Maxima Forums - View Single Post - 30k a good price for a used loaded 2009 maxima with 5,000 miles

lightonthehill · 07-01-2009, 02:59 AM

An '09 with the Premium and Tech (nav) packages (and splash guards and mats) has an MSRP between $39K and $40K, and can be had from some dealers for around $34.5K, which is the figure we will use for evaluating this deal. A few dealers will go lower than that, but some won't go that low. So, in effect, you are giving up 5K miles for $4.5K dollars. If the car was not abused during those 5K miles, you will be doing well.

Looking at it another way, assuming this Maxima will be good for around 150K miles, you will be saving around 1/7th of the price of the car by giving up approximately 1/30th of the usable mileage. Great deal!

But then the 'glass half empty' crowd might say that only 36K of the mileage is under warranty, so you would be giving up 1/7th of the warranted mileage in return for 1/7th off the price. But even looking at it in that very negative way, you do no worse than break even.

If everything checks out (and do check every function of this baby very carefully), and the car has not been abused, this sounds like a good deal. You have security in that there is still 31K miles left under warranty; even more on the power train.

07-01-2009, 02:59 AM	#3
lightonthehill Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: a meadow south of Atlanta iTrader: (0) Posts: 3,848	An '09 with the Premium and Tech (nav) packages (and splash guards and mats) has an MSRP between $39K and $40K, and can be had from some dealers for around $34.5K, which is the figure we will use for evaluating this deal. A few dealers will go lower than that, but some won't go that low. So, in effect, you are giving up 5K miles for $4.5K dollars. If the car was not abused during those 5K miles, you will be doing well. Looking at it another way, assuming this Maxima will be good for around 150K miles, you will be saving around 1/7th of the price of the car by giving up approximately 1/30th of the usable mileage. Great deal! But then the 'glass half empty' crowd might say that only 36K of the mileage is under warranty, so you would be giving up 1/7th of the warranted mileage in return for 1/7th off the price. But even looking at it in that very negative way, you do no worse than break even. If everything checks out (and do check every function of this baby very carefully), and the car has not been abused, this sounds like a good deal. You have security in that there is still 31K miles left under warranty; even more on the power train.