Stock or Modded

[VzVzVz]

Would you preffer to buy a modded car over a stock car? If so, would you pay for the extra upgrades?

I would'nt

[one_and_only2004]

If i had the choice of an SS, or an SS with the big exhaust, mafless tune and fully sick rims, i'd choose the modded one - even if i paid an extra grand or so.

Saves me doing it after i buy it.

[SS 1998]

yer id go 4 the mod one.....well thats wat i did with the ss i brought.........i was guna buy a vt ss stock n do it myself but come across this one i bought n had heaps xtras like dvd player, amps, subs, sunroof, rims, lowered, personal plates, exhaust, cluby boot garnish....n heaps more n only payed 11k

[Reaper]

Stock unless I knew the car. The amount of ****ed up cars with Monster race cams and half arsed work that has been done is scary. I'd probably consider wheels and zorst but wouldn't pay extra for them. Once you get into cams and tunes it is very much cross your fingers and hope what the seller says is true.

Reaper

[Julie]

Only cosmetic mods, no engine mods, god knows whats shit you are buying when people start playing around with the engine, that and its probably been thrashed.

[Cobez]

Bog stock inside and out. I bought my VS Senator 100% bog stock (even the head unit was the original Eurovox junk they used to use), same with my Pathfinder, and the VY SS ute i got a few weeks ago is also 100% bog stock.

[one_and_only2004]

Only cosmetic mods, no engine mods, god knows whats shit you are buying when people start playing around with the engine, that and its probably been thrashed.

Just because a car is stock doesn't mean it hasn't been thrashed...

[VzVzVz]

When I bought my ute, it was stock inside and out. No way would I buy a car that had the remains of someone else all over it. (not literaly of course)

But I might considder buying a modded car if all of the reciepts are included for each job, but if it was done by the owner, eg. not by a proffessional, NO WAY.

Also, if the rims were not stock and were 20something inch chrome fully sick bro. Id take a rattle gun to em and take the car home on the back of a truck.

[Reaper]

Just because a car is stock doesn't mean it hasn't been thrashed...

No however cars that have had the ring thrashed out of them are usually quite easy to pick.

Reaper

[Lumps of cheese]

Stock preferred for me, but i'd consider anything that appealed to me.

[ashbox]

stock unless it was an 4x4 cos i don't wanna pay for a canopy, bullbar etc

i'd rather mod the car to my liking

[redrags]

mods mods mods

[CANYONERO]

not fussed either way but funnily, every single car ive owned has been completely stock when i bought them. scary thinkin about the amount of money ive spent on "improving" my rides.

[Zeussy]

Buy it = Stock.

Own it = Mod.

Cars, (I feel) are a personal thing, I couldn't let someone else do the "modify'ing" then be happy driving it...!

Its like a girlfriend, I couldn't let someone do... uhhh, you know what I mean. Its personal!

[Jezza]

well when i have the money around april to buy a better car im going to be looking for as stock as possible because i want to spend the money on the mods that i like not what someone else likes..... because i imagine that if i were to buy a modded car i would probably change the wheels and exhaust because i wouldnt like the exact way they look or sound

[bottleinspector]

i have to agree i like putting my own taste and style into my cars...i would consider a slightly modified car for the right price.....except for wheels...i hate this bloody huge wheel age we live in, give me convo pros any day

[greenfoam]

I'd only by a stock car or one that just came off a pass down the drag strip. With the car at the drags being preferable. Anything else I'd skip

[DerekP]

Original stock all the way for me too. Especially if it is an old girl like mine. If I fully sik hectic it up it would be worth half as much. However newer cars less than 20 years old it probably has the opposite effect i.e increases the value. (depending on quality of the mods of course).

[Surfwagon]

I too prefer to buy a car un modified.
It seems the majority think this way also which explains why guys on the forums have so much trouble selling their modified rides.
So remember this when you can't understand why everybody thought your mods were awesome then nobody replies to your ads.
Some bolt on mods are ok, catback, upgrade intake, maybe even an OTR with mafless tune provided you can contact the tuner.
I would never buy a late model car with a respray unless I knew the owner personally and he was a perfectionist and only did the respray to get a better finish.
A hew paint job could be covering up a badly bent car.
My 2c worth.

[Escape-The-Fate]

i would prefer to buy a stock car, from experience when i had my vt, it had exhaust, tint and wheels..all i ever did was dislike it because i wanted darker tint, different wheels and the exhaust droned like shit!. Now i have the vz which i bought in bog stock form i've been able to do the things i want AKA tint, lower and now wheels. So your not wanting to change it from what the previous owner liked.

[Acclaimed VS]

Personally I'd only buy a stock car just because it's a clean slate and there's more of a chance it hasn't been flogged round an industrial estate.

However there are bargains to be made once people realise that there modified car isn't going to fetch double market price (plenty of these on ebay and carsales) they drop the price pritty low to see it gone, sometimes stupidly the other way.

My cousin got a VR Berlina for 1000 bucks that had a year-old respray and rims that would fetch 1000 bucks on ebay.

[dirt drifter]

i have no problem buying a modded car if its been done right, i got my vs after the previous owner did a heap of work to it (it looks like a stocker but everything was rebuilt + its got 5k spent on suspension and brakes) it was built as a cheap circuit car but got sold before he got around to doing much driving with it.

i paid 12 for it, now owes me 15 (i got a kaaz diff + a few more bits) and if someone offered me 15 i would knock it back, theres no way i could build the same car from a stocker for that price.

however as some have quite rightly pointed out, there are some dodgy, thrashed, modded cars out there that u wouldn't own if it was given to u for free. it just comes down to picking a good one

[TMM]

My cousin got a VR Berlina for 1000 bucks that had a year-old respray and rims that would fetch 1000 bucks on ebay.

That probably suggests the rest of the car is junk lol.

[Acclaimed VS]

That probably suggests the rest of the car is junk lol.

Yeah but if he sold the rims the car is almost free. Would be a good project since it has a respray he could rip out the driveline chuck in an 8 and be set.

My point is there are some bargains to be had on modded cars. He could probably do nothing to it for a couple of months and then put it on ebay for a redicoulisly high price as soon as some people (see not very smart) see the paint and wheels they will pay anything.

A guy at school fell for this and against mine and other peoples advice bought a hilux with like 495,000 on the clock and a gutless 2.7 litre 4 in it just because of the the chromies, purple paint and the lowering job for almost 10 grand!!!

[VKCOMMO]

I'd go for the modded one for 2 reasons

1. Saves me doing them
2. You'll never come out making money if you mod a car yourself, you spend 17K on it, its a 5K car you might get 20K...

The only downside i can see is that when you mod your car it is to the way you like it, not the way Joe Blow likes it.