Can anyone recommend please a UK online car-valuation website?
A google search brings up quite a few, but they all seem to be linked to companies trying to either sell your car or sell you a car, and I'm not sure how much I believe them! Especially those which then demand your email before showing any valuation (I get enough spam as it is)...
This is for personal use while I do some searching for a cheap and cheerful car for my son, so I'm not after anything "professional" (ie expensive!), but I don't mind paying a little for valuations which I can trust.
Thank you.
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And further to my own question...
I've just tried What Car for a valuation on a car I saw yesterday, and it suggested:
Buying privately
£5,780
Buying from a dealer
£4,179
Surely that's back to front? A dealer's price will always be higher than private... So I have no idea whether their website is back to front, or whether one of the valuations is completely wrong!
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Just go on autotrader, and see what they go for.
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On Auto trader, if you have the reg of the car you are interested in, you can use that and the mileage to create a dummy ad as if you are selling. You can abort the ad once you have a price so it’s free.
In any case I always try to get the reg so that I can check the MOT history on the official govt site, preferably before viewing.
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Furthermore, if you add a car to Auto Trader > Account > The vehicles you own it will give you both the Private Sale price and Part Exchange guide price, adjusted for mileage but not condition.
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We Buy Any Car for valuation. You don't say what you want it for.
Email. Haven't you got any spare email addresses? Open one with iCloud, GMail, Yahoo. There's loads out there. Cost nothing. My only problem is trying to remember which email I have used!
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>> Email. Haven't you got any spare email addresses? Open one with iCloud, GMail, Yahoo.
Proton mail doesn't even need a phone number.
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My recommendation is Motorway.
I tried WBAC arriving at the arranged appointment time was kept waiting for 30 minutes to be given a valuation a lot less than the online valuation.
Motorway came to my house at the appointment time and offered me more than their online valuation.Needless to say I recommend Motorway.
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Used Motorway twice to sell firstly my Fabia and later our 2013 Berlingo.
Fabia experience was excellent. Buyer was a dealership in the Bury St Edmunds area specialising in VAG group products. Price at auction was price paid.
Berlingo's purchaser was a dealer but their main line was high end sports stuff and the 'lingo was thought to be for a friend who needed a cheap practical MPV. Tried to knock a lot off, some for scratches that were missed but also for a so called oil leak that left no trace beyond dried on stuff on the intercooler's airway.
Got £1k in the end. Could have got a bit more from WBAC in the end but not enough to worry about.
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I'm not selling...
I'm looking to buy a car, and see dozens of possible options on ebay, facebook, yes also autotrader.
I was hoping there was one, reasonably accurate website where I could enter lots of different registrations as I scout for options to see which ones are decently priced, and which are way over the fair price.
I'm aware that autotrader does offer a pricing guide for each car, but one dealer I spoke to last year swore blind to me that it's not trustworthy.
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There is no such thing as a right or fair price, only a price at which a buyer and seller agree to deal. As has been said a check on Autotrader will give you an idea of prices for a particular model.
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The only problem with using Auto Trader as a valutaion guide is that most of the sellers are dealers. In years gone by there were far more private sellers, but I think this is chnaging because of:
1. Free ads on Marketplace.
2. Cheap selling costs on eBay.
3. More private sellers trade their cars rather than sell and buy a new one
4. Far more cars on PCP which removes these cars from the private sale market at the end of the lease term.
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As a first place to go, Ebay and Facebook market place are only good for specialist or rare cars. The rest are on there because they are basket cases.
If you are buying a car you decide on a: your budget, the type of car you want, then go to autotrader to see what range of cars are available (low mileage minters to leggy examples) within your budget, then go back to Ebay or market place to see if anything matches the types you found on Autotrader but cheaper*
*Just bare in mind, market place and ebay is buyer beware territory.
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Alas, the big car auction sites are now almost impossible for for private buyers.
And Autotrader is in a lot of flux with its new T&Cs and buyer options, to the point dealers are starting to refuse to work with them.
Last edited by: Zero on Mon 12 Jan 26 at 16:14
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Anything in particular your looking for?
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>> >> And Autotrader is in a lot of flux with its new T&Cs and buyer options,
>> to the point dealers are starting to refuse to work with them.
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Much/most of the problem AIUI is the cost of the service. Very roughly, it can be £100 a week per car.
This trader has a good moan about it:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi16cpuP40E
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Too late to edit my post. Why? WHY!!! What useful purpose does it serve to have a five minute - or whatever - time limit on edits?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9VI8YT0dnk&t=3s
Is the video I was looking for.
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“Very roughly, it can be £100 a week per car.“
That’s an exaggeration.
Here are Autotrader’s trade rates. The very top package for the most expensive cars is £135 per car for six weeks advertising and a lot less for lesser packages with cheaper cars.
www.autotrader.co.uk/sell-my-car/advertising-prices?msockid=2e01b19bab5060183d6ea78daa816177
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>> “Very roughly, it can be £100 a week per car.“
>> That’s an exaggeration.
I dunno.
I was quoting from memory what the man in the video I quoted was saying.
It could be of course that my memory was playing tricks with me. Any road - watch the second High Peak video that I quoted, where he says that he was spending £76,000 a year on Auto Trader.
Have a look at this video, where he complains about the cost of two unsold cars. It will pass the time, if nothing else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVlR8PatBBA&t=8s
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Used car dealers are like farmers. Always complaining about something but somehow despite their proclaimed hard time seem somehow to have a nice lifestyle. There’s a saying in Norfolk that you never see a farmer on a bike. I guess the same applies to car dealers.
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>> There’s a saying in Norfolk that
>> you never see a farmer on a bike.
There was a similar saying amongst those administering the finances of the doo-lally; you never saw a Care Home owner without a Beemer or Merc.
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>> There’s a saying in Norfolk that
>> you never see a farmer on a bike.
A farmer taught me the phrase: "I've never seen a farmer on a bike", a song by John Crisp:
the-snorings.co.uk/media/videos/farmer.html
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Have you had a look at Chops Garage on Youtube?
He's a dealer in lower priced popular vehicles particularly the smaller ones. Give you an idea of some of the pitfalls.
Hes in the West Country but comes across as a fair and honest dealer.
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Car valuation website - Archie35
