Would you sell your car with the system in it?

[chad]

If It went to a dealer, no.

If it went to a new owner and they wanted it, yes. Under one stipulation.. I'll write a manual with tuning notes, and then it is totally yours.

[erinh]

I was thinking more along the lines of: would you post it up for sale on the audio forum as is or would you just remove the gear and sell it through the normal channels (dealer trade-in, used private buyer, etc).

[chad]

my car is odd enough to have a bit of a cult following, some guys will want eh audio, the others will rice it out.

[erinh]

totally understand that.

My car has 181k miles on it. I could almost see it being an easier sell to a car audio fan that would use it as a DD at a reasonable price with bangin' gear. I was surprised, though, it has an NADA value of $2750 at the "rough" shape category and $3400 for "fair" shape. Of course when the time comes to sell it, it will probably have 250-300k miles. And at that point I'd likely be better off gutting it and taking whatever I could get for trade-in/private sale.

[crux131]

Probably better off with private sale at that point. The dealership is going to offer less than you could get on the street.
Like you said, probably better off stripping the audio at that point though. Most used buyers looking at cars with that mileage aren't going to swing extra for high end audio.

A nice deck and 4 might help with the sale, but if you have the OEM stuff to put back in it would probably bring the same.

[BigAl205]

If trading it to a dealer, I'm not even sure I'd put a working system back in

[SublimeZ]

I did and regret it. Some dweeb doesn't even realize what he has

[beak81champ]

No one could afford what I would ask for my truck when it's done! I want fair market value for the vehicle, system, every penny of my labor + all the sentimental value! lmfao

[chad]

No one could afford what I would ask for my truck when you factor in all the sentimental value! lmfao

It's hard to swallow the pill that contains the fact that modifying a vehicle only detracts the value to 99% of the people that WILL purchase it and 1% of the people that want to purchase it.

[crux131]

I never plan on getting my money out of one.
If I have intensively modified something, I would rather part it than sell it complete to someone else, have them ruin it, and blame everything on me. It is why my air bagged Mazda truck is sitting next to my house. I will either fix it someday, or yank the good parts off and scrap everything else.

Modding a car is a hobby( stereo or otherwise ) and rarely do you get your money back on a hobby.