Hi guys, this is my first post ever in the ITR forum and hope that it may just be the first of many. anyways, here's my question that I need advice from other R owners:

I have the chance to buy a 00 black ITR #0413 it has 87,000 miles on it and has new spark plugs, aem cai, dc 4-1 and a T1R titanium exhaust and H&R coilovers and a spare set of TSW rims. with all these mods the owner is asking 16,500$ firm. He is however, offering to sell the car without the mods (he will take them off) and sell the car in a 'stock' form for 15,900$

I currently drive a 2002 RSX with 21,000 miles that I'm sure I can sell for at least 14.5K$.

So my question to you R owners is, do you think it's worth it to buy this Type R with this much milage and sell my car?

What's the mileage other R owners on thier 2000 R's have? any problems that many of you guys encountered (mechanical problems) once your R got into those higher milage ranges?

I plan to keep the R as my Daily driver and the occasional recreational road course event.

I know I can wait for the possibility of another offer, but where I live, in Colorado, it's very rare to see a Type R, let alone find one for sale.

any input, advice is greatly appreciated and I thank you guys for your time in reading this.
-Laurence

 

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If it's in good shape, yeah, it sounds reasonable. Make sure he's done all the maintenance (timing belt/waterpump at 60k, etc.).

Here's one that sold in a few days on Autotrader. '00, 76k miles, $16,000.
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1162265
It was a good deal considering the maintenance was top-notch. It did have a lot of track miles, but the R seems to like it that way.

If you can get it for $16,500 and get all the OEM parts with it too, that's a good deal.

 

$16,500 is not too bad...even though it IS a FBP

Seriously, I'd definately get it checked out before hand (by a mechanic, carfax, etc.) If all checks out, I'd dump the RSX for an R. And for $600 more than what you can get it for stock, it would be worth it to get all the AM parts. Good luck.

 

My R is nearing 75k miles (many of these being track miles) and I've never experienced one problem :knocks on wood:. As long as all the maintenance was done correctly and the oil was changed on the proper intervals i would say $16.5 is a steal

 

P nut, Jaa1311, thanks for the input, I appreciate it very much

 

The price is not bad...

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But I would not keep it as a daily driver. It wont be a matter of if it gets stolen, but when. Buy a cheap beater car and make it your primary car on your insurance policy to go along with the R. Thats just my .02

 

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I respectfully disagree. My R is a jack of all trades.

Of course, it depends on the location. Various parts of the west coast are pretty rough. My particular neck of the woods isn't very theft prone.

 

i would buy it. with all the parts. i mean the exhaust is already worth 600 bucks.

 

I'd say go shop around. 87k is alot of miles to be spending $16.5 even with the mods. You could probably buy a 00 S2000 with less than half those miles for a few grand more. Or you could buy my 2001 R with 42k on it with no mods for $20k. That's less than half the miles and a year newer for only $3500 more.

Seriously, i'd offer him $15k with the mods. Just my 2 cents...

 

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But I would not keep it as a daily driver. It wont be a matter of if it gets stolen, but when. Buy a cheap beater car and make it your primary car on your insurance policy to go along with the R. Thats just my .02


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Be carefull making the R your secondary. My girlfriend and I tried that with State Farm and they wern't going to have it. We wanted to make a Civic primary and the R secondary and they wouldn't allow it for loss reasons. The R became our daily driver after that and then it got stolen from a place we typically wouldn't have driven it.

I think he is asking too much for the car. Shop around, be willing to travel. I took a chance on mine. Bought it on eBay from a guy in TN and i'm in WA. If it didn't have the great description it did and a phone number so I could call him I probably wouldn't have bought it. It had 122000 miles and I got it for $10,100. There was absolutely nothing wrong with it. Ran great. Honda's run forever. Honestly I wouldn't pay more than $14500 (or so) for his car in stock form.