Dealer or private

[Poorsh]

After agreeing a sale price for a 911 with a private seller I followed through with a PPI. The PPI results came back negative including engine issues. I turned my back on the car and continued the never ending search only to see the same car being advertised by a dealer. I called the dealer to enquire about condition and got false feedback of a clean running example.

I was not surprised by the vendors over estimation but disappointed by the dealer for hiding major issues. It seams as prices have gone to the next level the quality of some dealers has remained low.

Edited by Poorsh on Tuesday 9th June 21:53

[YoungMD]

I don't think that is that uncommon, there are some good dealers out there but they charge a large price premium, I have always thought your better off privately and then getting it inspected.

[Poorsh]

Two similar cars, one from a dealer and the other private with £10,000 difference in sales price. The dealers car is lower milage but the private car has had a lot of work done including top end rebuild.

Dealer
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...

Private
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...

[g7jhp]

Poorsh said:

Two similar cars, one from a dealer and the other private with £10,000 difference in sales price. The dealers car is lower milage but the private car has had a lot of work done including top end rebuild.

Dealer
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...

Private
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...

Dealer car is a C2, has 86k miles on the clock.

Private car is a C4, has 127k miles on the clock (31k miles extra), plus the advert states 'There is very little rust – just a couple of minor patches', which means there's a fair chance there is more work which you can't see.

If I was choosing between the two I'd be going to William Crawford, who have a reputation for good cars.

[mollytherocker]

Its not dealer or private.

Its good car or bad car.

[Sandy59]

You do see some dealers advertising for nice examples to buy, and others looking for basically anything with wheels, which I guess could be a bit of an indicator ?? Some of course I guess may have proper in house repair/restoration facilities etc, hard to say unless you know them, some maybe just tart up facilities.