Secondhand car price crash?

Secondhand car price crash?

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ashleyman

7,117 posts

114 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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LivLL said:
ChrisH72 said:
LivLL said:
ChrisH72 said:
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/2023031853...

A great example of how hard dealers are trying to sell their cars!
""Vehicle just arrived - Awaiting Vehicle Prep. More details and photos to follow shortly.""
10 minute job to wash it
I know but its not a new phenomenon that somehow shows the state of the market.

I'm sure they'll update the photos but in the meantime the car is listed and could sell.
Pictures added for this. How long before it's sold I wonder...

Macron

11,768 posts

181 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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MrManual said:
Interesting to see that the number of cars for sale on Autotrader is currently at 417k which is the highest it's been on a Monday for quite some time.

Usually Monday figures have been around 409-413k
Is a 1% increase really a big deal?

volvos60s60

579 posts

229 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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nickfrog said:
£12.50? Wow, I don't blame you. This wil be quite a factor keeping some car values high but then again non compliant car values should drop and might work well for someone who may not be under that constraint.
We are into this debate at home re my wife's 2014 Diesel Evoque. Had it from new, 60000 miles, great condition & nothing wrong with it, worth maybe £15K. We live 3 miles outside ULEZ & almost every journey would incur £12.50/day.

So, to my mind as she likes an SUV driving position, we have the following choices:

1. A newer diesel SUV. which is pointless due to likely moving of goalposts on Euro 6 diesels
2. A petrol SUV, which is not viable as too uneconomical
3. An electric SEV - not convinced it's the right option right for us but in any event would need to add £35K to the Evoque to get anything nearly comparable in terms of size & luxury. So on a £50K electric SUV depreciation would be likely say £5K a year mimimum, probably more in the early years
4. We keep the Evoque, pay £12.50 say 4 times a week, which is £2.5K/year.

No. 4, we have decided, is the right answer for us in the current crazy world of car inflation. It's not that we can't afford to change, it's that it simply does not make a good enough case to do so.

Theoldguard

889 posts

73 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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Saweep said:
I finance my cars for the same reason, despite always having the funds.

I'd rather pay the interest and have cash to hand. Of course, lots would say that was financially illiterate but it helps me sleep at night and that's all that matters.

Weirdly I'm the opposite with houses. I have to buy them cash or I wouldn't be able to sleep knowing I had a mortgage.

I'm clearly a strange person but am lucky enough to be able to do it this way.
Your certainly not alone, everyone wants to clear their mortgage and own the house, very few choose to do the same with their cars.

I dunno its funny, like many on here in a position to pay cash, but find it very difficult to hand over the money being asked now and see that account drop by x, and then have that amount of money tied up on the drive way and pulling the next day into the supermarket car park. I also don't like paying interest so tend to lease as it just feels like everything is all rolled into one and you don't really see the interest charges like PCP. If the price is right and it feels value for money I will buy for cash just like I did with my last 2 leases, in the knowldge that after 2 years of leasing from new I was being offered a car at close to 50% less than RRP, that felt like 2 years of interest free motoring and some.

g40steve

988 posts

177 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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duckson said:
Just bought a Fiesta ST Edition (with some nice Mountune extras) at a local Ford dealer, it disappeared from Auto Trader about an hour after I had spotted it and so I went to the dealers page directly where it was still listed for a while longer until it went from there as well.
Contacted them and they told me it hadn’t been sold but they had pulled it temporarily to deal with all the enquiries before things got silly!
How are the prices for the latest ST3 holding up?

Might need an SUV instead eek

nickfrog

22,791 posts

232 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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volvos60s60 said:
2. A petrol SUV, which is not viable as too uneconomical
Sorry to hear about your predicament. Are you sure about the above for your 7k miles/ year? After the Tiguan TDI 150 we found that the petrol replacements yielded around 40mpg of mostly urban mileage. Far more on longer runs.

volvos60s60

579 posts

229 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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nickfrog said:
Sorry to hear about your predicament. Are you sure about the above for your 7k miles/ year? After the Tiguan TDI 150 we found that the petrol replacements yielded around 40mpg of mostly urban mileage. Far more on longer runs.
Not so much a predicament as I'll simply keep the Evoque. It's just I intensely dislike the dishonesty of ULEZ - I know that in truth it's a tax on motorists to pay for the shortfall in TFL passengers post pandemic, and no one in the Mayor's office is honest enough to come out and say that.

However, let's not derail this into a pro/anti ULEZ thread,

Fckitdriveon

1,057 posts

105 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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volvos60s60 said:
nickfrog said:
Sorry to hear about your predicament. Are you sure about the above for your 7k miles/ year? After the Tiguan TDI 150 we found that the petrol replacements yielded around 40mpg of mostly urban mileage. Far more on longer runs.
Not so much a predicament as I'll simply keep the Evoque. It's just I intensely dislike the dishonesty of ULEZ - I know that in truth it's a tax on motorists to pay for the shortfall in TFL passengers post pandemic, and no one in the Mayor's office is honest enough to come out and say that.

However, let's not derail this into a pro/anti ULEZ thread,
Wasn’t that what the additional congestion charge cost was and expansion of the Hours/days ?



volvos60s60

579 posts

229 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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Fckitdriveon said:
volvos60s60 said:
nickfrog said:
Sorry to hear about your predicament. Are you sure about the above for your 7k miles/ year? After the Tiguan TDI 150 we found that the petrol replacements yielded around 40mpg of mostly urban mileage. Far more on longer runs.
Not so much a predicament as I'll simply keep the Evoque. It's just I intensely dislike the dishonesty of ULEZ - I know that in truth it's a tax on motorists to pay for the shortfall in TFL passengers post pandemic, and no one in the Mayor's office is honest enough to come out and say that.

However, let's not derail this into a pro/anti ULEZ thread,
Wasn’t that what the additional congestion charge cost was and expansion of the Hours/days ?
To clarify, I was referring to the expansion of ULEZ, not so much the original ULEZ zone

ChrisH72

2,561 posts

67 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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g40steve said:
duckson said:
Just bought a Fiesta ST Edition (with some nice Mountune extras) at a local Ford dealer, it disappeared from Auto Trader about an hour after I had spotted it and so I went to the dealers page directly where it was still listed for a while longer until it went from there as well.
Contacted them and they told me it hadn’t been sold but they had pulled it temporarily to deal with all the enquiries before things got silly!
How are the prices for the latest ST3 holding up?

Might need an SUV instead eek
From what I see Steve the prices of mk8 ST3's are actually increasing so I think you'll be okay. Why the need for an SUV though?

anonymous-user

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69 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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volvos60s60 said:
We are into this debate at home re my wife's 2014 Diesel Evoque. Had it from new, 60000 miles, great condition & nothing wrong with it, worth maybe £15K. We live 3 miles outside ULEZ & almost every journey would incur £12.50/day.

So, to my mind as she likes an SUV driving position, we have the following choices:

1. A newer diesel SUV. which is pointless due to likely moving of goalposts on Euro 6 diesels
2. A petrol SUV, which is not viable as too uneconomical
3. An electric SEV - not convinced it's the right option right for us but in any event would need to add £35K to the Evoque to get anything nearly comparable in terms of size & luxury. So on a £50K electric SUV depreciation would be likely say £5K a year mimimum, probably more in the early years
4. We keep the Evoque, pay £12.50 say 4 times a week, which is £2.5K/year.

No. 4, we have decided, is the right answer for us in the current crazy world of car inflation. It's not that we can't afford to change, it's that it simply does not make a good enough case to do so.
I am sure a lot of people are thinking the same way as you, especially if they only use the car once or twice a week. I agree that Euro 6 diesels will be in the firing line sooner or later, they are banning all diesels from Paris from January 2024.

I have to say giving the government £50 a week just to drive your car would be enough for me to change, but like you say if you want an SUV then you don't really have a lot of choice.

I ended up going for a Euro 5 car, Euro 5 and Euro 6 standards are the same so it should keep me going for a few years anyway. I suspect that in a couple of years they will announce that Euro 6 diesel and Euro 4 petrol cars will have to pay the charge as well.

I am sure there will be a lot of people who commute to work 5 days a week and will chop their car in for a petrol car rather than pay the £62.50 a week charge.

Personally I wouldn't give the government 1 pence if I could avoid it so I changed car instead. Plus my old shed was getting near the end of it's life at 16 years old so it was a good time to upgrade anyway.



500TORQUES

8,153 posts

30 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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Joey Deacon said:
I am sure a lot of people are thinking the same way as you, especially if they only use the car once or twice a week. I agree that Euro 6 diesels will be in the firing line sooner or later, they are banning all diesels from Paris from January 2024.

I have to say giving the government £50 a week just to drive your car would be enough for me to change, but like you say if you want an SUV then you don't really have a lot of choice.

I ended up going for a Euro 5 car, Euro 5 and Euro 6 standards are the same so it should keep me going for a few years anyway. I suspect that in a couple of years they will announce that Euro 6 diesel and Euro 4 petrol cars will have to pay the charge as well.

I am sure there will be a lot of people who commute to work 5 days a week and will chop their car in for a petrol car rather than pay the £62.50 a week charge.

Personally I wouldn't give the government 1 pence if I could avoid it so I changed car instead. Plus my old shed was getting near the end of it's life at 16 years old so it was a good time to upgrade anyway.
I wouldn't be surprised if the ULEZ expansion cameras get a good kicking when this starts impacting hard pressed families who haven't been able to make the swap.

Macron

11,768 posts

181 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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500TORQUES said:
I wouldn't be surprised if the ULEZ expansion cameras get a good kicking when this starts impacting hard pressed families who haven't been able to make the swap.
https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/ulez-cameras-stolen-south-london-26517180

Which fanny decided to report this ffs??!?

https://streetcare.tfl.gov.uk/report/3782578

duckson

1,281 posts

197 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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g40steve said:
duckson said:
Just bought a Fiesta ST Edition (with some nice Mountune extras) at a local Ford dealer, it disappeared from Auto Trader about an hour after I had spotted it and so I went to the dealers page directly where it was still listed for a while longer until it went from there as well.
Contacted them and they told me it hadn’t been sold but they had pulled it temporarily to deal with all the enquiries before things got silly!
How are the prices for the latest ST3 holding up?

Might need an SUV instead eek
Pretty well I think, the special editions seem to hold strong money at least (Performance Edition and ST Edition).

I probably overpaid for it but it was local and low mileage plus £4k of mainly Mountune bits plus the main dealer is covering everything for 12 months (obviously it's modded so could invalidate the warranty but they are selling it so backing it, they were a Mountune dealer a few years back when that was a thing with Ford).

911hope

3,572 posts

41 months

Tuesday 21st March 2023
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Theoldguard said:
Your certainly not alone, everyone wants to clear their mortgage and own the house, very few choose to do the same with their cars.

I dunno its funny, like many on here in a position to pay cash, but find it very difficult to hand over the money being asked now and see that account drop by x, and then have that amount of money tied up on the drive way and pulling the next day into the supermarket car park. I also don't like paying interest so tend to lease as it just feels like everything is all rolled into one and you don't really see the interest charges like PCP. If the price is right and it feels value for money I will buy for cash just like I did with my last 2 leases, in the knowldge that after 2 years of leasing from new I was being offered a car at close to 50% less than RRP, that felt like 2 years of interest free motoring and some.
Leasing is paying the lease company's interest on the capital, plus their margin.

So not interest free!

Deep Thought

37,694 posts

212 months

Tuesday 21st March 2023
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911hope said:
Leasing is paying the lease company's interest on the capital, plus their margin.

So not interest free!
Leasing is a rental. How they fund it is not the leasees concern.

But on that note, they will be buying the cars at much bigger discounts, and using funding at much lower rates than an individual can get so pretty much a moot point.

If the figures stacked up it doesn't matter a stuff really.

Fast Bug

12,740 posts

176 months

Tuesday 21st March 2023
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With the manufacturer funded leases it's also a nice way to get 2 year old used stock for the network

Fusion777

2,461 posts

63 months

Tuesday 21st March 2023
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Seem to be discounts on all new cars on AT now, and many are larger than the last time I looked. Things definitely seem to be heading in the right direction, however slowly.

What The Deuces

2,780 posts

39 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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Fusion777 said:
Seem to be discounts on all new cars on AT now, and many are larger than the last time I looked. Things definitely seem to be heading in the right direction, however slowly.
Discounts on inflated rrps and inflated finance rates.

ChocolateFrog

31,857 posts

188 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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What The Deuces said:
Fusion777 said:
Seem to be discounts on all new cars on AT now, and many are larger than the last time I looked. Things definitely seem to be heading in the right direction, however slowly.
Discounts on inflated rrps and inflated finance rates.
Just what I was going to say.

To buy a Duster now, 12 months after I bought mine would cost 16% more and be a slightly lower spec.

And I bought after the price had increased a couple of times.

You can now buy one for nearly £25k, over if you bought a few dealer accessories. Same basic car as the one that would have been about £12k originally.
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