Selling my car. No patience

Hades said:
When I've been car hunting I have been prepared to travel all over the country... for the right car in the right condition. Something at ~20k I would be prepared to do that.

The OPs car does look worth travelling for. I would do that if the price was right (actually I'm only down the road from him :))

Obviously wouldn't travel for an old banger though.
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I travelled from central Scotland to Ipswich in one day for my latest car. Admittedly I was after something specific and not particularly common so didn't really have much choice but to do so, but there are dozens of Q2's, anyone travelling more than a hundred miles is either after a specific colour combo or feature not present on more local cars. The Q2 is not a rare vehicle. Neither is the VW T-Roc it shares so much with.
 
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For anyone who cares, rear discs and pads were done. I was expecting them just to do the discs but apparently that’s not ok, so two sets of pads in the last 3 months! I’m quite annoyed about that.

Getting the car ready to sell has now cost me £400. Wonderful :) not that the brakes were a bad decision, I just maybe didn’t need to spend to much on getting it cleaned up
 
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Rroff said:
I don't see the point of a panoramic roof, my Qashqai has it, the blind stays permanently closed.
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Depends on the car and interior colour. Some cars, especially smaller ones or ones without lots of glass, a panoramic sunroof can brighten up the cabin, especially if it's black on black inside. As you said though, the blind would usually be closed most of the time.
 
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MissChief said:
Depends on the car and interior colour. Some cars, especially smaller ones or ones without lots of glass, a panoramic sunroof can brighten up the cabin, especially if it's black on black inside. As you said though, the blind would usually be closed most of the time.
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True, I don't really do small cars :s
 
dirtychinchilla said:
my perception is that as I’ve had it from new, I know about literally everything that’s happened to the car (nothing), which you’d never get from a dealer.
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True but my perception would be I'd rather have the warranty from a dealer as opposed to a dirty chinchilla saying "this car has had an easy life innit never even had had so much as a bird do it's business on the roof bruv" and no warranty.
 
dirtychinchilla said:
For anyone who cares, rear discs and pads were done. I was expecting them just to do the discs but apparently that’s not ok, so two sets of pads in the last 3 months! I’m quite annoyed about that.

Getting the car ready to sell has now cost me £400. Wonderful :) not that the brakes were a bad decision, I just maybe didn’t need to spend to much on getting it cleaned up
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Discs don't wear overnight so whoever went and fitted new pads onto discs that are worn without at least informing you needs their bum kicking. Its correct that you shouldn't put new discs with old pads as the pads will have shaped to the grooves in the old disc meaning that until they wear a fair bit more you aren't getting a good contact patch.
 
I'd update the add with "FIRST TO SEE WILL BUY" and see how you get on TBH.

dirtychinchilla said:
For anyone who cares, rear discs and pads were done. I was expecting them just to do the discs but apparently that’s not ok, so two sets of pads in the last 3 months! I’m quite annoyed about that.

Getting the car ready to sell has now cost me £400. Wonderful :) not that the brakes were a bad decision, I just maybe didn’t need to spend to much on getting it cleaned up
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How far off is the WBAC/Motorway quote?
 
lordrobs said:
Discs don't wear overnight so whoever went and fitted new pads onto discs that are worn without at least informing you needs their bum kicking. Its correct that you shouldn't put new discs with old pads as the pads will have shaped to the grooves in the old disc meaning that until they wear a fair bit more you aren't getting a good contact patch.
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Frustrating experience. Lesson learn though. Thanks
 
dirtychinchilla said:
Fair point. It's still the cheapest in 50 miles with the same spec. Only gets cheaper with a smaller engine.
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For those in the south there's a franchised Audi dealer in Portsmouth (so will be better than dodgy backstreet dealer warranty wise and subject to AUC scheme checks etc) selling a 2020 one for under £19k. It's done an extra 9k miles but that would be my first port of call from this neck of the woods, I guess it must be a fraction over 50 miles from your location. Nearer to you, another franchised Audi dealer in Basingrad has a 70 plate with 17k miles for under £21k. So 3 plates newer and 19k less miles plus being a main dealer, probably I'd choose paying the extra £1k for that. Drive it for a year and it will still be newer and less miles than yours is today.
 
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Rroff said:
I don't see the point of a panoramic roof, my Qashqai has it, the blind stays permanently closed.
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it was a must have when we bought the cmax ....think i played with the electric blind 3 time and then i never used it ...otherhalf wanted it and i dont think it is used too often but interior is dark.
 
HangTime said:
For those in the south there's a franchised Audi dealer in Portsmouth (so will be better than dodgy backstreet dealer warranty wise and subject to AUC scheme checks etc) selling a 2020 one for under £19k. It's done an extra 9k miles but that would be my first port of call from this neck of the woods, I guess it must be a fraction over 50 miles from your location. Nearer to you, another franchised Audi dealer in Basingrad has a 70 plate with 17k miles for under £21k. So 3 plates newer and 19k less miles plus being a main dealer, probably I'd choose paying the extra £1k for that. Drive it for a year and it will still be newer and less miles than yours is today.
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There must be something up with that 70 plate for it to be so cheap. That’s completely out of line with the rest of them. Also, Basingrad
 
Hades said:
When I've been car hunting I have been prepared to travel all over the country... for the right car in the right condition.
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MissChief said:
I travelled from central Scotland to Ipswich in one day for my latest car.
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true lol. back in the day when i had earned a bit more money to burn for my second car i travelled from birmingham to newcastle to inspect and pick up the car (just over 200miles)
 
JonRGV250 said:
I used to say to people who were looking to P/X their car “it’ll never be worth more than it is today”, which ignoring Covid times madness is pretty accurate.
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As an outsider looking in (customer), what I found frustrating was it would work both ways, you'd get a derisory p/x offer way below CAP and below car buying services, apparently this number cannot be increased, so you walk away, then get the follow-up a few days later asking if you've had any more thoughts, you say you are going to visit other dealers and they come back asking where do they need to get to clinch the deal. The immovable number has suddenly become movable. There needs to be a middle ground between naive people thinking they are going to get within £1500 of forecourt price and dealers letting you walk out of the showroom in a game of brinkmanship. I mean, I assume the theory is if I haven't found a better offer in a few days time I'll come crawling back and take their offer, but it didn't actually make sense to me, we had a car worth perhaps £5800 tradein iirc based on cap valuation, they offer £4800, I would have taken £5000 on the day to seal the deal. In the end we got £5250 from another dealer, even WBAC offered us over £5k post-inspection (and this was pre-covid times when there wasn't a fight for used cars).

Time before that my wife and I spent about 2.5-3hrs at a showroom and finally after two 'speak to the manager' charades they upped the p/x valuation to an acceptable level. I accept that negotiation is part of how they make money, the difference here was one place lets you walk out of the showroom when you are not being unrealistic whereas the other place moved enough the deal done.
 
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