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Well in this case, Blue Book seems reasonable. Right now if you look for my car within a 100 mile range of my home, you'll find three, maybe four of the same year. All have over 100k miles, one at 171k. All of them are at dealers and all are asking $7,300-8,400. Blue Book Private Party is $6,500, Blue Book Wholesale is $4,800. When I'm coming with $2k cash in hand, a trade they can easily sell for $6,800 and I'm willing to take $4,800 from the dealer, that's $4k on the transaction for them.
They didn't want it and I can accept that, but I'm sure not going to settle for less than that. I can easily sell it for $6k, worst case scenario, $5500 and come out much better in the end. It'll just take the time for me to clean it up, advertise it, and get it sold. That's what I'm debating at the moment is whether I want to try to do this right now or wait a little while.
As far as Acura parts costing more, I doubt it. I haven't been to an Acura dealer since I bought it. I use my local Honda dealer; it's all the same parts with very few exceptions. Besides, what parts need replacement on a newer car anyway? The first set of new plugs wasn't scheduled until 105k miles and it doesn't have a timing belt. Unless it's in a wreck, it's a Civic from a maintenance standpoint.
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