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We just traded in a 2005 Leon TFSi for just over £2k
Go back and find out what the dealer is asking for it...
Interesting topic. I've just sold my car privately on AT. It needed a few hundred spent on it (servicing etc.) but I still ended up a lot better off than trade in/WBAC. The car was absolutely immaculate and in the end I got near enough what the dealers were selling them for.. But I knew mine was immaculate and fully loaded with options and anything similar from the dealers was visibly rough.. Stained cloth interior on photos is IMO totally unacceptable. However, it was a bit of a ballache and AT took £47 for their mid-range ad. With my new motor being PCP I'm probably not going to be doing the private sell thing in the near future.
A point already noted above about most cars being PCP, lease, co. car etc. nowadays is I think a big factor in all of this. Personally I always make sure my car is nice and warm before getting anywhere near the redline, always take care over speed bumps etc etc but the amount of brand new nice motors I see getting ragged from cold, horsed over speed bumps is crazy and is what led me to decide I wanted something brand new I could look after from the beginning. That's my two penneth anyway!
Many dealers now are using WBAC to set their own trade in prices, some even openly admit that's what they do (Evans Halshaw for example).
Consider ex Motability cars -
Definitely NOT.
The number of motab cars I see are just not looked after by their users. They most likely are of the opinion that because they have a free car, why should they look after it?
I suppose it is leasing that is the problem
In the good old days people bought a new car and it entered the market in a variety of ways.
Now most are leased for say 3 years. They then go back to the manufacturer. That means that Ford UK must control most of the 3 year old Focus's in the Country. So presumably anything in good nick goes on the Forcourt of a Ford dealer and everything that's rubbish goes to an auction for the independent Forcourt's
Cheers guys, the leasing thing I'd never considered.
Few people mentioned my budget... Don't recall disclosing that but it's anywhere up to 8k for something nice and 12k for something really special.
I was looking at a 350z yesterday afternoon before I came back and wrote that rant.
You can [i]easily[/i] get a premium good condition private car with that budget.