Advice on buying an EK GLi

general census of civic owners are old to middle age people, who just use these as there daily commute, so like Ek1 says, play it cool, an bargain it down, doubtful most civic owners would know the difference between Vti-r and Vti models, if u know ur stuff, u should be able to work things out to make it cheaper for u :D

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Originally Posted by mugen_ctr

general census of civic owners are old to middle age people, who just use these as there daily commute, so like Ek1 says, play it cool, an bargain it down, doubtful most civic owners would know the difference between Vti-r and Vti models, if u know ur stuff, u should be able to work things out to make it cheaper for u :D

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I got mine of some late 20 and possibly early 30 couple. They were very nice about all of it, even showed me all the interior features and buttons and what did what. Liked that about them, actually took the time to show me what everything does. Not in that persisting buy my car way, more so the laid back genuine style.

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Originally Posted by EK1 Civic

How scratched.... if there deep it might need respray, my ek came wit a few light scratches at the front bar from rocks etc, i polished them out in like 2mins? Basically you pay for what you get. If u pay 5k for something valued at 6-7k, your probably gonna run into problems. Unless owner really needs money quick aka to pay loans or something. When i searched for eks, i found em from 4k-8k, all with different kms, rims, kits etc. Kms don't mean much if the car was used on the highway, the car would be in better nick then a car used for suburban travel. In saying so finding a civic for 5.5k is obtainable but dont expect the condition of the car to be good. If you want a nice civic save about 6-6.5. I bargained down an 8k civic to 6.5. Just say you gotta pay rego, insurance, the cars close to 100,000 bla bla kms, will need timing belt change and make up bs like transmission etc LOL... The people who u talk to dont even know much. Then they say something like we looking for 7k, give em your number, wait 2hrs and they call you back accepting your offer.

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Thanks for the input... looks like I was expecting too much for the 5.5k pricetag.

I did manage to haggle one dealer car (1999, 160000km), down from 8k to 6.5k...

However, that's still out of my budget :(.

There was a good one in vic for 6.2k or 5.5k had 90,000km and rims. 2000 model cant remember if gli or cxi but it had no kit. It was one of them two prices, was looking for civics for a mate. I didn't like the rims though =/

*EDIT* pretty sure it was 5.5k though