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Replace brake pads and front rotors just
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On the BMW, I replaced the brake pads and front rotors just before I sold the car, which is not inexpensive.
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It was the sort of thing a buyer would not have noticed for months.
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Yes, you can buy a $10K 996...
I am selling my 996 as it never gets driven since I bought a 1978 911SC. Good car, hope it goes to a good home.
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Hey, I thought you already sold this car back in March. GLWS. My guess is that somebody on here would love to have that car in the $10,000 range. If you were within 500 miles, I'd buy it to flip it. Love the color and the wheels.
Ah. Had a less extreme but similar situation a few years ago when I sold an A6 to a friend's adult son. The car had 115,000 miles on it and I sold it cheap. We had "the talk" about what it means to buy a high mileage European car. A month or so later, the alternator went out, and all of a sudden I'm getting the "you knew the alternator was going bad" phone call.
His previous car was a Honda Civic. Never ever again do I sell to a friend/family member unless it is someone who has demonstrated an understanding of what it is to own a car like this.
As the guys in the Boxster thread have said, classy move buying it back. Hopefully the karma gods give you a selling price several thousand above what you sold it to him for. And, for the sake of your friendship, you need to show him what you sold it for. Maybe then he will understand what you did for him and will appreciate the true situation.
Lastly, I cannot stand it when a shop goes through a car and lists a bunch of stuff they think needs to be done on an older car. If it is a safety issue, then OK. But normally it is stuff like a small oil leak. It is almost like branding your car with a salvage title - if you show receipts with a laundry list like that to a potential buyer, then forget about selling it. It makes it appear that you don't maintain the car properly.
In truth, most 10+ year old cars could reasonably have a ton of preventative or preemptive maintenance done on stuff that "could" break in the near future. But at a certain point, you just have to make sure the routine maintenance is done and then fix the stuff that breaks WHEN/IF it breaks.
GLWS. Classy move by your part. One of the reasons I never sell to family or friend. Cuz, even when you do buy it back, your relationship get altered in a way, however small. Better off not going there.
Congratulations on your sale.
Might I suggest a better class of friends? Or, at least, excluding that particular one from the 'circle of trust'? Not the sort that's likely to go out in a snowstorm to help pull you out of a ditch, or let you bunk at his house for a week when your water heater floods the house.
Just my uninformed $0.02.
I agree.....looking at the pictures of the car I can't say it's worth more than what it sold for, actually think the seller probably got the better end of the deal.
I'm assuming he broke even or was very close since he paid $1k to the mechanic that his friend brought the car to plus eBay fees and other misc items.
I agree that it's a very standup thing on his part. Congrats.
As a lesson I personally learned, I don't do business with friends or family if there is ANY possibility that it could go bad. It rarely ends well. Money is never worth losing a friend (or family member) over. PARTICULARLY an auto sale.
My son-in-law is a builder. If I build a house, it won't be him. He does great work, but if I'm not happy and he thinks the work is good or good enough, then either I say nothing and feel resentment or he redoes the work and feels resentment. It's simply not worth it.
thstone, you did the absolute best thing. You refunded your friend's money and saved a friendship. You sir, are a good (and wise) man. It looks like the numbers worked out for you. Congratulations!
I sold three cars to friends and family and had no issues. The first was a 9 year old BMW that we sold to my wife's sister, and she and her husband were thrilled with the car.
A few years later, one of our friends bought our 6 year old BMW 325i and 9 years later bought our Jaguar. Both had around 40k miles. This is the only time I've sold two of my cars to the same person. They kept the BMW for another eight years and bought a new BMW. Clearly it was a good experience for them!
In the case of the second two cars, I spent a bit of money to make sure everything was perfect. On the BMW, I replaced the brake pads and front rotors just before I sold the car, which is not inexpensive. On the Jaguar, there was a slight engine vibration at idle after the car was running for at least 10 minutes. It was the sort of thing a buyer would not have noticed for months. I spent $1100 on a mass airflow sensor, new ignition coils and some other stuff to get it right.
I prefer to sell my cars to people who I don't know for obvious reasons. And I take care of my cars very well, better than 95% of the people out there.
