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Originally Posted by javadog
I'll give you an example. My kid wanted to sell a set of wheels from his 2000 4runner, complete with center caps. They were straight, with no rash, but needed some new paint. The wheels typically sell for $300 to $400 for a set of 4 on eBay and the caps sell for $50 or more for a set. He put them on craigslist, and after two months the best offer he had was $50 for everything.
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Originally Posted by drkshdw
Sell it as a wreck and be done with it. Parting cars used to be worth it. Now there are too many people parting and not enough surviving cars and owners who care to warrant the time and effort to make a few bucks. Unless of course it's a 911.
I used to part cars years ago as a side job and could part an entire car in 2 weeks and have everything sold on ebay in that same time. And make more than my day job. Life happened and I quit.
I decided to get back into it last year. It has taken me an entire year to sell off what I used to sell in 1 week back in the day. And at half the price (and double the fees). It's not worth it unless you have an incredibly rare and collectible car.
A Legacy isn't it. You will have parts laying around for months or even years. When you get tired of looking at it you'll take an absurdly low amount for it just to get it out of the way. Save yourself the hassle and sell the car whole and cut your losses now.
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Yes, it's not like the good old days. And the good old days were not too long ago.
CL is still an ok place to buy things, (sometimes), but selling is hardly worth the trouble. Same w eBay, I've sold a couple items lately and got $500 in my PayPal acct but stuff moves slooooowly.
One of my PU trucks burned to the ground in last week's wildfire, was not driving it on the road so not insured for this. Even if I'd been driving it, I would not have had full coverage, just high limit liability. It's a 1995. It was a mint F-250 4x4 Powerstroke w manual transmission and a freshly rebuilt 7.3, 2 new batteries, just thousands down the schitter.
I'm wrestling w whether to try to salvage anything from it, (drivetrain is mostly ok in hard parts), but I dread the whole process. I'm also the type of stubborn Irishman who will throw the parts in a fking dumpster before I'll sell them for pennies to some mooch from CL. I price things to sell and just wait...