Selling price for 2012 Audi A6 S-line 2.0d

Zurbaran

Mate of mine wants to sell his car privately. It is a glacier white auto and has around 50k miles on the clock. He was offered 20k from VW (he's buying a new company commercial from them so no trade in) but wants more.

I know it's hard to sell cars of this price privately so what do you reckon would be a fair price that would make the car sell?

I advised if stuck he should go to different garages to see if he could get a few grand more than the 20 offered by the vw dealer he went to.

Atlantic Dawn

I'd say a good price would be 20-25% less than the price of the same one retails from a dealer as a guide. I'd say €20k isn't far off it, these 7 from SIMI dealers are going for between €23.5k and €30k...

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars/Audi/A6?year_from=2012&year_to=2012&source=simi&sort=price%20asc&mileageType=Miles&mileage_to=50000

Zurbaran

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I'd say a good price would be 20-25% less than the price of the same one retails from a dealer as a guide. I'd say €20k isn't far off it, these 7 from SIMI dealers are going for between €23.5k and €30k...

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars/Audi/A6?year_from=2012&year_to=2012&source=simi&sort=price%20asc&mileageType=Miles&mileage_to=50000

Cheapest Sline from a dealer there is 26,950 but its manual.

This one below is just about the same car I think.

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/2012-audi-a6-2-0-tdi-177bhp-auto-sline-low-mileage/12924279

Going by that I reckon he could price it at 24k and end up taking 23k for a quick sale?

Atlantic Dawn

Zurbaran wrote: »

Cheapest Sline from a dealer there is 26,950 but its manual.

This one below is just about the same car I think.

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/2012-audi-a6-2-0-tdi-177bhp-auto-sline-low-mileage/12924279

Going by that I reckon he could price it at 24k and end up taking 23k for a quick sale?

Yes could try that, biggest problem when trying to sell at that price is few people have access to €23k in cash, most of the lenders will insist on making out any loan cheques to dealers. There's the risk too for people that there's no warranty whatsoever when buying private with that kind of money at stake.

Zurbaran

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Yes could try that, biggest problem when trying to sell at that price is few people have access to €23k in cash, most of the lenders will insist on making out any loan cheques to dealers. There's the risk too for people that there's no warranty whatsoever when buying private with that kind of money at stake.

I'm taking that into account here. I would look at that as a trade in price. I know there are a load of dreamers looking for mad money when selling but that car for that price looks a great deal to me.

I did the numbers myself on it as I'd love to take it off him but I'm nowhere near being able to afford it sadly. I'd be be paying over 4.5k interest from my bank which is something I couldn't live with tbh.

R.O.R

Find one in the UK, use today's exchange rate and the VRT site to get what it would cost to import one.

That's about the right price for a private sale, and probably substantially less than it would have been a couple of months ago.

Zurbaran

R.O.R wrote: »

Find one in the UK, use today's exchange rate and the VRT site to get what it would cost to import one.

That's about the right price for a private sale, and probably substantially less than it would have been a couple of months ago.

That sounds like good advice. It could be ugly for him but looks logical.

Incredible that he bought it for 36k around a year and a half ago.

bmwguy

Zurbaran wrote: »

That sounds like good advice. It could be ugly for him but looks logical.

Incredible that he bought it for 36k around a year and a half ago.

Ouch. This is what stops me buying new cars. Especially since I like driving the 5 series/a6 class of a car. Savage depreciation.

Zurbaran

He had it up for a number of months in late 16 and early 17. Was the cheapest private sline auto with low enough mileage on the market but he didn't even get one call inquiring about it.

I was looking to avoid the A6 as the brother in law and the fella who owns this have them so I was looking for something different. Loved the look of the is300 but went to drive one a few weeks ago.. meh. The whole thing was underwhelming. Car was solid but I couldn't get over how small it felt in the drivers seat which was made worse by the small windscreen.

Anyway.. I'm thinking of making him an offer and whilst I want the best deal possible I also don't want to insult him with a derisory offer. What would you pay for this car now? It's 2.0 177 sline multi and now has around 55k miles on it.

Heres Johnny

Whatever it would cost you to bring one in from UK and pay VRT should be the market price here now too. Everyone is importing from UK now so I see no reason not to make that your price. Maybe add on 500 quid for convenience but that's it.

bazz26

Low teens I'd imagine, that's what you can import one of these from the UK for now including VRT.

logie101

IS it a saloon or Avant?

I brought a 2014 40k miles Sline Auto Avant with a few extras from the U.K. in December. All in with VRT it cost me €23,500 on the road in Ireland.

So I think €20,000 for a 2012 one is the higher end of what it’s worth.

bazz26

This thread originates back 2 years ago hence the 20k figure.

Zurbaran

I had a quick look on auto trader and the figure I'm coming to is around 16k but as I say that's a quick look. Can you get them for low teens with that sort of mileage?

It's an auto saloon with full leather and xenons although I think the latter is standard on slines. Don't think there are any other extras. Are heated seats standard? I'd really like to have those after reading people raving about them on here.

bazz26

Heated seats were not standard back then but won't make much difference to the selling price of one at that age now. With weak sterling and it being 6 years old I think buying one from the UK for under 14k is reasonably done. Go onto the likes of autotrader.co.uk and see what one is costing, convert it to euro, then go onto the VRT calculator and see what the VRT figure is. Add €500 for travel.

Zurbaran

bazz26 wrote: »

Heated seats were not standard back then but won't make much difference to the selling price of one at that age now. With weak sterling and it being 6 years old I think buying one from the UK for under 14k is reasonably done. Go onto the likes of autotrader.co.uk and see what one is costing, convert it to euro, then go onto the VRT calculator and see what the VRT figure is. Add €500 for travel.

It's coming out at 16/17K using that method. Bit surprised really when the going rate was around 20 two years ago. The thing I notice in the UK is that they value lower mileage above year every time.

DaveyDave

A friend got a 2011 Black Edition for €18k including VRT last year. Irish ones were going for €22-26k and very few were S Lines, price still seems high on them?

Zurbaran

DaveyDave wrote: »

A friend got a 2011 Black Edition for €18k including VRT last year. Irish ones were going for €22-26k and very few were S Lines, price still seems high on them?

What sort of mileage was on it? Sounds about right if it's similar mileage as the Black edition would be a few quid more.

I wonder would the announcement of the new one make the prices drop a bit.. I suspect not as people buying this old aren't even close to being in the market for a new one although there could be a knock on affect.

Zurbaran

Just thought of it now but would this be part of the emission scandal re call? If so will that affect mpg and performance? I know there is a massive thread about this but I've only been in there a couple of times. I do seem to remember reading something about Tiguans running like crap after the re call.