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Trying to sell this for my cousin. Am I asking too much? I had a lovely person email me saying it ridiculously overpriced. (if it was one of you guys sorry about the reply I've had a bad day)
2003 mazda miata - $4500 (Pocomoke) hide this posting
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03 mazda miata 5spd. 89,600 miles. Runs and drives great. Plenty of tread left on tires. New battery. Some aftermarket parts.
Raceland coilovers
Boss frog "frog arms"
Flying Miata axle back exhaust
K&N typhoon intake
Hard Dog hard bar
Feels like it has a short throw shift lever but not sure.
Paint isn't perfect. Could use a good buff. Side mirrors are faded and need to be resprayed. Front bumper was backed into with a tow hitch and has some damage. Left tag light is missing. Top has small leak at rear glass. Left headlight needs to be buffed. Engine bay needs a good cleaning. Could use a oil change and clean the air filter. Have most of the stock parts (suspension and intake) if you want to put it back to stock.
Asking $4500 obo. NO TRADES. Please txt or email.
do NOT contact me with unsolicited services or offers
Well, let's see..
Mirrors respray - 50-100$
Decent Robbins top - 300$ not including labor...
Front bumper fix and respray - 150$?
Driver side headlight - 250$
And that's before an oil change and any mechanical unknown hiccups.
Yeah, this car is overpriced.
I don't think so. Early 1990's abused crap is going for 2-3 grand around here. That's including horrible paint, collision damage, rust and bad tops, as well as 150K or more.
Would I pay that much? Probably not, but you gotta have some room to negotiate. Since it's OBO, I think it's a slightly high but reasonable starting point.
The pricing of used cars in the north-eastern US is weird.
The pricing of used Miatas doubly so.
I would probably pay $4,500 for that car (if I were looking for one right now and it were local to me), because this is what the rest of the '01-'05 Miatas listed for sale on AutoTrader within 100 miles of Chicago look like right now:
Agreed with Joe on that one, as we are in the same market.
The sad truth is that prices are increasing as more miatas are sacrificed to the ball-gargling drift gods.
I would give about $4000 for that particular specimen.
Here in AZ, an NA that was a 'nice driver' was a $3500 ask 3-4 years ago. The same condition car now has a $5500 ask. NAs are going up fast as the nice examples get harder to find. I'm amazed at the total **** NAs that get advertised here for $3500 now.
That NB, IMHO is a fair ask, but I'd want to buy it around $3800 or a little less with the work it needs. You can find a really nice NB for not a lot more $$ here in AZ, and NBs are definitely the bargain Miata right now.
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I would happily pay that price for that car.
I paid the same price for my 01 with 75k on it 4 years ago and brought it up from Kentucky. Rust free NB2s around here are what Joe posted. 6k and up depending on maintenance.
On the other hand, nobody seems to be actually buying them up here in the rust belt, either.
When I moved back to Manhattan from Poughkeepsie in Sep 2015, I garaged the '04 until after winter, then listed it for $4,999 (my soft floor would have been around $4,000) on both Craigslist and Autotrader in May 2016. All stock, no rust, new cloth top, 135k, body is 7/10.
I got a few nibbles, and two people actually came to look at / drive it, but by September 2016 it still hadn't sold. One guy offered me $3k and I laughed.
As it happens, I took the job in Chicago in September 2016, so I was kinda happy that the car didn't sell, and brought it with me. But I kept the Autotrader ad up so I could continue to measure the market, as this is something that really interests me. On average, I get about one call every two months on it.
That red NB posted above would be a $1500-2000 car here in Iowa.
I can also vouch for what Joe Perez posted, even at that price, it would sit for sale on the curb here for a while before moving. Most people just don't/won't buy a car they can realisticly drive for 7 months of the year up here.
nothing fishy. it was wrecked and he bought it at a salvage auction. you'd have to repair it, get it inspected, pay all the fee's, and then get a branded title.
except it's illegal for him to sell a car like that without registering it. at least here in CA.
and he likely paid 1500 for it. or less. and too stupid to even try to clean it up. and it probably has a ton of hidden issues
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