I'd put it on FB Market place for $1500 and take $1000


I have sold several on FB, no problems

Anything that can be driven is worth a thousand dollars,
Anything in CA that can driven with working air is worth $2,000.00.

If you want to do the work of selling it.

( You know they will spend $1000'00 to make it livable)

If I were you , I'd walk into your local Wendy's or McDonald's and sell it to someone who really desperately needed wheels to get to work and sell it to him or her for

$250.00 ,
Making absolutely sure that the title gets transfered .

A running car with that mileage will fetch $1000-2500 depending on condition.

Sell it on FB Marketplace, you should get anywhere from $1000 to $3000 depending on what works, little issues are nothing for older cars and the people that can only buy in that market, no credit, cash sales, running from the man.....

Ask $2,500 and be surprised what happens, there are few cheap cars to be bought out there and there is a big market for it...

local high school or Community College have a mechanic or body shop type program?


donate it, should be tax deductible, and will help some folks learn a trade,


friend did that in MD with his high mileage audi

Also Police Departments will take used cars to practice on...

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Offer it free to a good home. Your time is worth more than messing with it.

Absolutely. I'd rather give away a runner than get annoyed at how little I can get for it. Your time has value - figure $100 per hour. Selling it for anything less than $1000 is probably a money-loser for you.

(If you give it to someone... even a "friend"...Sell it for $1.00 and make sure the title transfer happens!)

Put it on marketplace for 1,000- 1,500, describe all the problems.

There will be tons of low ballers and tire kickers. Don't waste your time playing 20 questions, for that price you get what you get and if someone is looking for perfect it's not for them. People will try to waste your time, but you don't have to let them. Cash in hand and they drive it away, anything less and they don't get a response. It may take a little while, but you'll find someone that sees it as a deal.

I put my 03 Club Car on FB Marketplace, well, actually my daughter did, I wrote it up, let AI wordsmith it, Daughter raised the price for the listing.

First response was I'll take it and come down this Saturday, Cash, from out of town. Showed up as he said, took it for a ride and straight on the trailer, no haggle, no issues, no nit picking and got full price.

Not all people are bad or difficult, FB marketplace it, would be surprised if it's not gone quickly.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
she called 1-800-KARS-4-KIDS (most annoying earworm ever);

I can't reach the volume or channel button fast enough. I have to listen to other music for a while to make sure it doesn't get stuck in my head! I would never give them a car just for that reason.

Maybe you'll be able to help someone make their kids day.... I sold off an older Ford Escort that we got from my wifes sister when her son passed, she gave it to my daughter who drove it through High School.

It ended up with dings and dents, and it wasn't a brand new car. Sold to a guy who needed a car for his 16 year old daughter, it wasn't perfect, had over 100K on it, but it ran, and he said he could fix up any issues.

Saw it about 6 months later going down the road with her driving it...


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If I were you , I'd walk into your local Wendy's or McDonald's and sell it to someone who really desperately needed wheels to get to work and sell it to him or her for $250.00 ,

Making absolutely sure that the title gets transfered .

Making absolutely sure that the title gets transferred is an important point regardless of the sales price.
I sold a car once, it was taken to Kansas City, where I got several tickets because the guy kept driving it without transferring the title to his own name. I was able to get out of the tickets, but it was a hassle.

Check with a salvage yard. You may be surprised how much you could get.

Back in 2007, I did $5k+ worth of damage to my ~$3k beater car, a mid-90s Dodge Avenger (aka Mitsubishi Galant aka Chrysler Sebring), by sliding off the road into a ditch.

It was still (barely) driveable, but wasn't worth trying to repair.

After getting the repair quote, I limped it to the local salvage yard, who offered me $2400, which was about $2k more than I expected from them. I was shocked.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
she called 1-800-KARS-4-KIDS (most annoying earworm ever);

I would never give them a car just for that reason.

Yeah, They would smash the car immediately and grab whatever the recycler throws at them.

Read about a few show cars that were donated and found in a scrap yard later.

The engine, rims, hydraulics, stereo, etc... didn't stay long. K4K just reads the VIN and scraps them regardless of condition.

I was in a similar situation years ago, and decided to sell it to a ‘low end’ used car lot for an ‘acceptable’ sum (which was very modest but fair) rather than go for a few extra bucks with a private sale.

My reasoning was, that even with ‘full disclose’ of its mechanical and cosmetic condition and an “as-is” bill-of-sale, I did not want to take the risk of a psycho buyer ‘looking for me’ because they ‘discovered’ something after the sale and got pissed off about it.

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Originally posted by rizzle:
If that has the 3.8 v6 in it, I would keep it. You should try and sell it, not give it away.

The 3.8 in my '00 Grand Prix made it to just under 300k with out touching it. 2 sets of plugs was all ever done to it. Great power and built on the Wide Track platform.

BUT lots of issues by the end... window regulators, gas gauge failed, AC failed and finally Overdrive quit working, that was the last straw as I was commuting 100 miles a day. I gave it to a Grandson and he managed to blow it up. Sent it straight to the junk yard from the side of the interstate.

I saw a review a few weeks ago, guys opinion was the 3.8 was one of the best engines GM ever built. The 3.4 in my van however was a total gutless POS.

Maybe just give it to a needy family member or friend, like I did...

I have a 2005 Avalanche with 112,000 miles I was looking to unload. Typical Midwest rocker and quarter panel rust and an ABS light. I bought it for $9,500 2yrs ago at a stealership when it had 92,000 miles. It served its purpose and I wanted to make some room. The local Chevy dealership has you price in trades/sales to them and they cough up a number. Mine came up with $6,000 which was KBB trade value for "Fair" which this vehicle was. I had noted the rust and the ABS in the valuation and it automatically deducted for that. A sales guy called and another emailed me right away wondering when I would be in. I came in and they looked at it, "it would be just a few minutes Mr. Scuba." 10 minutes later I am presented with their offer for $2,600...

They had noted all of the issues on top of the issues I already noted (ABS warning light PLUS bad brakes), mild rust as complete replacement instead of repair. I mentioned I understand they have to make a profit, but showed them their sister family stealership half an hour away was selling one with worse rust, 2 warning lights, one year older and 30,000 more miles for $8,999... "Each location operates independently."

What a waste of time.

I took it across the street to the place I bought it from 2 years ago, a Ram/Jeep dealership with ZERO customers. After staring at the sales guy for 15 minutes while he killed time talking about his ex never letting him see his kids they offered me $2,000 in a cute write up that looked like a check, full knowing they sold it to me at $9,500 2yrs and 20,000 miles ago.

Our son is 13 and will need a beater to crash in a couple years, I'll just have to limp it along until then. The transfer case and/or transmission is doing some wonky things as GMT800s do.

I owned a 3.8L 1999 Grand Prix and my wife had a 3.1L 2002 Grand Prix at one time. I really liked those cars. I vote you give it a proper send-off:

Given what is working and what is not, it seems an excellent way to start a 24 Hours of LeMons race team.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Check with a salvage yard. You may be surprised how much you could get.

They are strange. Two years ago I had 95 Grand Marquis to get rid of. Bad head gasket, 187k, tranny poor, bad front end, rusty.. too much wrong to bother fixing. Contacted a local place thinking I'd get more money if I took it to them. They said nope. If I bring it to them I'll just get scrap price, maybe $200ish. If they buy it "as a car", it'll be more.
I sent them the info and couple days later they offered me $1100 for it. I was flabbergasted. I thought "I'm going to buy every junk car I can find and sell it to them!" Life and family issues got in the way, as well as another car breaking down in front of it and locking it in. Contacted them again two months later, the offer was $875? I still happily took it.

A year later a friend had a car she wanted gone. The ECM died and it would cost too much to replace. She was just going to give it away, so I told her to call these people instead, told her what they offered me. Her car was a BMW two seater roadster, not terribly old. Beautiful shape. I figured she'd get quite a lot for it, BMW part prices and all. They offered her a couple hundred bucks. She and I were stunned. So I don't know how junk car values work.

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