Car Valuation Mystery
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Car Valuation Mystery
I decided that I wanted to make a quick private sale of my 2005 (05) Silver WRX with PPP, 62,400 miles, full main dealer service history, and in excellent condition apart from a scrape on the bumper and o/s front wing (quote from main dealer to fix - £500 - but could probably get it cheaper locally).
I thought that it was worth maybe £6400 with the damage but decided to try to get a valuation. I've tried various places -even webuyanycar.com - but none of them seem to have an option with PPP.
I then looked at autotrader but the prices people are asking vary from £7000 to £10000 for essentially the same cars, with the average asking price being around £8400.
Can anyone point me to a place where I can get a proper valuation? I thought £6400 was a decent price but I'm wondering if I'd be underselling at that price.
I could get the scrape fixed but there isn't a spot at the main dealer until the end of the month and a car I've been after for a while has come on the market. A quick sale would allow me to close the deal on the other car and pay cash.
This isn't an advert for the car, so please don't PM me about it because it isn't for sale at this time. I'm just trying to get a handle on what would be a decent asking price (less £500 for repair) for a quick private sale.
I thought that it was worth maybe £6400 with the damage but decided to try to get a valuation. I've tried various places -even webuyanycar.com - but none of them seem to have an option with PPP.
I then looked at autotrader but the prices people are asking vary from £7000 to £10000 for essentially the same cars, with the average asking price being around £8400.
Can anyone point me to a place where I can get a proper valuation? I thought £6400 was a decent price but I'm wondering if I'd be underselling at that price.
I could get the scrape fixed but there isn't a spot at the main dealer until the end of the month and a car I've been after for a while has come on the market. A quick sale would allow me to close the deal on the other car and pay cash.
This isn't an advert for the car, so please don't PM me about it because it isn't for sale at this time. I'm just trying to get a handle on what would be a decent asking price (less £500 for repair) for a quick private sale.
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I guess it depends on how quick a sale you want. For example, there was a Type R on here that sold for something like £2500 (or was that £2900), either way, I'd have said that it was over £5k worth of car unless there was a major problem with it. Naturally the seller had a lot of interested parties.
Underprice the car and you'll get no responce or a lot of! So, for a quick sale I'd guess yours to be worth somewhere between £7k-£8k.
Underprice the car and you'll get no responce or a lot of! So, for a quick sale I'd guess yours to be worth somewhere between £7k-£8k.
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Your car is worth £7000 with 50k miles and no body damage with full history .You wont get nothing for the ppp Cars with 20-30 k of mods lucky to get 5k back for there mods..
So take away the price of bumper repair and miles and you not to far away mate..
If you put it at £6500 ono it will sell at 6k within a week i would imagine ...
So take away the price of bumper repair and miles and you not to far away mate..
If you put it at £6500 ono it will sell at 6k within a week i would imagine ...
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A PPP'd car normally pulls in 500-800 quid more, BUT on the 2005 cars they had a "special" offer of 3 years free servicing or the PPP, most opted for the ppp of course making it pretty worthless when selling back, this also makes not having it fitted on those wrx's whom opted for the free servicing a problem when you can buy a more powerful car for the same money
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Some nice mods can make the car easier to sell but yeh you rarely get your money back
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ppp is the exception as it was an option from subaru
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