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My last question is about Car dealers. Is it unusual for a dealer to trade straight up for another car or cars. I know it sounds crazy but I kinda want to trade my Accord for an 07' v6 accord or an 04' Acura TSX. These cars I have found are about 22k OTD. Would any dealer trade me straight across for a 2006 Accord and a 2000 mercury sable, both in excellent condition? The Blue book adds both these cars up to about 22k. Am I crazy or should i stick with my current (damaged goods) accord. I need some reassurance from some experts here please! Am I just too picky?

as a matter of fact, the car dealers will inspect all areas of your trade... advice Bring the Accord in first, Honda's hold value a thousand times better than Mercury. The best idea is to always sell by owner. Because you will never get book value for your trade from the dealer. Reasons, book value deals with value of the car, but not region. Region is what part of the nation you live in (I know you're thinking "duh!") it refers to the area as its accident level. For instance, natural disaster, and traffic volume and accident level, and if you're close to the ocean, the salt in the rain fall causes the paint to deaden. The dealer will inspect the car top to bottom. You won't be able to lie about anything because they carfax the car. If you do not have all papers showing scheduled maintenance and documents, or didn't take it back to the dealership fo its tune-ups, this kills value dramatically. Your carfax report will yeild any maintenance, accidents, fender benders, ANYTHING reported on that VIN#.The paint must be in showroom condition, which means flawless, no major scratches or scuffs. I suggest getting a full top to bottom detail before trying to get it appraised. Dealers are crooks, they work their whole career trying to steal from you as much as possible and make you pay as much as possible. For example, if your car you think is worth 20K. To them they think it's worth 10K. Once they swindle you enough, and achieve the car, they sell it for 24K or more. And make that whole profit, INCLUDING what they boosted you up in the price. I am a former Honda sales rep. (now in Real Estate).Would recommend thisetail the car (inside and out) *Professionally*Take and gather all information to the car (tune-ups, etc.)take the best pictures possibleebay, autotrader, etc. sell it this way.You will get your value, not some crooks value.Research the crap out of the car of your choice, look for the invoice on this car. The dealer has to sell at invoice (if you are aware of it) EXCEPT: If this is known as a "hot buy" they will not allow this invoice sale. Right now, the Fit, CRV, & Civic are all "hot buys".The TSX is an excellent choice, never settle however, go for a slightly used TSX 06. You will get the most out of this buy. Reasons, this buy will be smartest because of the value stored. For instance, you buy brand new, you lose 2K as soon as you drive off the lot. You buy used, the value stays the same, and depreciates as time goes on. Best investment is the Acura, reasons why? The Acura, even though still a Honda, is better known as a "high end" Honda, so it's value stays strong with the Honda rep. and stays longer with the Acura luxury, and Acura rep.I certainly hope this helps!

There are way too many variables to provide a straight solution. One thing I can assure you about - a sable is more like a ballast to the deal. See if you can sell it yourself.

the dealership will always give you less for your trade in than what it is worth, because they want to resell it and make a profit on it as well as the money for the new vehicle they sell you, so the way i figure it is that the only way they will trade straight across, is if the vehicle you are trading in is worth at least 3 thousand more than the car you are trading in on..