Tundratow

I am about to trade in my `97 4Runner and checked out Kelley Blue Book and Edmunds but sometimes these prices can be vague.Has anyone traded in their `96-`97-`98 4Runner?
I was wondering what they gave you? Also mine is an SR5.
Thanks for any help.

rimpainter.com

You will always get screwed on a trade-in.

I would sell it Private Party if you can.

Bennito

A year and a few months ago (early summer 02) I bought my 97 4Runner. At the time it blue-booked around $17.5k (SR5 with every option save running boards and an auto tranny. 54k miles)

The dealership offered the seller $12k (claimed they weren't making any money on the vehicle he was buying at 0% interest & corporate purchase program). We split the difference and i picked it up for $14k though I would have paid up to $16k. My bank offered up to $23k in financing for it (but not sure what that gets at, perhaps upper end blue book plus taxation and licensing).

Best of luck.

Vato Loco

I bought my '97 Limited with 49000 miles for $26k, a year ago around this time.

ravencr

If you're trading in a 4runner you need to go to enough dealerships to get NADA trade in, because our vehicles are worth it, they're popular, and they're toyotas, and everyone wants them, but can't afford them. I'm a car's salesman for Nissan, and at the sales, 4runners bring funny money at the sales.

You should shoot for www.nada.com trade in figures when you go to trade. If you want the best deal, don't take the vehicle from the first dealership. Get their lowest price, then go to the next one, get them to low ball them, and so on, until you are happy with the price. As a salesperson, we hate people like that, but the fact still reamins that the customer is alwasy in control if you are informed and know everything about what your vehicle is worth and the what the invoice is on the new vehicle you are buying.

If it's a used vehicle, find the one you want, write down all the options is has, year, make and model, go to www.kbb.com and find out what the trade in value is, add taxes and registration and fees to it, then calculate what you know the rate is you can get on it, then when you go back to the dealership, don't leave until you get within 10-20/month of your payment, because kbb is roughly what they put in most vehicles on their lot.

Chris

asudan96Runner

NADA says min is only worth 11k. I have about that much in modifications. I'm certian if I ever sold my runner I would have to take it back to stock and sell the goodies by themselves to recoup any of that back.

Dan

ravencr

That's all your going to get, at the most, from the dealers. Normally, they want to give you around Kelly Blue Books values for the vehicles. And, don't get confused when they come back and tell you they are giving you 11K for your truck. For example, they come back and the price of the vehicle is $35000, and they pencil a $11000 trade allowance for a trade difference of $24000, right? They aren't actually giving you 11K for your vehicle. They are probably giving you more like 8500-9500 for your vehicle and then the discount they are giving you off their vehicle into one figure, which makes it look like you are getting that money on yours only. If that actually was the case, then you would be getting what you want for yours, but what about the discount off the new vehicle? Where's that?

Also, if you have a lot of mods on your vehicle, take them off and sell them on the forums and ebay, because you won't get anything at the dealership for them. Vehicles are actually harder to sell, because people don't usually want a modified vehicle.

Chris