Need some opinions here. I have a 99 Suburban 1500 with about 178K miles on it. Body is in good shape (broken driver side mirror, noticeable foot long scratch back quarter panel). I need to sell this thing. We picked up an Accord due to gas and we don't need to Suburban room. After owning this for 10 years and having transported 3 kids and various dogs, it has a few issues. I need some opinions on which should be fixed before selling it.
Low KBB on it is $4300. I would be good with $4K but would of course like to get more. I am willing to fix some additional items if it makes sense. I live in Oregon.
Recently fixed and known issues:
1. Heater - fixed it, works great.
2. Carpet - removed seats, rented a carpet cleaner, and it made the carpet look 100% better. Thorough cleaning on rest of interior.
3. Front passenger seat belt - replaced.
4. NEEDS alignment.
5. NEEDS 2 rear tires (due to alignment issue)
6. NEEDS about 3 replacement door lock actuators. When I try locking automatically, they just wiggle. Stealership wants a couple hundred EACH; rockauto.com wants about $60 each. Not sure what a pull it yard would want. But from all I have read, pulling the door panel off and drilling out the rivets looks pretty involved.
7. Has a rear door leak....somewhere. It just gets the lower left corner (by the corner of the left barn door) wet. I have pulled up carpet, removed inside trim, had a hose soaking it and can't see any water come in. Yet when it sits in my driveway (back end on downhill side) and rains, that is when the water comes in. Drives me crazy that I can't reproduce. Would be willing to replace the seal or the drip line if I knew for certain that was the problem. Guy at stealership thought the seal looked kind of flat (instead of round like when knew) and saw some spots where dirt had blown in and suggested that the seal might be the issue. I also tried closing the car up, putting heat on high and putting soapy water around various places in back ...but no bubbles appeared.
8. Engine - seems to be in good shape. The only thing that sometimes happen when I accelerate on the freeway, when I am going about 40 or 50 mph, I get a momentary sputtering. Not sure if fuel injection or what.
My friends tell me don't fix anything, jujst get it on craigslist. There will be somebody out there who will buy it with these issues.
What does this group say?
thanks for the feedback.
Low KBB on it is $4300. I would be good with $4K but would of course like to get more. I am willing to fix some additional items if it makes sense. I live in Oregon.
Recently fixed and known issues:
1. Heater - fixed it, works great.
2. Carpet - removed seats, rented a carpet cleaner, and it made the carpet look 100% better. Thorough cleaning on rest of interior.
3. Front passenger seat belt - replaced.
4. NEEDS alignment.
5. NEEDS 2 rear tires (due to alignment issue)
6. NEEDS about 3 replacement door lock actuators. When I try locking automatically, they just wiggle. Stealership wants a couple hundred EACH; rockauto.com wants about $60 each. Not sure what a pull it yard would want. But from all I have read, pulling the door panel off and drilling out the rivets looks pretty involved.
7. Has a rear door leak....somewhere. It just gets the lower left corner (by the corner of the left barn door) wet. I have pulled up carpet, removed inside trim, had a hose soaking it and can't see any water come in. Yet when it sits in my driveway (back end on downhill side) and rains, that is when the water comes in. Drives me crazy that I can't reproduce. Would be willing to replace the seal or the drip line if I knew for certain that was the problem. Guy at stealership thought the seal looked kind of flat (instead of round like when knew) and saw some spots where dirt had blown in and suggested that the seal might be the issue. I also tried closing the car up, putting heat on high and putting soapy water around various places in back ...but no bubbles appeared.
8. Engine - seems to be in good shape. The only thing that sometimes happen when I accelerate on the freeway, when I am going about 40 or 50 mph, I get a momentary sputtering. Not sure if fuel injection or what.
My friends tell me don't fix anything, jujst get it on craigslist. There will be somebody out there who will buy it with these issues.
What does this group say?
thanks for the feedback.