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Sorry if this is a dumb question from a complete newbie, but can you pt ex your old (own) car against a mobility car, is this done ?
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Sorry if this is a dumb question from a complete newbie, but can you pt ex your old (own) car against a mobility car, is this done ? TIA,#.
You can, but be aware the price offered may not be that great. Its worth doing some homework on the various websites which buy cars. From memory we were offered £2k for ours, and sold it for almost £4k privately.
As far as I remember when I did this, I don’t think it’s anything to do with Motability, it’s just down to the dealership. I.e. if they want your car. I got a fair price, but this was years ago when Motability customers were worthwhile to dealerships.
I think you’d get a better price from Cazoo, or similar.
Most dealers will take a part ex but they will only offer you trade price as they don’t have a profit margin to play with.
I got almost double what the dealer offered by selling privately. That was many years ago, might be worth trying We Buy Any Car before asking to set a benchmark.
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Depending on the age of your car your better selling private or possibly one of the car buying companies rather than px it the dealer.
I have very recent experience of selling a car to a main dealer and it was very positive. It wasn’t a part exchange either, as I had already agreed a price without part exchange a few months before. I bought one of my daughters a Hyundai i20 in early 2016. I drive a hard bargain and got 20% discount, so the car only cost me £12,600 new. I ordered her a new one in September. Discounts are harder to come by now so I only got 11% off this time ? .
My intention was to sell her old car privately. When her new car arrived in December, a few days before we picked it up I called the dealer and asked how much they would give me for her nearly 7 year old i20, more out of interest than anything (in the same way that I always ask Motability what they want for our car at the end of a lease, before laughing and handing it back). Anyway, they offered £8,400, so a total of £4,200 depreciation in almost 7 years on a car bought brand new. Needless to say I bit their hand off and it saved me the hassle of selling it privately.
Further to my last post, I forgot to say that if I had attempted to sell the car privately, I would have needed to have 4 new tyres fitted and some damage to a front valance sorted out before advertising it. The main dealer that I sold it to didn’t bat an eyelid and made no attempt to re-negotiate the price downwards based on these issues. I honestly believe that I wouldn’t have got any more money privately once all that was done (and quite possibly ended up with less) but I save myself a load of hassle and stress.
Similar experience with the car I part exchanged as after we agreed a price the rear electric windows stopped working and were stuck in the down position. The dealership did not raise an eyebrow, I would never have been able to sell it privately.
As with selling anything you do your homework and you get the best results. I would strongly suggest looking at a number of sites that will value your car, including Autotrader, We Buy Any Car, Motorway. Then armed with a price you know you’ll get (allow for WBAC to reduce the value due to condition, they’ll find something unless it’s completely immaculate) you can walk away from the dealer, sell it elsewhere and pay cash for the difference.
If you choose to sell privately, you’ll get more but it will take more effort and you’ll have to deal with the potential for people to waste your time.
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As with selling anything you do your homework and you get the best results. I would strongly suggest looking at a number of sites that will value your car, including Autotrader, We Buy Any Car, Motorway. Then armed with a price you know you’ll get (allow for WBAC to reduce the value due to condition, they’ll find something unless it’s completely immaculate) you can walk away from the dealer, sell it elsewhere and pay cash for the difference. If you choose to sell privately, you’ll get more but it will take more effort and you’ll have to deal with the potential for people to waste your time.
All wise words and I’ve sold a lot of cars privately for the reasons that you state. However, there seems to be a ‘sweet spot’ at the moment for selling to main dealers, due to the ridiculously high prices that they can command for used cars. It will obviously only work if you are selling them a car that they can sell on their forecourt (as I did) rather than send off to auction, but I honestly believe that had I sold my daughters old car privately I would have been several hundred pounds worse off. They gave me £100 more than the highest valuation I could find for a private sale and I saved myself around £300 in tyres and repairs that I would have needed to have done to sell the car at that price. Then, of course, all buyers will haggle over the price. Reckon I was probably £400-£500 up against selling it privately, which has never been my experience before, and probably won’t be again!
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