Price check please: 2004 X5 3.0 manual 6 speed

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Thanks Tim. I checked KBB - they say about $5,000. I figured around $6,000 or so.

Be careful with oddball cars and KBB. I recently took a 2000 Ford Excursion in trade for some work I did for a guy. It was a 7.3l Diesel with 270,000 miles on it. I know absolutely nothing about Ford Excursions, have no interest in them. I had no intention of keeping it and was just looking to sell it. I look up KBB and it stated $5800 as optioned with the 7.3. Sounded good to me. Having dinner with a friend of mine who is the head of finance at the local Ford dealer I mention in passing I'm going to be putting this Excursion on Ebay. He said be sure to do some reasearch there is a huge following for those trucks with the 7.3 diesel engine. I do some looking around on some Ford forums and I'm shocked - they go between $12,000 - $18,000 depending on mileage. I put mine on Ebay for $13,500 buy it now. Sold it in 2 days. Apparently folks in Utah, Idaho, Montana absolutely love them and they are getting very hard to find. Amazingly KBB pricing is right in line with the sale prices of gas engine excursions. They don't account for the desirability of the 7.3 diesel engine.

Anyway - that lesson taught me to check on forums like this when you have anything odd (hell, anything at all these days). I almost left $7,000+ on the table thanks to KBB.

I have no delusions that the X5 is worth much over $5000 or $6000 but, I flew 1200 miles to buy my wife's first manual X5 and 700 miles to buy this one. She refuses to drive a car with an automatic transmission.

The only two 6 speed manual transmission X5's I've found for sale were both featured on bringatrailer.com which features desirable, rare or just plain odd cars. The last one was a 2004 with 130,000 miles and sold for $9,500.

Just trying to get a bead on the value of her car.

I know the 6 speed X5's are very rare and desirable to some people. I just don't know if that translates to an increase in value. I do know KBB does not account for this type of situation in it's valuations.