Looking for a car to buy this week! (for friends this time)

[kiwifraser]

Some of you have met Clare and Jon. Clare is trading/ selling her 56 plate 325d SE saloon, and wants a Ford S-Max.

Spec needs to be Titanium, Leather, Black or dark colour, DVD system, bluetooth, parking sensors, and maybe Convers+. Up to 3 years old, and £14-17k. There are loads around! CAsh waiting and must buy this week


I have checked Autotrader, Ford used website, PH, Motors.co.uk, and Car and Classic.

What other online sites have I missed that might help?

[Total loss]

Ebay, despite its many faults, it can still be a good place to look/buy. A quick search shows S-max's being sold by classified Ad's rather than auction.
http://motors.shop.ebay.co.uk/Cars-/9801/i.html?Manufacturer=Ford&Model=S%252DMax&Colour=Black

[Vixpy1]

kiwifraser said:

Some of you have met Clare and Jon. Clare is trading/ selling her 56 plate 325d SE saloon, and wants a Ford S-Max.

Spec needs to be Titanium, Leather, Black or dark colour, DVD system, bluetooth, parking sensors, and maybe Convers+. Up to 3 years old, and £14-17k. There are loads around! CAsh waiting and must buy this week


I have checked Autotrader, Ford used website, PH, Motors.co.uk, and Car and Classic.

What other online sites have I missed that might help?

Why would you spend 17K on an S-max, You may as well just put the money in the Bin for all the car is going to be worth after 3 years.

Madness.

[Sods Law]

with car sales the way they are and the budget it could be an idea to call one of the larger Ford houses asking for a deal of the century?


This way you might be able to offset some of the year one depreciation

Other than that the auctions this week? ex fleet jobby BCA Blackheath?

This one fits the profile of an Ex Ford head office Fleet car, silly offer for a quick sale time?

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/search/results/usedcar...

Edited by Sods Law on Sunday 17th January 12:26

[bmw2002]

You could try MJA in Guildford & Woking, they deal in a lot of Fords, mainly ex rental I believe, but they could have something. If not try the rental companies direct as they will sell stock direct.

ETA:

http://www.mja-cars.co.uk/cardetails/ford/s-max_di...

Edited by bmw2002 on Sunday 17th January 20:16

[touching cloth]

Trade Sales in Slough? Seems like the sort of thing they might stock, course gettting the exact spec might be tricky. On iPhone at the mo or would have a look on their site myself. Failing that maybe Car Giant in White City.

[kiwifraser]

Thanks all for the ideas!

I've been out all day, but just spoken to Jon quickly. We found 3 'candidates' last night and they are planning on taking one of them.

A 58 plate, 2.0TDCi Titanium with all of the extra's listed above, and only 11k miles, for £16k. Quick work!, and getting £12k for the 56 plate 325D as a trade.

Vixpy1 said:

"Why would you spend 17K on an S-max, You may as well just put the money in the Bin for all the car is going to be worth after 3 years. Madness."

To put this in perspective. The original cost price on the one they are getting was £30,810!! and it is a 58 plate! Depreciation is obviously massive in the first year, but after that they hold their value quite well by all accounts. They also considered a number of same spec 56 plate ones, and they were still coming in at £14-£15k and had 25k-30k miles. It's highly likely that the S-Max will depreciate a lot less in the next year than the 325D Saloon.


We need to bear in mind an S-Max was THE car she wanted, and her important things for it were all about creature comforts (DVD/Leather/ Bluetooth/ Voice Command). I asked her about wheel preference, and she didn't even know their were different sized wheel/tyre combinations or what it meant to have the choice (or why anyone would care!). It is a perfect family car, that fits 3 car seats across the back, and imo the only people carrier I could ever consider purchasing as it actually looks pretty good.

All things considered... It's not what any of us would want, but I think they bought the right car for them, and she will be very happy with it


edited: quote formatting

Edited by kiwifraser on Monday 18th January 07:24

[Sods Law]

hmmm shouldnt this be a 4x4?


Another sad wagon oh dear.....

[kiwifraser]

Forgot to add...

My position on people carriers and oversized versions of otherwise decent cars (C-Max Focus/ Golf Plus) is exactly as it always has been - Generally ugly, overpriced, rubbish boot space, and often driven by people who can't drive (and take no enjoyment in it).

If you want to carry people I'd choose a 7 seat Disco over a 7 seat car anyday.

If you want to carry large objects I'd choose a van or pickup instead.

If it's room you want, I'd buy a camper so it useful for more than just the school run.

My opinion only

[kiwifraser]

I expected more comeback to this

Maybe you all secretly want a people carrier

[Sods Law]

kiwifraser said:

I expected more comeback to this

Maybe you all secretly want a people carrier

if its full of strippers and alcolhol then I might as its the only way not to be gay or suicidal with one! but anything like kids or those sad fkers that dont get out of my way then fk right off