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Old 08-25-03, 07:18 PM
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i am looking for a 400 with low miles or lower must have hid and nav preffer 17s and heated seats but not a must ! like black or gray interior but am open and getting desperate !!!!!!!! please help
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Old 08-27-03, 11:56 PM
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I'm not selling mine...nope...no way. Good luck, you can get a really good deal these days.
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Old 08-28-03, 03:24 PM
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Aight...i can give you some advice...because we JUST Bought a 98 GS4 last week

First let me tell you bout my experience. We live in the middle of nowhere (iowa) and there are really no GS4's available...unless i wanted to go to the local dealer and pay $6k more than what i the blue book is. So i then decided to look on ebay, autotrader.com, cars.com, usedcars.com, and autos.yahoo.com, and everywhere else....

When i first started looking, i only wanted to spend about $17k.... so i looked for cars under $19k. All i found was either high mileage (i.e. 75,000 or higher) OR the car didnt have the options we wanted (i.e. Silver or white, heated seats, factory xenon, moonroof, traction control, nakamichi sound). SO then i decided to up the search price range to $20k. Still nothing caught my eye. Then last week thursday i looked for cars at $23k and below. Found some interesting ones on autotrader.com. So i called a few. The mileage was in the 60,000k. So that was i guess acceptable.

Then on friday (last week) i decided to do a search for $25k or below. TAADAA!!! found one! Silver, HID, Moonroof, Nakamichi, 33,000 MILES!!! It was perfect. So i called, talked to the seller for over 1 hour. Older guy, bought it from his dad last year, he now wants to get the 04 SC 430. So basically a 1 owner car...and hella low miles. He was askin $24900...and i know thats a little high...but damn, the miles are perfect. So i negotiated over the phone....brought it down to $22500. I paid cash. Overnighted it out to him on friday. Called a shipping company...they picked it up on saturday..its on its way to us now

Anyways... FIRST, figure out the max you want to spend. Next nail down the color, options you want. Then start looking. If you want low miles...look to spend at least $20k... If you set your max price at $21k, then do searches on autotrader, and ebay, and cars.com at $24k and below. Most sellers, when you talk to them will come down on price...that way you can get more car...and close to wat you want to spend. Im attachin a pic of the car we just got.

Good luck with your search...and dont be afraid to look outside of your area....i.e. 500 + miles.... let me know if you have any questions...and sorry for writing a book here
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Old 08-30-03, 10:03 PM
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i am willing to pay over 30k but cant find any locally and i drove a 01 430 today and it was not much faster than my car at least not like i thought ! so im thinking about something else just dont know what !!! maybe a tt supra and keep my car
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what do u have rite now?
also, we couldnt find anythign local either..thats why it took so long
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