« Reply #61 on: 13 March 2017, 19:30 »
Just my luck that my local VW dealer has no Golf R's or Gti's to test drive. They couldn't even give a part exchange value because there was no car to do a deal on. The only Golf R's they had were new unregistered ones they were saying would cost £35k at least, no way when you can get it for under £30k using Broadspeed.
Even down here in the bowels of the West Country there are at least six or seven main dealers within an hour's drive of me in either direction (left and right, up and down means being in the sea!
) so within an hour of Leicester there surely MUST be a good few more dealers than that as you're slap bang in the middle of the country.
Getting a used value is easy enough, plenty of ways online or PM your car details and I'll get you a CAP valuation which will give you a worst case figure. You will then be armed with enough figures to bargain with, it's just the test drive and general inspection to deal with then.
My advice, for what it's worth: buy on condition first, relegate colour and number of extras to a poor second or you'll regret it every time you look at your car.
Unless you're a gadget junkie who gets someone else to clean their car, in which case ignore my advice.
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