RS4 B7 residual values

[kerraddoo01]

Happy New Year all -

Am I wrong or are values on an increasingly downward spiral? It concerns me although I can see no point in selling. My best guess is that values for the good ones will start rising again when the cars pass the 20 yr mark from 2027 onwards. Unless the world has gone completely electric by then.

Regards

[Dubbsley]

Yes, safe to say the B7’s values are sinking, but if you follow the usual RS value trend then I would guess they will creep back up again in time, just look at B5’s.

Bought mine at the peek oof used car prices after COVID, so it’s safe to say I’m upside down on the value of mine, but I have no real plan to sell it.


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[kerraddoo01]

Agreed. Me too - 2017. See it as a keeper but would be nice to see the prices climbing back up.

Cheers

[chive90]

You're not wrong, they are in an increasingly downward spiral. Like Dubbsley, I bought mine in peak post covid prices, had I waited literally 2 months longer, I'd have saved probably £5k. The amount I paid for my 70k mile car, 25-30k mile cars were struggling to sell for a few months ago. B7 prices did go up, quite a lot in fact especially if you look at for sale threads on here from 2017-2019 ... 2021/2022 was a real high for these cars. But yeah since about mid 2022 they have really fallen quite dramatically.

The problem is, and I'm just going to be blunt about it, there are an awful lot of terrible B7 RS4's out there. You don't seem to get this so much with the B5 or the B8. You only have to go onto the Facebook group and see what some cars are like. 11 owners, completely ruined with all sorts of horrible modifications, terrible condition. They list them for £12-13k and they struggle to sell. Then a mint one comes along, the owner asks for a reasonable £23k and gets abuse on his for sale post either by the owners of the aforementioned cars, or by dreamers. This cycle repeats and the cars value falls.

There's too many people that want to jump in one for £15k and 80% of the B7 RS4 market is made up of these cars. You see the same cars sat on Autotrader for months and months and they don't sell. So when a really good example comes up for sale that's part of the other 20%, people don't want to pay the money because they think it's wildly overpriced.

I wish I waited longer because I'd have paid £30k for a top example. But it was impossible to predict what was happening to the market and the covid spike was so massive I bought one before they potentially kept rising. Turned out, they fell out of their arse! I have toyed with selling mine and getting in one on really low miles now that the market is super low, but mine is a good example so seems a bit silly to go down this road, not knowing what the other car would be like.

[kerraddoo01]

Hi - thanks for your input and apologies for not replying. I don’t use the forum often and hadn’t noticed your reply. Couldn’t agree more. Same problem. I bought mine in 2017 on 31k mls thinking I’d best get one before the best ones go. Hadn’t considered selling it now and picking up a mint one but as with yourself there’s no wish to sell. Not to worry. Cheers