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Originally Posted by roverbarmy
If, a big if, I was tempted to trade in my 75 (immaculate low miles, 56k 1999 2.0 auto V6 with full MOT with no advisories) on a used car to a dealer, would I get a reasonable offer?  |
Sadly unlikely, I have friends in the car trade and they consider anything over 10 years old a ''banger''. One will take old cars in and even sell them but it is usually small engine cars for learner drivers. Most as has been said will just pass them on to auction and sometimes will just take them to scrap if the return from the auction is going to be less than a couple of hundred.
A couple of years ago one of them was showing me a very clean low mileage (26k) Hyundai Stellar that he had taken in part exchange. The old boy wanted to swap it in as he needed an Automatic and his old car was manual, my friend gave him £600 and was amazed when he advertised it to be inundated with offers for far more than he thought it was worth, he nearly doubled his money and even to this day is amazed at what ''some idiots will pay for cr4p''
I would suggest selling it privately on one of the internet websites, big audiance and you are more likely to get closer to what it is worth.