Kelly Blue Book is fine if you have a 5 year or less old car but there is nothing like real world ads to see what others are asking. Check Craigs list and Ebay Motors for your particular location. Read those ads every day for your particular car and it won't be long before you know it's value.
With that kind of mileage, if it needs any work at all you will be lucky to get an offer. Even if everything works and there is nothing need doing the mileage will frighten off 99 percent of buyers unless you have something like a pickup truck, which are always saleable, or a MBZ , PORCHE or some other esoteric vehicle, or a classic like a 69 Dodge Charger R/X.
Other then that you will probably sell to some guy with a few hundred dollars who needs a reliable car to drive to work and back.... assuming yours is a reliable running car. If somebody offered me anything for a car with that kind of mileage I would take it. And if you find you can't sell it and just need to get rid of it there is always salvage.
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Anthony Q. Martin <[email protected]>wrote: > Anyone get any experience doing it yourself? > > Car as ~220k, everything works, needs typical maintenance for such a car. > Interior is in great shape (leather), moonroof, stereo. > > I think if I wanted to do this work, I could get 400k from this car. It > takes the road very well, but after 12 years I'm ready for a new car. Oh, I > have a 80mile/day highway commute, which is why it has high miles. > > Ideas? Not looking to get rich, but also don't want to get ripped off. >
