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How much is my car worth???

  • 15-07-2009 3:24pm
    #1
    Dazzler88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭


    i have a 99 VW Golf 1.9SDI(Diesel) that has just passed NCT.its in great shape and passed 1st time.it a 5door version with 140,00 geniue miles.I want to change but im not getting offered much on a trade in.How much is it worth???


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  • #2
    stevoslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭stevoslice


    somewhere between €2500 to €3000 i'd say.


  • #3
    Twin-go
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Twin-go


    Dazzler88 wrote: »
    i have a 99 VW Golf 1.9SDI(Diesel) that has just passed NCT.its in great shape and passed 1st time.it a 5door version with 140,00 geniue miles.I want to change but im not getting offered much on a trade in.How much is it worth???

    €500 - €600 from a dealer

    €1500 - €1900 private


  • #4
    budhabob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,902 ✭✭✭budhabob


    Twin-go wrote: »
    €500 - €600 from a dealer

    €1500 - €1900 private

    I'd agree with these prices from what i've seen online.


  • #5
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,366 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    thebhoy wrote: »
    somewhere between €2500 to €3000 i'd say.
    That's pretty optimistic...


  • #6
    alias no.9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,352 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    thebhoy wrote: »
    somewhere between €2500 to €3000 i'd say.

    You're joking, right?

    I'm sorry OP, the SDI golf is not very desirable. You have all the costs of a TDI (road tax, fuel and insurance) but with barely enough power to mobilise it.

    Twin-go is closer to the mark
    Twin-go wrote: »
    €500 - €600 from a dealer

    €1500 - €1900 private

    but the high side of the private sale would require luck, more than anything else.


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  • #7
    stevoslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭stevoslice


    u'd be surprised, i got €1050 for a 99-lk, 998cc, 99,000 mile seat arosa, from the dealer, with no NCT, and a bit of work needed to get it up to scratch.


  • #8
    BillyGoatGruff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 364 ✭✭BillyGoatGruff


    Twin-go wrote: »
    €500 - €600 from a dealer

    €1500 - €1900 private


    From a dealer : Depends on margin he has in car your buying

    Private: Pretty spot on I'd say at €1500- €1900.

    Thebhoy. The reason you got that is not because the dealer thought it was worth that much but because you probably would have got as much discount without it.


  • #9
    alias no.9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,352 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    thebhoy wrote: »
    u'd be surprised, i got €1050 for a 99-lk, 998cc, 99,000 mile seat arosa, from the dealer, with no NCT, and a bit of work needed to get it up to scratch.

    At the bottom end of the market, relativities get turned on their heads. The Arosa is desirable as a learners car. The Arosa costs €172 per year to tax as opposed to €582 for the Golf making it desirable for someone looking at cost of ownership rather than purchase price, if you kept it for two years, that would be €820 in the difference. It's just as quick as the Golf, just as economical, has lower mileage, will be cheaper to insure. On top of all that, if you traded it in, cost to change would be the only valid comparrison.


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