Want the best resale value? Take off your mods. Replace with stock parts. Sell car as “clean”. Sell mods later. Theres a guy selling a lambo door, full carbon body panel supercharged SCION TC for 40k near me and it’s laughable. Dude won’t even get 10k for it 😂
RIGHT??? That's the thing with Facebook Marketplace is how DELUSIONAL some MF's selling modded cars are. "I spent $30K mods on the car, so it adds $30K value" like hell nahhh
I remember some years ago a local car dealership near me had a pimp-my-ride looking Peugeot 206 like full body kit, inch off the ground, lambo doors, stage 2-ish tune, pearl paint, the works. The paint and the fiberglass were starting to show cracks, clearly a relic of the Fast & the Furious years. Because it was a legit dealership I figured it might be a fun beater for cheap, so I stopped to ask. €20k. My brother in Christ, twenty WHAT NOW?!
@@X-Kittle Not necessarily, you can still take mods off OR just sell to a fellow car guy, but that's a small 10% of total car buyers, so selling may take much longer.
@@BladedAngel Yup take mods off, list it as "Bone stock never modded" and screw over the buyer. I have yet to see anyone that modded a car, returned it to stock, then fessed up that it was modded previously. Considering a lot of people out there abuse their modded car, are relaxed on maintenance, then discard it like it was a fun one night stand leaves the buyer ignorant to the potential ticking time bomb. Not saying this is always the case, but it happens quite a bit.
@@valkator Then don't list it as never modded. Also, I've never met anyone (I'm 40, I've met a TON of people in my life) with a modded car that was relaxed on maintenance. Abusing a modded car, that's a different story but car folks that actually take time to mod their cars, actual mods, not amazon wing and stickers, do take maintenance much more seriously than you'd think.
Rule number 1 is to take off all the mods before reselling. Noone wants a car owned by an enthusiast. I want the previous owner to be a nice older couple that doesnt even know how the engine sounds above 4000 rpm.
@phantomaviator1318 doesn't matter. I don't know whether you are a careful enthusiast or a reckless one, all I know the car was driven harder on average.
@@roadrunner6224you should do some pulls on your engine from time to time (you can do it on neutral, don't do it in gear if you don't want to go fast)
@@roadrunner6224 A car that is rarely reved above 4000 rpm is actually damaging the car. You need to hit higher rpm, not redline, from time to time to help with clogged cats to name one particular issue. That's car maintenance 101.
It still surprises me that people try to sell their cars with lights that make it look like a 100 dollar gaming PC off of AliExpress, please save yourself
IDK why having lights on your pc made it a trend to make believe you're a gamer, my younger brother has RGB everything including the damn FANS of the PC!!!!! his BED has RGB lights like bro chill use some actual sun light!!
@@GuyWithBeardButNoMoustache i have rgb fans because they just look good. I can make them whatever color i want. Just ads a bit more colore to a plain white pc
I saw a guy at a meet with LEDs on his scion frs, one strip in the hood and the whole underglow package, I associated him with a stereotype but out of guilt I told myself he probably did more to this car than that. So I went and asked him kindly, “hey what have you done to this car?” And he basically confirmed the stereotype: he’s done nothing to the car but the LEDs. And “plans to stage 2 the engine” whatever that means
Bald tires suggest a lack of maintenance care, sure if you're moding your car you're probably also maintaining it properly dor the most part, but bald tires are very visible not maintained components which is a concern.
If you’re modding your car to a degree of more than bolt on + tune. At that point you’d better be “monogamous” to your car. That’s your car till death do you part. At least, that’s how I do my car. I’m modding it to a degree that I can’t just revert it (full internal rework on the engine). She’s mine now, simple as.
Just need to realize that you will NOT recoup any of the money spent on the mods if you go to resell it and will probably even take a loss versus if those mods were not there. Then again, if they are internal, you don't even need to report them to the potential buyer.........
@@Zympt No I didn't. The person is just saying they are modifying the car internally to the point it is a huge investment. That doesn't mean you can't move on later and take the loss on all that money invested.
The inverse of the tire thing is true too though, put new tires with good tread on your car and that's a selling point! Non car people will appreciate the convenience of not needing to get new tires, so you can add the cost of tires to your asking price and sell the car quicker. Bonus points if the car also comes with a full set of winter tires on steelies in addition to the new regular tires.
Where I live, underglow and any other non-required lights are actually illegal to have activated while driving on public roads, so they are purely for showing off when you are not on the road.
I love it when I see (visually) clapped out Honda Civics listed at idiotic prices, because it's a "special car" or "JDM". Like bro, the engine is still BONEstock, BONEEEEstock. Nothing has been done to the engine(bay), but you do have an ugly splitter and a removable steering wheel (so no airbags)? What's wrong with you? Love your videos man, and glad to see that you're back and have beaten c.cer
One thing about engine bay lights - clean, white, switched lights can be a lifesaver if you ever need to open the hood at night. My dad put some in his truck, and even though they don’t get used often, they sure can be handy when we need them.
@headxplosion If you see professional drift events, they're all over the place, lol And Atlas Tires (the one sponsoring Naoto Suenaga's Z in Formula Drift Japan) is also a brand from them.
8:00 if your buying a car thats maintenance heavy if they cant be bothered to put on good tires and brakes they probably missed big stuff like transmission and timing service
Or people like me buy a 1000 dollar winter beater and drove better than the average driver on new tires. So we don't car think what you want. Pay 900-1000 for my rig or go buy the same thing for 3000 elsewhere and I'll scrap the rig I don't care what you think.
@ i drive n old mk6 golf and i treat it way better than it deserves cause i put fancy michlin defenders and liqui moly oil every 3k miles idc if its worth 3kusd i put the best parts on it no compromise
Basically this is happening in used bike market in India, they will charge absurd amount just because that bike have a first copy or original after market exhaust and expect us to pay that. That's just insane
Tire condition is so telling of the overall condition of the car, a wear item that you need to change 4-6 years on an average car not being maintened really brings up other questions. What else havent been done? Is the car even aligned properly? Did they do basic maintenance?
Some cars desperatelly Ask for new exaust tho My neighbour has a 2009 4L V6 mustang, but when they got it, they changed the small exaust to the one of the GT, now it sounds perfect
People think that cars will appreciate the same way as their 401k or stock portfolio. It's such a sad way to live. God forbid it goes one more mile and the value plummets.
Worry over resale has ruined car prices? How exactly does that work? Most people aim to keep their car for about 5 years, so resale is important. No one wants to drop 5k in mods and then end up selling their car for 2k below market because it looks like something out of a F&F fever dream. You've just lost 7k because yolo lmao I'm 25 and I think looking cool to pre-teen boys on insta is worth it lol lmao
I've got spyder headlights on my daily. Instead of cutting the harness I just went and bought a pigtail that plugs directly into my running/turn signal and have the headlight accessories run off my running light. That way if I sell it the next owner can just unplug them and replace for stock if they prefer that
As someone who has friends and family members that work in the car insurance industry, nearly ALL aftermarket mods depreciate your car's resale value. If you actually want to maximize resale value, you either put the stock parts back on or replace them with OEM parts or upgraded OEM parts. The amount of stories my friends tell me of customers trying to file insurance claims and getting angry after finding out that their mods don't increase the value of the car is endless.
if you’re car is anything from the 80’s and early 90’s japanese make KBB is a lie. They say a Supra is like a $7k car and the 240sx is $3k. I don’t even think $3k can get you a rotted out shell for a 240 on Facebook.
thank you for saying this, Ive had to tell people "mods dont increase value when you sell the car" when their selling their cars for 40k+ for a civic or smth. or the bodykit one is so real, I dont even dare put a bodykit on my car because you have to put holes in the quarter panels (rear fenders) and I legit dont care what car it is, YOU CANT REPLACE QUARTER PANELS atleast not without cutting and rewelding the the chassis parts back together which most people dont understand that you cant unscrew those quarter panels.
I agree that 90% of buyers are non car people, maybe even more than that, but this is a video ment for car guys right? And i feel like 90% of us has a car, no matter the value, that will most likely appeal to other car guys soo yes of course i always suggest no matter what you do keep the oem version of what you change, but i also think that there is a bit more tolerance of tasteful mods. But more or less, any mods you do hardly increase the value of the car
Yeah lmao no non car person is going to be interested in buying any of my Mr2’s so this is all pointless. “Wow this 2 seater 40 year old car the size of modern kei cars will be perfect for my daily”
@@Malice_dollthat's how I feel. Like a civic I can see a regular non car person looking at but who the hell is gonna look at a Miata? It's either gonna be grandpa going through a midlife crisis or a car person there is no in between
One example of car mods that don't give you any money in return usually with cheaper cars is rims, many people here sell the rims separately and put some cheapos or worst of all tells buyer to bring his own rims.
Well, this is probably because they had relatively expensive rims, that worth to be resold in separate. Replacing them with simple steeles - its ok, but asking buyer to bring their own wheels - this is weird.
i cannot stress enough how annoying ppl selling with bald/worn out tires. And it frustrates me even more having it happen to my dad a few years back. Luckly he noticed the tires and tried to bring down the price, wich it worked and then dorve very carefully home. To no one's surprise the very next moment he came back home we ordered a new set of tires. Yet it shouldn't be a necessary purchase right after aquiring a car in my opinion.
Yeah, some sellers say "do not worry, dude. These are performance radial race tires, 100% contact with surface. You always can buy regular ones if you want".
People selling a used car rarely put new tires on it before selling. So worn tires are part of the used car experience. While being annoyed is your right expecting new tires is rather optimistic if your buying used.
@AK.__ XD. But like man, there sure are stupid people but most are not, yet the still try to lay off their negligence on the buyer. Hope they either never sell the car or sell it to a price so low that it would be more profitable selling it as scrap metal.
@@sportfuryman When I browse for a car on the used market of course I'm not expecting new tires on a car. But they sure need to be within the legal limit of wear that is what I'm expecting. Especially if the car has been driven up to the listing date for sale. I'm not annoyed if the tires are a bit worn or even if they are over half of the usable thread. It infuriates me when the tires are clearly so worn out that it gets dangerous to drive the car and the seller tries to gaslight the buyer saying not to worry or expecting not to enter negotiation with tires as a cause for a lower price. That is what I cannot stand.
I feel like there are rare cases when some cars are modified just right that people would pay even more than a prestine condition stock vehicle. I mean look at BaT 240sx sales history and the highest bid one was an LS7 swapped, Silvia front end converted Drift Car.
Great video and excellent advice. For majority of people, any mechanical mods (do not even mention that you had performance chip) will decrease value of the car.
As someone with a lot of LEDs on my car, I can’t believe someone actually would think it adds value to a sale lol. Absolutely a personal taste “mod” that most would never turn on
I usually replace the OEM exhaust with a stainless one, when asked I have it tuned to "dead quiet". Nobody wants to hear a boring 1.3l 4cyl econobox. Never removed it from the car when I traded it in as a non-obnoxious stainless exhaust is not a bad thing, it saves the next owner maintenance. So suppose it's a 750 euro exhaust, when I get the offer on trade in, I'll try and get an extra 250 or so for it. Realistically it's some sort of value add, both for the new owner and the used car dealer. So yeah it's often not hard to get a handful of tenners for it.
My case, if i ever sell my miata, i got the thing with mismatched rims. Replaced it with more tame, matte black RS watanabe inspired, quality reps. Weren't too expensive, probably devalue to put on what it had originally. Mismatch was both different style and colour. Other bigger mod i did. Can't exactly change. Car had cut suspension. Replaced it with tuneable track coilovers. I got it pretty cheap.
If a car comes with alloy rims.... keep the oem wheels safe at home if u mod it. But for a car with steel rims.. like my frnds honda CR-X del sol.. he got value for d alloys.. but not as much as what he'd get if he sold the rims seperately.
To be fair to Linglong, they're used in pro drift events since they're brave enough to sponsor various drift teams, so I think that's a proof that they could make some quality tires.
Here in Brasil ppl sell modded cars for 2x (sometimes 3x or 4x) the value because they "upgraded" the car. To put the cherry on top, most of them never did basic maintenance
Bladed you might have just solved a huge headache of mine!! I bought a 5.0 S550 in November and that car has been throwing misfire codes at me non-stop, I've taken it to the shop multiple times and changed out the spark plugs and coil packs but still it comes back on, it might have been a tune that was done that I wasn't aware of by the time of sale
Lots of weird statements made in this video that aren't necessarily true, but the tuning bit was really confusing. Out of all the mods you can do to a car that don't appeal to masses a shelf tune is low on the list, shelf tunes are easy to revert, even if you buy a shelf tuned car, replacing the shelf tune won't cost extra so who cares. As far as Dyno tuned cars, nobody is selling a dyno tuned car as a reliable daily to non-car people anyways. The fastest way to devalue resell on your car is by cutting the springs/slamming it, going on a shopping spree at pepboys/autozone, and using spray paint/plastidip on random parts of your car. Honorable mention to amazon ground-fx kits and people who tape christmas lights to their car.
I think the wrx is a bad example of tunes depreciating value since the factory wrx tune isn’t great in terms of reliability and a good tune will get you both performance and reliability improvements for all types of driving. But your point that the tuning device being required for further modding still stands
bought my s2k on ling longs without seeing the tires in the listing because I was gonna switch them regardless. Was laughing my ass off when I brought it home and saw they were there
I said this to a friend before and I always stand by what I said: Never buy modified cars, they are always overinflated and what you are basically buying is almost always tens of thousands of dollars worth of somebody else's problems.
Need to keep a note on stuff like this for future me if i ever do sale I car I don't need anymore. Also to add on, make sure the car is cleaned off when selling it as well. Sure a bit of dirt won't hurt the car, but a car coated in mud and other stuff just won't sit well with the buyer
the first one with the exhaust is soooo true... i bought a suzuki samurai 2 months ago and the aftermarket exhaust is pretty mid. it only drones extremely inside the cabin at 2500rpm and thats it. youre lucky to hit a right spot in rpm and load to hear it in a tunnel. im thinking of ordering the one from fox. ive heard that one should be pretty nice.
I payed 2k for a tuned ECU. Whern I traded the car in I changed out the ECU so I could sell the tuned ECU. When I tried to sell it, I found out that the ECU was locked to the VIN#. That means that it was basically worthless. I might get a hundred bucks for the ECU if someone wants to buy it so they can get it unlocked and get it tuned, instead of paying 350 for a new one. The tuner never told me that when I bought it but was quick to knock me for trying to sell it for 800 bucks. When I commented that I hate the gree in the industry they (lap 3) immediately blocked me from their chat. 😒
You know what i hate the most besides this? Sentimental Value. Like man, if you're selling me a car for let's say 10k fine but the moment you ask for more because of sentimental value, that's where i'll tell you to piss off.
What if the mods are not necessarily performance oriented but more to the tune of better reliability. My 2018 silverado has had 2 rounds of lifter failure. Once under warranty and again not even a week after i purchased the truck. Luckily the dealer covered the repairs. The only thing i have done is cat-back exhaust, closed-box cold air intake from S&B, and a tune to disable the AFM and trans tuning to disable TC lockup until 5th and 6th gear. My fuel economy went up abiut 3mpg on the highway... and much fewer issues than others i have met with a similar truck
You can do mods well, but the problem is that not everyone has that artist's eye. It's kind of like the days of MySpace. If you let people completely customize something, most of them will just make it ugly. Also, lets face it, a lot of modders go cheap. They buy the cheapest part, usually from a sketchy place. Or they do mods the "cheap" way (think just cutting your springs instead of new coil overs). If the mods are actually good then they can raise the value of your car. You'll never make back what you put in though, that's just the life... Take this as a vote for a "good" mods to do to a car video.
Generally when someone is listing a car with mods my first question is if they have the original pieces, cause if they do that just adds value, I get less used original pieces plus when I swap them out I’ll list the mods, and yeah I’ll do it myself, and even if I can’t I’ll just call I guy and invite him over for some beers. So always keep the original Edit: I’ve actually made money buying a car sold with the original parts separate, enjoying it for a couple months and selling it OEM and selling the mods separately
My friend once told me “buy already moded car”. Where is the fun in it? I dont like only driving fast/moded cars. I like to do it step by step myself and create a relationship with the car.
There was this wrx on marketplace with 350k kms for 5500 bucks. Tires were fucked, misfire cause a of a burnt valve supposedly, fucked motor mounts leaked oil(owner denied it) needed an alignment and buddy had another set of tires that were from 2012 and the wrong size. Tried giving my coworker a skater bro discount so it was 4500 bucks but I told my coworker not to bother. The shitty part is that somebody bought the pos. It was pending for a couple weeks and boom it sold
@ doubt it. Probably bought by a dumb kid who didn’t know better. It would take more than the cars worth to fix it using good parts. Even with cheap shit it’ll be expensive.
Before the video starts: exhaust, stickers, wrap, plastidip wheels, lowered, butt plug shifter, carbon fiber decals, missing bumper, unpainted widebody parts. Basically any used Honda in LA
Subwoofers surprisingly ruin the resell value of cars that's why my dad stopped putting subs in his cars. As a car guy who just loves subwoofers especially the SPL competition stuff like Sundown just take out the subs and amps and sell them separately from the car when selling stuff online because non car people get spooked seeing 2 12s in the trunk.
My current project is for me. I'm never going to sell cuz prices are too crazy for me to ever want to start over again. My 300zx didn't come with "oem" parts anyway, it was headed to a pick'n'pull wrecking yard so I got it and a parts car for free.
Agree with all the points Explanation to my fellow car enthusiasts: If you wanna marry somebody you'd ensure that they look normal. No violet hair (neon underglow), piercings (custom headers), low milage (well....don't need to explain this one). You'd just want a simple RELIABLE partner.
For resale value on bike, most real aftermarket part can increase resele value for example, exhaust, carbon fiber part, wheel. (at least from where I'm living)
I keep all my stock parts and throw it into the deal. If they want me to change it I will, but I’m keeping that aftermarket part to sell on Facebook. I had a dude who wanted the oem wheels and tried to low ball me. So I told him I had the oem with some tread. He then wanted to buy the car at what I listed at with the aftermarket wheels. I said nah, 1500 more. Dude said I wouldn’t get that much for them. Sold him the car, few days later sold the wheels for 2.2 🤷♀️
Bugger. I got my 2006 Subaru Forester XT because it had a huge exhaust and went on a dyno. $1,000 more than the next one I didn't look at because my wife said you are getting this one. Bugger is quick and I am not spending money to mod it as the job is done.
where do things like coilovers sit? I had to replace my suspension to get my car fixed, and i upgraded straight to coils and threw out the old suspension as it was shot, and im wondering how that will afect the sale value when i decide to sell it
yeah its true some mods ruin resale value but other factors do as well poor condition high mileage etc. cars that are super common also have lower resale value than rarer ones like a Toyota Camry and a Hyundai Azera/grandeur for example a super low mileage 36,000 2005 Camry LE is worth 5,000 right now due to having high sales that model year 432,000 compared to a 2012 Azera also with extreme low mileage 22,000 though the car only sold 8,432 units that year in the US though dad managed to negotiate the price down by about 15% to $32,450 and due to the extreme rarity of the car only around 200,000 sold in the US over its 19 year production helps with the resale value while for ex a competing car like the Toyota Camry averaged 390,158 units sold in the US from 2005-2024
You see this is where I don't agree with most car guys and I embrace the Bought not built montra Did I modify it myself? Heck no the another guy spent his money, hours of head aches, bloody knuckles, and days of frustration on this car While I drive the finished product " What is the point of buying a car when you can't do anything cool to it?"
Rofl, a lot of these things are not even possible in Germany like underglow on cars or some super annoying exhausts, thanks to the mandatory biennial inspection by certified technicians. You cannot avoid the TÜV (or Dekra...) 😅
tbh, I kinda do the same for selling my tech gadgets or expensive stuff by keeping the packaging, accessories and booklet..... then try to price it a bit higher cuz value
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Want the best resale value? Take off your mods. Replace with stock parts. Sell car as “clean”. Sell mods later.
Theres a guy selling a lambo door, full carbon body panel supercharged SCION TC for 40k near me and it’s laughable. Dude won’t even get 10k for it 😂
RIGHT??? That's the thing with Facebook Marketplace is how DELUSIONAL some MF's selling modded cars are. "I spent $30K mods on the car, so it adds $30K value" like hell nahhh
@ yeah fr bro people need a reality check 😭
The dealer option scion supercharger brings good resale value.
I remember some years ago a local car dealership near me had a pimp-my-ride looking Peugeot 206 like full body kit, inch off the ground, lambo doors, stage 2-ish tune, pearl paint, the works. The paint and the fiberglass were starting to show cracks, clearly a relic of the Fast & the Furious years. Because it was a legit dealership I figured it might be a fun beater for cheap, so I stopped to ask. €20k. My brother in Christ, twenty WHAT NOW?!
ah yes, a comprehensive list of my next mods to my car
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Save your money and skip the custom lights and bold (racing) tires.
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Literally what I was thinking myself
Mods are like getting a tailored suit. Its not off the shelf anymore and it only fits you now.
basically by modding your car you become its permanet owner
@@X-Kittle Not necessarily, you can still take mods off
OR just sell to a fellow car guy, but that's a small 10% of total car buyers, so selling may take much longer.
@@BladedAngel Yup take mods off, list it as "Bone stock never modded" and screw over the buyer. I have yet to see anyone that modded a car, returned it to stock, then fessed up that it was modded previously. Considering a lot of people out there abuse their modded car, are relaxed on maintenance, then discard it like it was a fun one night stand leaves the buyer ignorant to the potential ticking time bomb. Not saying this is always the case, but it happens quite a bit.
@@valkator Then don't list it as never modded. Also, I've never met anyone (I'm 40, I've met a TON of people in my life) with a modded car that was relaxed on maintenance. Abusing a modded car, that's a different story but car folks that actually take time to mod their cars, actual mods, not amazon wing and stickers, do take maintenance much more seriously than you'd think.
@@BladedAngel true if you havent rebuilt the whole engine which is a rare case
Rule number 1 is to take off all the mods before reselling.
Noone wants a car owned by an enthusiast. I want the previous owner to be a nice older couple that doesnt even know how the engine sounds above 4000 rpm.
ONCE A MONTH, I'll take the engine above 4000rpm, and only after it's warmed up, and only when I need it. Otherwise I'm below 3,000 rpm
@phantomaviator1318 doesn't matter. I don't know whether you are a careful enthusiast or a reckless one, all I know the car was driven harder on average.
@@roadrunner6224you should do some pulls on your engine from time to time (you can do it on neutral, don't do it in gear if you don't want to go fast)
"gently driven, never modded" - type ahh description lol
i don't blame you. The older folks are the ones with the bigger payouts haha!
@@roadrunner6224 A car that is rarely reved above 4000 rpm is actually damaging the car. You need to hit higher rpm, not redline, from time to time to help with clogged cats to name one particular issue. That's car maintenance 101.
It still surprises me that people try to sell their cars with lights that make it look like a 100 dollar gaming PC off of AliExpress, please save yourself
100 bucks off of aliexpress? Nah you're wildin', it's 25 at most 😂
IDK why having lights on your pc made it a trend to make believe you're a gamer, my younger brother has RGB everything including the damn FANS of the PC!!!!! his BED has RGB lights like bro chill use some actual sun light!!
@@GuyWithBeardButNoMoustache because people love pointless things and shiny crap is easy to tell for a higher markup than the non-shiny variant
@@GuyWithBeardButNoMoustache i have rgb fans because they just look good. I can make them whatever color i want. Just ads a bit more colore to a plain white pc
I saw a guy at a meet with LEDs on his scion frs, one strip in the hood and the whole underglow package, I associated him with a stereotype but out of guilt I told myself he probably did more to this car than that. So I went and asked him kindly, “hey what have you done to this car?”
And he basically confirmed the stereotype: he’s done nothing to the car but the LEDs. And “plans to stage 2 the engine” whatever that means
Bald tires suggest a lack of maintenance care, sure if you're moding your car you're probably also maintaining it properly dor the most part, but bald tires are very visible not maintained components which is a concern.
If you’re modding your car to a degree of more than bolt on + tune. At that point you’d better be “monogamous” to your car. That’s your car till death do you part.
At least, that’s how I do my car. I’m modding it to a degree that I can’t just revert it (full internal rework on the engine). She’s mine now, simple as.
Just need to realize that you will NOT recoup any of the money spent on the mods if you go to resell it and will probably even take a loss versus if those mods were not there. Then again, if they are internal, you don't even need to report them to the potential buyer.........
@@waynek805 you completely missed their point lol
Till death do we part huh?
*looks at the rust on those rear quarters thanks to many a salty midwest winter*
@@Zympt No I didn't. The person is just saying they are modifying the car internally to the point it is a huge investment. That doesn't mean you can't move on later and take the loss on all that money invested.
@waynek805 you completely missed their point lol
The inverse of the tire thing is true too though, put new tires with good tread on your car and that's a selling point! Non car people will appreciate the convenience of not needing to get new tires, so you can add the cost of tires to your asking price and sell the car quicker. Bonus points if the car also comes with a full set of winter tires on steelies in addition to the new regular tires.
Where I live, underglow and any other non-required lights are actually illegal to have activated while driving on public roads, so they are purely for showing off when you are not on the road.
Dummies don't care usually. I live in socal and they drive around with them on all the time..illegal or not
I love it when I see (visually) clapped out Honda Civics listed at idiotic prices, because it's a "special car" or "JDM". Like bro, the engine is still BONEstock, BONEEEEstock. Nothing has been done to the engine(bay), but you do have an ugly splitter and a removable steering wheel (so no airbags)? What's wrong with you?
Love your videos man, and glad to see that you're back and have beaten c.cer
"I know what I have" lol so true
Not worth it if it can't keep up with the Miata on the track.
How else could you see a car other than visually
😂😂 "No lowBaLlErs@@nthgth
@@BboyVReckTrue, if you can get a Miata that is...
It's the same story, if not worse for Miatas
One thing about engine bay lights - clean, white, switched lights can be a lifesaver if you ever need to open the hood at night. My dad put some in his truck, and even though they don’t get used often, they sure can be handy when we need them.
9:25 NOT THE LINGLONGS😭
Dude the linglons are everywhere in some places lol
Hey, when you gotta go Long, sometimes you have to Ling
Dude the rolloff truck I'm in had a linglong on it for 200 miles before we got that bs changed out.
@headxplosion If you see professional drift events, they're all over the place, lol
And Atlas Tires (the one sponsoring Naoto Suenaga's Z in Formula Drift Japan) is also a brand from them.
8:00 if your buying a car thats maintenance heavy if they cant be bothered to put on good tires and brakes they probably missed big stuff like transmission and timing service
Or people like me buy a 1000 dollar winter beater and drove better than the average driver on new tires. So we don't car think what you want. Pay 900-1000 for my rig or go buy the same thing for 3000 elsewhere and I'll scrap the rig I don't care what you think.
@ i drive n old mk6 golf and i treat it way better than it deserves cause i put fancy michlin defenders and liqui moly oil every 3k miles idc if its worth 3kusd i put the best parts on it no compromise
Tyres aren't a mod, they're a necessity, just saying
Tires*
Headlights aren’t a mod, they’re a necessity, just saying
@@ameersstopmotions8757 everyone isn't american
There a mod if you’re buying something for the track.
@@ameersstopmotions8757 That spelling is purely based on preference. Both tyre and tire are correct.
Basically this is happening in used bike market in India, they will charge absurd amount just because that bike have a first copy or original after market exhaust and expect us to pay that.
That's just insane
Tire condition is so telling of the overall condition of the car, a wear item that you need to change 4-6 years on an average car not being maintened really brings up other questions. What else havent been done? Is the car even aligned properly? Did they do basic maintenance?
Some cars desperatelly Ask for new exaust tho
My neighbour has a 2009 4L V6 mustang, but when they got it, they changed the small exaust to the one of the GT, now it sounds perfect
When i sold my MSP I took the Wheels tires and coilovers off to sell separately, because they weren't even 2 years old. Definitely worth it.
istg the worry over resale value has ruined car prices n colors. fuck resale n get some style lmao
People think that cars will appreciate the same way as their 401k or stock portfolio. It's such a sad way to live. God forbid it goes one more mile and the value plummets.
@alexcuevas5633 fr like y'all need to stop worrying about monetary value so much
Worry over resale has ruined car prices? How exactly does that work? Most people aim to keep their car for about 5 years, so resale is important. No one wants to drop 5k in mods and then end up selling their car for 2k below market because it looks like something out of a F&F fever dream. You've just lost 7k because yolo lmao I'm 25 and I think looking cool to pre-teen boys on insta is worth it lol lmao
Many of my friends' first car mods were undoing things that the previous owner did.
I've got spyder headlights on my daily. Instead of cutting the harness I just went and bought a pigtail that plugs directly into my running/turn signal and have the headlight accessories run off my running light. That way if I sell it the next owner can just unplug them and replace for stock if they prefer that
As someone who has friends and family members that work in the car insurance industry, nearly ALL aftermarket mods depreciate your car's resale value. If you actually want to maximize resale value, you either put the stock parts back on or replace them with OEM parts or upgraded OEM parts. The amount of stories my friends tell me of customers trying to file insurance claims and getting angry after finding out that their mods don't increase the value of the car is endless.
I know you read all the comments on your videos bladed. I hope you have a good day. its getting colder and colder so drive safe.
A great list of essentially everything I’ve done, how lovely
Current resale value of my personal vehicle: ~1500-2000 USD
Honestly not too worried
Same. The only worth thing on my cars are the miles (75k km) and inspection still valid (Tüv). Body damage and 10k€ original price.
if you’re car is anything from the 80’s and early 90’s japanese make KBB is a lie. They say a Supra is like a $7k car and the 240sx is $3k. I don’t even think $3k can get you a rotted out shell for a 240 on Facebook.
@@Malice_dollsame case for Preludes
@@Malice_doll I have an early 2000s Saab with electrical problems. Great car, but it really is only worth 1500-2000
thank you for saying this, Ive had to tell people "mods dont increase value when you sell the car" when their selling their cars for 40k+ for a civic or smth. or the bodykit one is so real, I dont even dare put a bodykit on my car because you have to put holes in the quarter panels (rear fenders) and I legit dont care what car it is, YOU CANT REPLACE QUARTER PANELS atleast not without cutting and rewelding the the chassis parts back together which most people dont understand that you cant unscrew those quarter panels.
“Just bondo it bro” average 240sx owner
I agree that 90% of buyers are non car people, maybe even more than that, but this is a video ment for car guys right? And i feel like 90% of us has a car, no matter the value, that will most likely appeal to other car guys soo yes of course i always suggest no matter what you do keep the oem version of what you change, but i also think that there is a bit more tolerance of tasteful mods. But more or less, any mods you do hardly increase the value of the car
Yeah lmao no non car person is going to be interested in buying any of my Mr2’s so this is all pointless. “Wow this 2 seater 40 year old car the size of modern kei cars will be perfect for my daily”
@ 🤣🤣 you got my point sir
@@Malice_dollthat's how I feel. Like a civic I can see a regular non car person looking at but who the hell is gonna look at a Miata? It's either gonna be grandpa going through a midlife crisis or a car person there is no in between
Some enthusiasts are interested in just enjoying the car by driving it, not wrenching on it.
@@stoyantodorov2133 we literally discussing under a channel that most of the times talk about car mods
hey bladed have been following you since 2018 love your work and hope your health gets better :)
One example of car mods that don't give you any money in return usually with cheaper cars is rims, many people here sell the rims separately and put some cheapos or worst of all tells buyer to bring his own rims.
Well, this is probably because they had relatively expensive rims, that worth to be resold in separate. Replacing them with simple steeles - its ok, but asking buyer to bring their own wheels - this is weird.
Oh I hate that! "Bring your own rims" that's a good way to get me to not buy the car at all.
i cannot stress enough how annoying ppl selling with bald/worn out tires. And it frustrates me even more having it happen to my dad a few years back. Luckly he noticed the tires and tried to bring down the price, wich it worked and then dorve very carefully home. To no one's surprise the very next moment he came back home we ordered a new set of tires. Yet it shouldn't be a necessary purchase right after aquiring a car in my opinion.
Yeah, some sellers say "do not worry, dude. These are performance radial race tires, 100% contact with surface. You always can buy regular ones if you want".
People selling a used car rarely put new tires on it before selling. So worn tires are part of the used car experience. While being annoyed is your right expecting new tires is rather optimistic if your buying used.
@AK.__ XD. But like man, there sure are stupid people but most are not, yet the still try to lay off their negligence on the buyer. Hope they either never sell the car or sell it to a price so low that it would be more profitable selling it as scrap metal.
@@sportfuryman When I browse for a car on the used market of course I'm not expecting new tires on a car. But they sure need to be within the legal limit of wear that is what I'm expecting. Especially if the car has been driven up to the listing date for sale. I'm not annoyed if the tires are a bit worn or even if they are over half of the usable thread. It infuriates me when the tires are clearly so worn out that it gets dangerous to drive the car and the seller tries to gaslight the buyer saying not to worry or expecting not to enter negotiation with tires as a cause for a lower price. That is what I cannot stand.
@@Raoq_The_Warlock1 Fully agree
I feel like there are rare cases when some cars are modified just right that people would pay even more than a prestine condition stock vehicle. I mean look at BaT 240sx sales history and the highest bid one was an LS7 swapped, Silvia front end converted Drift Car.
yeah whoever bought that was a sucker!!
Great video and excellent advice. For majority of people, any mechanical mods (do not even mention that you had performance chip) will decrease value of the car.
As someone with a lot of LEDs on my car, I can’t believe someone actually would think it adds value to a sale lol. Absolutely a personal taste “mod” that most would never turn on
It’s cool to have you back man ❤
love ur vids mate, ur the guy i watch most in the car community
I dont even care the subject, just want to listen to this guy.
He could talk about paint dries.
Bladed I’M SO GLAD YOUR MAKING VIDEOS AGAIN BRO!!!!!
It’s like trying to sell a house you built for yourself with your own tastes and expecting over sale value.
4:36 Yes please
Appreciate u posting often man but dw no pressure dont feel like you owe us alot bcz of ur health from before just happy ur ok now :)
I appreciate the Nina Williams theme @3:20. I love Tekken 3.
love your videos. alway excited for new ones
I usually replace the OEM exhaust with a stainless one, when asked I have it tuned to "dead quiet". Nobody wants to hear a boring 1.3l 4cyl econobox. Never removed it from the car when I traded it in as a non-obnoxious stainless exhaust is not a bad thing, it saves the next owner maintenance. So suppose it's a 750 euro exhaust, when I get the offer on trade in, I'll try and get an extra 250 or so for it.
Realistically it's some sort of value add, both for the new owner and the used car dealer. So yeah it's often not hard to get a handful of tenners for it.
the funny thing about car mods is that you spend like 10k on mods but your cars value drops instead of going up
(atleast in my country)
I bought a car with all the mods that I wanted and am really happy with it. It saved me time and money!!
My case, if i ever sell my miata, i got the thing with mismatched rims.
Replaced it with more tame, matte black RS watanabe inspired, quality reps.
Weren't too expensive, probably devalue to put on what it had originally. Mismatch was both different style and colour.
Other bigger mod i did. Can't exactly change. Car had cut suspension. Replaced it with tuneable track coilovers.
I got it pretty cheap.
YOOOO 2 VIDS A WEEK LETS GOOOO
Also, i always keep the stock parts wrapped up in bubble wrap in the store room on my terrace.
Any WRX ever: “IT’S DE-BADGED BRO”, “JUST GOT MY OVERLAYS”, “5% TINT SO IT’S NOT A FISHBOWL”
If a car comes with alloy rims.... keep the oem wheels safe at home if u mod it. But for a car with steel rims.. like my frnds honda CR-X del sol.. he got value for d alloys.. but not as much as what he'd get if he sold the rims seperately.
Atleast here in Finland, mods increase the car price and they're listed on the post
The worst car mods is ricer lights! (under layer lights) And if spead $30k stupid sound system with the stock LS engine on tahoe!
To be fair to Linglong, they're used in pro drift events since they're brave enough to sponsor various drift teams, so I think that's a proof that they could make some quality tires.
BLADED! definitely make more videos!
Here in Brasil ppl sell modded cars for 2x (sometimes 3x or 4x) the value because they "upgraded" the car. To put the cherry on top, most of them never did basic maintenance
Babe wake up, Car dad Posted again
Bladed you might have just solved a huge headache of mine!! I bought a 5.0 S550 in November and that car has been throwing misfire codes at me non-stop, I've taken it to the shop multiple times and changed out the spark plugs and coil packs but still it comes back on, it might have been a tune that was done that I wasn't aware of by the time of sale
Lots of weird statements made in this video that aren't necessarily true, but the tuning bit was really confusing. Out of all the mods you can do to a car that don't appeal to masses a shelf tune is low on the list, shelf tunes are easy to revert, even if you buy a shelf tuned car, replacing the shelf tune won't cost extra so who cares. As far as Dyno tuned cars, nobody is selling a dyno tuned car as a reliable daily to non-car people anyways.
The fastest way to devalue resell on your car is by cutting the springs/slamming it, going on a shopping spree at pepboys/autozone, and using spray paint/plastidip on random parts of your car. Honorable mention to amazon ground-fx kits and people who tape christmas lights to their car.
Ah yes a comprehensive set of mods I will search for on a car so I can get em cheaper
i think once you get to the point where the car is like a full on race car then the value may go up
The ling Long tires had me dying😂😂😂😂
I think the wrx is a bad example of tunes depreciating value since the factory wrx tune isn’t great in terms of reliability and a good tune will get you both performance and reliability improvements for all types of driving. But your point that the tuning device being required for further modding still stands
bought my s2k on ling longs without seeing the tires in the listing because I was gonna switch them regardless. Was laughing my ass off when I brought it home and saw they were there
Always keep the stock parts when you upgrade. When you go to sell the car put the stock parts back on and sell the aftermarket ones separately
the Tekken 3 music took me by surprise. i love it
I said this to a friend before and I always stand by what I said:
Never buy modified cars, they are always overinflated and what you are basically buying is almost always tens of thousands of dollars worth of somebody else's problems.
Need to keep a note on stuff like this for future me if i ever do sale I car I don't need anymore. Also to add on, make sure the car is cleaned off when selling it as well. Sure a bit of dirt won't hurt the car, but a car coated in mud and other stuff just won't sit well with the buyer
the first one with the exhaust is soooo true... i bought a suzuki samurai 2 months ago and the aftermarket exhaust is pretty mid. it only drones extremely inside the cabin at 2500rpm and thats it. youre lucky to hit a right spot in rpm and load to hear it in a tunnel. im thinking of ordering the one from fox. ive heard that one should be pretty nice.
I payed 2k for a tuned ECU. Whern I traded the car in I changed out the ECU so I could sell the tuned ECU. When I tried to sell it, I found out that the ECU was locked to the VIN#. That means that it was basically worthless. I might get a hundred bucks for the ECU if someone wants to buy it so they can get it unlocked and get it tuned, instead of paying 350 for a new one. The tuner never told me that when I bought it but was quick to knock me for trying to sell it for 800 bucks. When I commented that I hate the gree in the industry they (lap 3) immediately blocked me from their chat. 😒
Ive considered an engine bay light setup but not one connected to the battery, but on its own grid probably as something that just snips on the hood
You know what i hate the most besides this? Sentimental Value. Like man, if you're selling me a car for let's say 10k fine but the moment you ask for more because of sentimental value, that's where i'll tell you to piss off.
What if the mods are not necessarily performance oriented but more to the tune of better reliability. My 2018 silverado has had 2 rounds of lifter failure. Once under warranty and again not even a week after i purchased the truck. Luckily the dealer covered the repairs. The only thing i have done is cat-back exhaust, closed-box cold air intake from S&B, and a tune to disable the AFM and trans tuning to disable TC lockup until 5th and 6th gear. My fuel economy went up abiut 3mpg on the highway... and much fewer issues than others i have met with a similar truck
You can do mods well, but the problem is that not everyone has that artist's eye. It's kind of like the days of MySpace. If you let people completely customize something, most of them will just make it ugly.
Also, lets face it, a lot of modders go cheap. They buy the cheapest part, usually from a sketchy place. Or they do mods the "cheap" way (think just cutting your springs instead of new coil overs). If the mods are actually good then they can raise the value of your car. You'll never make back what you put in though, that's just the life... Take this as a vote for a "good" mods to do to a car video.
Love this. Just because you spent $25,000 on mods, does not make it a higher value car
Generally when someone is listing a car with mods my first question is if they have the original pieces, cause if they do that just adds value, I get less used original pieces plus when I swap them out I’ll list the mods, and yeah I’ll do it myself, and even if I can’t I’ll just call I guy and invite him over for some beers. So always keep the original
Edit: I’ve actually made money buying a car sold with the original parts separate, enjoying it for a couple months and selling it OEM and selling the mods separately
My friend once told me “buy already moded car”. Where is the fun in it? I dont like only driving fast/moded cars. I like to do it step by step myself and create a relationship with the car.
There was this wrx on marketplace with 350k kms for 5500 bucks. Tires were fucked, misfire cause a of a burnt valve supposedly, fucked motor mounts leaked oil(owner denied it) needed an alignment and buddy had another set of tires that were from 2012 and the wrong size. Tried giving my coworker a skater bro discount so it was 4500 bucks but I told my coworker not to bother. The shitty part is that somebody bought the pos. It was pending for a couple weeks and boom it sold
probably bought by a flipper that fixed the superficial issues, gave it a good clean & polish, then sold it for 9k
@ doubt it. Probably bought by a dumb kid who didn’t know better. It would take more than the cars worth to fix it using good parts. Even with cheap shit it’ll be expensive.
Before the video starts: exhaust, stickers, wrap, plastidip wheels, lowered, butt plug shifter, carbon fiber decals, missing bumper, unpainted widebody parts. Basically any used Honda in LA
Step 1: Buy car with V8
Step 2: Straight pipe
Step 3: Have fun
Straight pipes sound horrible
Subwoofers surprisingly ruin the resell value of cars that's why my dad stopped putting subs in his cars. As a car guy who just loves subwoofers especially the SPL competition stuff like Sundown just take out the subs and amps and sell them separately from the car when selling stuff online because non car people get spooked seeing 2 12s in the trunk.
My current project is for me. I'm never going to sell cuz prices are too crazy for me to ever want to start over again. My 300zx didn't come with "oem" parts anyway, it was headed to a pick'n'pull wrecking yard so I got it and a parts car for free.
Agree with all the points
Explanation to my fellow car enthusiasts: If you wanna marry somebody you'd ensure that they look normal. No violet hair (neon underglow), piercings (custom headers), low milage (well....don't need to explain this one). You'd just want a simple RELIABLE partner.
4:36 thats a q60 headlight😎 showing some q60 love i see
For resale value on bike, most real aftermarket part can increase resele value for example, exhaust, carbon fiber part, wheel. (at least from where I'm living)
I keep all my stock parts and throw it into the deal. If they want me to change it I will, but I’m keeping that aftermarket part to sell on Facebook. I had a dude who wanted the oem wheels and tried to low ball me. So I told him I had the oem with some tread. He then wanted to buy the car at what I listed at with the aftermarket wheels. I said nah, 1500 more. Dude said I wouldn’t get that much for them. Sold him the car, few days later sold the wheels for 2.2 🤷♀️
Stop showing clips of the corvette, im still sad that you sold it even tho i didnt own it but it was for the right reason i think…
He's probably got a crapload of footage in storage so you'll have to wait a while
@@Ferrari255GTO 😭😭😭😭
Bugger. I got my 2006 Subaru Forester XT because it had a huge exhaust and went on a dyno. $1,000 more than the next one I didn't look at because my wife said you are getting this one. Bugger is quick and I am not spending money to mod it as the job is done.
where do things like coilovers sit? I had to replace my suspension to get my car fixed, and i upgraded straight to coils and threw out the old suspension as it was shot, and im wondering how that will afect the sale value when i decide to sell it
yeah its true some mods ruin resale value but other factors do as well poor condition high mileage etc. cars that are super common also have lower resale value than rarer ones like a Toyota Camry and a Hyundai Azera/grandeur for example a super low mileage 36,000 2005 Camry LE is worth 5,000 right now due to having high sales that model year 432,000 compared to a 2012 Azera also with extreme low mileage 22,000 though the car only sold 8,432 units that year in the US though dad managed to negotiate the price down by about 15% to $32,450 and due to the extreme rarity of the car only around 200,000 sold in the US over its 19 year production helps with the resale value while for ex a competing car like the Toyota Camry averaged 390,158 units sold in the US from 2005-2024
Honestly, engine bay lights sound nice. I could see what I'm doing in there without one-handing a flashlight.
Please make the inverse video these are so fun to watch
You see this is where I don't agree with most car guys and I embrace the
Bought not built montra
Did I modify it myself? Heck no the another guy spent his money, hours of head aches, bloody knuckles, and days of frustration on this car
While I drive the finished product
" What is the point of buying a car when you can't do anything cool to it?"
Bustin Lincoln out had me ballin
Rofl, a lot of these things are not even possible in Germany like underglow on cars or some super annoying exhausts, thanks to the mandatory biennial inspection by certified technicians. You cannot avoid the TÜV (or Dekra...) 😅
engine bay lighting seems pretty good. i'd kill for some good LEDs while i work on the engine lmfao
It depends on what car you're selling if its something like new edge mustang exhaust mods and wheels can bring the value up if done right
We need mods that increase value now!
tbh, I kinda do the same for selling my tech gadgets or expensive stuff by keeping the packaging, accessories and booklet..... then try to price it a bit higher cuz value
I would love a video like this for Motorcycles
I always love your "non car people" depictions lol