With the recent passing of my friend's father, his mom is finally looking to sell his long-unused Silverado 2500HD and I, as the resident car guy friend, have offered to help wherever possible. That's gonna start with pinning a value on the thing, which I'm having a bit of trouble with.
The truck is, I think, an 03 or 04, extended cab, Duramax, Allison trans, has around 85,000 miles, and I believe is the mid trim level (LS?) that they have owned since new. It spent the first few years of its life doing the rough work of a contractor's truck until his dad got out of that business due to health and financial reasons around '08-09 or so, was then driven lightly as his personal vehicle for a couple years after that, and barely driven at all for the last 5+ years after he lost his vision.
The interior is a bit grungy and definitely needs a thorough cleaning, but I think is otherwise in decent shape. Same goes for the exterior, decent paint, not beat up, cab corners and rockers are solid, just needs a good washing and waxing. It does feature some "deluxe redneck accouterments," such as horribly faded camo vinyl wrap below the trim line around the truck, chrome brush bar and tail light guards, a chrome ladder rack, and a toolbox in the bed. The vinyl needs to and will be removed before marketing the truck because it looks terrible. I'm not sure whether the rest of the accessories would help or hurt the value (maybe depends on the buyer.)
My buddy and his mom are said to have checked the blue book value at something like $18-20k about a year ago. That seemed high to me, and I came up with a value of $14,xxx on KBB's website last night. $14-16k was my original guesstimate and is still about the range that I'm thinking. I prompted them yesterday that a diesel that has been sitting like this one is not always seen as a positive, and a buyer is likely going to expect to have to spend some money on deferred maintenance. At the same time, how many diesels do you ever see with <100k miles?
So how much would you pay for this truck?