335d M Sport Valuation Please?

[stevedrummie]

Hi,
Am thinking of selling my car privately and would appreciate your thoughts on real world values...it's a two owner car,myself and BMW AUC,The car is silver with red leather interior,has covered 26,000 miles and has a FBMWSH. The car is in excellent condition. The car was registered in November 2008 and I bought it in May 2009 from Knights BMW in Staffordshire, I love the car but it's just not getting used enough.
Would appreciate any thoughts or advice please guy's?

[clarkmagpie]

Check the classifieds for similar and price accordingly.
Not that difficult is it??

[stevedrummie]

Cheers-I understand that and have been looking at various price guides too-just interested in what others experience might have been and any thoughts on the current market-thanks for your input...

[andyscole]

Go to vauxhall website, go to offers&finance and then mycar and you can get a free caps valuation. It shows you the trade in price which is obviously bottom end but useful as a guide.

[E30M3SE]

Is it an Coupe, Saloon or Touring? Is it LCI model or not?

Some more information on the extended spec may help in any valuation, nav etc.

[2.5pi]

Any other spec eg navigation? Prices seem to be all over the place!

[eastsider]

I'd think the red leather is going to affect the value, its a bit of a minority choice. When I was looking for my E60 535d the main stealer had two almost identical in black, but one had 'baseball orange' type leather seats. They were asking £2.5k less for that one....

[stevedrummie]

Thanks Guys,

It's a E92 Coupe-Titanium Silver with Coral Red leather,M-light alloys,sunroof,heated seats,folding mirrors,sat-Nav and blue tooth. The only thing that bothered me about the car was the ride on fun flats so I changed the tyres to Michelin Pilot Sports around 1500 miles ago.
Appreciate the coral red leather might be a bit "marmite" but would welcome your thoughts?

Cheers

[eastsider]

Here is a good comparison for you on autotrader at the moment, slightly higher miles but its an 08 reg, aslo with the red leather asking £22,500 private

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2011...

SE's or wierd specs (eg no leather) go below £20k, so I'd say that is about right. Ask £23k, take anything over £21k would be where I'd start.

[Welshbeef]

andyscole said:

Go to vauxhall website, go to offers&finance and then mycar and you can get a free caps valuation. It shows you the trade in price which is obviously bottom end but useful as a guide.

That website does give fire sale prices just put in the details for my car it was £8k..wtf. Christ the E46 330d 4 years older are at that price.

[andyscole]

Welshbeef said:

andyscole said:

Go to vauxhall website, go to offers&finance and then mycar and you can get a free caps valuation. It shows you the trade in price which is obviously bottom end but useful as a guide.

That website does give fire sale prices just put in the details for my car it was £8k..wtf. Christ the E46 330d 4 years older are at that price.

8k for your 330d is a bit cheap. It put mine at 8.8k and recon 11 would be real life private...

[ITP]

Its not too good for valuing BMW's i don't think. I assume it must be based on bog standard cars, of which there are very few really in the larger engined models. My 05 330iSE auto fully loaded (leather, prof nav,xenons, elec/heated sport seats, elec roof, etc etc) with 60k miles is 6k on there! Good luck finding one for that!
Having said that the traders seen to use it as i've been offered between 6 and 7k for it in part-ex (against their top retail prices of course). I reckon its 9-10k all day long in a private sale, trade is less obviously, but not that much. If it was a manual with cloth seats, no nav etc in a rubbish colour then maybe.....

[stevedrummie]

Thanks very much guys,
Will list it at £23K and see how or if it goes from there,
Much obliged
Steve

[phumy]

Personally i think you will wait for ever at 23k, you have this one being sold privately for 21.8k, although the mileage is a 35k is not a million miles from yours, especially on a decent diesel engine. The fact that you have a coral red interior really cuts down the potential buyers too, but you never know, someone out there might be specifically looking for a red interior. I would have put it on at around 21.5k-22k, even at that price people will still want to know you down.

Edited to say; you don't mention if its a saloon or coupe, that will also factor at least a grand out of the price too.

Also to add the link FFS: http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3145151.htm

Edited by phumy on Monday 12th September 08:36

[E30M3SE]

^^^ It is a coupe.

This is where I would probably be pitching it.

[jdcampbell]

stevedrummie said:

Thanks Guys,

It's a E92 Coupe-Titanium Silver with Coral Red leather,M-light alloys,sunroof,heated seats,folding mirrors,sat-Nav and blue tooth. The only thing that bothered me about the car was the ride on fun flats so I changed the tyres to Michelin Pilot Sports around 1500 miles ago.
Appreciate the coral red leather might be a bit "marmite" but would welcome your thoughts?

Cheers

Coral red leather - mmmmm, lovely. Better than black any day.

[jdcampbell]

clarkmagpie said:

Check the classifieds for similar and price accordingly.
Not that difficult is it??

Except that a snapshot of asking prices does not actually reflect what the cars that are actually shifting are selling for.

In May my 330d M Sport was written of by some idiot in a 7 ton wagon in may. It took Zurich about 7 weeks before they even inspected my car, never mind making me a settlement offer for it. In that time I watched the market closely for a replacement.

There are still cars for sale today that were for sale in June and I think it is because larger engined cars are not selling. Some cars have been reduced as much as £3000 in that time and still are not shifting.

What I have learned is that asking prices on Autotrader are NOT a good indication of values. You need to spend time watching and observing what cars are actually selling - i.e.: those that seem to disappear from Autotrader because they are sold. Then you will have a reasonable idea of the true market price.

Look at Autotrader for just a day, or even a couple of weeks and you only have a brief snapshot that does not really reflect actual market conditions.