hi folks
as per title , after months of unsucessful searching for a garage to carry out the dreaded chain repair i decided it was time to move it on , been looking at a few cars including alfa's
, at around the sort of 7k mark , we have actually seen a few cars we like and were very taken on a bmw 530d sport on a 07 plate marked up at £6995 , the car was very tidy etc , so we tried to put a deal together .
the sales guy just had a walk around our mk5 and commented that it was one of the cleanest he had seen and no rusty wings , interior was commented on to as is also perfect , he never started or drove it.
so off to the office we went to put a deal together , his comment when he looked at the book price "i can do better than that as i can retail it without prep work " then came the hit , "seen as its so tidy i'll allow you £2750" , needless to say we were out of there pretty sharpish , on to the next dealer who had a nice mk6 golf gt tdi 170 again on at 7k , he also never started or drove it but again commented on the condition and mentioned he would have to get the very slight kerbing sorted on one alloy , he then offered £2550
is this the general ball park these days ? , just for a laugh we tried a online quote from -"we rob any car.com, they come back with £2750 as well
kind of scary as when i was looking in February ones with 120k+ on and thread bare interiors and rusty wings were mid to high 4k for 54 plates and 6 months later ones they are considering good on 06 plates are worth nearly half
