At $15,000, Is This 2005 Chevy Corvette A High-mileage Honey?

According to nan seller, today's Nice Price aliases No Dice Corvette has a rebuilt motor and a caller clutch up of its six-speed gearbox. That's a bully point considering nan car wide has 185K connected nan clock. Let's determine if nan value is arsenic precocious arsenic nan miles, demanding it excessively requires a refresh.

On June 29, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed authorities backing nan building of nan U.S. Interstate Highway System. Just 30 years later, much than 45,000 miles of interstate road had been built, connecting cities and counties crossed nan nation.

We tin past extrapolate that Eisenhower is to blasted for past Friday's 2003 BMW 540i M Sport having almost 200K nether its belt. Dang it, Ike!

While it had been cautiously cared for and had a number of bits and bobs replaced complete time, nan mileage hung complete nan Bimmer for illustration a achromatic cloud. As a result, truthful excessively did nan car's not insubstantial $21,999 price. That combo conspired to springiness nan sporting saloon a coagulated 80% No Dice nonaccomplishment to adjacent retired nan week.

Here we are now pinch a caller week and a somewhat newer 2005 Chevy Corvette coupe that has (checks notes) 185,000 miles connected it. Dang it!

Before discounting this Vette wholly owed to nan important odometer count, akin to Friday's E39, it's worthy noting that nan seller assures america this C6 has a rebuilt engine, caller ancillaries, and a caller clutch up of its desirable Tremec T56 six-speed gearbox. It's besides claimed to person "new wheels," pinch conscionable 2,000 miles nether them. The Atlas Force UHP meats wrapping those wheels person 37/22 day codes, truthful those astatine slightest are astatine nan halfway constituent successful their circuit of duty. Oddly, nan mechanical activity is claimed to person been done astir nan aforesaid clip arsenic nan tires' birthday, but there's 10K connected that work. In nan present and now, though, nan car is claimed to person "zero problems" and to tally and thrust "perfect."

From nan pictures, nan car looks to beryllium successful bully style for its property and nan miles. According to nan seller, it's been garage-kept and is successful "excellent" condition. There is nan rumor of its overgarment color, though. It appears to beryllium a single-stage colour alternatively than metallic, and is simply a sickly grey hue much due for thing Hannibal Lecter mightiness eat pinch immoderate fava beans and a bully Chianti than a sports car.

A speedy perusal of nan Corvsport page for 2005 Corvettes indicates that this is improbable to beryllium a mill color. Maybe it's a instrumentality of nan ray successful nan pictures successful nan ad, and nan colour is really Arctic White. That colour was disposable pinch nan Cobalt Red interior, arsenic this car comes.

That reddish leather interior appears to beryllium holding up good and has nan later additions of a double-DIN touch surface stereo and an elbow pad connected nan driver's door. It different appears stock.

As noted, nan motor received a refresh 10,000 miles ago. That mill is nan LS2 V8, introduced successful nan Corvette this exemplary year. From nan factory, nan pushrod motor made 400 horsepower and 400 pound-feet of torque retired of its 6.0 liters of displacement. Per nan seller, this 1 has been imbued pinch a acold aerial intake, headers, and an aftermarket exhaust, truthful its dyno dynamics whitethorn beryllium to beryllium extracurricular of those mill specs.

About that aftermarket exhaust. While it does sound beautiful saccharine successful nan short video successful nan ad, it is sitting benignant of cattywampus pinch nan right-side copy exits protruding farther aft than nan left. As agelong arsenic it works, that shouldn't beryllium a woody killer. Everything other connected nan car is said to work. The A/C is cold, nan power hot, etc. Having put nan advertisement up connected Facebook Marketplace, which doesn't instruction specified specifications nan measurement Craigslist tends to do, we don't cognize nan title status, truthful that's 1 reddish flag. The different is that exhaust and nan truth that location are nary pictures successful nan advertisement of nan car's engine. Has it been de-catted? That's a anticipation considering that nan seller says nan mill exhaust has been replaced pinch headers. There's nary CEL indicated connected nan dash erstwhile nan car is running, truthful possibly that's thing a prospective purchaser needn't interest about.

Those prospective buyers will person their hands afloat checking retired this Corvette, since we do person questions regarding who did nan motor work, and whether location are receipts for that activity and nan parts. Plus, what is going connected pinch that paint?

Fortunately, nan seller has group $15,000 for nan Corvette's asking price, and is NOT willing successful immoderate trades. That's not arsenic chaotic a transportation arsenic nan $32K Miata we saw a mates of weeks back. Is it debased capable to engender immoderate interest? This is, aft all, a beautiful solidly spec'd Vette, contempt nan questions.

What do you think? Is $15,000 a adjacent value for this Chevy sports car, considering nan extended mechanical activity balancing nan precocious mileage? Or is each that a grey area?

You decide!

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