Previous owner of mine installed Kook long tube headers and Borla Atak cat-back exhaust. It's ridiculously loud (good for me bad for the neighbors)on a cold start. And yes, the exhaust modes are no longer available.
I don't think dealers particularly care whether the car has been modified and if there's a history. Their goal is to buy low and sell higher. At least that was my experience with a few dealer cars I looked at. They couldn't answer a single question about the modifications, and sometimes I could...
Recently purchased a tuned and modified 2019 GT Premium. It will be a weekend driver for me, plus I'm interested in tracking it. I live in Virginia, VIR is about 2 hours from my house. I've done some research but I'm not coming up with anything solid; how do I get started with tracking, are...
My experience with cars like ours is folks buy them, keep them for 1 to 2 years, then get bored with them, especially in my case where it's not my primary driver. I saw quite a bit of this when looking for my next weekend driver car recently. Expecting the paperwork and receipts to carry forward...
I also sold my previous tuned and modified car, a 2008 N54 BMW. I did some of the modifications and tune myself, I paid a shop to do others. I kept all of my receipts as well as the old parts to give to the new owner.
I pay the dealership to do a pre purchase inspection of my private party...
To answer the question, yes, and I just did. I purchased a 2019 GT Premium from a private party, he purchased it from the dealership. I did my due diligence though, ask the right questions, found and talked to the previous owner who did the modifications and was very happy with what I heard. I...