Parkers V Glasses

[The Pan Man]

Hi to everyone well this time I'm looking for some GENUINE advice. I have seen a car I like the look of spoken to the trader and £7,500.00 seems to far away. I recall someone having access to a current Glasses guide some time back and wondered what the exact book price is for my car as a PX.
53 Plate E 270Cdi Avantgarde Sat Nav / Through Load / Xenons / CD Changer / half leather 17" allooys Tyres less than 2k miles 12 Months Tax and MOT 99,500 Miles No dinks or scratches.
Any serious info is always welcome.

 

[st13phil]

The Glass website will give you a valuation tailored according to the fitted options for £3.50 if that's any help?

 

[SilverSaloon]

my experience tells me to ditch any "valuations" and see what they are advertising for on Autotrader, other car sites, and selling for (completed items) on ebay etc etc. this gives a better indication of value to me. of course the trader will give a trade in price which will be a lot worse than sales adverts as they need to make a profit.

try www.webuyanycar.com for a valuation too - will give you a ball-park figure to go from.

Glasses/parkers etc valued by BMW 7 series at £12k when i was selling it. 1 month later i successfully sold it for £17,500. same with the CLK, valued at £10k, sold for £16k. those books are next to useless if you ask me for selling privatly.

 

[gaz_l]

The Glass website will give you a valuation tailored according to the fitted options for £3.50 if that's any help?

Go through the Vauxhall website and you can get a Glass's PX valuation for free .

Value your car | Finance | Vauxhall Motors UK

Cheers,

Gaz

 

[jaymanek]

£7K without Nav, id add around £300-500 for Nav depending on condition of car.

Parkers is "the Sun" of car prices.. Glass's Guide is the Times.

 

[JohnDeere8530]

I search autotrader nationwide, piston heads & exchange of mart. Look at cars of the same models as yours with close spec, condition and miles but for sale by a trader. Average these out. Take off 5% (due to fact most cars sell less than advertised). You will now have a rough price.

Add a small bit for higher spec (however spec only makes a smallish diff), excpet for leather and satnav which is excpected on higher end cars now. Take a bit off if yours has the odd mark and higher than av milage etc You will now have an idea what market value of this paticular car is now

 

[The Pan Man]

Jaymanek Interesting reply, looks like this time next year if thats all its worth or that may be two years.

 

[hawk20]

Hi to everyone well this time I'm looking for some GENUINE advice. I have seen a car I like the look of spoken to the trader and £7,500.00 seems to far away. I recall someone having access to a current Glasses guide some time back and wondered what the exact book price is for my car as a PX.
53 Plate E 270Cdi Avantgarde Sat Nav / Through Load / Xenons / CD Changer / half leather 17" allooys Tyres less than 2k miles 12 Months Tax and MOT 99,500 Miles No dinks or scratches.
Any serious info is always welcome.

Today the Glass's Guide on the Vauxhall website gives it a part ex value , with 100k miles, of £6,550 in average condition and £7,330 in excellent condition. Privately you should easily get a couple of grand more than that.

But why not go to the Glass's Guide website and get a full valuation for about £3 and that will tell you likely resale price for private sale, dealer sale etc. And you can use the valuation to show people at the haggling stage. I have often found it helps.

 

[moonloops]

Parkers values always seem to be on the low side to me!

Also there is a tool on what car to value cars..

Free Used Car Valuations - What Car?

 

[PXW]

I've found Parkers quite frustrating over the years - always seems to undervalue what I'm buying and overvalue what I'm selling. Or maybe I'm just a rubbish negotiator

 

[James Rothwell]

Parkers is pretty crap, the industry standard is Glass' or CAP.

 

[bpsorrel]

Go through the Vauxhall website and you can get a Glass's PX valuation for free .

Value your car | Finance | Vauxhall Motors UK

Cheers,

Gaz

I wish the prices given by this site were true! They valued my '08 Saab at £18,000, but webuyanycar valued it at £8!!! Who shall I believe?? (of course, one should ask WHO would buy it right now under the current GM/Saab sale fiasco??)

 

[wemorgan]

All these are just guides though, so specific car and local variations can still apply.

I’d be interested to hear from traders, but as I understand it, these guides are used to help the salesman value a car that he’s unfamiliar with at auction or taking on p/x. If he specialises in MB cars for example, he’ll be able to more accurately price a MB car by his judgment alone?

 

[jaymanek]

Yes thats right.. however most traders i know use glass's as bible...
It can often be out by up 10-15% either way in my experience (when comparing to market values).

Parkers is normally out by a lot more, especially for more specialist cars like ours.

 

[RichardM]

Hi to everyone well this time I'm looking for some GENUINE advice. I have seen a car I like the look of spoken to the trader and £7,500.00 seems to far away. I recall someone having access to a current Glasses guide some time back and wondered what the exact book price is for my car as a PX.
53 Plate E 270Cdi Avantgarde Sat Nav / Through Load / Xenons / CD Changer / half leather 17" allooys Tyres less than 2k miles 12 Months Tax and MOT 99,500 Miles No dinks or scratches.
Any serious info is always welcome.

Traders may knock the price down for not having full leather, that's what I found when I sold mine. Also given its age I assume the SatNav is just the text based system and not command so that won't really add anything.

 

[jaymanek]

53 plates did have full comand as an option.

 

[RichardM]

53 plates did have full comand as an option.

Borderline, it would have been one of the very first to have it.