2005 W203 Value?

[Bemmy]

Hi, I have a 2005 W2003 with 43k miles on it. I love the car but it won't be compliant with the new clean air zone we have being introduced locally in November so I either pay £9/day to use it or sell it and get something else
It's pretty tidy body wise, will have a new MOT and drives like its brand new. I have 2 keys but no history for it.
So the question is what's a fair price to ask for it?

 

[markjay]

Hi, I have a 2005 W2003 with 43k miles on it. I love the car but it won't be compliant with the new clean air zone we have being introduced locally in November so I either pay £9/day to use it or sell it and get something else
It's pretty tidy body wise, will have a new MOT and drives like its brand new. I have 2 keys but no history for it.
So the question is what's a fair price to ask for it?

For valuation, check www.webuyanycar.com and www.motorway.co.uk. That's trade value, a private sale might get you a little more.

 

[markjay]

Also, pre-2015 Diesels still hold their values well up north and in areas not yet affected by ULEZ, and some people will travel to London to buy a (good and clean) car, so don't let people fob you off with 'Oooh mate, you're asking way too much, it's this ULEZ, you see'.

 

[Rory]

It's a petrol - must admit I didn't realise petrol's were affected by these zones. (I've looked at the Bristol one and it is).

I "gave" my late 2004 (2005 model) C270CDi to a friend of a neighbour who is in the car trade earlier this year for £800. I'd had it since 5mths old and it was at 95K miles but I'd barely used it for 3yrs - what killed its value and made me very nervous about selling it was the very rigourous MOTing my indie gave it, including sweeping statements like "underbody corroded" only to tell me afterwards it was "fine". Due to its history, and that it was carrying various issues, I wouldn't have sold it privately.

To be fair, it was re-MOT'd by its new owner recently and it failed on various suspension parts. I also heard he'd had a bit of a nightmare with the ABS.

 

[markjay]

It's a petrol - must admit I didn't realise petrol's were affected by these zones. (I've looked at the Bristol one and it is)....

Are you sure its not ULEZ compliant? What engine does it have? I had the W203 C180 Kompressor with the M271 engine and it was compliant with the London ULEZ.

 

[markjay]

I just checked for W203 C180K:

 

[markjay]

Check here:

Enter the vehicle registration (number plate) | Drive in a clean air zone | GOV.UK

vehiclecheck.drive-clean-air-zone.service.gov.uk

 

[Smiley]

I "gave" my late 2004 (2005 model) C270CDi to a friend of a neighbour who is in the car trade earlier this year for £800. I'd had it since 5mths old and it was at 95K miles but I'd barely used it for 3yrs - what killed its value and made me very nervous about selling it was the very rigourous MOTing my indie gave it, including sweeping statements like "underbody corroded" only to tell me afterwards it was "fine". Due to its history, and that it was carrying various issues, I wouldn't have sold it privately.

To be fair, it was re-MOT'd by its new owner recently and it failed on various suspension parts. I also heard he'd had a bit of a nightmare with the ABS.

I don't think your indie did you any favours there. Every 17 yr old car in this country is going to have underbody corrosion. If it was serious enough to get a fail or an advisory then it should be more specific; otherwise not mentioned.
A sub 100k mile s204 with the 5 cylinder diesel engine and low owners is very desirable and will have many years of life left in it.
My guess is that the trader will have sold it on for somewhere around £3k.

 

[Rory]

Are you sure its not ULEZ compliant? What engine does it have? I had the W203 C180 Kompressor with the M271 engine and it was compliant with the London ULEZ.

It looks EU4 to me so should be OK.

Perhaps he was going off the Bristol zone website which says petrol's probably need to be 2006 onwards?

 

[Rory]

I don't think your indie did you any favours there. Every 17 yr old car in this country is going to have underbody corrosion. If it was serious enough to get a fail or an advisory then it should be more specific; otherwise not mentioned.
A sub 100k mile s204 with the 5 cylinder diesel engine and low owners is very desirable and will have many years of life left in it.
My guess is that the trader will have sold it on for somewhere around £3k.

I honestly wouldn't have a problem with that. I think it would have been a very risky car for a trader to sell to a member of the public.

I'm not going to list all the issues it was "carrying" in case the person I sold it to reads this! (although I was very open with him because I didn't want to fall out with neighbour) but it had a bunch of things that needed doing and more that it could do with having done, and mostly not cheap jobs unless you could do them yourself. All the fixed and flexi brake pipes, for example were looking very ropey.

 

[ALFAitalia]

I just checked for W203 C180K:

Its does not matter how polluting your car is in Portsmouth......private cars are not affected....only Taxi's, buses, coaches and HGVs. So they are actively penalising public transport and not private cars.....just how it should be"!!!....Its a very strange ULEZ!!!....I'm sure it wont last though,.

 

[markjay]

Its does not matter how polluting your car is in Portsmouth......private cars are not affected....only Taxi's, buses, coaches and HGVs. So they are actively penalising public transport and not private cars.....just how it should be"!!!....Its a very strange ULEZ!!!....I'm sure it wont last though,.

In London, all taxis (black cabs) licensed after April 2018 have to be electric vehicles. The buses are mostly electric already (some are Hydrogen). Ubers don't have to be EVs, but most new ones are either EVs or Hybrid, because they are far cheaper to run.