Originally Posted by TAP

I've offered this advise before on the forum; get an expert to give you a wrtitten evaluation of the car. When you have that in hand go try to make a deal. My local Benz dealer has a tech with thirty years experience. It cost me $93.00 a pop for him to advise me but when he said "buy this car" I did. Results: happy me.

Lots of people have unrealistic ideas concerning the vaule of their cars. You can try and educate them but most likely you'll just piss them off.

Make a fair offer on the car and then let it go. Good luck.