Originally Posted by musicnsurf
ok, for the last time...dewd, that has no basis in collector or otherwise car reality. unless the car was the norseman on the andrea doria, the plymouth that was buried in tulsa, or a 2004 crossfire that was airlifted new to the summit of mt. everest and left for mountaineers to put stickers and flags on, then you would be correct. storage and maintenance are everything on cars with very low mileage. my black srt-6 with 580 miles performs flawlessly everytime i take it around the block...er orange orchards. and the only headache i get from it is...well...when my neighbors want to come and look at it/them when i'm mowing the lawn.
Like I said, I wouldn't touch a 5 year old car with only 580 miles. I don't care how many times it was waxed and cleaned with a toothbrush. I wouldn't touch a car that only went around the block once in 5 years with a 10 foot pole. That is just me... I am sure someone would buy it but not me.
Your car needs to be taken out on the highway. You need to go 70+ MPH and stretch its legs! Rev the engine and get all the fluids flowing in the engine and tranny. Let the gas flow through the injectors and burn a whole tank once in a while. It is not good to let it sit in the garage like that. If I were to purchase a car with such few miles I would immediately be thinking about all the repairs I would need to make just to replace or clean the engine components that were hardly ever used. Ask any real car collector or mechanic and they will tell you leaving a car in the garage like that is the worst thing you can do.
You can convince yourself all night long that the person with only 500 miles in 30 years will win the game.... I would pass on a car like that and prefer to buy one with 20-30K miles that has been garaged and never driven in bad weather. It will most likely be in the same cosmetic condition as yours but less of a gamble in major mechanical repairs down the road.