thanks Qsilver7, but, see the following posts...that is what I meant...
people chiming in for the experience.
Matter of fact, I did traded my in....everyone i knew told me to take it to CarMax...(as jspdr said already)
now, I will put up my value to the sake of this topic...
now, its interesting that mike_dmt and CTSportX5 talked about brake light lit up...
because my did...the day before i trade her in...(its saddens me that she knew that I'm gonna trade her in....

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i got a $10K offer from CarMax (SoCal) - 2005 3.0 97,000 factory xenon lights with tow hitch installed
just want to put it out there for people also want to do their trade in/sell their E53s