Hi ... I'm a new member and just about to purchase a 2005 Limited with 78k miles. It's in beautiful condition, Ice Blue with black leather interior, no exterior damage and a very clean interior. It's for sale at a Mazda dealership where we bought a new car for my wife last year. My reason for writing is to ask if there are any issues I should be aware of for this year and model. They're asking $10k, but it's been on the lot for a while and I'm guessing they'd be happy to part with it for less. Am I getting a good deal? Will I have to replace the motor in 6 months. Are there significant cost issues as far as maintenance goes? I can already guess the tires cost a ton, but I won't be driving it a lot so I can afford a new set eventually. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

I have to say that we rented a Crossfire in Vegas back in 2007, I think, and had so many issues getting the top up and down that we finally had to take it back and swap it for another car. Part of the blame goes to me for not getting instructions on how to operate it, but it really was balky ... that said, we loved the car while we had it and when I saw this beautiful example on the lot, my Miata was on the market immediately.

Please, any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

 

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Hmm, well first Welcome. $10,000 seems high for the coupe with that mileage IMHO, though I wish it were not. I would Offger $7,500 if yu drive it for a day and it seems trouble free.

Yes drive it for a day. I always do so. I drove Black Betty for the weekend and discovered the top was broken, I bargained the fix into the price i was going to pay, but back then Crossfires were still gong for $mid high 20's.


If you had problems with the top in your rental it wasn't you. The only caveat is the divider being in place.

 

Take a 2 hour drive, and drive away smiling..

Used Chrysler Crossfire For Sale San Antonio, TX - CarGurus

 

Don't think you really wanted to post your full name, phone # and email address in the Contact Dealer fill out section???

 

Call me and we'll talk about it.. LOL

 

Hey....just a courtesy heads up that you posted it on the dealer link......LOL

 

Appreciate it.. no warrants out at this point though..

 

I paid about the same for my 2004 Crossfire with similar mileage about 2 years ago so you might be able to find it cheaper or at least have a good basis for talking them down.. so far with my car (almost 100k now) I only had to get the RCM taken care of which the dealer did for me.. other than that, pretty smooth sailing aside from the alarm going off randomly from time to time

 

I don't see mention of the sticky ignition key fix.
Don't make me say "I told you so"

 

OH, pull the trigger and join the family. Nothing better than a drive in a Crossfire!


KJ