Do you know how much a dealership would give you for your lancer? Ever thought about trading it in for something else? I wanna see for those who tried this or who have done this, how much was you offered on:

Dealership:
What Year of your lancer:
Price Offered - Mods:
What you owe on the lancer:
Mileage:
Trans:
What Car You Wanted:

Me
Assorted Used Car Lot
o2
8k - evoVII spoiler/axelback/evo grill/new rims & tires
10k
47k
AT
Used o4 Subaru Wrx

 

Try selling it then use that money for your down payment.

Dealers won't give you anything for aftermarket stuff, but someone buying it will usually look at that. You could probably sel it for $10,000.

 

funny how you started this thread. gives me a place to biitch and moan about how acura tried to rape me on my trade-in just last week.

Dealership: Acura

What Year of your lancer: 2002

Price Offered - Mods: $7500 [greddy, rrm intake, rims, springs, hid's, cedia headlights, alarm, etc.] i know they dont give more for mods, but they could have at least considered something like the alarm. i didnt feel like parting out because i wanted the car right away.

What you owe on the lancer: 12k

Mileage: 30k

Trans: AT

What Car You Wanted: 2004 rsx type-s

then they wanted $3500 down just to get the LEASE payments down to $435/month. so i just walked out on them.. oh and top it off, just for the rsx-s, i would have been paying $7900/year for my damn insurance premium. good thing i didnt get it huh?

 

 

i waz lookin at the vw gli ( 1.8L turbo) and they only they could give me 5,500 for it and i still owe bout 11,000 on it so i would need to put down 3,000 to get out of it an into the gli

 

This was back in April when I tried:

Mitsubishi
2003
$9000 - at the time, Tint, short shifter, AEM CAI
$13800 left to pay
only 11348 miles
Manual tranny
04 Ralliart

After doing all the math, in the long run, it would have cost us $10,000 to trade for the ralliart. We decided not to do it. Now I'm just modding my Lancer OZ.

 

Dealer: Dodge/Hyundai
2002 lancer
Offered me 6500 (BULLSHYTE!)
I owe maybe 7500 on it
40000 miles
Was trying to trade for a LOADED 03 Tibby V6. damn thing was stickered at 22k got them down to 15k!! I still couldnt bring myself to close the deal. No way am I letting my car go for 6500. It would sicken me to see what they do to it to get it ready for a used car lot.

 

Dealership: Fred Beans Mitsubishi - Doylestown PA
What Year of your lancer: 2002 OZ
Price Offered - Mods: 7500 - car had custom Cat back, RMR Intake, Wildwood big brake kit, RMR headers, Ralliart Struts.
What you owe on the lancer: 11,500
Mileage:33K
Trans: 5 speed
What Car You Wanted: 2002 WRX

yes being 4K upside down sucks, but O well...talked them down to 17,000 for the WRX...

if you trade on in, be prepared to get screwed

 

If a dealer every offers you a lot for your trade-in, they're probably tacking it on the price of the car they're selling you. Bargain the price of the car FIRST (before even telling them you have a trade in), then bargain the trade in value LAST.

Also, most dealers won't give you crap for aftermarket mods. They look at wholesale Kelley Blue Book and that's it.

 

I was offered 10k for my car at mitsubishi, was seeing if i could get an evo, this was like a year ago, but they said i gotta take my system out and put my spare tire back in, get rid of the turbo, and my guages, etc... so i said **** you and left.

 

anyone else?

 

I was offered $73xx some odd dollars for my 03 Lancer ES at the mitsunishi dealer.

 

People are nuts thinking about trading their lancer, and they haven't paid more than 3 years on it. You'll be so upside on the payments that the dealership will gladly rape/play shell games with your bottomline.

Think about trade only when you are nearing the 4th year on your payment.