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Buying a new car question

  • 25-04-2012 1:21pm
    #1
    canonfodder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭


    Hello All,

    Looking for some help/advice. I've never bought a new car. The only car I ever bought is my current car a 1998 Audi A4. I want to buy a new car and I would like to know when I go to a dealer will they take the car off my hands. I guess that I'd be lucky to get a couple of hundred euro from them. I know I might get more money if I sell it privately but I really don't want the hassle. I suppose because I've never bought a car before I really don't know how it works. If it helps/make a difference I'm thinking of getting a Nissan Juke but I was also looking at the Qashqai.

    Thanks in Advance!


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  • #2
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,364 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Financially it will be better for you to buy your new car straight out, ie not trading in the A4. Doing it this way means that you can avail of a "straight" or "cash" deal discount. A 98 car is worth nothing to a dealer so any trade-in allowance he gives you will just be added back to the price of the new car.

    So my advice is shop around for the best straight deal price on the Juke or Qashqai from various dealers, (this means visiting the showroom and speaking face to face with the salesperson as you will not get their best price by email or telephone. If you have no experience of haggling then I suggest bringing somebody who is familiar with that as a good salesperson worth their salt will know an inexperienced negotiator straigth from the off and will naturally play hard ball.

    Then decide it you want to sell your old car or just drive it to a scrap yard and be shot of it. I reckon if the car is driving and has a bit of test left on it then it is worth a few hundred euros which will cover the cost of motor tax or fuel on the new car for a bit anyway.


  • #3
    canonfodder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭canonfodder


    Grand thanks for reply. Would auctioning it be the best hassle free way of selling the car so?


  • #4
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,364 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    canonfodder wrote: »
    Grand thanks for reply. Would auctioning it be the best hassle free way of selling the car so?

    I'd forget about auctioning a car of that age and value, you will just end up having to pay the auction house a fee if it sells there. Best thing to do imo with it is stick it on donedeal.ie at say €600 and see what offers you get for it.


  • #5
    canonfodder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭canonfodder


    Great thanks...


  • #6
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    Op where are you from?


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  • #7
    canonfodder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭canonfodder


    Dublin, why do you ask?


  • #8
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    canonfodder wrote: »
    Dublin, why do you ask?

    There's an auction on in Mullingar every Monday night. You arrive, pay 30 euro, take what every your car gets minus (i think it's 3 percent).

    Very simple way of getting rid of it and a car like that would make 5-600 easily, if not more.


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