British Car Auctions

[maxbuck]

I sometimes go on to the BCA site & there is often 1 or 2Astons for Auction perhaps 3 or 4 but that's about it Looked today and there are 16 with mileages ranging from 5000 to 60 000 any ideas why the increase all of a sudden

[Buster73]

Turning stock into cash

[Thekraken]

Probably quite a few trade in's for new models of late.......most dealers give terrible trade in rates to achieve their money in a matter of a week from BCA.

Why have it sat on a forecourt and potentially cost you in a warranty claim and prep costs when you can just auction it.

[craig elam]

Buying from auction is a risk / reward job ,you cant drive them or inspect them closely , yes some cars will just be dealers wanting to cash out but some are there because they need work, just remember that when the hammer goes down at a bargain price its yours faults and all ,literally sold as seen unless its an AA/ BCA Assured scheme car in which case theres a mechanical report and if theyve missed something theres some come back , T&c`s apply!!., also theres a hefty buyers fee added to the hammer price.
we have bought cars from BCA for last 40 odd years and there a good auction to buy from, for me as a dealer its a numbers game we might get 5 perfectly good cars in a row then one with a defect that costs money to rectify, for me its Honda , kia , toyota etc so if it needs a clutch or something its no big deal, but a bad engine / box etc on an auction Aston!!!!!.

[oilit]

I have bought cars from bca and agree with above comments. I have also spoken to an am dealer contact I have about cars I know they have put in and it’s often the case that it costs too much to get them through to the std to be an assured am car....

[Jon39]

oilit said:

....... I have also spoken to an am dealer contact I have about cars I know they have put in, and it’s often the case that it costs too much to get them through to the std to be an assured am car....

Some very large dealer groups had (perhaps still have) a standard policy of sending every PX (excluding cars of the brand the dealer sells) immediately to auction. No costly messing about. Possibly if they had multi-franchises within the group, they might have moved some cars to the appropriate branch.

Lookers was one group with this policy, so I suppose if an AM did happen to be at BCA from Lookers, it might be safe to assume it was there due to that business policy, and not because there were too many faults to retail it.

[South tdf]

As above, if you look at the vendors you will see a couple of new ones are Alphabet so these will be PCP returns or hand backs as Alphabet is a major funder for brokers like Oracle.

Some of the mid range are UKCar Group which is WeBuyAnyCar and just keep going round weekly as they are not getting the bids with the remainder being cars that are probably on the edge of what an Aston dealer would want to invest in to pass Timeless or just too old or high mileage.

[vulcan26]

I think its also the time of year. People sell them after they've been driving around in them for the summer knowing they won't get used much for the next 5-6 months