https://milwaukee.craigslist.org/cto...360013937.html
6 owners is my concern and and potential engine/tranny issues??

Thoughts???

Thanks guys!

 

Anyone on this forum anymore??

 

51,000 miles and 6 owners would certainly throw me for a loop... All those performance parts added would make me think the car has been thrashed about a bit, too. The price "Feels" high to me, but I don't think I'm, in the target audience.

 

6 owners is what scared me too... Never saw a car with 6 owners before... I just wonder when all these performance parts were added.. But he has no receipts.. I get him to $14,500 if that helps.. Still not looking to spend tthat much on a car that's about to blow up or need 5k worth of work soon.

 

6 owners doesn't necessarily full time owners. It could've been sold at an auction and whoever bought it sold again on a lot or another auction and that 3rd owner traded it in and so on! Personally, I see 6 owners as a negotiation talking point.

generally speaking, JCWs don't depreciate like the S models do. also, the N18 JCW engine is a hard to find one too.

 

The car market is nutty right now. Carvana, by no means the best bargain place in town, had a '13 stock JCW with iirc about 40k miles and wanted $25k for it, then dropped to about $23k. I also saw a '13 MCS with about 60k miles on their site for around $15k. Look around for other '13 JCWs for price comparisons. There aren't a lot out there but before the nuttiness took over I saw a few with 60-80k miles around $15k. I was comparing what JCWs cost compared to what I paid for our '11 MCS.

There are a lot of mods on this one so you have to decide if they're what you want - they'd certainly cost you plenty if you took a stock car and did this yourself. With 6 owners well worth pulling a carfax or equivalent and scrutinizing the history.

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MacMini34​​​​​​​

 

How do you folk know it's had 6 owners? I reread the CL twice and didn't see that anywhere. I think it's actually well priced for the current market if you want all those mods. Do wonder how 250whp will hold up over time.

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MacMini34

 

6 owners, thats a bunch. I look for One or two owners at most.

That many owners makes me think it was a lease at first then passed around maybe by a family member.

But it has a bunch of good and high dollar mods. I have those same wheels.