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Originally Posted by Norcalscionchamp
So sometimes good news can be bad news lol. Two weeks after dumping about $8,000 into my brand new six speed whiteout fr-s I come home to find out my wife is pregnant. I drive an old toyota 4x4 and sold my wife's 4 door civic si to get the frs. After some heated arguments about how car seats could easily fit and me having waited for three years for this car to come out I have finally come to the conclusion that I will not win this battle...So now I guess my question is what avenue would be the best to try and recoup some of the money I dumped in? What do you think someone would pay for an FR-S 6 speed in whiteout with Bespoke audio, dealer installed uv limo tint that comes with a lifetime warranty, Cusco Street Zero 40 way adjustable coilovers, 18x8 +35 matte bronze TSW Nurburgring rotary forged wheels wrapped in Yokohama performance tires, and the Five Axis kit with spoiler (not even installed yet)....additionally all the badges and the whole suspension was painted to match the wheels except for the springs, they were professionally painted TRD Red along with all four brake calipers?
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Part the car out. Take off all the performance parts that will come off and list them in the classified section on this forum. Then drive the car the next 7 or 8 months and enjoy it. You are going to take a beating on the resale anyway because it became a used car the moment you titled it. The hit will not be much worse 6-8 months from now so you might as well enjoy it while you can. In most cases a stock car will sell better than a modded car and you never never never get back anywhere near what you invest into modding a car.
Congratz on the baby. IN the end you will find raising a child a much more rewarding experience than modding a car. Besides, when you ship the little chip off the old block off to college 18 years from now then you can buy a car and start modding to your hearts content. That is what I did anyway. Well, after 5 kids.
Best of luck to you.