traded my 04 rs with 11k and got 23.5k

 

I say trade it in and eat the difference. Trying to sell you car private party is a royal pain in the ***. I've had my stock 03 Evo with a little over 9,000 miles on it listed on EvoM and SoCalEvo.net and you wouldn't believe the emails and phone calls I get. From insane low balling to sob stories about living so far away so people want me to pay to ship the car to them, or asking me to drive the car out to meet them somewhere so they can "take a look". I have never considered calling a car dealership and asking them to bring a car out to my house so I can take a look at it. I finally gave up and desided it was worth my sanity to just keep the car and maybe trade it in later next year for an Evo IX RS.

 

damn mitsu stealerships

 

screw mitsu........sell it private

 

Anyone try Carmax? Its worth a try taking it by and asking for a quote considering they will just buy the car and you dont have to buy a car from them. Also you dont have to deal with trying to sell it to an individual person.

 

traded my 03 w/ 15'300 miles and got $25'000 and some change

 

This sounds like Fox Mitsubishi to me, it is too bad they are playing this trade low game. I had Story Nissan in Lansing quote me 17k for my EVO last summer. I told them to shove the quote and their 350Z up their, well you know what I mean. I literally walked out of the stealership at that moment.

A good trade for an 03 right now is 19k-20k. If you get the 0%, free gas, and better warranty the 18k doesn't sound so bad. Plus you mine as well return it back to stock so you can use the parts on your new 8. Good luck with whatever you decide to do. I have had trade urges too although I give up after I see what they are willing to give me. Your car is not FAIR, that is the BS they try to use. I would only be willing to take no less than 1000 off of the GOOD value.

 

Joe, actually was not Fox. Moved from Lansing to Grand Rapids a few months ago for work. Was not happy with the service at Fox. I was told to go to Harold Ziegler in Kalamazoo. I'm not sue about their service but their sales dept and trade people were not really of any help. Guess I'll just keep it and wait for the X.

 

i notice with evos and stis dealers just LOVE to lowball and make the car seem like worthless junk.. yet the car basically outperforms and outhandles 99.9% of everything on THEIR lot

 

try another lot. my buddy traded up his 04' 25k miles and got like 24k for it. I think one of the employees at the dealership was going to buy it. another buddy of mines traded up his 05 fot the 9 and got 25k as well.
the car still had the 272 cams and ecutek in it.