Considering Selling my '12 Trail

[MacRunner]

Purchased a Shoreline Blue '12 Trail with KDDS and Nav last July.
With a few teenagers at home who will be driving soon I am considering selling my Trail and getting a 3rd or 4th Gen 4Runner instead.

Anyone sold a Trail lately know what the market is like for resale? Mine has 7200 miles and is in excellent condition.

 

[Reino]

Purchased a Shoreline Blue '12 Trail with KDDS and Nav last July.
With a few teenagers at home who will be driving soon I am considering selling my Trail and getting a 3rd or 4th Gen 4Runner instead.

Anyone sold a Trail lately know what the market is like for resale? Mine has 7200 miles and is in excellent condition.

Without getting too specific. I'd say the market is pretty high. Before we bought our '13, we looked around for a used 5th gen all the way back to a '10, and they were only a couple thousand less than a new one.

 

[PopsSmith]

My dealership that I bought mine has sent me a couple of emails over the past few months saying that they would like to buy it back. Might want to see if you dealership is doing something similar. Of course this is also a plot to get you to buy another vehicle from them but who knows, why not call.

 

[westwind77]

Purchased a Shoreline Blue '12 Trail with KDDS and Nav last July.
With a few teenagers at home who will be driving soon I am considering selling my Trail and getting a 3rd or 4th Gen 4Runner instead.

Anyone sold a Trail lately know what the market is like for resale? Mine has 7200 miles and is in excellent condition.

So, why are you wanting to sell it? Do you need the money to buy them cars? Not all teenagers are bad drivers. That said, accidents do happen, but if they do I would rather have my teenager in a vehicle with as many safety features as possible to either help prevent the accident or lessen the damage/impact/bodily injury. Insurance will cover your 4R, but it can't replace your kids. Keep the safer vehicle, just my 2 cents.

 

[RonMAIDEN]

It's hard watching teens "learn" how to drive in a $40k vehicle since those little "oops" hurt and a 3rd gen is plenty safe and cheaper to fix when those "oops" occur and you can buy 4 nice 3rd gens for the price of one TE.

 

[shadow247]

Just buy them a beater civic or camry for 2000 bucks, or better yet, make them do what my parents made me do. GET A JOB if you want to learn how to drive! My dad co-signed for my first vehicle, and made me get a job as soon as the year of school was over.

 

[Bob Laublaw]

Without getting too specific. I'd say the market is pretty high. Before we bought our '13, we looked around for a used 5th gen all the way back to a '10, and they were only a couple thousand less than a new one.

Yeah they are. I'm looking for one, and it's probably going to just wind up being a new one.

 

[Ryan1975]

It's hard watching teens "learn" how to drive in a $40k vehicle since those little "oops" hurt and a 3rd gen is plenty safe and cheaper to fix when those "oops" occur and you can buy 4 nice 3rd gens for the price of one TE.

My son just turned 16.

I traded the '11 Corvette (found out the wife was pregnant) on an '11 Denali, threw some black rims on the '12 Taurus and he drives that for his daily. I've let him take my 4Runner twice now.

 

[Bill Z]

Purchased a Shoreline Blue '12 Trail with KDDS and Nav last July.
With a few teenagers at home who will be driving soon I am considering selling my Trail and getting a 3rd or 4th Gen 4Runner instead.

Anyone sold a Trail lately know what the market is like for resale? Mine has 7200 miles and is in excellent condition.

The retail is really strong on the TE's - actually all 4Runners seem to be holding their value. Since the TE's are rare, it could take you some time to find a buyer.

If you're selling it yourself, I would ask about $35 -$37k for it and probably go no lower than $33k.

 

[brockeverly]

My son just turned 16.

I traded the '11 Corvette (found out the wife was pregnant) on an '11 Denali, threw some black rims on the '12 Taurus and he drives that for his daily. I've let him take my 4Runner twice now.

Sorry man, but this is a disservice to your son later in life. No sixteen year old should be given a car like that to drive IMO. Maybe its from coming from the sticks where our first cars were bought with the money we earned throwing bales and hard manual labor. Had dad handed us the keys to what he worked his ass off to buy, we would not be the men we grew up to be. We learned to appreciate that weekend taking a nice vehicle out for a couple hours. Not judging your parenting, just giving an alternate viewpoint. There is a delicate balance in parenting I know, I do not look forward to dealing with this when my daughters are old enough to drive.

 

[brockeverly]

OP, I got MORE for my trade in than I paid for my 2010 (was a cpo when I bought it). The value that the 4Runner holds is quite impressive, good for your trade it, not so good when you go to buy that 4th gen. Best of luck to ya!

 

[efil4frus]

I'm sure insurance valuation is different from actual market valuation, but USAA valued my totaled 2012 Trail with KDSS, Entune and Nav at $37,120(was bought is July and had roughly 8k miles on it), which is what my before taxes price was. All the used trails I have seen for sale are listed around +$34k.

With that being said, I do plan to tell my parents there may be a trail popping up for sale since they fell in love with my truck, and live in Cartersville GA. They say they aren't ready to buy right now, but you never now.

 

[MacRunner]

I want my teenagers to be safe so a 4th gen 4runner would still provide them that protection and I wouldn't be all wigged out if they damaged it - like hitting a curb or backing into something. I can get a 2005-7 4th gen for 12-15k that should fit the bill for us now.

I enjoy new but there is so much value for the money buying used. If I pay $12,000 for a 4th gen say with 100,000 miles then put another 100,000 miles on it I could probuably still sell it for $6,000! I know likely higher maintenaince costs but if you take care of it 200,000 miles on a 4runner is very typical. So that only costs me $6,000 for 100,000 miles of travel! Just my 2 cents.

Anyway, I took my Trail to a dealer and they offered me 30. I know they need to make money but I just laughed at that. I will likely see if I can get an offer around 35-37 or just keep it a little longer.

 

[westwind77]

Sorry man, but this is a disservice to your son later in life. No sixteen year old should be given a car like that to drive IMO.

I can see where you are coming from, but I disagree with your blanket statement. There are just as many 16 year old kids out there who should not be given a car as ones that should be given a car. If the parents brought the kids up right they will appreciate the gift, not take it for granted, and be responsible. Personally when my son gets old enough to drive I would rather buy him a car (not new of course, but not a beater either) and would rather him spend his time working on his school work, enjoying activities he likes, or in the odd case he wants to hang out with me, spend time with him, not have him working 6 hours after school everyday to afford the car/insurance. Sure, I am all for him getting a job, making money, learning responsibility. Obviously I would not be buying everything the child wants for him (create a spoiled monster), so he would have to at least hold something small down (or take after the e-trade baby and start young)! I'll be honest, I was very fortunate growing up for everything my parents bought for me, so I definitely have a different perspective on things. I am grateful for the things I got to do when growing up and not worrying about being tied to a job so young. Most of us have 44 years of being tied to a job after we graduate college, might as well enjoying being young while you can!

I still vote for keeping the new 4R! Don't give up on it, or your kids, they may surprise you!

 

[Okki]

I've had everything I needed in life... but I've paid for what I WANTED. I have to chuckle at the safety comments in that most cars (early 2000's) that people are describing as beaters are generally perfectly safe vehicles. the majority of the world does not drive around in SUV's and are perfectly safe.

A 16 y/o is not going to want to spend a ton of time with his/her parents, so having a job getting in the way of that I think is funny to begin with. Call me old fashioned, but I'm with Brock on this one. You can assist with getting a car, but I'm all for the kid paying for it themselves. That will make them appreciate it way more than simply relying on you having instilled all the right values.

If he/she had to work to get it, and work to maintain it, they will likely drive more carefully as well because the will learn real quick what it takes to fix it.

Everyone has to make their own decisions on how to raise their kids, but I think it's pretty clear that society has an issue understanding the value of a dollar at the moment and has an expectation of things being provided to them without responsibility or accountability. I try to not add to that mind set with the 17 grand-kids in my life.

Just my 2 cents....

Okki

 

[1engineer]

And of course I am with [MENTION=73151]brockeverly[/MENTION] and [MENTION=55815]Okki[/MENTION] on this one although my situation is a bit different. My daughter has worked since she was 15. She is 20 now, in her 3rd year of Nursing degree and has always worked. My son is in his 1st year of 4 year BSME. He works summers. In addition to that they both received partial scholarships for soccer (helps pay the bills and requires a LOT of time) and academic scholarships. So I bought the vehicles for them (2005 CRV and 2011 Subaru Impreza) because they both are paying a lot of their college themselves. to get exceptional grades and be good athletes require a lot of work. They do this and still work summers. They understand and appreciate. I am blessed.

 

[Tengu]

My son got a 97. He rarely gets to drive mine. (don't touch my drums man)

He loves his 97 and has put a lot of time and energy into it. In fact, you can find him on the gen 3 forums.

A $3500 whooptie at the time has turned into his "precious". He has amazed me with what he's done with it. (granted, it needed 1.5k to get it to par)

I guess what I'm getting at. Keep your ride, and instead of eating 5 to 7k in trade, get kiddo an older ride to fender bend.

On another note, 30k? 32 is trade value resently. Besides, i've seen people on here, also in georgia, resently looking one. I'm sure you could get a better deal than that here.

 

[Reino]

Keep the 4Runner for yourself and buy the kids a ten year old single-cab Tacoma. Why? Because you can only fit one passenger in a Tacoma. Give the kid a 5-seater 4Runner and it will become the joyride machine for all his buddies. When I turned 16 I got my mom's Astro van and we used to cruise around town with seven dudes in there, looking for trouble...and we usually found it:eyebrows:
I won't make the same mistake my parents did when my kids come of age.

 

[crunchcity]

Keep the 4Runner for yourself and buy the kids a ten year old single-cab Tacoma. Why? Because you can only fit one passenger in a Tacoma. Give the kid a 5-seater 4Runner and it will become the joyride machine for all his buddies. When I turned 16 I got my mom's Astro van and we used to cruise around town with seven dudes in there, looking for trouble...and we usually found it:eyebrows:
I won't make the same mistake my parents did when my kids come of age.

That won't stop kids, they will just lay/sit in the bed of the truck to fit more people. :naughty:

 

[Tengu]

That won't stop kids, they will just lay/sit in the bed of the truck to fit more people. :naughty:

I agree, my buddy had a single cab nissan pickup. That just made it to where our girls "had to" sit on our laps. (ddaaaaamn that sucked) We also sat on top of our cases of beer in the back, with our coats draped over them) when we went through the sobriety check points on the seawall. I do think there are laws now, about passengers in the bed, but I don't see the mexicans getting pulled over for it.