BMW

[Elsa TLC]

When My Dad died he left a Ford Fiesta to his 5 sons. Not worth much to any of us. We buy any car offerd £2300. Brothers let me have it. I fixed the body damage with a new wing mirror. Cost £350 , sold it for £5800.

It was worth my time and money. This BM is only going to be worth a punt if I can make 3 grand come September.

 

[HERTS P&D]

Keep your money, we could be in a recession by September and no one will be buying your car.

Andy

 

[Mottie]

When My Dad died he left a Ford Fiesta to his 5 sons. Not worth much to any of us. We buy any car offerd £2300. Brothers let me have it. I fixed the body damage with a new wing mirror. Cost £350 , sold it for £5800.

It was worth my time and money. This BM is only going to be worth a punt if I can make 3 grand come September.

When I sold our A3 last year on Autotrader, I put it up for about a grand more that the WBAC price. A car dealer bought and they eventually sold it for £1200 more than they paid me. It took them nearly a month and don’t forget, they offer HP and a warranty. There’s no way you will make anywhere near £3k on the WBAC price selling it privately later in the year and that’s if you can sell it at all. It’s not easy selling a £12k motor privately!

 

[Elsa TLC]

Keep your money, we could be in a recession by September and no one will be buying your car.

Andy

It cost me nearly £150 to fill my Movano today. £97 for the Honda. I believe you could be right

 

[Elsa TLC]

When I sold our A3 last year on Autotrader, I put it up for about a grand more that the WBAC price. A car dealer bought and they eventually sold it for £1200 more than they paid me. It took them nearly a month and don’t forget, they offer HP and a warranty. There’s no way you will make anywhere near £3k on the WBAC price selling it privately later in the year and that’s if you can sell it at all. It’s not easy selling a £12k motor privately!

All good advice. Its a nice car but never would be my choice of motor. If it was something that suited my needs then I I'd think differently.
But your right I wouldn't want to be stuck with a lemon.

 

[Murdochcat]

My brother died 5 years ago. WBAC offered my initially £2600 then over a few weeks the price rose to £3700

So I advertised it on autotrader and got £4600 within 24 hours

 

[johnny2007]

We buy any car is only suitable for people who want rid of their car immediately.
All the cars I've sold in my time have gone on autotrader.
For a small fee you get the largest audience in the country.
When I sold my A6, I tried a quote on WBAC and it came back as £3000 roughly.
I sold it for £7000 privately and it's still going strong, passed MOT again in February without advisory.

 

[Mottie]

We bought our A3 off of Mrs Motties sister and she let us have it for the WBAC price which at the time was better than she had been offered in p/x. This was just before covid/lockdown times when car prices went crazy. I kept checking the WBAC price for that car just to wind her up and in two years it had gone up to £5005 more than we paid her for it before it started dropping and we didn’t lose too much when we sold it about 4 years later.