This week's EV bargain that I'm not buying

Agreed. I'd say the trade is more than likely 8k

Offer him €9K then and see if he bites. If you don’t want it for yourself, put it back up for €10K for your trouble.

Credibility was lost when he said garage was taking as is, but he would get tires and nct done for private buyer. I'm the sort who would rather sell to a person than a garage for the same price, but I wouldn't be going out of my way to do it beyond putting up an advert. I reckon at 9k he would bite your hand off.

That's not how it works, if it's not being retailed it's probably going straight to the trade, a trader had underwritten the 10.5k price or less, we don't know what he's paying for the new one so could be over paying on the price but getting a good trade in.

I'm not buying this good smaratain line, he's trying to get as much as he can for the car.

Why someone would try and sell a car for the same price as a trade in is idiotic, hand the dealer the keys and forget about it, I've seen private sales dragged through court over angry buyers, who needs that headache for no profit.

What sort of range do you reckon?

And what sort of issues?

A 2019 /2020 i3 with say 30-40k on the clock (which is small milage) are asking a good 19-20k right now. While much more range than this, they’re still well behind say an ID3

If you’re only interested in local driving or shortish trips it just shows where the prices of these cars are heading when the much higher range cars start to age.

I think there’s going to be a period, hopefully quite soon, when earlier electrics command bargain basement prices simply due to low range of say under 100km.

I haven’t had such cars on my radar to date but “we’re” a two car household- my own car is 16yo and I want to replace it- the other is about 5 years old and we use that mostly- we don’t have a need for two secondhand cars “worth” 20k or more each - I’ll really have to explore this sector of the market - if I had that for 2 years and sold it for 3k I’d be thrilled - maybe not that actual car but you’ve put an idea in my head- BTW, I respect your views here so feel free to tear my thinking apart or provide me with some more food for thought

I'd probably take that if I wasn't paying for solar next week. Looks to be in great shape for the mileage

With more than a 150,000 miles there's no way I'd pay €10,000 for an 7 year old 28kWh ev. That's a lot of mileage and most likely a lot of DC charging in the cars life.

The Ioniq on the previous page with 1/2 the mileage for €500 more seems a much better bargain on the face of it. It does seem though Ioniq's are dropping in value and bargains are there to be had.

I just think doing 35,000 a year in a car that can do circa 220kms at a 100% state of charge is a lot of mileage and a lot of charging and its likely a lot of DC charging included.

Saying that these Ioniqs seem to be holding up extremely well and would make the ideal second car with their bargain prices.

Hard to imagine the claim of 100% SOC could be meaningful given the mileage on it.

Ask the dealer.

I do about 28k klms a year and my commute is 70km round per day. The rest of my driving is the usual...shops, dropping kids, leisure etc. I have fast charged I think 3 times since buying the car 17 months ago. It wouldn't take much more daily driving to run up 35k klms per year and without a single DC charge needed. It looks a lot cleaner than the other Ioniq posted, but I would look at both before buying any, or none.

Sounds stupidly expensive way of running your EV tbh. Why would you...

eCars was free of charge up until the end of 2019! Plenty of folks had free travel for years.