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JHunter

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What is my 318is slicktop worth?
« on: August 25, 2010, 03:28:37 PM »
Love the car.  Really do.  But will be needing/wanting to move up a 325i E36  for a various reasons.  



Car does NOT come with bike rack.  Was only on for a trip.



Speakers have grills now. Standard looking mesh grills.


Things done to car since I bought it:

Installed crack free dash, and cleaned up all wiring  
Swapped interior from tan to black with black leather sport seats included
Mtech steering wheel swapped in
Custom door install for 6.5" speakers
Luke's 10" sub box
COP conversion
Front control arms, tie rods, CABs
Vorshlag stud kit
Powerflex subframe bushings
Powerflex TA bushings
New rear calipers
New rotors all around
Flex disk
CSB
replaced CV joints
new wheel bearings both sides in rear
LSD, medium case 3.73 rear (new seals all around)
Dif mount bushing

All of that was done less then 5K ago.  

Haven't touched the motor yet, other then the COP and typical maintenance.  Does leak a tiny amount of oil.

Car comes with freshly refinished Ronal LS' wearing still very new Dunlop star specs.  Also have bottlecaps with all seasons, and Graspic winter tires on steelies.

The bad:

250K.  Really.  Drives like a top, though.  Took it on a 3K+ mile trip without a hiccup.
Small amount of rust.  Nothing all the way through.  
Paint has that "sanded" look.  Looks like brushed aluminum.  Is UNDER the clear, which is odd.
No parking brake.  Will need new parking brake cables.
AC compressor is frozen.  System holds a charge, though.


What would you charge for this car, if you were selling it?

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What is my 318is slicktop worth?
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2010, 04:36:40 PM »
I'm going to say somewhere just north of 4k.

Where is the rust located? At 250k depending on the service history the timing components (sprockets, chain, tensioner and guides) must be due for replacement. Some work would still have to be done to the car post sale so realistically $4k is a reasonable number.

If you fix the minor stuff, the parking brake shoes/cables, a/c compressor and *possibly* repairing that rust dependent on the amount of work involved you could probably get more for it...