TT RS Roadster our. 2015 TTSRoadster in

[Gibbi]

Just done a deal with our local Audi dealer (Robinsons of Norwich) to part ex the wife's 2011 TT RS Roadster for a 2015 Sepang Blue Roadster S. To say she's excited is an understatement. The only sting in the tail (you guessed if) the offer for her immaculate low miles RS. Theres no money to be had off the new car as its a brand new model so they obviously don't feel the need to discount it just yet. And they won't move from the 20 grand offer for her RS. I've had a look on the classified section on here and it would appear her TT RS Roadster is a bit of a rare beast. Looking at the coupe version, same year roughly the same mileage we should be looking at around the 27-28k mark. my idea is try to sell it private for somewhere near the 27k mark then buy something like a 5k mini or fiat 500 for her to use as a fill in until the new TTS is delivered in July/August. then all we'd have to do is sell the fill in car and try to re-coupe as much of the original 5K as possible. That way, all being well we should be 6-7k better off than the Audi deal.
Well thats my idea, what do you think my best option would be. I have to be honest I'd rather have a kick in the nuts than hand the RS over for 20k. what should i sell it for and what cheap run about would be a safe bet to be reliable for the 4 or 5 months she'd need to run it, and then be easy enough to sell on when its not needed any more.

Any feedback will be gratefully received.
All the best.
Dean Gibson

[gvij]

I'll beat their offer with 21k if in a colour I like in July or August and could pay a deposit. Wouldn't be a keeper for me hence hence I would try to shift on at cost after a month. No where near what your looking for though sorry.
Ive changed my mind on the new TT saw it in black the other day with twin chrome exhaust like mk1 and looked lovely. Ive a 225 roadster which is a keeper long term.

Edited by gvij on Wednesday 4th March 06:09

[kent_phil]

Would hang on to it until you have a delivery date and then stick a classifieds on here stating you are open to offers / trade bids. I've just done this and it saved a couple of k on the cost to change.

Sounds like the dealer is trying to make some extra margin off the trade-in side of the deal, would expect you could sell it into trade a week before picking up the new car for a good few k more than that bid - closer to the time they may even revise their bid if you push them and, in fairness, they will have a better picture of the market they will be selling into.

[Adrian E]

Stick to the details into WBAC to get a bottom book figure. If you can, get info on what the retail price would be. It will need to be about £2500 under retail to stand any chance of selling and you may only improve on the best offer from the trade by £1k or so.

We're coming into soft top season, so if it's tidy it should sell very quickly at the right price.

Not many people have that sort of money in cash for a private sale, which limits your market somewhat.

Dr G might make you an offer

[silentbrown]

Try WBAC and a handful of the other 'buy your car' services to get baseline prices. You should be able to persuade your dealer to match the best of these, as the car will probably go straight on their forecourt rather than to auction.

27K sound very optimistic, though.

[Dr G]

Audi will be going in low to protect themselves against a lot of book drops and availability of a new model.

If you want to send me a reg number I'm happy to offer an opinion on what it would make today.

[Kell]

There's a 2011 TT RS Roadster up for sale at Leicester Audi for £23,850 - just for comparison.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

It's average miles with 58,000, but even if yours is super low mileage, I'm not sure it's going to pull in an extra 3-4k over one like this.

Edited by Kell on Wednesday 4th March 14:12

[silentbrown]

Dr G said:

Audi will be going in low to protect themselves against a lot of book drops and availability of a new model.

^^ This ^^ Your car will be at least 4 months older and with more mileage by the time they get it.

BTW, DriveTheDeal are offering discounts of over 2K on new TTS roadsters, so there should be some room for negotiation.