Wait, are those prices for real? Like, people in your area seriously fetch that sort of money for those cars?
You should seriously make me an offer/GTO for my 02 wagon...56k, downpipe, tune and wheels. And I'm a genius, so you know the mods are well done.
I'd buy a nicely modified car. Which means most likely I'd not buy a modified car.
honestly... I do not see a real problem with any of those mods.. as long as they were done right.
my BMW is a DD and it is rock hard on Bilstien PSS9 coilovers.. and the roads here are not exactly glass smooth either
Osterkraut wrote: Wait, are those prices for real? Like, people in your area seriously fetch that sort of money for those cars? You should seriously make me an offer/GTO for my 02 wagon...56k, downpipe, tune and wheels. And I'm a genius, so you know the mods are well done. I'd buy a nicely modified car. Which means most likely I'd not buy a modified car.
Price? Location?
I'm in Subarulandia up here, they all go for nutso.
I would only buy a modified car if I was intimately familiar with how a stock one would look/be put together/operate.
This way you can immediately get away from the "Well, they all do this." crap, the missing fastners, bad wiring jobs, cobble jobs in general, will all be immediately obvious.
If I look at a DSM that has been modified, I could tell in a second if it was done right or if the owner was a toolshed.
If the car is modified well and to your liking, there is no better way to get a ton of nice parts on the cheap than buying a modified car.
for a DD I'd stay away from any engine mods
suspension stuff is generally okay if they didn't cut the springs lol If you were trying to buy a racecar, then it'd be a different story, bc you'd be working on it all the time anyways and may save you money with what you would already have on the car.
93gsxturbo wrote: I would only buy a modified car if I was intimately familiar with how a stock one would look/be put together/operate. This way you can immediately get away from the "Well, they all do this." crap, the missing fastners, bad wiring jobs, cobble jobs in general, will all be immediately obvious. If I look at a DSM that has been modified, I could tell in a second if it was done right or if the owner was a toolshed. If the car is modified well and to your liking, there is no better way to get a ton of nice parts on the cheap than buying a modified car.
You have no idea how many toolsheds I've seen. I've given up on the well built DSM. Except for the last time the Archer car showed up on eBay. THAT was a well built DSM. And Buschur's old tube car.... and maybe Shep's 1g...
/me runs off to eBay.
Javelin wrote:Osterkraut wrote: Wait, are those prices for real? Like, people in your area seriously fetch that sort of money for those cars? You should seriously make me an offer/GTO for my 02 wagon...56k, downpipe, tune and wheels. And I'm a genius, so you know the mods are well done. I'd buy a nicely modified car. Which means most likely I'd not buy a modified car.Price? Location? I'm in Subarulandia up here, they all go for nutso.
11.5k, Omaha, Nebraska. It's about to get it's wheels redone and new tires on it, too (Yoko S-Drives seem to be the frontrunner). Would come with a spare set of obnoxious orange 2.5L WRX wheels too.
Depends.
How many GRM folk have an aftermarket exhaust, CAI, firm suspension, etc.?.....LOTS! So if they are "tasteful" mods that wouldn't scare me away.
Cosmetic "upgrades" (body kits, wings and tail lights) DO make me run.
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