Selling my mom’s Toyota Yaris…
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@Manwich Svend it, fix the seized locks, replace the battery, and get a wheel well liner to replace the missing one, and you could ask $13k for it. Put new tires on, add $1k to the price.
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Cool. Bringing them more in alignment across the network.
did you get the old Yaris Verso.
And do you get the new Yaris Cross?
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@Manwich This looks like it'll be some teen's future first car. I say throw it on the market for $7.5k CAD.
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My grandma would have scratches on her car and she said she didn't know where they came from... Maybe by the time I get there they will really have good automated systems.
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@svend The Yaris Verso is a new one to me. Toyota wisely didn't send that to North America since they'd sell, what, maybe 12 in a good year? No more Yaris or Mazda2 here so no Yaris Cross.
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@Manwich Maybe whichever outfit bought @CarsOfFortLangley's Forte? Just to get a baseline price even if you don't sell to them?
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@Manwich Hmmm... $500 and I'll make it a LeMons car!
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@Cé-hé-sin @Manwich It's also the main choice for the taxi fleet here, called Toyota Limo, even though it doesn't resemble a typical limo at all:
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Not in Canada.
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Well when I was in Havana Cuba, I had one taxi ride in a Tuk Tuk.
And in relation to a Tuk Tuk, a Yaris sedan would look and feel like a limo...
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@Manwich I mean, that's technically true. Jakarta used to have something similar, called Bajaj, which I find its shape to be pretty charming. I'm pretty sure the drivers infuriated other motorists though.
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@Manwich I have nothing constructive to add, but I gotta ask, do you get to keep the old plates and put them on another car?
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@Manwich how is she getting around in future?
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@Manwich 10K for that is outrageous, but potentially not unrealistic in this market. Too bad it's not a manual!
If you want to go to the trouble, you can probably free up the locks if you actually take it apart and clean and lube. And I bet the front fender liner is fairly cheap directly from Toyota. toyotapartsdirect.ca
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@Spasoje said in Selling my mom’s Toyota Yaris…:
@Manwich I have nothing constructive to add, but I gotta ask, do you get to keep the old plates and put them on another car?
We get to keep the old plates.
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@pip-bip said in Selling my mom’s Toyota Yaris…:
@Manwich how is she getting around in future?
My siblings and I take her to do doctors appointments and other stuff. We do her shopping for her. She’s not strong enough to go out on her own anymore.
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@Manwich said in Selling my mom’s Toyota Yaris…:
@Spasoje said in Selling my mom’s Toyota Yaris…:
@Manwich I have nothing constructive to add, but I gotta ask, do you get to keep the old plates and put them on another car?
We get to keep the old plates.
The old ones actually made with something thicker than tin foil and then painted. Hold on to those ones! I'm guessing by the number they are circa early 90s
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The exact year would have been 1992 when my mom got her license after my dad passed away. And the first car those plates were on was a 1992 Ford Escort 4 door hatch with automatic and AC.
And yeah… gonna hold onto those plates and maybe use them for myself
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@Albino-Kangaroo said in Selling my mom’s Toyota Yaris…:
@Manwich have you popped the vin into CarMax for a quick quote?
I decided to do that now that I dug up the car's ownership... and this is what I got:
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@Manwich yeah, it was worth a shot. If I recall that version wasn't sold in the states.
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Oof. I've been involved in three situations where it came time for an older family member to hang up the keys, with intimations of a fourth coming up, and even when they agree to play along, it tends to be rather emotionally fraught. Best of luck with the car...
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@madmikE53 said in Selling my mom’s Toyota Yaris…:
FYI... I dug up the ownership and plugged in the VIN and this is the low-ball offer they gave:
