Doesn't look good for my VX future...

[89Vette]

* A leather 10-year-old driver's seat & steering wheel will need to be recovered and should be in the budget if that's important to you.

I disagree. My 140k 10yr-old JGC and 20yr old vette have near perfect leather seats and steering wheels. Plus, I've seen plenty of VX's on this forum with better than average leather. As mentioned in my post above, it's a matter of knowing how to take car of what you have. If you don't and aren't willing to accept the monetary loss, you're robbing enjoyment from yourself and/or the next owner. Spend $20 and treat your interiors! Or, be willing to lower the value at sale so the next owner can replace/recover their seats at $1000. That's what I mean by cheap!

People willing to pay for this cheap-*** neglect (without demanding concessions) are the ones who propagate higher prices for crap. READ those description on car values VERY carefully. Otherwise, you too will be "taken to the bank".

As someone passing into his 50's, I no longer refuse to be ignorant. I'm too old for that now! LOL

[WormGod]

Mine is garage kept too and doesn't look THAT rough, but that's also because I try to keep it clean as much as possible before it gets rest in it's cage.

Those seats don't look like they have EVER seen conditioner. Nothing a little elbow work won't remedy though. There are some great products out that will bring them right back.

I'll bet after a good, solid, day long detail, it could look brand new. In all, it's got 60k which makes it a baby in the VX world. Still a good buy IMHO. You can have mine for $20k.... cash. 50k miles and S/C'd.

[89Vette]

Detailing still doesn't address the issue of road vibration, whether is might have been rolled back, the damaged paint and bumper.

I've also used/restored some distressed leather myself. I'm not convinced these would look "great" after treatment.

FWIW, here's what I think a well-kept 60k mile VehiCross SHOULD look like!
http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...r_id=277471778

[circmand]

all around the country. Before taking a long trip ask for a member to check it out and see if they think it is worth checking out.

[MSHardeman]

DITTO!!

When I was hunting for my VX I found a Foxfire in Ohio that I wanted very badly, but when I had a couple of local members go check it out their reports turned me off. Nothing major, just didn't feel right from what they where saying. Continued my search and found a nice Ebony in Chicago. Had a couple of members there go check it out for me and they told me to "GET IT NOW!!" It was in great shape with low miles. So, their reports coupled with the pictures from the dealer convinced me to fly out to Chicago from Colorado, buy her and drive her back across the country. Haven't regretted it a minute since.

[RickOKC]

I disagree. My 140k 10yr-old JGC and 20yr old vette have near perfect leather seats and steering wheels. Plus, I've seen plenty of VX's on this forum with better than average leather. As mentioned in my post above, it's a matter of knowing how to take car of what you have.

DOH! Of course I should have made it clear that I was talking about "typical" people - not those of us who enjoy driving "new" vehicles no matter how old they are!

[circmand]

My driver seat after 10 years had started to crack. I checked on reupholstry (too expensive) a used seat (why are all available red/black) seat covers (Wet Okole never has a sale) finally found a guy on craigslist who repairs interiors. For $100 he repaired the cracks and recolored the entire drivers seat. The seat still has wear creases but the cracks are no longer visible.