My daughter is upgrading her car and will need to sell her current car. The problem is the car has the pearl white paint from Toyota that failed. Toyota repainted the top and fenders under a recall a few years back. At they time they wouldn't paint the rest of the car until it actively started peeling (that was a lie we were later informed). A year later after she was away at school, she returned to get the rest of the car painted after showing signs of failure. The same dealership worked up the deal only to inform us the recall ended a month before and that they really should have painted it the year before. They even admitting firing the employee that told us to come back initially. After fighting between Toyota and the dealership for a while we were left with a car with bad paint and nobody taking responsibility. She has just continued to drive it and watch it get worse.

So now we are where we need to sell but not sure the best way to sell a car that needs paint is a bad way. Not sure any dealer will give her much for it in this condition and not sure a private party would want it. Not really interested in painting it either.

It was a decent car (2008 Rav4 limited with the V6 with 160K) but feel she got a bad deal. She bought this car herself and I want to help her get the most out of it.

What would y'all suggest.

She could do the same thing that the a-hole that sold me my first car did, take it to Maaco and sell it the next day. Or trade it in.

drumboy said:

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She could do the same thing that the a-hole that sold me my first car did, take it to Maaco and sell it the next day. Or trade it in.

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Back in the 70s my dad would flip cars. He would just detail most of them. Some would get some motor honey to hide sounds from bad cams and lifters, but the worst was a car with a hole rusted through the rear quarter panel by the window. He jammed a beer can into the hole and Bondo-ed over it before getting a $79 Earl Scheib paint job.

lb3 said:

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drumboy said:

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She could do the same thing that the a-hole that sold me my first car did, take it to Maaco and sell it the next day. Or trade it in.

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Back in the 70s my dad would flip cars. He would just detail most of them. Some would get some motor honey to hide sounds from bad cams and lifters, but the worst was a car with a hole rusted through the rear quarter panel by the window. He jammed a beer can into the hole and Bondo-ed over it before getting a $79 Earl Scheib paint job.

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In the 90s, a friend's neighbor would do this and looking back, I'm sure he was a 35 year old meth head, tow truck driver and car flipper.

He'd buy beaters for $1,500, detail & wax them and sell them $4,000 pretty easily. He got into buying totaled cars at auction, having his crack head body shop owner buddy (Kenneth Hammers FU) fix them, and sell them w/ salvage titles. I got a one year old Ranger that had rolled over through them but the body shop screwed me taking 6 months to do a shoddy repair job, but I still came out way ahead when it was stolen & totaled. Learned my lesson as a 17 yo to never pay before the job is complete.


Edit: not implying that your dad was anywhere close to this dude. Cant believe my parents would let me associate with that character but the 90s were wild.