the mods and B: what those mods actually mean in terms of the enjoyment they'll get out of the thing, I'm positive they'll be a lot more inclined to pay what it's worth.

Good luck dude.

Cheers

Edited 07/07/08 04:51 AM by Ghosti