car part exchange question

Nah....wouldn't bother getting it fixed, they only give it a cursey once over they've never even bothered starting any of mine up to be honest let alone testing the windows!

I wouldn't bother either. You won't get much for your car at all. They always offer rock bottom prices on part ex. Or you could ask a few places how much you'll get for the car and weigh up whether it makes a diference or not. I doubt it will. They'll get the car serviced and tidied up before they re-sell it anyway.

Thanks Hugo Brambles and KB3, that is good to know. I won't mention it when we're discussing part ex and hopefully they won't notice.

Current list price for the car for private sale is only £1000 anyway so wasn't really expecting to get much. When my parents last part exchanged a car the minimum the garage offered was £1K, do these sorts of deals still exist?

Depends on the car, the resale value and also the showroom. I'd hazard a guess at £5-600 being the norm and would always try and sell private first to get the best possible price but understand why some people don't want that hassle.

I agree not to bother getting the window fixed - I doubt they'll check it before accepting it as part ex and it's not an MOT failure! I don't think there's any minimum part ex values but you would get more selling it privately but also more hassle, take longer etc. It's worth getting a part ex quote, seeing what your car might sell for on auto trader and maybe giving it a try if the gap is quite large. Low mileage does count for a lot and 8 years old is hardly ancient!

The alternative is, if you fancy a Nissan (has to be one of the UK built models), you can get the £2000 scrappage deal on cars 8 - 10 years old with them...

www.nissan-offers.co.uk

? will check that out. We just need a car with a bigger boot - imminent arrival of baby No2 is causing a 'space in car' headache!

Part exchange offers aren't always that bad - in March I got £1600 for an 8 year old Clio with 60,000 miles on the clock.

I wouldn't bother with getting the window fixed either.

My friend has just part exchanged her car and it didnt even start.

The garage she took it to had an offer of minimum price to part Ex any car was £1300...so she got £1300 for a car that had to be towed to the garage!

Emmark and Easter - encouraging!

I'm hoping salesmen will be so desperate to sell at all that we'll get some good deals - fingers crossed!

Also probably worth checking out Mitsubishi as they're doing something like Nissan but for cars older than 5 years.

I'd sell it on e Bay, and put the window prob in the listing. I sold my Golf on there earlier this year and the bloke was a smoker so wanted to get it fixed, and just bought a motor for it, also off e Bay!

Buy my car, I'm trying to sell it ?

I also have a positive part exchange story...last month we part ex'd our 8 year old Fiat Punto...which had a huge dent in the side (thank you person who hit it then drove off and daft H who didn't notice for...who knows how long!), a different key for the drivers door, passenger door and ignition (thanks to people breaking in to it twice!), had done 100,000 miles, had an exhaust that was fitted a bit dodgily and rattled if you went over 60, won't pass it's MOT next year because of an undiagnosed problem with the engine not being able to reach certain revs and the power steering had broken.... for £400. We never would have gotten that much privately! This was even after we told them about these problems (well, most of them!)

I very much enjoyed telling my mum and dad how much we'd got for it given that a couple of months ago they part ex'd their 4 year old Audi A6 (which did need a new engine) for £250!

Good luck

Don't bother spending money on it.

We're trying to part ex our almost 10 year old peugeot and the part ex price has varied from £600 to £2000. It boils down to what they offer you for the car plus what they offer to take off the car you're buying IYSWIM. Some dealers have been very picky saying they want to see the car when you know all they'll do is sent it to auction, they're just looking for a way to get out of taking much off the car you're buying.

We're looking at £10k cars and saying we have £8k plus our peugeot and see if we can negotiate from there. That could be why we're still looking though ?

We recently exchanged our 55 plate peugeot (sport model) with almost 60k on the clock (we do high millege) and I wanted £4k, they said they couldn't give me that and gave me £3k, which was okay.

I never tell them what I want, just say well what can you give me and take it from there.

Cx

We part ex-d 2 cars for 1 (H now has a lease car so we only wanted to 'own' 1 car) back in December and got a reasonable price. One was a 4.5 year old VW Bora that had 110k on the clock and had 2 scrapes, the other a 7 year old Seat Ibiza that had lowish mileage for it's age but the air con wasn't working. So I def wouldn't bother getting work done before you part ex.

We negotiated on both the part ex price and the price of the car we bought, but got more than we hoped/expected for the part ex.