carsfan2 wrote: » Assume that was your one Joe? That’s a lot of car for that money. Seems a bargain price as it looks pristine. Wouldn’t be surprised if a dealer bought it even at that money.
hooch-85 wrote: » In that case, it's not too bad an offer I guess, what did that car retail for when new? I thought it was a GTi/GTD you were trading.
hooch-85 wrote: » Anyone interested in 151 GTD and a kidney? Joe knows I'm obsessed with this car, I would love it.
JoeA3 wrote: » Yeah it was mine. He's nearly doubled the mileage since I left it but it still looks very clean. I think when you're selling one privately you do need to be aggressive on the price. There's been a good few dreamers on carzone over the last couple of years looking for dealer-money for them on private sales and they seem to stay for sale forever - or sometimes you see them reappear for sale with dealers... presumably eventually traded in.
everlast75 wrote: » Joe, if you don't mind disclosing, how much was it new. Would be interesting to know re depreciation. If not, no bother!
blingrhino wrote: » You did well enough joe. my 151 i traded January 18 also and i got 28k all be it with 80000 kms.
blingrhino wrote: » funny you say that bmw athlone offered me 24k for mine but even told me it was worth more than that but that they would trade it. and that was against a new 430d grande coupe where im sure they would have plenty of leeway.
JoeA3 wrote: » Dealers want it all they're own way, it does my head in. For the craic, I called a SEAT dealer in Dublin last week. They have a 181 GTI-PP up for 39k. Pricey (the few other 181's on carzone are a few K cheaper), but this one caught my eye as it has a great spec, manual gearbox aside. Anyway, long story short, the conversation with them was brief. They offered a ludicrous figure for my car and nothing at all off the GTI... so while I argued my high spec BMW shouldn't be compared to a low spec "SE" they sold last week for 34k, they simultaneously contradicted themselves and argued that their GTI shouldn't be compared to other GTI's with less spec. To$$sers! It was a mad idea that floated in my head, I'll be shelving it for a while!
OSI wrote: » Joe Duffy would suck **** through a straw if it meant not dropping a fiver off the price of something. I literally walked from the VW dealership to the Audi dealership and got near 6k difference in trade in offer. Showed them the offer, still wouldn't budge.
carsfan2 wrote: » You thinking of moving on from the 4 series Joe or just bored ?!I think the only dealer that will appreciate the spec of your car is a Bmw garage and they will still try and screw you anyway. Dealers want it every way. Buy low sell high.
JoeA3 wrote: » The numbers quoted made it a total non runner in any event. In fact they admitted a brand new one would probably work out cheaper. The finance rates they were talking about were off the wall too. 7% PCP or something like that.
OSI wrote: » What the f*** are they planning to do with the second hand cars they must be hoarding if they're making it cheaper to buy new ones instead.
Anthonylfc wrote: » just got approved for a loan :cool: anybody selling any nice GTD or GTI for under 20k ?
hooch-85 wrote: » Price up bringing in a decent spec car from UK and see how far your less than 20k will go.
drunkmonkey wrote: » Looks like little damage here, runs and drives and has a key...loads of stolen recovered pop up on copart...could save a fortune.https://www.copart.co.uk/lot/27687189
dar83 wrote: » Only guessing from the damage listing (secondary: all over) and the drivers footwell you can spot a little bit in a pic, but I think that was at potentially a quarter/half swimmer. Might be a lot of money to sort out the interior if that was the case.
