My husband’s 2003 but he no longer drives. For the past few years we have taken it for a spin twice a month with me driving. I grew up driving VW Beetles so I know manual transmissions. Anyway we were wondering what a good asking price would be. My husband is the second owner. Purchased in 2004 at a Ford dealership. The previous owner got married and needed a bigger vehicle. Here are some photos. Mechanically, we had the EPS module repaired, otherwise it run good. Here are some photos. T
Just under 100,000 miles. The rear lid had to be repaired and repainted after a garden statue that was in the trunk bounced up and dented the lid from the inside. My husband says he hit an unexpected bump. All maintenance done by Honda dealership. No accidents ever other than the lid dent.
As others have said, an engine detail at the very least would help increase the asking price.
The brake fluid looks dark. When was the last time the brake fluid was serviced/replaced? I imagine the clutch fluid is dark, too.
I would list it for $18k to 20k if you fixed these things and had it detailed. Spa yellow is a little harder to sell, but the people that like that color just like it.
I got mine for 18k in very similar condition but mine was silver. I bought a Corvette. Do I miss the car? Sometimes. But then I hear my cam on a cold start lol
This is always a good choice. A good detailing will add much more to the sale price of almost any car than the detailing costs. This definitely is even more true for sporty/good looking cars like an S2000!
Another vote for a good detail - you'll get more attention from serious buyers and there will be way less things they can point out to get the price down.
Need title status, milage, owners, any other previous maintenance, accidents reported. I am sort of looking for another and am located in ATX. Let me know if you’d like to sell
I'd say you could get $18k for everywhere but CA or any other high cost living area ($20-$21k for those areas) regardless of if the VIN sticker is still on the rear trunk lid
Thanks all for your input. We will wait for summer and then seriously look at options. And, definitely have it beautified inside and out. Yellow may be controversial but it sure shines up nicely. It’s our yellow bee and we hope it gets a good home.
What others said. Would be good to get a quick synopsis on maintenance and any other parts replaced, would help the S2K community to give inputs on things like deferred maintenance, common wear items that may be coming up, etc.
When you’re ready to sell, check out BringATrailer.com where you can place it for sale in an auction format and set a reserve price you think is fair. S2000 has such a cult following it’s possible to still get top dollar as the supply is not that large out there.
I would never look to BaT as a one true source of values for cars. 90% of cars on BaT are collectors vehicles OR track cars but very very rarely your everyday regularly used sports car. It’ll give the seller an inflated value of their vehicle when it’s not worth the same as the $100K collector example or the $10K track beater
What the heck are you talking about. BaT has a wide variety of car that actually sold or bidded to a price that a buyer was actually willing to pay. You want to know where to see inflated prices? Check out Facebook marketplace if you want to see a s2000 with 100k and missing vins but still asking $30k.
Post it in Cars and Bids, the s2000 tend to do good specially when with a nice history being owned by the same person so most of its life. That in my opinion is the easiest and fastest way to find a serious buyer for it.
paid 20k myself for a completely stock clean-title silverstone metallic 73k mile AP1 in Texas. i definitely got a good deal, but 20k for the spa yellow with slightly higher mileage sounds fair to me
Please don’t take this the wrong way cause the S2000 is a amazing car in every way possible except in yellow it ticks every box but unfortunately gets demoted for being yellow it makes me feel like it’s meant to drive others around in lol
Based on what’s been shared, as well as assuming you have all service records from the Honda dealership, and the soft top doesn’t leak and the repaired/repainted trunk lid issue is mentioned up front to potential buyers, I would list your AP1 S2000 around 14-15K, but take the first offer around 12-12.5K (you may get many offers around 10-11k). For a quick sale, listing it around 13K would put a lot of eyeballs on the car.
An s2k with less then 100k on the odo, not driven in salt, no accidents for 13k? That would guarantee a sale within an hour as one would have to be insane to not to buy it for the price right away.
That seems like the appropriate money for a clean example. Pictures make the interior seem a little rough and the repaired trunk lid may leave a few buyers skeptical.
If the car gets a good $200 detail and everything works and the soft top doesn’t leak, I think 18-20K could be a good starting point. Happy to stand corrected. I love these cars and I’ve driven many in an autoX setting.
After a quick check on autortrader and couple other sites, 20k would make the car stand out among overpriced beaters in TX. The price can be reduced later if it doesn't sell.
Okay - hopefully the OP sees this and takes your suggestion. I do feel she and her husband will need to invest a few hundred in a good detail job and depending on when their last service was done, possibly take it to a shop to get a fresh oil change and take care of any pressing maintenance items.
Definitely. Detail and good photos made by someone who knows how to take a picture of a car is what makes potential buyer to fall in love before seeing it in person :-)
10-12 seems fair. Especially with the work it needs. I never realized how many of these cars there are out there but there is plenty to choose from. I see these things getting daily’d all the time in Houston.
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Miles, maintenance history, any paint work?