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Acadia Celebrates 1 Year With MQB #3, Wonders If It's Time To Upgrade...
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Diggs24
Autocross Champion
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- de plains! de plains!
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- 2015 GTI
When in RI...
Acadia18
Autocross Champion
- Location
- The Greater Boston Metropolitan Area
- Car(s)
- 2019 Golf R
In preparation of going to the dealer tomorrow, I pretty much reverted my interior back to stock (dash, steering wheel, screen, trim, etc...) and my tail lights (left coding as is, blinks are identifiable, as brake lights 
). The idea was to have my GTI essentially "look" they way it would if it is taken in as a trade in. Everything that would be then taken off would just be 'under the hood' type stuff. Turbo, intake system, exhaust, brakes, intercooler, etc...
If it doesn't work out, it only take 2 hours to swap that stuff back.
). The idea was to have my GTI essentially "look" they way it would if it is taken in as a trade in. Everything that would be then taken off would just be 'under the hood' type stuff. Turbo, intake system, exhaust, brakes, intercooler, etc...If it doesn't work out, it only take 2 hours to swap that stuff back.
riceburner
Autocross Champion
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- nice try PPNT
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- MK5 Best GTI
oh that reminds me, why the hell not just sell it private sale? I've sold 8 cars that way, pretty much guarantee you will make more that way. Sure it wont sell on the spot but with a car like a gti, even reverted mostly to stock, will definitely sell fast. Only becomes a hair more complicated if you still have a lien on the car but even then it's not that bad.
Cobalt - sold in like 3 weeks but it was sketchy lol and 5 years ago
Tacoma - sold in 1 week great price
MK7 GTI - Sold in literally 3 days, WITH a lien! MADE MONEY after owning it for a year!
MK6 GTI - Sold in ~2 weeks, and the car was a little sketch (rebuilt title) After owning it for ~4 years & 40k miles, sold it for $1500 less than what i bought it for!
My 2nd MK7 GTI - Sold in less than 2 weeks, but the buyer flew from across the country and wound up extending and re-extending the process. - Sold it for what i bought it for after 2 years, 15k miles!
Audi S4 - Didnt even have to list it, a guy reached out to me wanting to buy it - MADE $3000 over what i bought it for, granted had a few k's in new goodies, so fair enough
MK5 Donor car - sold to an auction site for 200 bucks in a day lol - different story here
running MK5 - sold in 2 weeks for a good middleground price to a local. The guy that bought it wasnt even a lesbian!
The best part about the whole ordeal with cutting out the middle man is, you get to sell your car to who will most likely be another enthusiast, and letting a car go to someone who sought your car out specifically is awesome, cause then you can keep in touch if ya want and see what they do to it (probably a big turbo and complicated fuel system). But you make more money, and they get a steal compared to getting screwed by the dealership! Win-friggin-win!
Cobalt - sold in like 3 weeks but it was sketchy lol and 5 years ago
Tacoma - sold in 1 week great price
MK7 GTI - Sold in literally 3 days, WITH a lien! MADE MONEY after owning it for a year!
MK6 GTI - Sold in ~2 weeks, and the car was a little sketch (rebuilt title) After owning it for ~4 years & 40k miles, sold it for $1500 less than what i bought it for!
My 2nd MK7 GTI - Sold in less than 2 weeks, but the buyer flew from across the country and wound up extending and re-extending the process. - Sold it for what i bought it for after 2 years, 15k miles!
Audi S4 - Didnt even have to list it, a guy reached out to me wanting to buy it - MADE $3000 over what i bought it for, granted had a few k's in new goodies, so fair enough
MK5 Donor car - sold to an auction site for 200 bucks in a day lol - different story here
running MK5 - sold in 2 weeks for a good middleground price to a local. The guy that bought it wasnt even a lesbian!
The best part about the whole ordeal with cutting out the middle man is, you get to sell your car to who will most likely be another enthusiast, and letting a car go to someone who sought your car out specifically is awesome, cause then you can keep in touch if ya want and see what they do to it (probably a big turbo and complicated fuel system). But you make more money, and they get a steal compared to getting screwed by the dealership! Win-friggin-win!
jimlloyd40
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Phoenix
- Car(s)
- 2018 SE DSG
But would you stop there?Nah...
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(Until I didn't)
The only responsibility the forum has in all this is giving me the knowledge to make my own decisions. It's true I would have never done any of this without the forums, but that's only because without the forums I wouldn't even know what an EQT Vortex is
And the GLI wouldn't need a build thread. A JB4. Some tires. A cat-back exhaust. Those would be the only "performance" mods it has. Not really build thread worthy...
But he was Polish.
Acadia18
Autocross Champion
- Location
- The Greater Boston Metropolitan Area
- Car(s)
- 2019 Golf R
Yes.
I've taken the red pill. I saw how far down the rabbit hole goes, and where it leads me.
Fuckin' slap me back in the matrix and give me the blue pill...
JC_451
Autocross Champion
- Location
- NJ, one of the nice parts.
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- 2017 GTI Sport
The steak still tastes like steak.
And you didn't even use the ++power so you will only be missing out on impulsive cash spending.
Acadia18
Autocross Champion
- Location
- The Greater Boston Metropolitan Area
- Car(s)
- 2019 Golf R
Part of it is I don't want to deal with the potential headache. Listing it and finding a buyer (where do you even list cars for sale these days?). Dealing with the title since it does have a lien on it. Then, knowing my luck, I'd get the guy who keeps coming back to me about every little thing.
That said, you want to buy as-is, I'll cut you a super deal at $24k. FBO Vortex GTI for the price of a stock one.
riceburner
Autocross Champion
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- nice try PPNT
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- MK5 Best GTI
tempting
its really not that bad man, i've always listed on here, cargurus and facebook and it's been a pretty even split of which source i find a buyer on. And yeah the lien thing is just a bit of a hurdle but really its not bad at all, just makes the private buyer and you have a wait a few days max for the transaction to clear. its worth it, if you find a few hours total of work to be worth ~2-5k over trading it in to be worth it.
the only two headache buyers ive dealt with are my last 7, where he kept delaying coming out to pick it up and along the way kept asking a zillion questions, had me take various vids, check my cylinder pressures, etc lol. but he was a pleasure over all.
and the s4, the guy had me get the car inspected, again not a big deal, and once he bought it like everything on the car started breaking. he let me know of all of it but didn't ask for anything, and i was covered under the contract i wrote up anyway - i.e., you are buying the car AS IS, there is no opportunity to return upon completion of sale, no warranty, i'm not liable if it breaks, blablabla.
for real though if you want any pointers or even my blanket contract document i'm more than willing to help out
its really not that bad man, i've always listed on here, cargurus and facebook and it's been a pretty even split of which source i find a buyer on. And yeah the lien thing is just a bit of a hurdle but really its not bad at all, just makes the private buyer and you have a wait a few days max for the transaction to clear. its worth it, if you find a few hours total of work to be worth ~2-5k over trading it in to be worth it.
the only two headache buyers ive dealt with are my last 7, where he kept delaying coming out to pick it up and along the way kept asking a zillion questions, had me take various vids, check my cylinder pressures, etc lol. but he was a pleasure over all.
and the s4, the guy had me get the car inspected, again not a big deal, and once he bought it like everything on the car started breaking. he let me know of all of it but didn't ask for anything, and i was covered under the contract i wrote up anyway - i.e., you are buying the car AS IS, there is no opportunity to return upon completion of sale, no warranty, i'm not liable if it breaks, blablabla.
for real though if you want any pointers or even my blanket contract document i'm more than willing to help out
JC_451
Autocross Champion
- Location
- NJ, one of the nice parts.
- Car(s)
- 2017 GTI Sport
riceburner
Autocross Champion
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- nice try PPNT
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- MK5 Best GTI
good guess, but he was mexican!
riceburner
Autocross Champion
- Location
- nice try PPNT
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- MK5 Best GTI
just to keep upping my postcount in here, my wife has been actually really wanting to sell her tiguan. they sell for ~30k around here these days. Could probably private sale it for 25/26k. Went to the dealer for some parts i needed and figured, why not just see what the trade in value is? 21,300. They would make ~8k profit on our asses! f that. Sure, KBB said trade in is really around 25 or more but we're talking about a casino here. the dealer always wins.
You'll definitely make more money with private sale but if you're parting out your mods it's not as big a difference IMO. And Mk7s are cheap enough now that you'll get some really annoying shoppers, especially if it's still tuned.