Do you have a Carmax in your area?  Just another option to validate what the
dealership would give you.

On Aug 26, 11:54 pm, techman41...@yahoo.com wrote:

You basically won't get squat for your car on a trade. The dealer is
just going to turn around and sell it for beans to a wholesaler. They
aren't going to put it on their lot and sell it. Around here, the
dealers use some 'other' rating service besides KBB or NADA (I can
never remember the name, believe it begins with a 'G') that typically
is MUCH less than the others that we as consumers have access to. A
couple of years ago, I was looking to trade out Ford Windstar on a
Honda Pilot. KBB said the trade-in value was $3k, the dealer offered
me $1500 based on their super-secret book value. Needless to say, I
walked. Ended up driving it into the ground and donated it when the
transmission went. And bought my van from a different dealership.

Dan D
'07 Ody EX
Central NJ USA

My tatic on my 96 accord was to tell them initally no I was not going to
trade it, get the price on the new car, then said, what will you give me on
trade.....I was offered 1,600, my response was huh, guess Hondas DON'T hold
their value and got up to leave....I was then offered 4,500, well over it's
book value, so , I got the new car, got a trade value & I am happy.

The dealer may not want that car.  He will probably just wholesale it out.
In any case I traded a car in 2 years ago.  It was a 15 minute process but
mine was low mileage late model.  One advantage is some savings in sales
tax.