This week's EV bargain that I'm not buying V2

Bodywork pretty rough on it. Steering wheel looks quite worn too for 55K Km’s. It was previously listed with Zucar but obviously they couldn’t shift it and just want to cash it out.

Very clean looking car, should be loads of life left.

yeah Im not going to have the time to get to see it over in Merlins anyway, work is getting in the way this morning. I reckon it will sell out of my budget regardless. If anyone here sees it being sold (Lot 177) would appreciate you posting the hammer price later, Im guessing €13k+. There was a 2019 one for sale in NI with 120k kms on it for €9k but it sold fast before I had a chance to get up there to view it. Its quite the disparity as dealers here are asking €15k-€17k for 2019 versions.

I had a good look over the 2021 Model 3 Performance yesterday. All 4 uberturbine wheels were in bad need of refurbishment. They'd received a poor touch up job with black paint but looked awful on close inspection. Two of the tyres had large cuts to the sidewalls and would need to be replaced to pass an NCT. The white seats were very dirty, a lot of it would probably come out with a good valet, but I'm not familiar with how well stubborn stains clean up on them. One small dent at the rear farside wheel arch. A couple of minor scrapes and lots of paint swirls all over which would all probably be improved with a good detail. The plastic layer over the carbon fiber spoiler had mostly chipped off...€800 for a new one from Tesla if you wanted it looking perfect again. It had the old Intel chip rather than the Razen chip. All in all I'd say €3000 would bring it back to its best provided nothing wrong with control arms / bushings which seemed okay to my untrained eye (Merlin don't let you test drive). It went for €19,600 + fees at today's auction. I had a max bid of €17k in. I don't really need/want a performance but if it was to go that cheap it'd be hard say no! I'm still on the look out for a RWD 2022/2023 M3 or MY, ideally blue with white interior if anyone trading in with Tesla would like an extra 1k over Tesla's offer and a quick hassle free sale!

Thanks for the info. €8600 a bit lower than I expected it to go, even with the body condition I might have bitten at that as it was a higher spec Comfortline with adaptive CC, etc. Have been looking for 2019 eGolf for a several weeks now and they are very thin on the ground in the private market with only dealers having them asking €15k. My alternative is something like that 2019 Ioniq you posted yesterday. Theyre a solid car but I just prefer the look of the eGolf, plus its got the larger 38kw battery.

I'l register it up North for a couple of months. So just €200 for the ferry

an 18month old i5 msport Touring for €52k, with just 11,000km. These will drop further once the iX3’s land.

Google says the list price on these was €94k in 2024

Be careful here, this particular dealer imports a lot of UK cars that have had previous damage. Worth reading a few reviews and/or getting it checked out. Plenty fresh used BMW i5’s coming from the UK and Japan currently. They seem to have depreciated pretty heavily compared to their 530e PHEV sibling.

Tourings were about €3K more than the equivalent saloon when new, hence they are relatively scarce.

Very highly specced including the phenomenal Bowers & Wilkins sound system. Such a shame that it doesn't seem to have a sunroof as a dark interior with black headliner just feels like a grim coffin 😅

"controversial opinion perhaps - I’ve always found the saloon 5 series look like fleet/company cars"

Probably because they are? I'd say for decades a very high percentage of buyers of brand new base 5 series like 518d / 520d were lease companies. Perhaps higher than of any other car. Although they did make sense as a private purchase when you got a cancer bonus from the greens from 2008

Post this before and looks like it falling apart since I did. Price drop on it, was closer to 20K must be rightly fecked underneath …. but it powers up! 😀

https://www.donedeal.ie/damagedcars-for-sale/20-tesla-model-x-long-range-150km-powers-up/41692509