Looking to buy another Audi - like the V8?

[superba]

Hi All,

Can't help but comment here because I've been looking for months now and
want to pass on some information that may have been overlooked.

First, the V8 Turbo where the asking price is about $8K and it's worth $17K.
Look at the Blue Book site.  Pricing a used car is divided into 2 sections,
trade in value and retail value.  What a car is _really_ worth under most
circumstances is _trade_in_value_.  To qualify for retail a car must have
been refurbed by a dealer and have other value added work done;  read the
Blue Book site on this;  it describes it well.

So, when I see "it's worth $17K but I'll sell for $8K" I chuckle because
less than $8K is what a dealer has offered the seller.

Before I get flamed big time, I freely admit that many cars exceed the trade
in value easily  e.g. Dan Hamren's car on AutoTrader where he lists enough
stuff to make it worth 2X what he's asking, besides it's tornado red.

Second, use the free carfax report to the fullest.  Most of the cars I've
evaluated on Carfax have dubious backgrounds.  Born in Michigan, moved to
NJ, thence to Arizona, etc.  I'd be particularly suspicious of a car that
has gone a significant amount of time without having been registered.  Or,
perhaps that had 100K miles in 5 years and suddenly only 2K in 3 years.
Picky, maybe, but if I'm going to be supporting the sucker for the
foreseeable future, I want to know where it's been and what it was doing.

Many thanks to the lister that listed the URL's that show some of the Audi
models cross referenced.  Most of us know type 43 and 44 but that's where we
get into gray areas.

My .0175 worth.

Cheers!

Jim Jordan
Type 43 > 310K miles