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Originally Posted by Fifty150hs
Here's an '05 with a manual trans for sale for $9,945. It only has 101,000 miles. The interior looks like it is beat which for that kind of mileage is sad. The roof paint is chalked. If it didn't have manual trans in that condition it would probably be worth about $4500. Is there really a $5400 premium for a manual transmission? Since its in Illinois I'd love to see what the undercarriage looks like.
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I went and drove this thing today. I'm here on a work trip.
- Dead battery, but he had a jump box
- A little underbody corrosion, nothing bad.
- Not from IL, sold new in MA and last reg was in VA. Unsure why it's here.
- Pano sunroof scares the crap out of me. It appeared to work but I heard a wind whistle from it on the drive, and some complaint sounds from the motors.
- Heavy clutch, but no sign of wear.
- Interior wear is mostly armrests. Not bad otherwise.
- Nice color, paint isn't bad but I'm not very tall and could not see the condition on the roof.
- Steering off-center, needs alignment
- 20" wheels but 17" spare. Was that normal?
- Front door cards both loose so somebody has been in there. All windows work, driver's door lock actuator is dead but the others are OK.
- Supplied key fobs are unsurprisingly dead.
- Low mileage, but that means all the things that die around then have died and been replaced, or are about to die? Could get expensive.
- With a jump box it fired immediately. Drove well, no clunks, cold AC, shifts without crunching, clutch is def heavier than my 5-speed but it's a different box.
- Clean engine bay, no oily shmutz.
- Code on cluster is "4x4" with a triangle. Did not have my Ancel handy.
- Aftermarket head unit with some kind of Android UI
Obviously, overpriced, but I would consider $US5500–6000 if the sunroof is proven to work and not leak, they put a new battery in it and get the alignment sorted. Does that sound fair?