Right beside Tesla???
Haha, didn't know that. Yes, as long as your car hasn't done more than 3000 miles in 3 years
Whereabouts in Sandyford is GW cars?
Almost, between Woodies and Vodafone
I didn't mean that literally!😁
Performance will always be a halo model , if they strip stuff off you'll pay 5k more not less 🤣 for the weight savings and extra 0.1 off to 60
not at all true for 90% of sellers. You’re still getting a trade price and your car needs to be factory fresh for them to consider it.
Selling private is the best option, but again, not many people like selling a car from their driveway, certainly not a €20-30k one.
It’s hard to sell a Tesla, and get a price you’re happy with. look at the number of private ads for Tesla’s who are selling because of a “new Tesla incoming” - They’re staying within the brand, but are getting rode on the trade-in, so they’re trying desperately to sell privately, but they’re pricing the cars far to high and eventually have to take the measly Tesla/trade offer.
passed two taxis in a tank tonight that were 252 MY junipers, and I’d say these new cheaper teslas will be big hits as taxi’s. Tesla seem to be one of the more popular taxis now in Dublin, ID4 too.
That was you?
Speak of the devil….
That rules out a huge chunk of people though. I'm not a high mile driver, but over the 2 years and 9 months I had my Model 3 (222) I put 69k on the ODO. That was daily commuting of 70km daily return. Several months of vehicle not in use when I was working abroad. The usual trips once or twice a week to the supermarket around the the corner and a single long journey to Germany and back.
it’s very hard to find Irish stock.
There’s 9,600 Irish registered Teslas sold across the 4 years 2022-25, and just 28 ads on DD for cars 22 or newer with under 60,000, and just 4 of those are private ads.
They definitely need to send emails to try to encourage people to sell who weren’t considering it
I'm sure GW isn't going to crib about a few thousand kms.
Tesla trade ins recently have been surprisingly competitive. I had one in September that was well over the trade-bid value. Usually the Tesla figure is many thousands less than trade-bid.
It's obvious from the Graham Walker ad that they don't want to have to provide the normal 6 months warranty you'd get when buying a 2nd hand ICE from a dealer. So they're relying on the car still having 20k and 1 year of Tesla warranty left. I doubt they would consider a 70k or higher mileage car.
Have they bought older than 3 year old cars from anyone? I see one 2021 for sale on their site and that's the oldest.
Smart strategy. Zero risk to them as long as the cars weren't crashed. And they can cherry pick as few others buy second hand Teslas and offer decent money for them. I believe Vector motors is the other crowd with a similar business model
Leave the older / higher mileage to lower level dealers / traders. Who could well still offer more than the Tesla PFO trade in quotes
And I can see no reason for Tesla to start taking more trade ins. They simply don't have the staff nor the space to do this
That’s where the likes of Platin Cars, Holdon Cars etc come in. They tend to buy the higher mileage stuff and sell for a bit cheaper with the usual dealer 3 month warranty.
GW and Vector have carved out the market they want and seems to work well for them.
I think private sellers of EVs are putting too high asking prices initially, but instead of adjusting price they sell below market value. There are two groups of buyers, one that is comfortable with negotiation and other that is not. If you accept offers significantly below your asking you will be selling to limited market.
What would you see as a good asking price for a 222 reg M3 RWD with 66k Km - (ultra red with black interior) It has the upgraded wheels etc - but I know that doesn't make any difference in the used market - reason I ask is there's such a difference in prices on the likes of DD that it's difficult to know what to ask for :-)
Looks like they have kept FM radio and Basic Autopilot on the European version of the new Model Y Standard anyways.
Just go about 2k below price of similar from a garage to start and then just see what kind of low ball offers you get. Then drop price once in a while but do not accept offers that are let's say 200 below dropped price. You can always drop price further and perhaps bring into table a buyer that is not good or comfortable with negotiating - it is better to drop asking price than agree to it during negotiation.
What's the reason for GW only accepting cars under 60k km? It seems really arbitrary. I could have 40k and destroyed the car and battery. I could have 100k and be in mint condition and a healthy battery.
Edit: sorry missed the latest posts. It's about the warranty.
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I think you have a good experience with Vector yourself? My brother in law just bought a Taycan from them, trading in his Q8 etron. Good no nonsense experience and he got a decent deal. It's embarrassing what some diesel loving clowns from other (well known) dealers offered him for the Audi.
Yeah dealt with them and have had a few dealings with Richie himself. Nice honest establishment from my experience.
So you’re saying that the only dealer who wanted to offer a half decent trade in on the depreciation magnet that is the Q8 eTron was a dealer who was trying to offload an even bigger depreciation magnet Taycan.
and you think these guys are just ‘diesel loving clowns’. They’re running a business and might know just a little more than the rest of us about what is selling.
Mandela, world renowned engineer
Nah they were clowns. Well there was only one in fairness, in Spirit motors. Same deal, selling a Taycan. It is still for sale, no surprise there
https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/porsche-taycan-taycan-4x4-all-wheel-drive-cross-t/40579226
Unlike Vector motors, who were totally professional and knowledgeable. Did a deal there and then and my brother in law took his card out and paid in full. Pretty much on a whim, he doesn't need to count the pennies
And make no mistake, these days in general a well informed amateur often knows better than a sub par professional. In many trades.
you would only need to read the ad for the taycan to know that most of these lads know next to nothing, apparently its the best driving car porsche make…. most staff in car dealerships are worse than useless, you have a few independents that know their niche but sales lads in main dealers are the dregs.
Tesla warranty for most TM3/TMY expires at 80k or 4 years, hence such cars are zero risk of big warranty claims.
Of course they're not. For GW or Vector motors a mini-valet is all that's required and boom….off to a new owner.
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