Trade in question

Tabnabs · 10-05-2007 11:49am #1

Looking at upgrading my car, but there are a few small niggly bits of trouble on the current car. Emmision valve that needs to be changed (quoted around €125 + labour) and there are some supermarket trolley scratches to the paint work (no dints/scraps just scratches).

Is it worth getting this work done before I go looking for a trade in on a new car? Or would this really have nil effect on dealers offer.

Cheers!

gyppo · 10-05-2007 11:50am

Short answer, NO.

furtzy · 10-05-2007 12:05pm

gyppo wrote:

Short answer, NO.

As above. Wear and tear is expected on any car. Just polish them out with a bit of colour coded polish.

drdre · 10-05-2007 12:52pm

dont bother getting it fixed.just trade it in as it is

bazz26 · 10-05-2007 1:21pm

Let the dealer find these things. He is buying the car from you and it's up to him/her to assess the condition of the car when giving you a trade-in price. Granted they cannot always do this by just looking the car over or driving it but unless there are major problems with it I would trade it as it is. Garages usually allow for some maintenance and servicing to be carried out on the car when calculating it's trade-in value anyway.

Zaph · 10-05-2007 1:28pm

Not wishing to hijack the thread, but rather than starting a new one I've a similar question to the OP's. I'm planning to trade my car in soon and while it's running fine, it probably needs a service as the NCT is due. Would it make much of a difference to the trade-in value if I had it serviced or should I trade it in without an NCT?

bazz26 · 10-05-2007 1:49pm

zaph wrote:

Not wishing to hijack the thread, but rather than starting a new one I've a similar question to the OP's. I'm planning to trade my car in soon and while it's running fine, it probably needs a service as the NCT is due. Would it make much of a difference to the trade-in value if I had it serviced or should I trade it in without an NCT?

A dealer/garage will probably use the lack of NCT as a bargining tool to knock down the trade-in value of your car as they see it as a potential risk that there could be a major NCT failure.

If there is generally nothing wrong with your car and are confident it will pass the NCT then send it through the test. A car with 2 years NCT is more attractive to the garage as it is easier to sell on.

Zaph · 10-05-2007 1:51pm

Yeah, that's what I kind of reckoned myself, but just thought I'd throw the question out there. Cheers bazz.

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