Scirocco Central

Bought my car brand new in late January 2009 - 58 reg GT 2.0TSI manual, completely standard other than black pearl paint and reversing sensors and I asked my dealer if he would buy it back off me (long story). How much do you reckon I was offered?

i reckon we will need these when we hear the figure



i will never px/sell a car to a stealer again

I'd say very close to the figure which webuyanycar.com would give you. I agree, those tissues will come in handy!
I lost around 8k in 8 months on my current car from new when shopping in for my 2.0TSI. Horrifying numbers, but then as they all say new cars are such wste of money

LOL Come on don't be shy, let's see your guesses!

£16,500 ??

My guess.. £15,000?

List Price £22,000 minus 10% discount, minus 15% VAT = £16830
minus around £2000 for dealer margin = £15,000.
He can then put it on the forecourt for £18-19k and have around 1-2k haggling space...

Was it a good guess???

Yeah I was going to have a stab at £16,000 ish. They can then stick it on the forecourt at 19 and wait for bites.

I'd be surprised if it's much over £15k. I'll go for £14750 and a sob story from the dealer.....

drnick wrote:I'd be surprised if it's much over £15k. I'll go for £14750 and a sob story from the dealer.....

Yeah my guess will be at the lower end of £14000 - I'll be shocked if its less but not surprised since its a stealer.

I would be shocked if they said £10-12k!

A couple of months ago I saw my £25k car worth £14k on "webuyanycars" - at those prices who wouldn't "buy any car"? Anyhoo, they sent me an email last month saying great the value of your car has gone up we can now offer you £15k! lol

My guess is £15,250

Do we win anything if we get the right guess

£16,000?

My mate has just had to sell his TTS Roadster due to a change of circumstances. Lost over nine grand in eight months, £1000+ per month on a car with suposedly great residuals! It was Black with 19's so very saleable. Not looking forward to my meeting with HR at 08:30 tomorrow morning, might end up having to sell mine too.

16.5k would be my geuss

Tried webuyanycar.com....
Sep 2008/58 Silver/Leather/ Auto - £18575
Certainly more than I would've guessed....

jc74 wrote:My guess.. £15,000?

List Price £22,000 minus 10% discount, minus 15% VAT = £16830
minus around £2000 for dealer margin = £15,000.
He can then put it on the forecourt for £18-19k and have around 1-2k haggling space...

Was it a good guess???

No prizes, but jc74 was spot on - almost like he had inside information!! I thnk I'll try webuyanycar.com, just out of curiosity.

Crazy, and when the car first came out in Sep, they were predicting an average re-sale value of £12k after 3 years...

TurboTrev wrote: No prizes, but jc74 was spot on - almost like he had inside information!! I thnk I'll try webuyanycar.com, just out of curiosity.

I'm sure you'd get a couple of k more privately, and it should sell quick, since autotrader only has trade ones for sale at considerably more.
Still, a horrible amount of depreciation to suffer, but I seem to be doing this regularly myself.

robrob wrote:Crazy, and when the car first came out in Sep, they were predicting an average re-sale value of £12k after 3 years...

To be honest given another couple of years of price increases I think you probably will get around £12k for a 3 year old one with average miles/spec. You always lose most of the value of a new car in the first year of ownership (in fact right after driving it off the forecourt TBH)! That and if you go to a dealer and ask them to buy a car without p/x'ing for another one they're bound to offer you £1-2k less than the 'real' market value as they need a buffer for the time it may take them to sell it.

I hazard a guess you have not taken the dealer up on his offer!

Shame I don't have the patience of waiting, I would of offered you £15100 for it and I would of saved myself over 5k on the price of a new one

Good job (work permitting) I am not planning to sell mine anytime soon............

mister.c. wrote:I hazard a guess you have not taken the dealer up on his offer!

Correct, no way is the dealer making £3-4K at my expense, just as well I'm not desperate to sell! I reckon I could keep it a year and still get around £15k for it with say 5k miles on the clock. I think privately it's currently got the be worth £17,995?