last summer I went to trade in my 2006 2LT with EVERY option except leather, and with 70k miles on it.

4 different dealers

none offered me more than $6500 for it. One of them had the exact car i wanted...a hard car for them to sell, and it was CHEAP...all they had to do was take my $4500 cash, pay me $7000 for my HHR, and pay off my negative equity, and I would have left in the car they were selling...but they couldn't/wouldn't

I owe $10k, so needless to say, it's parked out front still.

great car, but when the rent-a-car companies turned all the used HHR's loose on the market, our values dropped like the stock market last fall.

If I could find a dealer that would take it for what they offered me last summer, now that I owe less, I probably would.

 

Why not sell it yourself at retail and pocket the $1000-$2000 you would lose by trading it in?

 

Yeah really! You could probably sell it for much more than $7k yourself!

 

You never get a good deal on a trade in. Period. And you wanted 10K for your trade in. Not sure what KBB or NADA show yours is worth in your area, but you would be lucky to get what they show for trade in these days. And your also at high mileage.

 

The goverment runs all Japan's auto makers. The labor they use here is due to trade agreements and cost to ship here. Honda is a very good auto as my father has ran 3 for over 150000 miles with very few problems. But you do pay for them up front. He just bought a CRV and paid $15000.00 with 55000 miles on it. Honda's do rattle after you have a few miles on them also. My 2006 HHR has 49000 and was wrecked with $6500.00 worth of work and it still rides smooth some rattles and only been in 2 times for service issues. Also why not let the banks fail if you think the auto industry should not get a bailout. That way the smaller banks can move up the chain.

 

Sounds like Mr. Frog couldn't really afford to keep his HHR. I mean, if you're really THAT scared of the sunroof breaking because you don't have the money to fix it, by all means, buy a car that's going to cost TWICE as much to repair when something does go wrong.

He was a troll from the beginning and should have been banned a long time ago. I'd actually like to find his HHR and buy it just so I could put another 100,000 on it. Poor thing was never driven with only 26,000 on it.