I have a 2009 Cobalt SS/TC that I'm financing myself. The car is completely stock apart from the Stage 1 tune the previous owner had installed. Im the 2nd owner and have around 45,000miles on the car. Im really interested in modding, i have researched all mods. However i cant decide between keeping the car stock ( for resale ) or mod the car and take a hit when it comes time to sell. Im more interested in investing time and money into mods for something else, like a gto ( only so much fwd is good for, opinion)

So keep the car stock or mod? Would people seeking out a cobalt ss be more apt to low ball the price when it came time to sell because of mods? Have any of you sold your cobalt and regretted it? Im getting bored of the car right now and i see it as, mod it up or sell it for something else.

 

Mod. Intake + catless dp + tune = 320/370+ hp/tq

 

But how much would that affect resale, i mean if you were just now looking at buying a cobalt, wouldn't you rather start fresh with an un modded car? I feel like the only people that would actually own an SS cobalt are ones that actually know how much potential they really have. And would those buyers be willing to buy a premodded car?

 

I would do what slowbalt said except spend even less. K&n air filter, down pipe, tune. Car will be more fun to drive, just keep stock down pipe so you can put it back on to resell. Not out much after selling aftermarket down pipe when you go to sell it. Take it back to gm dealer and have them reflash stage 1. I had gms 1 and a real tune will wake your car up like 50 hp.

 

When you go for a tune, and it comes time to have gm reflash the gms1. What all needs to be done? Paper work? Payments?

 

Well if your planning on reselling the car later on I woukd say dont mod it there is no point and a waste of money imo, now if your planning on keeping it its totally worth the modding

 

I wanna resell, 1. Im getting bored because im hesitant to mod. 2. I drove my buddies muscle car and just realized rwd is just a hell of alot more fun.

Im not bored of the ( cobalt ) necessarily, just lost my interest because i havent had much plans for it.. Bipolar between mods and selling. However if i did mod i would def keep it longer. Get my moneys worth out of the tune.

 

If you're planning on selling it next year, it's not worth it. If you're keeping it for at least 2 or 3 years, it's worth it. Yes, a modded car will be worth a little less (if you're honest and say it was modified) because everyone will think that it was beat on more. I highly doubt that would take more than $1k off the price though so I think it's worth it if you're keeping it for at least a couple of years.

 

i would mod it personally but then again i have had mine for 6 years, 5 of that with a downpipe, tune and K&N intake and it is just a blast to drive, with good tires that is

 

I say keep it and mod...you can always put it back to stock when it's time to sell. Plus over time the tc Balt will become more and more rare. Once you mod it you can beat your friends muscle car, and get almost twice as much gas mileage as him. I've never driven a muscle car so idk what it's like to drive a fast rwd car.

 

Well then maybe you should mod and yoi wont be bored and you will wanna keep it lol

 

Hey it's your car to do with as you please

 

If you want rwd then sell it. The main benefit to rwd is being able to usually get bigger tires under it for grip. Just because it's rwd doesn't mean it's easy, cause then you have to be able to transfer weight and keep the momentum over the rear wheels. Not as easy as it sounds. Ive seen 5.0 mustangs spinning badly out of the hole all summer at the strip. If you could get a 275 wide tire on the front of our cars there would be very few rwd cars that could touch a tuned lnf.

 

Stupid post is stupid

 

Being able to "transfer weight" is actually one of the main benefits of RWD, not just bigger tires. There are obviously more benefits than just these if you're also talking about handling and not just straight line performance. During acceleration, weight is transferred to the rear of the car. This benefits RWD cars by giving them more traction in the rear and hurts FWD cars by doing the exact opposite, less traction in the front. A Mustang or Camaro with 255 tires would probably beat a tuned LNF Cobalt from a stand still if it could 275 wide tires on the front, assuming the same tire compound and power-to weight ratio.