How did everyone sell there old car?

[Mr Savage]

Just out of curiosity what did you guys all do with your old motor? Sell it privately, at a dealer or part chopped it in?

If you sold it privately where did you advertise it?

[monkeyhanger]

Part exed. Depends on the car you have and what it is worth. Most people prefer the reassurance of a dealer when they're dropping more than £10k, and easy access to finance - not so convenient on a private sale. P/xing a non-VAG car at a VW dealership will usually mean getting less than at the marque's native dealership. For me getting shot of a 2 year old VW Scirocco, it seemed far easier to p/x, and given the amount I got for it, It would've been hard to beat it in a private sale.

[harryhackenbacker]

Piston Heads for me ,sold a Golf R mk6 £27K , sold in 2 days ,mind it was a great spec , and took some time
presenting it ,doing nice location Pics ,and well written AD .
Had a dealer Offer but took the discount ,and got a retail for mine ,saving about £3K .

[CraigW]

Sold privately through contacts on here 

[dubber36]

I tend to keep my cars for a long time, so they are cheap enough to easily sell privately. I will always buy my new car first having negotiated a better discount due to not having a px, then as I have the new car to drive around in, there is not too much of a rush to sell the old one, therefore potentially having to drop the price too much. It works out as a much better all round deal as you rarely get a good discount as well as a good px price from the dealer.

I've sold them all off the drive, without having to pay for adverts and often within a few days, so I can keep the old car insured whilst making use of the dealers 7 day insurance on the new one.

[Misterp]

My 2004 audi a3 sline was advertised privately on autotrader and pistonheads. Sold within days of going up after autotrader cocked up the number in the advert.

[monkeyhanger]

My p/x opened right up due to the wait being about 9 weeks longer than expected. The fixed p/x for my car wouldn’t have been beaten privately – some non-VW dealerships were selling Sciroccos just like mine via ebay motors for around what I got in p/x.

[dubber36]

My p/x opened right up due to the wait being about 9 weeks longer than expected. The fixed p/x for my car wouldn’t have been beaten privately – some non-VW dealerships were selling Sciroccos just like mine via ebay motors for around what I got in p/x.

But was that at the expense of a discount off the new car? If you got a top px value as well as your negotiated discount, you did very well.

[monkeyhanger]

I didn’t do so well on the new car discount. No-one was offering meaningful discount in the last week of March, when I ordered the car  – the brokers weren’t even advertising any discount at that point. It was only from mid April that these were starting to come through. I thought it would be a good 6 months after the initial buzz of the new GTI and GTD that these discounts were going to start to open up (as I had seen with the new Audi A3).

I got about £1000 off the car in lieu of a very modest discount and freebies, that seemed good at point of ordering considering other local dealers were looking to give no freebies and £500 less on my p/x. The difference between the lower end p/x value* and what I got was about £2200, so I consider myself about £3200 up (equivalent to some of the better discounts seen here). It would’ve been more like £2400 up if I had got my car when my dad got his.

* almost no-one achieves high p/x AND a top whack 10/11% discount at a dealer – they usually rob Peter to pay Paul on that score.

If your car could be considered more desirable than is the norm because it has a high extras value or is something a bit special like ED35 / Pirelli edition etc then I can see you getting more via the forums in a private sale than a dealer will p/x you. For my slightly rarer than average (but still relatively common) 170TDI Scirocco GT, I couldn’t see the specialised demand for it in a private sale.

[GTI7me]

I listed mine on my FaceBook profile, sold it within 24 hours, cash in hand for 3k more than the p/x value!

My JCW Mini was a great car, so much fun to drive! Here's a picture of it.



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