Hi All,

We went and had a look at a few cars today as we have been considering a change from the Fabia for some time, but just been too lazy !

However, I am absolutely horrified at the cheek of some of the part ex prices, many are less than we buy any car !!

Anyway, just curious how you all go about plucking a value out of the air to sell a car. My VRS is an estate with the following spec

Fabia VRS Estate 1.4 180 PS DSG

1 Previous owner, purchased by myself at 3 months old with ~1500 miles.

Options include

Metallic Black Paint

Black Gigaro Wheels

Climate Control

Cruise Control

Heated Front Seats

Electric Rear Windows

Multi Function Steering Wheel

Bluetooth Phone Connectivity

Front Middle Arm Rest

Red Seat Pattern

Carpet Floor Mats

Rubber boot liner

2 Services, both performed at Skoda Main Dealer. New front tyres recently (sub 1000 miles) replaced with Manufacture Fit Continental Sport Contact 2's. Rears still ~5mm tread.

Car currently has ~20200 miles.

What sort of numbers do people think seems reasonable?

Why not join Freedom and try and sell privately on here. In theory you should get your £12 +some that way, over part-ex prices?

http://www.briskoda.net/freedom

I am not sure about valuing your car on the above spec, but I can tell you what we were offered.

VRS hatch, race blue with no extras. will be 2 years old in March and has done about 6,000 miles.

Warrington Skoda offered £10,100 against another brand new Fabia VRS

Mitchells offered £10,750 against whatever we wanted in the dealership.

Hope this helps

I am not sure about valuing your car on the above spec, but I can tell you what we were offered.

VRS hatch, race blue with no extras. will be 2 years old in March and has done about 6,000 miles.

Warrington Skoda offered £10,100 against another brand new Fabia VRS

Mitchells offered £10,750 against whatever we wanted in the dealership.

Hope this helps

Thanks for the honesty.

Would it be fair to think that our car, an estate with all the extras + 6 months younger should be commanding more than your 10750 part ex, and more again for private sale?

Why not join Freedom and try and sell privately on here. In theory you should get your £12 +some that way, over part-ex prices?

http://www.briskoda.net/freedom

If we do decide to change, that will be top of the list for where to list the car, however without knowing how much it is worth, it is hard to work out our position on changing the car.

Pure guess..

£11750 private sale....but could take some time.

£10500 trade in .

Could try Whatcar and see what it is worth on there, here is a LINK Just put your registration in and tick your extras, oh and put an old mobile number in and unused email address too as you do get hassled after. I use a hotmail email address I can't remember the password to and I give my brothers mobile number lol

If they're less than WBAC then just go with them.

Worth bearing in mind that the drivethedeal price for that spec brand new is £15730, with free servicing, finance deals, etc.

While I love the estate (and would have had one if I had found a suitable one - didn't have time for a factory order), it's a car with niche appeal and I see why some dealers would be worried about it being difficult to sell on.

If you're near £11k on trade in I'd say you're probably doing well. If you had £12k in your pocket and were wanting to buy, there's 9 estates to choose from on autotrader, all bar one with less mileage than yours.

These guides are only that....you need to visit the real world,look on Autotrader and go round various dealers and get figures from them.

Your car has a lot of options but I can't see a dealer giving more than £500 for them whereas they might enhance a private sale by £1000.

From my experience extras add pretty much nothing to a pix value as dealers all use the glasses guide which doesn't really go into optional extras.

My view on spec'ing a car is only get the things that you're going to get value from over your ownership period with the expectation you'll get nothing back for them in the end.

Regarding wbac,anyone on here dealt with them?

Ive heard getting the price you see on the internet when you arrive is quite difficult

It is. They apparently pay their staff commission based on how much they can knock you down, and they deduct daft amounts for the tiniest blemish.

Exactly.on that basis then I would remember any p/ex price you get from a dealer is a 'reliable offer' whereas a wbac internet price is just a vague guide (and stressful too by the sounds)

conanius

I was going to suggest you remove and sell off the Extras.

But unless you have the Originals not much point.

Then trade in @ the best P/x price you can.

I do find you have to Haggle a lot nowadays with dealers.

So try another dealer and see how far apart or close the p/x values are.

I got £1100 extra from Skoda than the T garage. But you gotta haggle.

Im looking at selling mine now and i got quoted 8750 from we buy any car earlier although thatl be more like 7750 on the day

the vw dealer my dad works for are going to value mine this week and with a bit of luck theyl take it off my hands for a reasonable price

If you got the car vat free then you aren't really losing out on alot - car cost £15k new? Part ex for £11k is pretty good for almost 2 years.

As long as the car is worth near £9k part ex after 3 years ill be happy.

I got offered £12,000 trade in on mine, it's a 61 hatch with Bluetooth 6,000miles from new

I'm about to go through this with the dealer on Friday - need to trade up a size to an Octy (wife might be parting with the company Golf, Fabia Monte Carlo is NOT a family car...).

The trouble is, it's 6 months old and I need to get a good price, but will also be against the clock to make the change. I got it on dreaded finance and know how fickle that old negative equity beast can be...

good luck!

Have you tried going onto whatcar website and using their valuation tool it might help?

Have you tried going onto whatcar website and using their valuation tool it might help?