I've been looking at S2k's here for a month or so. I'm going to go look at this one this week. I think they are high in price, but it is certified. I think I'd pay around $17,000 for this car. Remember, I am in Minnesota, so we don't get to use these like in FL and Cali. The market isn't as large.

Does anyone here have a certified s2k? Is it worth the extra cost?

http://www.cars.com/go/search/detail.jsp;?...leadExists=true

 

$17's a good price. And is has the warranty till 100k miles. That along is worth $1k-$1.5k to me.

 

17K does seem like a pretty decent deal. I def wouldn't pay asking price at all though. Bit high for these times.

 

I used to think that "Certified" was worth the extra money. Then, last year I saw a 2005 S2000 with 24k miles that was "Certified". It was also obviously beat to death. There were so many signs that the car had been severely thrashed. But, with a good detail job, the dealer still had it "Certified".

After seeing that (I passed on it and bought one privately), to me the warranty would offer some assurance and have value, but the "Certified" sticker alone is not a guarantee that the car will be good (at least not the one I saw last year).

 

That sounds like a good deal if it is in your price range and meets your needs.

 

Good luck. I'm not sure they'll come down $2k to get to your price point, though.

 

I actually almost bought this exact one, they were asking $22k when I was looking at S2ks. I talked them down to $21k, but they would not budge after that, I told them I would pay a slightly lower price in full and they said no.

But that was before the economy went down, so maybe they are more flexible?

 

^^^lol, they probably wished they had gone lower back then. How long ago?

My car is orginally from Minnesota!

 

i bought mine "honda certified" and it never gave me probelms so far(knock on wood) but yeah i trust in my honda certified dealer. but still i would check it out very carefully, then u decide if its really worth the $$$.

 

Haha, that's pretty funny. They've had the car for over a year, was this last year? They just lowered the price to $18,988 and he told me they are down over $4,000 because they had to replace all the rims and tires. He was pretty honest and said he just wants it gone.