Car valuation

Thanks - I've tried these sites but unfortunately I can't get a price on a non-standard mileage. Also, I wanted a realistic price and I'm not sure if these sites are representative of what the market currently dictates.

Thanks again

Buy a copy of Parkers. It gives the calculations for non average mileage.

At the end of the day, the car is worth what someone will pay for it. You can ask what you like - no one is forced to pay that, though.

You could also put it on Ebay.

If you search Aututrader for similar cars to yours you can get a pretty good idea of what they're going for,

You'll only get an idea of the asking prices, surely?

--Nick.

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Nah, it's petrol - I'll only go £80.

By the way, mileage makes less difference these days that it did a few years ago. And 95,000 miles doesn't seem /that/ non-standard for a car of that age. About right, I'd say.

Glass's guide don't list a Passat 1.8T 20v SE until 2001 on..... They list a Passat 2.0 20v SE from 1997-2000 The Guide says £6,000 for a top book car with 41k on it.... take your mileage adjustment into it and this drops it to £4250... take wear and tear from the miles and this is £4000 or less.... Remember this is a TOP Book price... looking through the BCA guides and dealers are buying them for a lot lot less than that .. in some cases 50% less !!

JK

The ones with silly prices tend to hang around for some reason :-).

should see 3.5 - 4k easily, as long as its good condition, the 1.8T is the most desirable after the diesel's,

Auto trader has a few under 4k MY 2000 but none are the 1.8T, I looked into getting one.

Ronny

Adjusted for mileage, the CAP guide suggests:

CAP clean: £4,000, which is what a dealer would pay from auction or part exchange for the car provided it's in good condition.

CAP average: £3,625

CAP below average: £3,225

CAP Retail: £5,440, which is what a dealer would sell it for once all prepared, warrantied, serviced and gleaming.

If you're selling it privately you should expect to get somewhere between trade and retail prices.

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Well, gleaming, anyway!

If only you were joking...

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Now, be fair.

It'll have a warranty. The warranty won't cover anything useful, but...

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I wasn't. A friend recently bought a lemon from The Car Shop and had no end of trouble getting it sorted - and it's far from clear that it is yet. One of the things they were supposed to have done was some sort of surface treatment - which it appears they simply didn't do. Needless to say she was charged for it though.

In general, they appear to polish it and flog it, arguing the toss later if anything comes adrift.

If I'm after a realistic price for any model of car I'll look at the lowest asking prices on AutoTrader - if there are a couple right at the bottom with a substantial price gap between the lowest of the rest of them then phone them up to see if they're sold and it might be worth aiming a bit higher, but I've always thought that the lower end of the ads in AutoTrader is a reasonably realistic price to aim for for a quick sale, given the sheer volume of overpriced shit out there.

Seriously, don't mention it.

Peter

-- "The truth is working in television is not very glamorous at all. I just go home on my own at night and sit alone and eat crisps."

I'll give £1000, and come around with the cash right now!

(note: ebay offers a slightly more sophisticated way of doing this)

Peter

Surely wear and tear *is* the reason higher mileage cars aren't worth as much?

Peter

-- "The truth is working in television is not very glamorous at all. I just go home on my own at night and sit alone and eat crisps."

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Partly yes, partly no.

Let's be honest, there's plenty of genuine low mileage but tired looking cars out there, because they've only ever done short urban trips - so the seat edges are scuffed, the doors and bumpers have seen many a Tesco trolley.

There's also plenty of high mileage cars that have seen long motorway trips and been cared for because the drivers' livelihood depends on being there on time.

The mileage adjustment is because of the "oooh, it's got a lot of miles on" brigade (and more fool them) as much as wear and tear.