My neighbor's wife recently passed away and he's looking to sell their second car. He asked me what I think it's worth but I'm more used to older cars so thought I'd ask for opinions here.
It's a 2003 Acura RSX automatic, 104,000 miles in pretty clean condition. Southern California so no rust, has been mostly garage kept so the interior is still good. Has a couple of minor parking lot scuffs on the rear bumper and wheel arch and some stone chipping on the front but still looks tidy. Has always been dealer serviced, has clean title and smog and good tires.
Is it worth taking to Carmax? I'd guess it's older than they would normally deal with but in the current market maybe? How about any of the other car buying services? My neighbor isn't a car guy so an easy no hassle sale is what he's looking for.
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Anyone? Local craigslist ads are anywhere from $3500 to $12000 for cars that don't really look that different to me. Seems like most are manual, are the automatics worth more or less?
An automatic will have the 160hp k20 not the 200hp version. I'd guess in decent shape, clean interior it's probably worth $5k in this market. The RSX-s is the car people want with the 200hp k20 and 6-spd manual. If it is a 5 sod or auto it's the base car with 40hp less.
The non-S automatics are good little commuters but not really desirable. The big money ones you are seeing are probably the S with the 6-speed, as Bobzilla noted.
CarMax will probably give scrap price due to age and mileage, it's just too old to be something they would sell, but could give it a try nonetheless.
I would just check KBB value and send it to whatever car buying service gets closest to that (I believe even KBB itself has one now).
Thanks for the replies, I'll let my neighbor know.
Post up something here, maybe someone would be interested .
