Taycan (V1) Resale
Discussion
Hi all,
Looking at a used 2020 Taycan 4S PPlus (with Porsche warranty) with c40k miles.
Private purchase and well priced.
It will be a short hold car (6-12m) and I am aware of the pros and cons of Taycans.
Would welcome people experiences of selling used ones privately. If they are priced well / reasonably equipped are they taking an age to shift?
Looking at a used 2020 Taycan 4S PPlus (with Porsche warranty) with c40k miles.
Private purchase and well priced.
It will be a short hold car (6-12m) and I am aware of the pros and cons of Taycans.
Would welcome people experiences of selling used ones privately. If they are priced well / reasonably equipped are they taking an age to shift?
vanman1936 said:
Hi all,
Looking at a used 2020 Taycan 4S PPlus (with Porsche warranty) with c40k miles.
Private purchase and well priced.
It will be a short hold car (6-12m) and I am aware of the pros and cons of Taycans.
Would welcome people experiences of selling used ones privately. If they are priced well / reasonably equipped are they taking an age to shift?
I would have thought that even over and above the certain savage loss of holding a car for only 6-12 months a Taycan is a sure fire way to lose a packet with a short term trade. They seem to sit around for ages at dealers, and your only hope of not losing too much is another private sale which will of course also be well priced (but in favour of the new buyer of course) when you sell.Looking at a used 2020 Taycan 4S PPlus (with Porsche warranty) with c40k miles.
Private purchase and well priced.
It will be a short hold car (6-12m) and I am aware of the pros and cons of Taycans.
Would welcome people experiences of selling used ones privately. If they are priced well / reasonably equipped are they taking an age to shift?
vanman1936 said:
Hi all,
Looking at a used 2020 Taycan 4S PPlus (with Porsche warranty) with c40k miles.
Private purchase and well priced.
It will be a short hold car (6-12m) and I am aware of the pros and cons of Taycans.
Would welcome people experiences of selling used ones privately. If they are priced well / reasonably equipped are they taking an age to shift?
When you say "well priced" what do you mean?Looking at a used 2020 Taycan 4S PPlus (with Porsche warranty) with c40k miles.
Private purchase and well priced.
It will be a short hold car (6-12m) and I am aware of the pros and cons of Taycans.
Would welcome people experiences of selling used ones privately. If they are priced well / reasonably equipped are they taking an age to shift?
IMHO (and I know a bit about such things) market value is an amount that you can reasonably expect to get after properly marketing something and selling to someone who does some due diligence and is not desperate. Market value is the highest amount that you are offered after a reasonable period of marketing which might be two months on a flat in London, six months on a house in the country and one or two weeks on a mainstream car.
One might also say that there are two market values for cars (or even three). Big main dealer value (with rock solid warranty), little indie market value (less secure warranty, lower value), private sale value (caveat emptor, lower still).
What price is a 6 year old 40k model for selling for if the dealer takes the best price after two weeks?
How much less is it worth private sale due to lack of prep and warranty?
By definition they are not priced well if they take an age to shift. Priced well implies a lower than market value price, which means the sort of price where you can hope to sell in two days not two weeks.
Personally I wouldn't want to buy a car where the supply was high and cars sit around. Very hard to judge how big a discount you need to offer to sell in a reasonable time-frame (which for a car is not long)
I just wouldn't. Irrespective of the power source, big saloons are hard to sell as the world wants SUVs and Taycans are about as hard a car to sell as it is possible to get. Buy something that is demand to make it easier to sell.
I do like them but I'm not blind to the challenge of getting someone to part money for one
I do like them but I'm not blind to the challenge of getting someone to part money for one
SE2 said:
Hopefully they'll have dropped to the £20-25k range in five years and will give me something to think about when I change my Model 3. Utterly gorgeous cars, especially pre-facelift. Don't like what they've done with the headlights now.
I've been keeping my eye on prices over last couple of years. Initial depreciation was savage, mainly because the retail price was ridiculous to begin with. It's certainly one of the better looking and driving EVs, though it seems the designers forgot it was to be an EV and put in a transmission tunnel making the optional 5th seat even more uncomfortable for the unfortunate middle passenger. I prefer the look of the estate car over the saloon, though it certainly pushes the definition of an estate! The reality of any EV is that the older it gets, the less warranty it has, and the increasing uncertainty mean its value simply plummets. I've just bought a Tesla Model 3 performance (2021) and looking at what happens to the value of those cars which are outside of the general warranty and now, with some 2019 cars being close to the end of the battery and drivetrain warranty, is sobering.
Whilst nothing intrinsically wrong with wanting to keep it only 6-12months, it would almost certainly be a good idea to do so on some kind of financial product where one can hand it back if needed.
Whilst nothing intrinsically wrong with wanting to keep it only 6-12months, it would almost certainly be a good idea to do so on some kind of financial product where one can hand it back if needed.
snorkel sucker said:
The reality of any EV is that the older it gets, the less warranty it has, and the increasing uncertainty mean its value simply plummets. I've just bought a Tesla Model 3 performance (2021) and looking at what happens to the value of those cars which are outside of the general warranty and now, with some 2019 cars being close to the end of the battery and drivetrain warranty, is sobering.
Whilst nothing intrinsically wrong with wanting to keep it only 6-12months, it would almost certainly be a good idea to do so on some kind of financial product where one can hand it back if needed.
Just been on ebay out of curiousity.Whilst nothing intrinsically wrong with wanting to keep it only 6-12months, it would almost certainly be a good idea to do so on some kind of financial product where one can hand it back if needed.
Tesla Model 3 standard, asking £8.5k, 2019, 133k miles. The listing says "200 mile range on a charge, Still works in Tesla supercharger network". Any comments? How much has the range dropped from new? Why are they saying it can still be charged on a Tesla supercharger network?
vanman1936 said:
Hi all,
Looking at a used 2020 Taycan 4S PPlus (with Porsche warranty) with c40k miles.
Private purchase and well priced.
It will be a short hold car (6-12m) and I am aware of the pros and cons of Taycans.
Would welcome people experiences of selling used ones privately. If they are priced well / reasonably equipped are they taking an age to shift?
Why not rent one for 6 months? I've seen them for around £2300 a month. Saves all the hassle and risk associated with buying one and selling after 6 months.Looking at a used 2020 Taycan 4S PPlus (with Porsche warranty) with c40k miles.
Private purchase and well priced.
It will be a short hold car (6-12m) and I am aware of the pros and cons of Taycans.
Would welcome people experiences of selling used ones privately. If they are priced well / reasonably equipped are they taking an age to shift?
vanman1936 said:
Hi all,
Looking at a used 2020 Taycan 4S PPlus (with Porsche warranty) with c40k miles.
Private purchase and well priced.
It will be a short hold car (6-12m) and I am aware of the pros and cons of Taycans.
Would welcome people experiences of selling used ones privately. If they are priced well / reasonably equipped are they taking an age to shift?
You have a very large selection of very similar examples to choose from so a good opportunity to drive a deal.Looking at a used 2020 Taycan 4S PPlus (with Porsche warranty) with c40k miles.
Private purchase and well priced.
It will be a short hold car (6-12m) and I am aware of the pros and cons of Taycans.
Would welcome people experiences of selling used ones privately. If they are priced well / reasonably equipped are they taking an age to shift?
If you can do that and sell with 3 months of the Porsche warranty remaining then it should shift if priced properly. Buy at £35k and budget a £5k loss though it might do better than this
scot_aln said:
raspy said:
Why not rent one for 6 months? I've seen them for around £2300 a month. Saves all the hassle and risk associated with buying one and selling after 6 months.
£13,800 to rent a Taycan for 6 months!!! scot_aln said:
£13,800 to rent a Taycan for 6 months!!!
In the OP's situation, renting for 6 months removes any risk/headache associated with buying/maintaining a car for 6 months and then the headache of trying to sell it (when nobody can predict what might happen to values of older Taycans) So either he can have 6 months fixed cost Taycan time or buy a Taycan for 6 months of usage only to be faced with unpredictable costs (including depreciation)
Fred Smith said:
And another one on ebay. Cat N. 51k miles. 2020. £8,990
2020 Tesla Model 3 Long Range.
"Not Charging on Fast Charge but Charges fine on Normal Charger". Why? When is it going to stop charging on a normal charger? Next decade, next year, next week?
Don't tesla ban cat S/N cars from supercharger network? Hence the other advert stating it still works. 2020 Tesla Model 3 Long Range.
"Not Charging on Fast Charge but Charges fine on Normal Charger". Why? When is it going to stop charging on a normal charger? Next decade, next year, next week?
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