'02 Civic Si Should I buy??? List of Mod's

[tbohar]

I stumbled upon this today: FS/FT: 2002 Honda Civic SI EP3 Maryland $6500obo

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[gearbox]

i would just wait til he is in a position to sell it. theres no reason to pay more when if you wait a few months he will be begging you to buy it for 10k lol.

[SiSTEALTH]

Originally Posted by tbohar

I stumbled upon this today:

FS/FT: 2002 Honda Civic SI EP3 Maryland $6500obo

Thanks for showing that man. There is only a few problems with this though. 1) I don't know this guy, so I can't fully trust the mod's like I can with my friends car. Or even if there was something that went wrong with the car in the past.
2)The mod's on his car aren't in the best shape, so I would need to have them fixed or replaced, which would cost me money to do. My friends car is in PRISTINE-like brand new car-condition.
3)This guy is need dire need to sell this si, unlike my friend. So this guy's pretty much taking what he can get due to the sucky economy.

Thanks for that tho, will be considering it.

[SiSTEALTH]

Originally Posted by gearbox

i would just wait til he is in a position to sell it. theres no reason to pay more when if you wait a few months he will be begging you to buy it for 10k lol.

Lol. I don't think that is going to happen anytime soon. He has another car that he uses as his daily driver/winter car. Plus, in my case, when you don't have a car and you are living in dorms on an Air Force Base, then you kinda need a car, especially since the city is about a 10-15 min drive away. And getting stuck in the dorms everyday sucks, I've been doing it for the last 6 months lol. Besides that when he first got the car in '05 when it had around 10k miles on it, I fell in love with it, and I literally almost fell to my knees when he said he would let me buy the car.

If I get the car, I will be putting around 5k down on it. I live in the dorms and I eat for free, so I would have no other expenses other than the car. I did some math and after the down payment, with my current salary I would be able to pay the car off in way under a year with PLENTY of money left over for the year (this is including insurance, etc.)

Also like I said earlier, in response to tbohar, I went on autrader and looked at Si's being sold ACROSS THE COUNTRY. The price of my friends si seems like it is falling right in line with pretty much all the other si's being sold. Most of them,stock, are being sold for about 9k-10k. So according to autotrader, my friend is only making about 3k off of his mod's, which sounds bout right. It was my friends idea that I research this anyway.

sorry if it sounds like im being difficult. I'm just trying to deliver all the facts while soaking in the advice.

[tbohar]

You have to remember that autotrader prices are a bit jacked too with expectancy for the price to drop... at least a bit. Nobody really pays full price for a car. You can find a not-as-nice SI civic for a lot cheaper. It seems like you have your mind made up though. But it does seem like there are a lot of people that think its too much. Can't argue with numbers!

Just remember. It's up to you and your situation. Nobody here knows how much money you have or can afford to spend. So it's entirely up to you! All we do here is try to give you our opinion! It's the best we can do, the decision is ultimately yours!

Best of luck to you!

[gearbox]

just buy it if you really want. 10k is not that bad for a modded civic si.

[GreenMachineDX]

I know right....