coupefrv

Really appreciate the feedbacks guys. So $66,895 was the price from last week and now they've lowered it to $65,935 as you can see on their website. The salesman I'm talking to was able to get $1.2k additional discount, but their dealer doc and other fees are almost $2.5k total and hence all add up to around $71.5k. It's outrageous but I heard this is not unusual in FL?

As for the wrap, I really hate it too but they have already taken it off to double check the area so the look is not a concern anymore. Not sure what to do because it's really hard to find a CPO S in this price range. How much should I offer if I were to buy it?

gobble

Better that the car is white now but it still has those black wheels which probably doesn’t look nice. I wonder why they still have the black pictures posted?

With the accident history I personally wouldn’t offer over $50k for this car. Do a quick look and see what carvana would offer for this VIN with the mileage and accident history. That’s probably a good starting point.

You also need to build their dealer fees into the price you offer. That’s an outrageous number. Their asking price is really $68,435 when you add the made up fees.

Zhao

I'm living a bit in the past for prices but it's really hard for me to get over the fact that they're asking for basically what that car cost new and it's 7 years old and one of the poorer examples of a 718 out there, and usually cayman S's depreciate like crazy and had good discounts when new. 2 years ago you could have had a 981 GT4 for that price. 2 years ago you could have still had a new Cayman S for that price.

As far as today's prices are concerned, I still think that car is just a bad buy. You're looking at it to save money, but IMO it's going to cost you far more on teh back end when you go to sell it then spending more money on something better upfront. You'll never sell that car privately IMO so it's going to be a dealer trade in. 4 owners, accident history, probably some rough edges we can't see in pictures... I bet after our era of high demand low supply cars when things go more normalish Porsche dealers will wholesale that thing as far away from their lot as possible. You definitely have other options in florida that are better from what I see for similar money, like the carmine red one at a merc dealer (another terrible interior color imo but it looks like a way better car to me) or go out of state.

There are people on here that will go check out a car for you if you're not wasting their time, or even if you are. I know I would as long as I had the time.

coupefrv

Thank you for your advice. You made great points. Yeah I think I’m gonna walk away from it. Back to the search…

manifold danger

We get it, we know you don't like black as a color on cars.

What I'm still unsure of is why you're fervently pressing the issue of the colors and what does or doesn't "look nice", when color choice is entirely subjective. We all try to be helpful on these boards, but persecuting color choice is the opposite of helpful.

I get that the wrap is a huge turn-off, but would you believe that some people actually like black cars?

Run screaming from this car. Between the accident history, the wrap, and the objectively bad config, no one should buy this car.

To be clear, I say "objectively bad config" after ranting about how we shouldn't apply our personal tastes when giving advice... because this car is a bad config. As Zhao already pointed out above, it's like someone did some research on what options are popular, and made sure not to select a single one. Even if you did buy it and have many happy miles in it, you'd have a really hard time clawing money back from it when you ever did look to move on from it.

There has to be a better one out there for you.

ldamelio

With the updated info, put me in the hard no camp also. Reasons have already been elaborated by others. Even in the current market, that's a $60k car at best all in. In a year if the market corrects, it will be a $40k car. Run don't walk.

jzcrna

OP Go to the Porsche website and look at the CPO Cayman/Boxters within a defined radius of your area. There are many better options.

orclean1

STAY AWAY as everyone commented don't buy a car that's been in a accident

NoVACayman

While I agree that the current market is stupid, even before covid, you couldn't get this car for anywhere near $40k. Base 718s were still in the high 40s, closer to $50k.

coupefrv

Thanks guys

ldamelio

We're on the same page. Pre-pandemic, my 2018 S (sticker 82, paid 78) hit a nadir of about 49k on KBB trade in, maybe 52 private sale. It 'recovered' to almost MSRP. I haven't checked lately. My comments about the car that is the subject of this thread were predicated on two things:

1) the used 718 market returning to pre-pandemic
2) this particular car is particularly undesireable (accident hx, multiple owners, spec, wrap, etc)

I think it will be in the high 40's FMV a year from now.