Agree, it's about $10K too high. HOWEVER, it's within a couple of $K of a realistic price in today's market. Sometimes reality sucks.
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I've noticed a few LJRs in that 22-25k range on the private market pop up on dealer sites at 30k+
Wow! Reading this thread makes think I was really lucky. Purchased mine 9/20 for 12k pretty much as you see it in my avatar. One owner, 65k about 2 miles from my house. Custom paint inside and out all mods were done by a local Jeep shop with a stellar rep. They had the paperwork for everything. It needed a new top and a CC. I purchased a MF hi-flow cat and installed it myself. I bought a new PE top off CL for $175.
It was posted at 1am. I called immediately and got the vin and ran the CF. He was about to go to bed so I called at 8am and he had been getting emails since he posted it. He had four people already lined up to look at it that afternoon at a local strip mall. I told him to meet me at my bank and(about a mile for each of us) and if it checked out I would get him the cash. It did and I did.
32RH/4.0 Sport. He was an exec for one of the auto paint companies so the paint is a custom 3 stage one off with a pearl base.
I turned down 18k for it at Home Depot yesterday.
It will look a bit different by next week. Metalcloak rear bumper and flat flares on the way. It had a SB rear tire carrier bumper that I sold already. The front is a Body Armor 4x4 that I’m still debating on whether to keep or not. Don’t need a winch for the mild OR I do. I think I would like something a bit slimmer. Haven’t really seen anything yet. Don’t want a stubby. I think I might just remove the bolt on winch protector first and see how that works. I also got BT sliding uppers for Xmas which I love.
It was posted at 1am. I called immediately and got the vin and ran the CF. He was about to go to bed so I called at 8am and he had been getting emails since he posted it. He had four people already lined up to look at it that afternoon at a local strip mall. I told him to meet me at my bank and(about a mile for each of us) and if it checked out I would get him the cash. It did and I did.
32RH/4.0 Sport. He was an exec for one of the auto paint companies so the paint is a custom 3 stage one off with a pearl base.
I turned down 18k for it at Home Depot yesterday.
It will look a bit different by next week. Metalcloak rear bumper and flat flares on the way. It had a SB rear tire carrier bumper that I sold already. The front is a Body Armor 4x4 that I’m still debating on whether to keep or not. Don’t need a winch for the mild OR I do. I think I would like something a bit slimmer. Haven’t really seen anything yet. Don’t want a stubby. I think I might just remove the bolt on winch protector first and see how that works. I also got BT sliding uppers for Xmas which I love.
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I had a similar situation when I bought my 03' Rubicon. One owner from Texas, retired military and recently moved to Washington D C. He listed it 11pm on a Saturday night. I emailed him about coming to check it out Sunday morning. I got there at 8am ( 2 hour drive) and 3 people had already beat me to it. I called him right before I got there and told him I brought cash and I would buy it if it looked as good as the pictures. Some guy was trying to write him a check (when I pulled up) for a deposit to hold it until Monday when the banks opened. I drove it and handed him $9500 cash and drove it back home. The guy had every service record from the day he bought it. Window sticker too.
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I have a 1999 TJ Sport manual (AT was a 3 speed) with 48k miles. Original owner. Always garage kept and no rust. Mobil One every year even though it was maybe 2k miles some years. 35s, ARBs, 4.88s. What do you think it's worth?
I hate black. How’s that for being PC?! It just shows everything.I knew you would understand the color thing.
p.s. I think we're #2 on mrblaines "worst colors" ever list. It would be racist of me with my CRT training to tell you what color is #1. Some guy on here with yellow decals knows. I think his brother owns Cooper tires.
The only one I’ve seen that looks good is @AndyG.
I don’t care though. Color is a personal preference.
I also like Intense Blue Pearl, Stone White, Impact Orange, Solar Yellow, Silver, and a clean Patriot Blue.
Yours looks good too. My memory just fails me.
Sorry about that bud.BTW, I love the silver accents on your black Jeep! I think you made the only right call on that one. It dresses up black with a perfect contrast.
Tough to nail down, if it was all stock, rust free, it would be worth $22k+ Compared to what I’ve watched at auction over the last few months.
Try Gilbert Jeeps, Athen, Al. Tell them Andy sent you. They only sell nice stuff.
Fortunately, it looks like used car prices have been falling for three months now.
Private party sales may still be trying to take advantage of what they think is a "seller's market", because most of them probably don't do the research they should be doing.
https://www.kbb.com/car-news/used-car-prices-coming-down-slowly/
Private party sales may still be trying to take advantage of what they think is a "seller's market", because most of them probably don't do the research they should be doing.
https://www.kbb.com/car-news/used-car-prices-coming-down-slowly/
Ha.. I’m not either but ive had 5 vehicles over the last 15 years that are black… it looks menacing I guess… best color when it’s clean… worst when it’s dirty…
