Think I finally found my car (long)

JohnnyDaJackal · 05-06-05, 04:06

I've been searching for 00-01 Maximas for quite some time now. Given all the options/color/mileage and price I wanted, I think it would be almost impossible to find the exact car I wanted. With that in mind I'm willing to make some compromises. So the beginning of this week, I see a very big Nissan dealer in the town over had a couple of Maximas. So I look online(on cars.com) and see they have an 01 SE gray lustre with only 27k miles. I know its to good to be true and with the prices I've seen from the place b4 I figured it'd be way to much $. Anyway I was bored Monday afternoon so decided to take a ride with my bro just to check the car out. The guy like every salesperson immediately starts dropping a hundred questions on me when I just wanted to look and sit in the car. He finally got the hint and opened it up for me. It was pretty nice, I really liked the paint had awesome flake and was in pretty good shape. Even though it didn't have leather the cloth wasn't bad at all. At this point i'm not goin to go crazy for leather. Only thing I didn't like was no sunroof

. So anyway we sneak out while the guy is with another customer and I'm looking at their website later that night. That Max was going for $16,900. I decide just for fun to make an online offer of $13k and of course someone responds me back tellin me they have other Maximas. With that I decided to continue my search.
Well today I wanted to get the value of it and while i'm on the site noticed they dropped the price to $14,900. At this point im done looking for cars and if I can get this car down to $13-14 I think i'm just going to buy it. Hopefully it won't go anywhere cuz this weekend I'm busy but after Tuesday I'll be officially done with school

Just though i'd share a little afternoon excitement.
Here's the link if anyone is interested...
http://www.lynnesnissan.com/used_veh...98dc190ec0abf8

PrinzII · 05-06-05, 05:17

Take a look at this '02 for $12,995.

http://www.lynnesnissan.com/used_veh...6354847713a92f

...and this '03

http://www.lynnesnissan.com/used_veh...31f9192b60ec07

JohnnyDaJackal · 05-06-05, 05:51

I looked at both of them Prinz. The 02-03 w/ HID was more in insurance due to where I live. I'm really not crazy for the teal color, I'm mainly lookin for the gray lustre, but i'd take a sterling mist. The second I remember being pretty beat up looking in the inside. You can tell the second one had HIDs but must of had them stolen because its got 00-01 headlights in it.

guapsnaman · 05-06-05, 06:09

Hey, good luck with your search. I'm sure that you'll be very pleased with your purchase once you find the right Maxima.

VQ POWER!!!

SilverBelle04 · 05-07-05, 02:49

Looks good...As long as you won't regret not having the 30 extra more or less horses or so under the hood of the 02 +

Bob

JohnnyDaJackal · 05-07-05, 07:40

Bob: I think it runs in my family but were all slow drivers, and since I got into an accident last year, I'm extra cautious now. I think having the 00-01 Maxima would be more then enough power for me.

PrinzII · 05-07-05, 08:01

I forgot you are in NJ and they swipe the HIDs like crazy over there. Yeah, insurance will kill you big time.

Speaking of a Maxima search, I think I have found mine as well.

JohnnyDaJackal · 05-07-05, 09:15

Awesome hope everything goes well for the both of us. Those Titanium Maxs are so hot, I just love that color on any car. There was one under the classifieds on maxima.org that was in NY, seemed pretty nice and a decent price, I just didn't like all the aftermarket stuff they put on it.

atticdog · 05-07-05, 09:18

Maximas are a great car
I really liked my 99 Max except for having to pay extra for premium unleaded with todays gas prices

JohnnyDaJackal · 05-07-05, 11:50

I was looking at the link again seeing if it had anything about a warranty and saw I get a free carfax with the vehicle. So I click the link and see it was leased to some sort of fleet. What exactly does this mean and should be I concerned about it?
Heres the link
http://www.carfax.com/cfm/ccc_Displa...&partner=DLR_3
If it doesn't work you can click the link in my first post and click Free Carfax History Report.
Thanks in advance for any insight.

PrinzII · 05-07-05, 11:12

Did you test drive it yet?