Noteworthy Cars for Sale [Appreciation Thread]

Nasher said:
This is the best time to be a used car dealer.
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Yeah local used car sale places I know have told me they are experiencing the best times ever, selling lots of cars and making larger margins at same time the problem is sometimes finding stock to sell can be difficult but so far coping ok but things could get tighter soon.
 
Nasher said:
This is the best time to be a used car dealer.
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If you can get stock.............issue is a lot of people aren't selling as their new cars have been delayed up to a year. My local Merc main dealer when I was last in, was almost empty of used car stock and they said most part ex cars were already pre sold before their new car got delivered as they had waiting lists of people for them.
 
Got randomly offered £2k for my V70 D5 (2005, 181k) on Saturday whilst I was filling it up, guy was adamant he wanted my phone number (which I didn’t give him) what puzzles me is it’s hardly a mint example by any stretch of the imagination, and I haven’t washed it in months so it hardly stands out…

Excited, I checked WBAC to see what they would offer……



£250. :o :D
 
Scania said:
Got randomly offered £2k for my V70 D5 (2005, 181k) on Saturday whilst I was filling it up, guy was adamant he wanted my phone number (which I didn’t give him) what puzzles me is it’s hardly a mint example by any stretch of the imagination, and I haven’t washed it in months so it hardly stands out…

Excited, I checked WBAC to see what they would offer……



£250. :o :D
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To be fair my boss bought a 2005 c70 2.5 petrol as a cheap summer runabout for £2k as well. I didnt think it was worth more than £700 personally.

A car is worth what somebody is prepared to pay for it of course.

I have been looking for a cheap runabout for the missus recently and cant believe what some people want for their cars. You see loads of 2012-2013 Renault Megane 1.5tdi with 170k+ miles on and the idiots still want £4k to £5k for them. Maybe people are buying them out there at that price?
 
Kenai said:
Right up until prices do eventually crash and they've bought up a load of overpriced stock that they take a massive hiding on.
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Not sure there is a problem with holding stock. Cars are selling as fast as stock comes in. My local Merc dealer told me almost every decent part ex car was already sold with a waiting list for future ones. Never seen their forecourt so empty. Normally they would be holding 50 used cars in stock, atm they have about 15.
 
Greebo said:
To be fair my boss bought a 2005 c70 2.5 petrol as a cheap summer runabout for £2k as well. I didnt think it was worth more than £700 personally.

A car is worth what somebody is prepared to pay for it of course.

I have been looking for a cheap runabout for the missus recently and cant believe what some people want for their cars. You see loads of 2012-2013 Renault Megane 1.5tdi with 170k+ miles on and the idiots still want £4k to £5k for them. Maybe people are buying them out there at that price?
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I paid £1900 for it last year and 11k miles ago, could have bought cheaper but decided to buy from a Volvo specialist and plainly paid a premium, that said, it’s not missed a beat in my ownership so was probably wise to buy one that had been thoroughly checked as the dealer claimed to have done.

Now I’ve praised its epic reliability, it’ll probably break down on the way hone from work tonight…. :D
 
Greebo said:
£27,400. Not bad if last one when over £30k
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Remember the auction fees though, so closer to 30k, all in all a fair price but if looking to turn a profit not much scope.

watercooledman said:
gt4 what a car for the money.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202108196402397?
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This is the car I was considering as it appeared on a FB group I follow, the owner wanted £68,000, I gave it some thought and then decided ok lets buy it, when to message, it had sold within an hour. Now we know why, just to re-appear at a dealer with a tidy at least £7000 markup.

Got to be so quick at the moment, but for me its not worth 75k but 68k was a bargain for a GT4 sporting a stunning colour.

Local car dealerships around us are booming to the point now that their forecourts are starting to look empty as clearly selling cars faster than they can get more in. This makes me think this demand for used car is only set to increase further and I think GT4's starting with a 6 are a relative bargain as I can see them potentially re-adjusting back up, the only slight issue there is quite a lot of them about. Plus having driven my new purchase it feels positively alive in comparison to a GT4.
 
watercooledman said:
405 Mi16

https://www.facebook.com/commerce/listing/205836194769163/?media_id=0&ref=share_attachment
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Oh that was my first ever company car! I killed it. In three years I did 180,000 miles in it. We sold it to a "dealer" before its MOT was due and then 1 month later I got a phone call from a car dealer asking if I could verify the mileage as a guy had brought it in as part ex and the looked mint and seemed to match the mileage on it. I asked what was the mileage. he said 36,000 :eek:

I laughed and told him it had 181,000 miles on it when we sold it.
 
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