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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.
 
Elsa TLC said:
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.
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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!
 
HERTS P&D said:
Keep your money, we could be in a recession by September and no one will be buying your car.

Andy
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It cost me nearly £150 to fill my Movano today. £97 for the Honda. I believe you could be right
 
Mottie said:
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!
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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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
Elsa TLC said:
My brother has asked do I want his old car.
Its the same as this but fine about 120000 miles.

Hes had it from New full service history and top spec.

We buy any car have offered him just over 9 grand. I can have it for same price not sure exactly if its closer to 10 or 9 grand.

Snap his hand off or steer clear.

Hea loves his cars, so will think its a great car. Is it?


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Did you ask him basic questions like if it has any faults as it has over 120,000 miles on the clock?
 
Nail In said:
Did you ask him basic questions like if it has any faults as it has over 120,000 miles on the clock?
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No reason why the mileage should be a problem on it's own if the car's been maintained properly, try to take someone with you armed with a diagnostic tool (pref. BM specific) to scan for fault codes.

Achilles heel on BM's is the cooling system, designed to operate at high temperature/pressure & everything is plastic (n)
 
Nail In said:
Did you ask him basic questions like if it has any faults as it has over 120,000 miles on the clock?
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He said that its done 120000 miles but his miles. Meaning hes a good carful driver. Not the average BM / Audi driver.

It was his company car that he bought off them. So proper BM service history on the dot, as that my brothers way.

His wife has had it for the last few years driving up and down the Village to work and back.

He would say if there was or are any problems.
He has said as Mottie has said that its expensive to keep.
 
pete01 said:
About a year before I sell a car I go everywhere in reverse to get some miles off it (y)
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Thats very odd. Its almost backwards thinking

What if I tow mine depending on if its front or rear wheel drive.?
 
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