Selling advice

[TommyC]

Sorry to start another 'whats my car worth' thread, but my situation is a little trickier than usual so would appreciate some advice before posting a full ad.

I'll spare the sob story so all the small violins can stay in their boxes, but having to consider getting rid of the RS.

I've owned the car for 8 months and was planning on keeping it as a toy for a long time and have spent alot of money to get it up to scratch.

Car is spot on, Daytona grey with black optics (wrapped so can be put back to alu) FSH and a full box full of invoices and history. Looked after by MRC in my ownership. Its just coming up to 84k miles

Spec is perfect apart from having comfort seats instead of buckets. Discs and pads are all good, MRC stage 2, Full Milltek, KW V3's with chassis tune by Centre Gravity, four recent Michelin PS4S tyres. Its also had paint correction and detail by KDS early this year.

Now the bad bit, the front bumper has three small cracks after a slow speed collosion with a muntjack deer. Only noticible close up and when pointed out.

So whats the opionion on trying to sell with the bumper as is? id personally rather a perspective owner see it as is rather than fixing and looking like its hiding something more serious.

Price wise i was thinking around the 14k mark

Any thoughts?

Cheers
Tom

[birdiemachine]

14k is cheap. It's worth somewhere between 16k and 18k. These are becoming rare beasties.

Does it have fbsw? Recent history of carbon clean?

[TommyC]

14k is cheap. It's worth somewhere between 16k and 18k. These are becoming rare beasties.

Does it have fbsw? Recent history of carbon clean?

Thanks for the feedback. Yep it has fbsw,nav,bose,carbon trim, heated front and rears only thing missing from perfect spec is comfort seats instead of the buckets. Carbon clean was done at the start of 2016. Still pulling 415hp in July when MRC fitted and mapped the milltek sports cats.

Was pricing it lower due to the condition of the front bumper. Maybe 15k is reasonable then

[rs user]

smart repair on bumper will be pretty cheap-even a proper repair
if you put it up at 15k in the present climate fok will want at least 1k of that off
i would put it at £16950 gives plenty wiggle room
even that seems pretty sensibly priced compared to most out there tbh-i"m assuming its avant too

[TommyC]

smart repair on bumper will be pretty cheap-even a proper repair
if you put it up at 15k in the present climate fok will want at least 1k of that off
i would put it at £16950 gives plenty wiggle room
even that seems pretty sensibly priced compared to most out there tbh-i"m assuming its avant too

Cheers Arthur, sounds positive. Yep its an avant. Ill get it cleaned up and get an ad together, see if i can hold back the tears

[RS Owner]

As a comparison, I am trading in my Mugello Blue B7 RS4 Avant on Friday Sept 1st. It is 41,000m, full main dealer service history, June 2007, one owner from new (me), no accidents (amazingly) and I am getting £15,000. My car is completely Audi standard i.e. it does have options but Audi options, that is no Miltek exhaust etc. I have reversed (slowly) into a post which has scratched rear bumper and all 4 alloys are scuffed (who's aren't).
My last service was >£3,000 new front discs front pads and front DRC. All done to main dealer standards and I am getting £15,000 if that helps set your expectations.

Oh and I'm trading for a new M3 BTW, I would have looked at an RS4 but Audi aren't making one at the moment.

[marc1]

^ that's not setting expectations at all... you're getting a <beep> price because you're part exchanging the car. A 41k mile 1 owner car is worth 23k+ all day long. Part ex it for £15k and I'm sure we'll see it on a dealers forecourt for +£10k. For comparison, bet a trade in on your new M3 will be equally as poor, relatively speaking as soon as you drive it away.

If you're after a quick sale and the car is geniune and not wrecked, I'm sure someone will n here will offer you a fair bit more for it.

[RS Owner]

The way I look at it, the car was £55K OTR in 2007, £15 is not a bad price 10 years later. I think it has held it's value pretty well, I don't expect the M3 will be any where near as good.

[Fun and games]

£15k trade in on a mugello blue? You're mad, i was looking at spending £20k plus for your spec a while back, madness.

[marc1]

Agreed, but youd even probably get more from We Buy Any Car. I guess if you want a super easy trade, that's the price you pay, but if someone is prepared to offer you more, why not take it? Would you welcome another forum member buying the car from you?

[marc1]

The way I look at it, the car was £55K OTR in 2007, £15 is not a bad price 10 years later. I think it has held it's value pretty well, I don't expect the M3 will be any where near as good.

Agreed, but youd even probably get more from We Buy Any Car. I guess if you want a super easy trade, that's the price you pay, but if someone is prepared to offer you more, why not take it? Would you welcome another forum member buying the car from you?

[RS Owner]

The way I look at it, the car was £55K OTR in 2007, £15 is not a bad price 10 years later. I think it has held it's value pretty well, I don't expect the M3 will be any where near as good.

Agreed, but you'd even probably get more from We Buy Any Car. I guess if you want a super easy trade, that's the price you pay, but if someone is prepared to offer you more, why not take it? Would you welcome another forum member buying the car from you?

webuyanycar offered me a "guaranteed" £16,600 and I booked an appointment for Thursday. If you google "are webuyanycar honourable" you get a lot of stories of instances where they dont honour their "guaranteed price" by focusing on every paint chip etc. and an office of fair trading investigation so I dont plan to go to the appointment.

Of course I would rather sell to a forum member but I don't think it is practical given the value involved and the size of the internet? (I am in Basingstoke, Hampshire)

[Greg3227]

Of course I would rather sell to a forum member but I don't think it is practical given the value involved and the size of the internet? (I am in Basingstoke, Hampshire)
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[neil_f]

I'd have gladly bought it for 15k! I've just bought one with 114k miles for just over 14k! There is one close to me for 21k with 60k miles. Obviously it's your decision to accept the trade in value but personally I would tell the dealer where to go unless it's somehow being offset by an amazing deal on the M3.