JRRSA

Given mileage and condition, $56K is way too low. Tell him you checked current values and made an error.

fpb111

You have the car you like. Why consider selling it?

Signalmtb

agree with those comments about NOT doing it if you think you can find a $40'ish car, pocket the change and be just as happy. You'll never have that pristine example, and you'll spend more trying to get one back. Trust me, I just went through this on a different make.

"02996ttx50

my experience with a low mileage car was that i had to have many of the known "failure points" of the car repaired while it was still in "shakedown cruise mode"..( - 30k miles )

while my decently modded 2nd tt that was worth 20k "less" and now approaches 140k miles has been virtually trouble free ( with the exception of a few unexpected if not easy to deal with issues )

so while i sometimes miss the "pristine" paint and overall condition of my lower mileage example, ( also why i'm keeping an eye open for a *depreciated* 991.2 c2s lol ) i forget about that instantly whenever i smash thru canyons with relative impunity.

no one ever drives a cream puff, as they do a track tested porsche turbo. or not for "long", anyway.

seems to me any decison like this all hinges upon what your daily ( or weekend ) primary usage of the car is ( or ) will be.

if a garage queen is what you want? you'll never have one for 40k and what good is an "extra" 20k in your pocket?! not much lol.

FRUNKenstein

As "02996ttx50 says, if you want a garage queen, then keep it. Personally, I like a car you can, you know, drive. I'd sell it for as much as you can get for it now. Then, when the market dips after Labor Day, grab a nice one for $40k (that you won't mind putting 5k+ miles a year on) and do something really cool with the extra $20k. But to each his own.

"02996ttx50

agree, it's true and a fairly important consideration. huge difference btw a "driver" and a museum piece as to what you can, or will want to do, with the car.

TT Surgeon

I'd keep what you got, the devil you know....

mark_schnell

As a data point for comparison, I just paid $48k for a 2001 996TT with 40k miles and some tasteful mods - lowered Bilstein PSS9 suspension, X50/GT2 turbos and associated equipment with tune (didn't come with factory X50), powder-coated turbo-twist II rims. Otherwise, stock, with working rear spoiler. There were several prospective buyers at $46k sight-unseen. The other cars on Autotrader in that price range had more miles, weird wheels, decals, mods, etc.

As a buyer, I was looking for a fun car with low miles that's both entertaining and a potential investment. A car with 20k miles, to me, would not have been worth $8k more, since the miles I would put on it in the next 5 years will wash the difference between a 40k-mile-car and a 20k-mile-car, unless I never drove the 20k-car. That's not me.
IMHO, rare is the buyer that won't drive the car at all.



That said, if I were you, I'd ask for $56k USD to start the negotiation for a 20k mile car.

What I would suggest is that anyone pondering sale of their 996TT research the market on cars.com, Autotrader, and similar sites. I didn't bother researching any site where ads are free, since I feel like sellers there have no motivation to ask a reasonable market price.