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I'm looking for a new car and found this EP3 from a local dealer. The Carfax is clean. One owner. 10,792 miles. $17,900.

I've never owned a Honda before. Just looking to see if this is a good deal or not. It's a 2004 so having only 10,700 miles is a little odd but the carfax is clean. I was looking at new 07 EX's but this seems like a much better deal.

Thanks for any info.

 

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I'm looking for a new car and found this EP3 from a local dealer. The Carfax is clean. One owner. 10,792 miles. $17,900.

I've never owned a Honda before. Just looking to see if this is a good deal or not. It's a 2004 so having only 10,700 miles is a little odd but the carfax is clean. I was looking at new 07 EX's but this seems like a much better deal.

Thanks for any info. </TD></TR></TABLE>


Seems like alot.

I bought my 03 with 15k miles back in May. I paid $13.5k

 

I agree with the other poster--$18k seems high -- very high, in fact -- even for a low mileage car. But, that said, prices for clean, unabused used EPs are increasing. A similar car -- black, 14k mi., one-owner '04 -- was advertised two weekends ago in <U>The Washington Post</U> for $15k. It sold in a day. What makes that all the more remarkable is the fact that it was the first EP advertised for sale in <U>The Post</U> in the past <U>three months</U>.

Your guess is as good as mine as to what's moving retail prices up. My hunch is that the demand for '06 and '07 Si's (at MSRP and then some) is pulling up the '02-'05s. That and the fact that all used Hondas sell well.

But $18k is steep. Six months ago, I would have said $14k was a fair price. Now, maybe $15k for an excellent car. More than that, I'd look elsewhere.

 

I paid 18k flat for mine brand new from the dealer in 04, that's def a lot for a used one.

....although, as a current ep3 owner, its pleasing to see used ones selling for that much

 

Civic hatchbacks have always sold briskly. When I bought my second '86 hatch in 1995, I called its owner at about 8:00 on the morning of the new classified listings. By the time I drove out there to take a look in person at 10 AM, three other people had also called about the car. I had first dibs, though, since I called first.

I used to skim the classifieds for used cars, and most Hondas, especially hatchbacks, never sat around for long. Hatches were always gone within the week they got listed.

I agree, though, that ~18K is pretty high for a used EP. Saying to look elsewhere or to wait might not get you anywhere, though, since not many EP's are out there in the first place. Hopefully they'll negotiate to a lower, more reasonable price.

 

i bought my 04 si brand new for $17,000, think u should be able to find one at a cheaper price

 

i bought my 2004 ep3 brand new for 15,500 im pretty sure you can find a cheaper one..