acascianelli

If you can find a 2009 after the 2010's come out then you should be able to bargain the price down even more. A well equiped 2010 GT will be well north of 30k.

Riptide

Meh not so sure about that. A real pro quality paint job is going to be at least 5 grand to do the entire car unless I do the prep work myself.

Black Mamba GTT

Why don't you wait a little bit and actually upgrade to a better car. Save your money and get a GT500 when the time is right. You can get an older GT500 for pretty cheap now.

Riptide

GT500 cheap? I guess. You can get used ones in the mid to low 30s. But there aren't many of them out there and they are all 1200+ miles from me.

acascianelli

+1 on the GT500 option.
-1 on the respraying the whole car.

If you do decide to try to get the 2009, please ditch those stupid horse shoe badges on the side and put GT ones on it. I hate those badges...

Riptide

I appreciate the banter about whether this is an intelligent decision or not. I agree it's debatable. Black sucks *** yes and the wheel hop problem may or may not be fixable without a hassle. Regardless, can someone actually answer the question I asked in the OP?

Regarding the GT500. I would like that. There is one in Cleveland OH right now for $35K and it has 13,000 miles on it. But I would need to sell my car private party first. And then it'd still be a real long trip to get the car and get it home.

pnut

NO, not worth your time and money. Sure yours has scratches. That's how it goes. Your new one will be the same in short time.

My suggestion is have a qualified body shop or touch up person fix most of the scratches and stuff for a few hundred bucks, then either detail it yourself top to bottom, or have someone else do it, and be done with it.

Keep what you have (since you asked).

Riptide

Swirl marks and scratches don't show up anywhere near as bad with a white or silver car as they do with black. Seriously it's not even comparable. My car looks fine in overcast or dark conditions. In the sunlight and especially at dawn or dusk it looks like a POS.

We don't have qualified detail people here. They all want to wet sand the car. Every last one of them. HUGE NO NO.

bolivianpimp

Hey man I have a black car too and I feel you on the scratches and swirls. I actually just bought a really nice car cover to protect my paint and I’m buying a buffer to get all the swirls out and make the paint shine real good. I would try to do that first if I were you, I would much rather buy a good buffer and make the paint look AMAZING and use that 10k to get a s/c or turbo which is what I am doing right now.

Riptide

So do you guys think the dealer would bite on this? Or am I asking to much for trade or to much off the top on the price of that 09?