Car Value : Anyone got access to a Glass's guide or similar?

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I just wondered if anyone could give me a reasonable valuation of my car part ex from an official source.. Went to a VW main dealer yesterday and he was saying £8500 to £9500 depending.

I was expecting £10,000 and was pondering buying a car for £14,000

My car is a 2009 Audi A3 TDI s-line 140bhp 3 door, in not far off immaculate condition, 40 000 miles. FSH etc etc.
Is that enough info?

Many thanks.
 
We buy any car.com will give a good indication for trade in prices, they use the same database as dealers.
 
Create a new email account with google or hotmail; and use that for the sites where you might get lots of spam ;)
 
All this registering new emails and keeping track of yet more passwords, its too much stress. Simpler to just keep the car!
 
It's a lot easier these days. Just check out what they're going for on autotrader.co.uk and ebay, and check www.parkers.co.uk

Parkers says this is what it'd sell for:

Franchised Dealer: £9090
Indie Dealer: 8050
Private Good: 7735

If you are selling to a dealer remember they'll want to make 500 quid minimum plus have to pay 20% tax.
 
landwomble said:
It's a lot easier these days. Just check out what they're going for on autotrader.co.uk and ebay, and check www.parkers.co.uk

Parkers says this is what it'd sell for:

Franchised Dealer: £9090
Indie Dealer: 8050
Private Good: 7735

If you are selling to a dealer remember they'll want to make 500 quid minimum plus have to pay 20% tax.
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Thanks for that. Cant believe its lost so much in only a year. Think I paid over £12000 for it including p/ex back then and didnt think I was being ripped off. Maybe I was.

So a part ex offer of £9500 might not actually be that bad then.
 
landwomble said:
I'd bite his hand off, tbh. That must be against a new car purchase?
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No, a 2nd hand 2011 Golf bluemotion on forecourt for £13,995. But it had scratched alloys and badly scratched offside paintwork on rear arch.
 
Unless there is something wrong with the audi you'd be much better off keeping it. Not changing will save you £4k.

If you like changing cars a lot then look at PCP and leasing deals. TCO might be lower than paying out real money. With most of them you expect to lose several grand a year plus the dealer's profit so with most of them you've lost a couple of grand the moment you drive away.

I had a look on motorpoint and they have 61 reg golf bluemotion convertibles for £14k. http://www.motorpoint.co.uk/VehicleSearch/VOLKSWAGEN/GOLF/1.6 TDI BLUEMOTION TECH SE CONVERTIBLE

I'm assuming that's sort of the one you're after.
 
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DorsetDude said:
Thanks but you have to register and provide email for unwarranted deluges of spam. Was hoping a dealer might be browsing and oblige me...
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I used that Glasses valuation and have only ever recieved the one email. Never got any spam.
 
srichards said:
Unless there is something wrong with the audi you'd be much better off keeping it. Not changing will save you £4k.

If you like changing cars a lot then look at PCP and leasing deals. TCO might be lower than paying out real money. With most of them you expect to lose several grand a year plus the dealer's profit so with most of them you've lost a couple of grand the moment you drive away.

I had a look on motorpoint and they have 61 reg golf bluemotion convertibles for £14k. http://www.motorpoint.co.uk/VehicleSearch/VOLKSWAGEN/GOLF/1.6 TDI BLUEMOTION TECH SE CONVERTIBLE

I'm assuming that's sort of the one you're after.
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Cheers Suz, yes that sort of thing but not a cabrio. Those are quite low mileage as well. The Golf I saw way overpriced in comparison. Never heard of motorpoint either.

I do realise not changing it at all will save me money. Apart from depreciation I suppose. Whenever I swap Im going to have lost money I reckon though, so If I did it now Id just be losing the money earlier. Sort of. Ish. Maybe. Im confused now. :-S
 
I do private lease on one of my cars. So long as you get the right mileage allowance it's pretty good. I'd never be able to afford an SLK otherwise and now I have a new one on the drive for £275/month...! Vehicles4business were very good to me for a private lease. You're basically paying the depreciation off.
 
Try what car valuations, I've used them before and do not get spam. Their prices tend to be pretty accurate from my experience.
 
Wisebuyers Guides is quite useful for car prices and you can add mileage too. Unless I've got your model wrong I would have said your £10K PX expectation wasn't too far off (although the cost to change is more important).
 
Spuff said:
Wisebuyers Guides is quite useful for car prices and you can add mileage too. Unless I've got your model wrong I would have said your £10K PX expectation wasn't too far off (although the cost to change is more important).
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Thanks for that, a useful site(and no need to register either :thumbs:) The model names are a bit obscure arent they! Dunno if mines a CR DPF or a DPF SS EU5! Came up with just over 10k picking the former.
 
And does the retail price of the car you're looking to buy tally with what the dealer is asking for it i.e. are you close to your 4K difference? The point I'm trying to make is that it doesn't really matter if he offers you 9K for your car if you can get the new car for 13K (assuming that's 1K off what it should retail for).
 
Spuff said:
And does the retail price of the car you're looking to buy tally with what the dealer is asking for it i.e. are you close to your 4K difference? The point I'm trying to make is that it doesn't really matter if he offers you 9K for your car if you can get the new car for 13K (assuming that's 1K off what it should retail for).
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True, as you might expect though his forecourt price is tallying pretty well with the WiseBuyer price. So he wants 14k for the Golf but not to offer £10k part ex for mine as the same site suggests.
What a surprise eh.
 
DorsetDude said:
Thanks for that, a useful site(and no need to register either (y)) The model names are a bit obscure arent they! Dunno if mines a CR DPF or a DPF SS EU5! Came up with just over 10k picking the former.
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Might tell you which it is on the V5? Otherwise phone an audi dealer and give them the reg. They should be able to tell you the exact specification including factory options I would imagine.
 
Motorpoint are fine, I've bought from them before. There's a big supermarket nr Burnley.
 
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