Hi All
I might be a bit mad, but i visited the dealer where I got my car today, they have a new version of the car that I've got (ie old stock) The question is what are they likely to offer for my car?
my00 DBM 4dr, 11500 miles fsh. registered 1/3/00, one carefull owner, never raced or tracked.
Your thoughts please
Cheers
Ron

 

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atenner

 

 

17k trade in against list, or 15-16K cash , bet ya don't do it

 

Sources for valuations:

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Oh well thats that then!
I rang them and they offered 14k against a new car at £18995.
So I guess i won't be do'in that then eh!
Ron

 

If you decide to sell, do it privately. Dealers will be giving extremely crap trade-in deals at the moment because of the number of old cars being exchanged for the new model. Don't expect to be offered more than £15k from a dealer or £17k privately.

 

You'll maybe get a grand more privately than at the dealer(if your lucky), there is a brand new STi going for 18K at the moment in Private section. Selling privately is not easy today and to sell means making it more attractive than the rest and the only way to do it quickly and effectively is on price. I can't see the logic , why drop 5K if your car is only a year old anyway. If you've 5K to burn buy a track tool and kick its head in for a year and thus save your current car, or just add 5K worth of goodies to your current car. The deprciation will slow on your car so now is possibly one of the worst times to sell(in the first year).

Regards
Cammy

 

But then, if you tried to buy an exact copy of your car you'd lose thousands on the trade-in.

Dealers have to make their wedge.

 

I've been looking into trade prices quite a bit lately as I've offered my P1 for sale and said I'd consider part/ex's too. Don't know how much is sales prattle and how much is genuine, but dealers just aren't interested in buying cars at the moment. Every car I've phoned about, from citroen to TVR, seems to be offered around £3000 less than people are expecting - and that's if dealers are even interested in buying. Scoobs are particularly bad. Many dealers won't touch them at the moment. Bottom line... used cars = pants!

 

I blame all these gits who import cars from continental Europe... Swines, the lot of 'em

The used car market is on its back. The worrying thing is that there's not a great deal of light at the end of the tunnel.

 

Unfortunately we're still not finished with the continuing dumbing down of new car prices as we're still more expensive than Europe, so therfore yor right that there is no light at the end of the tunnel.
The effect on used prices is obviously a symptom of a greater problem that we've all been paying too much for years for our cars.
Its OK for Anne Robinson etc to carp on about high new car prices falling and we all applaud, unfortunately the price is paid by all owners except the lucky buggers who are haven't got a car and haven't had one, now they can buy on the cheap.

 

Buy a WRX! - cheaper anyway cos they seem to have a bad rep amongst UK spec owners....

....and get better performance, better spec, no probs with warranties, no probs with servicing, less depreciation (You bought it cheap anyway) etc etc etc....... (Preparing to be flamed...)

Alternatively, your car sounds great Ron, so why change it??!