Northern CA noob with Integra LS

[CigaR007]

Originally Posted by SentraSE-R

$8500 seems pricey to me, but I haven't checked Edmunds or KBB.

Someone in my area is asking $20 000 for a 2006 Insight. It has only 20 000 miles...but still.

From what I saw, $12 000 would be the maximum it could fetch. Then again, it all depends if the market (demand) is willing to pay that price.

[SentraSE-R]

KBB private party price for my neighbors' MT 2000 Insight with 95k miles is only ~$5650. 1G Insights have a cult following, but I'm not into cults .

[The Rooster]

Originally Posted by SentraSE-R

I walked over and looked at my neighbors' Insight I. It's a manual. Here's a link to the ad. $8500 seems pricey to me, but I haven't checked Edmunds or KBB.

Thank you so much for the info. I may just look into that car, if your neighbor is flexible on price. 8.5k is rather high. I'd figure more like 6k for that car.

[NachtRitter]

Ya, I'd agree that ~6K is more reasonable... when I was looking, I found 2 or 3 in that range.

BTW - try out SearchTempest - The EASY way to search Craigslist... it's a nice Craigs List aggregator.

Good luck in your search... I went with a VW TDI instead.

[The Rooster]

OK, so I've given up the Insight search, I can't get a decent interest rate for a car that old, and I hate loans anyway so the Integra stays...for now.

The front grill block seems to work very, very well, I broke a record and passed a milestone on the same fillup. I got over 400 miles on one tank, and I achieved 34.28 mpg. And I still haven't fixed the damage yet!

At this rate, I may just keep the car and tinker with it. If I could get over 40mpg, I might be happy.

[NachtRitter]

Smart move. I'd never get a loan for any car. Unlikely you'd make up the difference in fuel economy anyway.

Heck, the FE you're currently getting is probably better than 90% of U.S. cars anyway!!

[The Rooster]

I got it up to 36mpg on the last fillup, though I don't think I quite got the tank full, so it's probably more like 35ish, still a new record. I've started coasing down some of the really long hills I have, now I have to make the jump to shutting the car off while I do it. There's a single section I can coast down for about 3 miles without needing any accelerator at all. I kind of wish I had a MIMA hybrid there because I could be charging batteries instead of using breaks. Hmm....maybe I'll make my car a hybrid, throw some electric motors on the back wheels...some batteries...make it part time AWD at the same time for those snowy days....:P