So I can expect depreciation between 3k to 15k per year
thats really helpful

Thanks

if you buy something with avg miles, and buy private from a motivated seller then you might not lose any depreciation if you only add 10K miles to it

if you buy from a dealer, with their £5K margin in, and a low miler (pay a premium for that) and then trade in at bottom book price to another dealer ...well you could lose 2 x £3K-5K margins and a few grand for the extra mileage

low milers look good when you buy, and you pay more for them, but all it is really is a chance for you to pay new car depreciation again when you actually use it ......

Only ever thrashed every time it was warmed up first

I bought a 2006 (56) V8V Coupe (Tungsten, usual extras) for £40k in March 2011 and sold it exactly a year later for £35k. I spent a bit on it during the year (N400 side sills, clear lights) so call it £6k depreciation over 12 months.

I'd say this about average for a car of this value? Note that it was traded in for another though, which may have inflated residual. They sold it the next day!

Got it serviced at Nick Mee during the year for £900, and that was pretty much it outside of petrol, insurance etc.

Hope this helps. Now get it bought.

Derailment is fun if you're not on the train

Nice Mee's are great, Andrew really knows his stuff, a top notch tech and all-round good egg. Not cheap (central London + Heritage status) but what you'd expect from a London indie.

The best piece of advise I can give you is .......there will always be a better deal to be had on another car in 1 weeks or 4 weeks time.......if your really worried about depreciation then don't rush into it and do your homework......if your buying from a dealer you will probably drop 8-10 k in the first year on a 2008 car ....if you buy privately probably half that

Good luck....and remember half the fun of ownership is the looking and finding the right car

What you will see from the responses since my post is that there are a real variety of experiences from owners, ranging from pretty mild depreciation to absolutely savage. As John says, the key is to buy it right - the right car, the right time of year and following some shopping around, the right deal from the right dealer.

There seem to be quite a few stages of big depreciation in a short space of time early on. As a result, whenever you think surely the biggest hit has already taken place, you can get caught again - Astons, like many cars in this sector, can be very mileage sensitive, though luckily not as much so as Ferraris

At the age you are buying, of course you stand a much better chance of less savage depreciation. But as others have said, whilst it's important to all owners to an extent, if depreciation is an important issue, tread carefully...there are some real horror stories out there but mainly on newer cars or cars that cover big miles

I'd concur with some of the other views about shopping around. When I traded in my last car, I was offered £13k more by one dealer than another, in both instances against a new V12VR which has effectively nil discount so they were comparable deals. What is really amazing is both dealers were part of the same delaership group. It was down to their individual stocking levels at the time and how they saw the car - as it wasn't a 'boring black/silver/grey' car, one dealer saw it as a potential issue, the other a benefit. Mileage at 13kish on an 18mth old car put one dealer off more than the other. I eventually persuaded the dealer that offered less initially, to match the deal (they were much closer to me hence my pushing) but I wouldn't have pushed so hard without the strength of the other offer

All

Thanks once again for the help and advice

What I can not now get my head around is what is a "good deal".

The price spreads on age and millage seem large, with no common denominator

So I see £42-52sk for this age car, and it seems millage is the only real difference (give or take some colour specs)

This is also trade, as little private on the market

Parkers etc also seem to offer a little help

Anyway, I think the take the time is the best advice - thks once again to all