9/2003 BMW 320d SE value?

[Ed5995]

I'm thinking of either trading in or selling privately my 320 diesel SE. I've owned it from new and it has 82,000 miles on the clock. I can honestly say it drives like new and has a full BMW service history. Just fitted new tyres too. It's Titanium Silver (aren't they all), with burr walnut wood, grey cloth, supaguard, 6 CD player and tracker. A few scratches on the bumpers but nothing unusual for it's age and mileage. Any ideas what it's worth...or should I just hold on to it and do another 80k trouble free miles?

Ed

[mikey-r]

I part ex'd my 320d se '04 with 79k for an AUC 330d and got £7500 a month ago. I did have to work hard to get this figure and finally resorted to the 'take it or leave it' - all was quiet for 4 days before I got a call saying they'd do the deal if I left a deposit there and then over the phone. The guy at BMW said they'd just out it to auction as the milage was too high for thier forecourt. I saw it last week on Autotrader by a trader @ £6495.

I suppose this goes to show how desperate BMW are to move some of thier AUC stock?

Edited by mikey-r on Saturday 8th November 19:48

[Ed5995]

A salesman in the BMW dealership nearest to me told me they are reprofiling their sales....focus is now on stocking 2/3 year olds to attract people to change up from 5/6 year olds. Sounds as if I might get about £5k or thereabouts. Would be as well keeping it.

Edited by Ed5995 on Saturday 8th November 20:57

[Fox-]

Keep it. It's a decent car, unless you really fancy something new why sell it?

[pgilc1]

Ed5995 said:

A salesman in the BMW dealership nearest to me told me they are reprofiling their sales....focus is now on stocking 2/3 year olds to attract people to change up from 5/6 year olds. Sounds as if I might get about £5k or thereabouts. Would be as well keeping it.

Edited by Ed5995 on Saturday 8th November 20:57

Seriously, do you really thing a bmw dealer would retail a 5 year old car? Hes being nice 'rep-profiling their sales = trading off the rubbish they dont want = your car. £8K retail on autotrader = £5K trade price. Drive on unless you really *must* change

Edited by pgilc1 on Saturday 8th November 23:22

[Fox-]

pgilc1 said:

Seriously, do you really thing a bmw dealer would retail a 5 year old car?

Err... yes? Take a look on the BMW AUC site, there are stacks of them on there. Infact the last dealer we bought a car from had a Y plate 520i and a T plate 740i on the forecourt as well. Infact our Z4 is a 53 plate so is 5 years old and is an AUC..

Lots of dealers retail cars of all sorts of ages.

[pgilc1]

Fox- said:

pgilc1 said:

Seriously, do you really thing a bmw dealer would retail a 5 year old car?

Err... yes? Take a look on the BMW AUC site, there are stacks of them on there. Infact the last dealer we bought a car from had a Y plate 520i and a T plate 740i on the forecourt as well. Infact our Z4 is a 53 plate so is 5 years old and is an AUC..

Lots of dealers retail cars of all sorts of ages.

Well if dealers are retailing them, it will be on their terms, expect £5K-£6K. And certainly NOT one with 82K miles. Most only stock cars up to 3 years old with the lowest miles. (of all the 320d's on AUC, only 3 are greater than 3 years old)

Edited by pgilc1 on Sunday 9th November 00:07

[Fox-]

pgilc1 said:

Well if dealers are retailing them, it will be on their terms, expect £5K-£6K. And certainly NOT one with 82K miles. Most only stock cars up to 3 years old with the lowest miles. (of all the 320d's on AUC, only 3 are greater than 3 years old)[/footnote]

Again, check the AUC site. There are some with 80k miles. Highest i've seen was a staggering 127k which I must admit did suprise me but I've seen quite a few diesel 3 Series with up to 100k on the AUC site.

Remember, dealers outside of the London/Major city areas will rely more on cars like this to shift AUC stock. Certainly in places where local budgets don't extend to 1 year old 330d M Sports but local tastes still wish to own a BMW from a main dealer.

This one is on 73k for example:

http://www.bmw.co.uk/bmwuk/auc/car_details/0,,1260...

And this one is both 5 years old AND on 85k miles:

http://www.bmw.co.uk/bmwuk/auc/car_details/0,,1260...

So it's entirely possible as both these examples demonstrate.

And a 7 year old E39 5 Series:

http://www.bmw.co.uk/bmwuk/auc/car_details/0,,1260...

And a 6 year old E39:

http://www.bmw.co.uk/bmwuk/auc/car_details/0,,1260...

A dealer can and will AUC anything they feel they can get through the AUC check. Any further warranty work requried on it is profit for them...

Edited by Fox- on Sunday 9th November 01:14

[pgilc1]

Fox- said:

pgilc1 said:

Well if dealers are retailing them, it will be on their terms, expect £5K-£6K. And certainly NOT one with 82K miles. Most only stock cars up to 3 years old with the lowest miles. (of all the 320d's on AUC, only 3 are greater than 3 years old)[/footnote]

Again, check the AUC site. There are some with 80k miles. Highest i've seen was a staggering 127k which I must admit did suprise me but I've seen quite a few diesel 3 Series with up to 100k on the AUC site.

Remember, dealers outside of the London/Major city areas will rely more on cars like this to shift AUC stock. Certainly in places where local budgets don't extend to 1 year old 330d M Sports but local tastes still wish to own a BMW from a main dealer.

This one is on 73k for example:

http://www.bmw.co.uk/bmwuk/auc/car_details/0,,1260...

And this one is both 5 years old AND on 85k miles:

http://www.bmw.co.uk/bmwuk/auc/car_details/0,,1260...

So it's entirely possible as both these examples demonstrate.

And a 7 year old E39 5 Series:

http://www.bmw.co.uk/bmwuk/auc/car_details/0,,1260...

And a 6 year old E39:

http://www.bmw.co.uk/bmwuk/auc/car_details/0,,1260...

A dealer can and will AUC anything they feel they can get through the AUC check. Any further warranty work requried on it is profit for them...

Edited by Fox- on Sunday 9th November 01:14

Are we not talking e46 here? Maybe they will retail an e60, but can you show me a high miles e46 or AUC or have i missed something?

[Fox-]

The first two links in my post are E46?

[paoloh]

pgilc1 said:

Ed5995 said:

A salesman in the BMW dealership nearest to me told me they are reprofiling their sales....focus is now on stocking 2/3 year olds to attract people to change up from 5/6 year olds. Sounds as if I might get about £5k or thereabouts. Would be as well keeping it.

Edited by Ed5995 on Saturday 8th November 20:57

Seriously, do you really thing a bmw dealer would retail a 5 year old car? Hes being nice 'rep-profiling their sales = trading off the rubbish they dont want = your car. £8K retail on autotrader = £5K trade price. Drive on unless you really *must* change

Edited by pgilc1 on Saturday 8th November 23:22

BMW have changed their rules and can sell more or less anything they want now.