jadeethan

Hey guys,


I'm selling my 2007 s550 4matic that has been facelifted. I purchased from Mercedes in NJ as a certified pre owned car.


My ad is here:


http://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-s...31135304&Log=0


In a nutshell:


- 103K miles
- S63 Body kit
- Fishcake LED lights
- AMG s63 tips
- LED taillights
- Lomo M1 lowering module
- Stock wheels
- Keyless Entry
- Front and rear sensors (no back up camera)
- standard sunroof


Condition:
- Great shape and paint still shines
- always garaged
- NO Errors in Dash!
- Clean Car fax, never crashed or body work done
- Driven by 40+ year adult
- AC is cold
- never raced or abused
- clean interior, no rips in the leather etc


Service:
- Schedule C just done last week. Next service is 12,000 miles from now
- All brake pads replaced with Akebono Brakes with very little break dust last month
- Just passed NYC car inspection


Including an extra set of TPMS Mercedes sensors to put onto your new wheels.


All you need to put on wheels and you are set. Look at previous posts of my pictures.


PLEASE, please, please, do not offer me low ball price. The parts of the upgrade cost close to 5K.


I paid a lot for this car and I put a lot of love into this car. I have other priorities that are coming up that I need to deal with, my daughter's sweet 16, I need to lease a car for my daughter and buy a new car for my wife.


Thanks for looking.

Mike5215

Looks good, price seems fair. I think what sells the car is how clean and "stock" it looks. I'd remove the LoMo unit, or at least delete the reference to it, since that's a fairly aggressive mod that might turn off buyers otherwise impressed with how OEM it looks. (Plus it's worth some cash on Ebay). Ditto with the reference to and photos of the aftermarket wheels. Right now it looks like a car grandma drove to Bingo. That's a plus. Ebay the sensors as well. They add no value.

I'd play down the cosmetic mods. To the trained eye and experienced buyer that stuff is evident and appreciated. To the inexperienced buyer its says you monkeyed with the car's body in a major way.

Generally on AutoTrader I've found that it will let you know when you're priced right. You'll get nothing but scammers if you're even a little too high, and the moment you hit the sweet spot stuff starts happening. Since buyers bracket their search by maximum price, you may want to tuck it just under $25,000 ($24,900 for example) to widen out the market a bit.

You're gonna get 90% crackpot and low-ball offers, including retards who ask you point blank "what's the least you'd take for it?" to which I replied "what's the most you'd offer for it?". Your selling season is short where you are, so don't stick at your price too long if you're not seeing action.

Given how high NY sales tax is, you might want to save yourself the headaches of a private sale entirely and just trade it at wholesale on your wife's new car. (You'd need to get wholesale + the sales tax spread on the new car to just break even on a private sale.)

T.H.Carrera

just curious why did you put that much into mods if you were gonna sell it so soon ?

jadeethan

Hi Mike, Thanks for the reply and the Tip. I have been getting too many stupid offers "I will give you cash now for this amount, etc. etc".

TH: I had the mods for a while, over two years so i have enjoyed it since and but it is time for me to move on. Like I said, I plan to get a W222 also i have other priorities that that I have to deal with and I have decided to put away my interests to deal with a growing family.

wilassasin

Very clean, should sell fast!

1bad540

Lota car for the $$. Looks like you did the total facelift, mayve swap back your old headlights and sell the updated ones as most looking for an 07 wont give you more cash. Agree on also removing the lowering module.

superpop

No offense intended but it is a 9 year old car with over 100K miles. Looks real nice but I suspect it is worth around 16K on a good day. I would think you would be better off trading it in for wholesale and getting the sales tax break. Agree that you need to remove any aftermarket parts and sell them separately. The biggest problem with these cars is the unpredictable and potentially expensive repairs and can pop up. Most buyers learn this on sites like this and are scared off by that fact alone.

Mike5215

I traded my 2010 S550 with 80k miles for $25,000. Retail at best looked to be $27,500-$28,000. For $2500 I wasn't dealing with advertising, showing, selling and handling the DMV and lien paperwork.

But he needs to at least try to get his price and see what happens. Can't hurt.

1bad540

Mike in your state do you also get the tax credit on the 25k? In Ny its 8.75% making it closer to 27k and basically being what your going to get anyway?

T.H.Carrera

curious as to what offers you have been getting from members ? are they like 10k ?

Mike5215

Yeah, I'd just owe 6% on the spread between the sale price of the new car and the trade in. Since I leased my C it didn't matter, but I still didn't want to deal with a private sale.

Mike5215

My thought is anyone here already owns an S Class. My guess is the offers will run in the mid to high teens. If someone offered $20k I'd probably take it and run. But he may find some kid who loves the S63 kit and facelift stuff and is willing to pony up.

seal

Good looking car. Curious to see how much you'll sell it for. Good luck!

T.H.Carrera

sold?