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Old 10-01-04, 12:40 PM
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A friend of mine has a 98 gs400 for sale. It has been wrecked (hit a deer) It needs the radiator support and inner fender well replaced or rebuilt. It needs a complete left light assembly, and fender, Right fender has slight damage from an alternate mishap. Hood also needs replaced but all the right headlight, front bumper and grill are good. The car is running, in fact he still is driving it daily but it is ugly, he recently drove it out to California and back. It has 18” rims w/new tires, cold air intake, and computer up-grades. The car has 104,000 miles on it. What is it worth? He told me to make him a offer.
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any pics to better evaluate??
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still has a blue title i assume? or did he buy it back from an insurance company? at a salvage auction it would bring $4000-$7000 depending on how much eye appeal it has, send pictures.
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WITH A GOOD TITLE!
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Good title, He never reported it to insurance, afraid it would raise his rate to High.
I'll try to get some pictures soon.
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$5500
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could be anywhere from 15-20k+. lets see them pix! peace

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Color combination is a big factor, navigation, condition of the rest of the car, has any other part of the car been painted, etc.

No matter what shape, color, options the car is not worth more then 10K on a very very good day.

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Originally posted by zerovise
could be anywhere from 15-20k+. lets see them pix! peace

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15-20k for a wreck 98 GS4 w/ 100k miles??? no way.

You can get a clean one for 15-18k easily.
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Its probably 5000 to 7000 damage fixed correctly from what i estimate you wrote down.

Take that away from a similar vehicle with the mileage you described and you're looking at about 8000 - 10,000. I wouldn't buy it.
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Originally posted by ias
still has a blue title i assume? or did he buy it back from an insurance company? at a salvage auction it would bring $4000-$7000 depending on how much eye appeal it has, send pictures.
what is a blue title

and its not worth buying if its more then 6g's to repair.
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