https://www.cargurus.co.uk/Cars/link/130306790

Doesnt look to bad imo!  

I doubt they have much more than £1500 on that car, take out their prep costs and you will do well to knock off a grand. 

Just now, TheGingerOne said:

I doubt they have much more than £1500 on that car, take out their prep costs and you will do well to knock off a grand. 

car is sold apparently now, Comms done online with dealer so I don't know for sure. Went in too late, possibly because there is a used event on until today at Skoda with an extra £500 off.

I'm a big Skoda fan, between the wife and I we're on our 5th (Octavia MkII Scout, Octavia MkII vRS, MkII Superb, MkIII Octavia Scout, Kodiaq.

 

I'm in the Superb, the wife has the Kodiaq. My Superb is 7 years old and has 150,000 miles on it. I reckon there's another couple of years left in the old girl (the car, not the wife!).

 

The reason I'm in the Superb is that when I bought it, it was cheap. £12,000 back in 2013 for an 18 month old, 14,000 mile SE from a Skoda dealer.

 

Being into cars I'm always looking for it's eventual 'replacement'. A MkIII Superb would be the obvious choice.

 

But, their current pricing doesn't make them the phenomenal value for money they once were. The car in this thread, a late 2017 2.0 TSI 220PS DSG Laurin & Klement estate with 16,500 miles, for £24,490.

 

Daring to look outside of the Skoda fold there are some really good cars out there, some seem pretty good value when compared to the Superb. I'm quite taken by the new Volvo S90 / V90. Here is an estate, same age and mileage. OK, so it's diesel but it's there's only a few hundred quid between them.

 

I'm not looking to put the Superb down, but current pricing put's it up against some pretty compelling alternatives...

 

 

 

If it doesn't have to be petrol, then it's at least food for thought.

I would actually prefer a diesel 190 but they seem to be even more expensive, the 220 TSI is cheaper. Food for thought indeed, although you don't get as much kit in the Volvo as in the L&K but yes even new V90 are to be had with some amazing deals whether PCP or PCH at the moment, they must be slow sellers compared to the XC brigade as they seem to be the default choice in my part of town for families, they are everywhere.

I may still be selling my 280ps Sportline Combi with under 7000 miles , 13 months old with next service covered by service plan .  I would be looking for min. £24k so imho the 220 L&K with those miles looks a little expensive .

There are regularly some fantastic deals around on ex-management / ex-demo models - or there certainly were when I bought mine in mid-December. But you have to be prepared to move quickly and potentially to travel to get them. Mine came into my inbox at 8.30 on a Saturday morning, before it had gone onto the dealer website. I'd done the deal by 10.00 and paid the deposit, subject to the cars (my trade-in and the new L&K) being as specified and as per the pictures and info the dealer and I swapped. The price on a local car with the same exact spec, age and mileage was £3k higher; the dealer was keen to get rid of the one I bought as he'd just got the 67 plate demo model in, so mine was useless to him. Picked it up four weeks later from the dealer 150 miles away as Xmas got in the way. When I was looking, dealers in the midlands and north-east were generally offering the keenest prices, between £1,500 and £3,000 less than "darn sahf".

What some expects in the way on money selling a car or any vehicle has nothing much to do with Dealer / Traders Asking and selling prices other than they can expect less money.

 

Dealers and Traders are businesses with overheads and costs and tax to pay on profit.

Skoda Approved Used cars with Full Main Dealer Service History, or any used car with FMDSH used to be worth the premium you paid, 

maybe less so now as Full Main Dealer Service Histories are often just evidence of how little is done at Dealership Services.

Today I travelled half way across the country to test drive a lovely 280 in South Wales. 

 

Deal done. 

 

My Octavia 245 is going and I’m replacing it with this 2018 280 Sportline. 

 

It was almost five hours each way on the train but I can’t tell you how much it was worth it. 

 

I dont mind travelling if the deal is a good one. 

On 16/10/2018 at 22:29, EddGee said:

Today I travelled half way across the country to test drive a lovely 280 in South Wales. 

 

Deal done. 

 

My Octavia 245 is going and I’m replacing it with this 2018 280 Sportline. 

 

It was almost five hours each way on the train but I can’t tell you how much it was worth it. 

 

I dont mind travelling if the deal is a good one. 

That's Sinclairs Garage in Swansea, where I bought my last car from.  It wasn't so far for me to travel from Brecon, of course.  I didn't have a part exchange and travelled down by bus as we don't have a railway station in Brecon, but it was free with my OAP bus pass!