How many miles does your 997tt have ?
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05-01-2009 | 01:33 AM
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How many miles does your 997tt have ?
8200 here . Thus far modded and issue free .
High mileage folks might share some helpful hints . Anyone cross 50K yet ?
Low mileage cars . Who has resisted driving to preserve it? Any 07's with less than 200 miles ?
The cars , the maintenance. the personalities which range from driving it everywhere to not driving it at all . Hoping for an intereresting thread topic.
High mileage folks might share some helpful hints . Anyone cross 50K yet ?
Low mileage cars . Who has resisted driving to preserve it? Any 07's with less than 200 miles ?
The cars , the maintenance. the personalities which range from driving it everywhere to not driving it at all . Hoping for an intereresting thread topic.
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05-01-2009 | 08:08 AM
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I have a 2009 TT, now with 700 miles after owning it for 2 weeks (mostly putting the miles on quickly so that I can move beyond the break-in and start hammering it; I don't plan to keep up this rate of adding miles).
This is my toy car, so it comes out only in nice weather (never winter, unless the roads are clear and free of salt, etc.). I plan to keep it about 3 years, and then sell it for another toy.
Does anyone have experience on the maximum number of miles that a 3-year-old TT should have to have a decent resell value? I guess I'm looking more for the "tipping point". For example, as soon as you hit, say, 30K or more in a 3-year-old TT, you take an incremental big hit in value.
I ask this mostly because I'd like to enjoy driving this car up until those "tipping point" miles. I'm planning on driving the car no more than 7K miles per year, so that will be 21K miles after 3 years. Will I realize much greater resell value if I keep it to 5K miles/year and sell at 15k miles?
I only have 1 personal datapoint where I purchased a 2006 C2S Cab (about 2 months ago) with 2,300 miles on it. The dealer tried to upsell me on the value of this low-mileage car, but I ended up paying less than other cars I saw of the same year with 10x the miles. And I was thinking about that original owner who paid $102,500 for the car. Say he sold the car back to the dealer at KBB trade-in value of $53K. So he paid over $21 per mile to drive that thing.
This is my toy car, so it comes out only in nice weather (never winter, unless the roads are clear and free of salt, etc.). I plan to keep it about 3 years, and then sell it for another toy.
Does anyone have experience on the maximum number of miles that a 3-year-old TT should have to have a decent resell value? I guess I'm looking more for the "tipping point". For example, as soon as you hit, say, 30K or more in a 3-year-old TT, you take an incremental big hit in value.
I ask this mostly because I'd like to enjoy driving this car up until those "tipping point" miles. I'm planning on driving the car no more than 7K miles per year, so that will be 21K miles after 3 years. Will I realize much greater resell value if I keep it to 5K miles/year and sell at 15k miles?
I only have 1 personal datapoint where I purchased a 2006 C2S Cab (about 2 months ago) with 2,300 miles on it. The dealer tried to upsell me on the value of this low-mileage car, but I ended up paying less than other cars I saw of the same year with 10x the miles. And I was thinking about that original owner who paid $102,500 for the car. Say he sold the car back to the dealer at KBB trade-in value of $53K. So he paid over $21 per mile to drive that thing.
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05-01-2009 | 08:14 AM
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8200 here . Thus far modded and issue free .
High mileage folks might share some helpful hints . Anyone cross 50K yet ?
Low mileage cars . Who has resisted driving to preserve it? Any 07's with less than 200 miles ?
The cars , the maintenance. the personalities which range from driving it everywhere to not driving it at all . Hoping for an intereresting thread topic.
High mileage folks might share some helpful hints . Anyone cross 50K yet ?
Low mileage cars . Who has resisted driving to preserve it? Any 07's with less than 200 miles ?
The cars , the maintenance. the personalities which range from driving it everywhere to not driving it at all . Hoping for an intereresting thread topic.
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05-01-2009 | 08:19 AM
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About 16,800 in 14 months including 13 track days and another 12-14 planned for this year.
These cars are depreciating assets. No real reason to not use them. They also tend to get better with more miles so far as I can tell.
These cars are depreciating assets. No real reason to not use them. They also tend to get better with more miles so far as I can tell.
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05-01-2009 | 09:48 AM
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3900 miles in 4 months. Also not my daily driver, but lot's of weekend trips to nowhere. One DE already and another planned in three weeks. Caught the mod bug early, Tubi exhaust, IPD plenum, EVOMSit.
