Price Fishing

hammerweight · 04-11-2011, 08:25 AM

Hey Guys,
Not looking to step on anybodys toes,but, how far out of the ballpark is this?
I too am contemplating the sale of same model car.
Thanks

http://ontario.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehi...AdIdZ274093133

davericher20 · 04-11-2011, 08:46 AM

I think 7k is a little steep, it's not an M5.
It's a nice clean example and I could very well be wrong for saying this, but I wouldn't pay north of 5k for it.

MarkD · 04-11-2011, 08:46 AM

It may be a nice car but when 1991 E34 M5's go for 7 to 10 K, yours seems overpriced, especially with those wheels and tires. Just my opinion, but you asked for it!

A picture under the hood would tell quite a bit, why not show one?

Smitty · 04-11-2011, 10:23 AM

Considering the car's being presented with easy-to-replace missing trim (front passenger-side fender and rear driver-side door), I'd worry that it's been undermaintained. Those wheels were popular 10 or 12 years ago, lining up pretty well with the car's assumed reg date (an AE-series plate would have been issued in late summer/early fall 1999). Coupled with the custom exhaust and sub box, I'm going to say that this is someone's high school car that's finally hitting the block. Emotional attachment has driven the price above market.

Detective Smitty

MarkD · 04-11-2011, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Smitty

Considering the car's being presented with easy-to-replace missing trim (front passenger-side fender and rear driver-side door), I'd worry that it's been undermaintained. Those wheels were popular 10 or 12 years ago, lining up pretty well with the car's assumed reg date (an AE-series plate would have been issued in late summer/early fall 1999). Coupled with the custom exhaust and sub box, I'm going to say that this is someone's high school car that's finally hitting the block. Emotional attachment has driven the price above market.

Detective Smitty

And when I see Kumho tires on a car, it has BUDGETMOBILE written all over it so I can't be sure what else was going on. Those pics make it a candidate for "pimp my bimmah"

hammerweight · 04-11-2011, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MarkD

It may be a nice car but when 1991 E34 M5's go for 7 to 10 K, yours seems overpriced, especially with those wheels and tires. Just my opinion, but you asked for it!

A picture under the hood would tell quite a bit, why not show one?

Hi MarkD
Not my car,but I do have a 91 535i, 2 owner, Vancouver car(very clean)and am thinking I may sell. I have a potential buyer at considerably less money,and therefore this car made me think I may be letting my example go to cheap.

pawcio · 04-11-2011, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by davericher20

I think 7k is a little steep, it's not an M5.
It's a nice clean example and I could very well be wrong for saying this, but I wouldn't pay north of 5k for it.

agreed...but south of 5K would be more like it.