£4000 for my car!!

[fUbAr]

been into my local dealership asking bout a 182... i asked how much i would get for mine as p/x and they said £4000

Now i only bought the car from the same dealeship 7 months ago and paid £5500 for it. Its a 2001 Y plate 1.4 16v Alize which has done 38000 miles. Ive only done 4000 miles since i bought the car, so surely it wouldnt had depreciated that much!!

It put me off looking at the 182 that day so i walked out!

 

[Rich-D]

There is a BIG difference between trade-in price and retail price mate, its always the same!

Sounds about right to me...

 

[fUbAr]

sounds like a bloody ripoff to me

 

[clio__chris]

thats a joke innit! hardly ever worth selling back to a dealer....

 

[Milf Hunter]

yeah, init, init

 

[fUbAr]

the fact that theyll probably go on and sell it for £5500 again p*sses me off!

innit

 

[jbond01]

Its the way Dealers are unfortunately I remember my mother bought a car from a Dealer once for £9000 and decided to change it for an anther car 4 months later and the Garage in question only offered her £4000. Suffice to say he went else were but thats life, and thats probably about right unfortunately for your car your best trying to sell privately. Tony

 

[Daz]

If they sold it for £5500, then they must have traded it in for quite a bit less before you got it!

Cars get traded in and sold for silly amouns more!

Sell private!

 

[fUbAr]

nah, ive decided to keep her... well until it starts costing me too much money for repairs etc.

how much dya reckon i could get for her selling privately?

 

[MattsClio]

According to Glasss Guide (with is the book of car values that all dealers use, and costs a bomb!!!!) it is worth £4325 trade, and £5325 retail. The £4000 that you have been offered is about right because they always offer a bit less than trade price on part exchanges. The retail price of £5325 is what they would then try to sell it for, as a minimum price. Id say, to sell it privately you are looking at about half way between these figures at about £4800.

 

[fUbAr]

okie doke, cheers for that fella. think i might hang onto it then

 

[Charlie]

they make a lot of money out of people because trading in is convenient to the buyer of the new car. they get a guaranteed price there and then rather than having to have the bother of selling privately

 

[CraigM]

I would have thought you would have been offered a bit more than that - I was offered £4000 for mine by a Seat dealer (against an Ibiza FR) and it is a 2001 Y with 51,000 miles on it.

In the end I traded it in for £4600 at an Audi dealer - not too bad really.

 

[Ian_182]

People with blinkers on go to dealers.They rip you off big time.

Sell private and walk in with a deposit,Tell them motorpoint do 182s for 12.5k on the road and then give him some lip,abuse and generally be off with them.If you look like a pansy for one minute then theyve got you.If they fob you off with the import crap then just say "there all imported,we dont have a renault factorry in the u.k."With what you save from motorpoint and selling private will be around £3500,including your car and if you buy an import then there is no way on this planet that it will worth 3.5k less than a u.k one when you eventually come to sell it.

Dealers are turds and prey on young and old alike,the only reason there is still a two-tier system of car sales in the u.k. is because people like you(maybe )go and visit them and hand them all your money.

DONT DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

ian (good luck)

 

[fUbAr]

have i just been told off!!? lol

 

[Ian_182]

Quote: Originally posted by fUbAr on 18 April 2004

have i just been told off!!? lol

not at all mate,i just hate dealers full stop.They just rip you off with a smile.

Regards,ian