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2004 GPW & Tan - $9,500 & 4.5 hrs away
-Bone stock except for a test pipe & painted calipers
-rear tires need replaced, OEM v1 wheels have some curb rash
-2nd Gear is a Bi*&ch before it warms up
2000 AP1
Paid $10,000 June 2016
120k miles
Cold air, high flow cats, and HKS exhaust
Hard top, Seibon CF hood and trunk
Stage 3 clutch....lmfao
Coils and wheels and sound system
Cons:
Rough idle/shaking
Lots of noise on the inside
Clutch pedal broken to the floor
Clutch crunchy and stiff
Slave cylinder leaking
White smoke from exhaust
Losing to FRS LOL
Clutch slipping
Bought it ****ed up, didnt have it checked out. In the last month I have fixed and replaced a lot. Now the car is amazing
AP2 F22C 85k miles
21k miles on tranny
40k miles on differential
21k miles on stock/oem clutch
Clutch pedal
No white smoke from exhaust
All inside noises fixed
New slave cylinder
Purchased June 2016 from 2nd owner (1st owner had owned it 8 months)
2003 Silverstone Metallic - 75K miles. All original.
Black painted Calipers
Excellent mechanical condition
Few dings here and there.
Cracked P/s Taillight
Newer normal all season tires, no where near S02 stickiness
Purchased for $14,600 and had to drive 4-5 hours one way
Bought a 2002 two weeks ago. Only mod was air intake and radio head unit. 43k miles only 2 scratches and 1 rock chip to correct. Paid $12,000 Clean title.
Nov 16 purchased 2001 with only 27,500 miles. 3 previous owners. Engine looks like new (had it thoroughly checked), every document including original window sticker ($32,740), all service records, always kept in a garage (I even contacted original owner). 100% stock with almost new Michelin tires. Front bumper had been poorly repainted and a few light scratches which mostly buffed out. Other than that it was perfect. Paid $21k. A little on the high side but this car was so much tighter than the other S2000's I drove that a few thousand extra seemed worth it. However, if I was to do it again I would have bought something that had around 60K miles and paid around $17K. Reason is that this is my weekend fun car and maybe six autocrosses a year. I have modded it to STR status (K&N CAI, 17" Oz Racing wheels, 245 tires, UK exhaust mod, Karcepts front bar). I've kept all the original parts so if someone wanted to they could easily return it to all original stock. However, the car handles so much better and sounds fantastic now that I expect to keep it a long time. And I think we need to remember that, typically, cars are depreciating assets and if you can own a car that drives this great for less than $1500 per year of depreciation that is pretty reasonable. The original owner had it 13 years and sold it for about $19,000. Therefore, his depreciation was about $1000 per year. Not too many cars out there that hold value that well.
I've been told that late last year the prices on S2000's started to drop some. Nobody seems to know why but proof is Rhino's post above this. It's what I've noticed online as well. Why?
Last edited by Lumberjack; 05-09-2017 at 01:32 PM.
Nov 16 purchased 2001 with only 27,500 miles. 3 previous owners. Engine looks like new (had it thoroughly checked), always garaged, every document including original window sticker ($32,740), all service records, always kept in a garage (I even contacted original owner). 100% stock with almost new Michelin tires. Front bumper had been poorly repainted and a few light scratches which mostly buffed out. Other than that it was perfect. Paid $21k. A little on the high side but this car was so much tighter than the other S2000's I drove that a few thousand extra seemed worth it. However, if I was to do it again I would have bought something that had around 60K miles and paid around $17K. Reason is that this is my weekend fun car and maybe six autocrosses a year. I have modded it to STR status (K&N CAI, 17" Oz Racing wheels, 245 tires, UK exhaust mod, Karcepts front bar). I've kept all the original parts so if someone wanted to they could easily return it to all original stock. However, the car handles so much better and sounds fantastic now that I expect to keep it a long time. And I think we need to remember that, typically, cars are depreciating assets and if you can own a car that drives this great for less than $1500 per year of depreciation that is pretty reasonable. The original owner had it 13 years and sold it for about $19,000. Therefore, his depreciation was about $1000 per year. Not too many cars out there that hold value that well.
I've been told that late last year the prices on S2000's started to drop some. Nobody seems to know why but proof is Rhino's post above this. It's what I've noticed online as well. Why?
He was asking 18k but got in a pinch buying a new house and needed cash quickly. If that hadn't happened, I'd never picked this one up for that.
2002
248k miles
$5200
+$4k paint, top, interior
I didn't like the two tone paint so getting repainted. Also changed out the seats and door panels. Replaced all fluids. And going back to shop for final mechanical check (replace tensioners for sure, perhaps timing chain).
By the time I'm done I'll be in around $11k. But with new quality paint job, new bumpers front and rear, newer interior, new top. And mechanically checked out. I'll post pics when I'm done.
Going back to one color (original). No badges Work in progress Replacing both bumpers
Last edited by RJ_In_Paradise; 05-07-2017 at 09:34 AM.
04-06-2017, 02:54 PM
