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what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
Don't primer it. When I am looking at vehicles original paint tells me I can see what I am getting, primer tells me someone did some crappy bodywork and they are trying to hide it.
Do the little cheap things you can do to get it driving decent, and then sell it. For the most part, the more money you put into it, the less money you will make. Most importantly price it right.
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
I say make it as clean as possible. Fix the quick stuff like hanging wires, door hing pins, etc. Pressure wash the heck out of it.
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
Only do things that are parts cheap. Avoid doing things that someone buying it as a project truck is going to do anyway. Unless the brakes have issues, skip bleeding the brakes, changing the oil, new coolant, etc. Don't even think about spending the time and effort to lower it or boost power as it will likely become "Your" truck and be hard to part with.
If your goal is to flip it, a good detailing including engine degrease and fixing things like burned out bulbs, blown fuses, oil the hinges, etc is all I would do. |
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
clean it up inside and out motor too also I would throw cheap seat covers on it if they are bad an throw in some cheap mats if there is wear on the floor
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
Shine it up as best you can inside and out
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
make it cheap and put it in my driveway.....I'll make a short bed crew cab out of it..
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
Thanks for the tips I'm just going to throw a taillight in it put a different less bent tailgate on it I have laying around fix the brakes,exhaust leaks , and clean the hell out of the whole truck. That way I don't do something unneeded but I have a thing about exhaust leaks so I'm definitely at least gonna do that and the brakes that way it will be a nice running driving stopping truck for someone. Still trying to convince my wife to let me keep it at her parents as kinda a loaner truck for friends/family.
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
I like the truck!! It doesn't happen have a manual trans does it? Too bad it ain't a 4x4 though! LOL
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
I could part it out for more than I could sell it for.
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
I flip a lot of vehicles. Clean and paint the wheels, nothing bright. A darker gray,silver or go back to black. Spray some black paint or very light under coat in the inner fenders and what frame and suspension that is seen by a walk by.
Take off all stickers, windows,bumpers,tailgates. See if the radio works, if not do you have a cheap one the toss in there. Clean out the glove box, ash trays. Add a air fresh-n-er. Clean the engine but don't paint anything but the air filter housing if you paint anything. Fill all the fluid bottles, have a spare tire & jack. Make no excuses, put your price on it. And let it sell it's self.
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
a high level price table, see where the truck falls
first get your paper work in order don't have title (bill of sale only) - I stay away from these salvaged title - I stay away from these too non opt title - hmm not too thrilled but lets talk have clean title and it is current - now we're talking now let's talk about the truck truck don't start - low price truck starts but won't run - a bit more money truck starts and runs but you can't drive it - even more money truck starts, runs, and you can take it for a drive - now we're talking *** this is where you want your truck to be *** SAFETY ISSUES - sure it goes but does it stop, I would inspect and fix the brakes, NOISES - does it make any noises, what rattles, what bangs, what squeeks, don't hide these things, fix them if you can, or bring them up yourself EXPENSIVE things to fix that it's hard to get money back, cracked windshield to replace, new tires, brand new battery... let the new owners take care of these issues List it with pictures and a good write up, are you the second owner, it was always garage kept, non smoker, blah blah blah, have a binder of maintenance history, just replaced all belts, etc, etc |
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
FORGET ALL THAT ...
FIND OUT WHAT WIFE LIKES... WHAT WIFE WANTS... AND BUY IT FOR HER sure two wrongs don't make a right but three lefts get you back on the freeway, LOL |
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
Hubcaps and all above.
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
If your afraid of Bill of Sale that come's with most older vehicles now. You won't be owning many trucks or cars. Most states are getting away from using titles. Less paper work, my wife works for the State of Florida. And there is a big push to go all paperless. This is coming from Washington.
But if everything is in order dealing with a Bill of Sale is very easy. I keep the forms on hand. I have several local Police persons who will do the inspection for me. And fill out the form. And after that its all down hill. Ken
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
Well if you live in a state where you need to have a title to register a car, most people will avoid cars with only a bill of sale. I know here in TN it'd have to be something pretty special to take the chance on never being able to get it registered.
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
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As for salvage titles there is nothing wrong with those. It only means the vehicle was totaled (ins.co.) or junked to a wrecker, or an owner junked slipped it because it would not pass its smog test and the only way to sell it was to junk it. So a salvaged title means in the past it was scrapped and brought back. The title will have the word SALVAGE in it. In California financial responsibility falls to the seller to make the vehicle comply with it's smog requirements. There is a way around that but for this discussion we don't need to go there.
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
NH has titles 0-10 years. 11 years and older you will not get one. There are several states that are the same. You do need the last registration and a bill of sale.
California is just screwed up. If you have a truck that you didn't idle the registration and pay the "no-op" fee every year you can't sell it in CA. This does not preclude you from selling it in nearby states like NV, AZ, UT, OR, WA, ID, NM, ... those states don't have that BS.
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
Um Roger Niello was a Republican of the California State Assembly since 2004. He represented California's 5th Assembly District... he joined his family’s business at Niello Auto Group in 1974 and spent the next 25 years running retail automobile dealerships with his family partners
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
What's to stop you from titling it in another state till you're ready to put it back on the road?
Might be a lucrative side business to help people to sidestep that BS.
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
i been wanting to sell my truck too but since i live in a screw up state i can't since it does not pass smog
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Re: what would you do to this truck to help it sell?
If it is non-op'ed each year, you do NOT incure back fees. But you are basically paying a partial registration each year by giving them money for the right to keep it off the road and parked on private property.
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