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these are trade in figures for your car @ current age and mileage..

You forget what you pay from a trader is retail price, normally a big difference between that and trade in (as seen here). Dont forget a dealer normally has to tidy a car up, service it, offer a warranty, pay for his overheads/fixed costs and make a profit. This comes from the differential between trade in and retail price
Also car prices have fallen recently due to the massive price hike of fuel and poor affordability of the general public. This is especially true for any petrol engine over 2 ltrs

So I suspect these figures are not that far out. Everyone thinks their car is worth more than it is, this is esp true with older recently aquired cars from any sort of dealer
 
They are also valuations for average condition trade ins. These prices don't relate to cars in good condition or low mileage etc. Take them as a very rough guide only.
 
Also car prices have fallen recently due to the massive price hike of fuel and poor affordability of the general public. This is especially true for any petrol engine over 2 ltrs

As illustrated by the following*:

My previous SLK 200 (R170)
  • Price new in 2000: £23,850
  • CAP px value now: £3000-£3200
  • Total value lost: £20,650-£20.850
  • Retained value (after 11 years): 12.6-13.4%
  • Percentage value lost per year: 7.9-8%
My current SLK 350 (R171)
  • Price new in 2004: £35,370
  • CAP px value now: £8225-£8775
  • Total value lost: £26,595-£27,1745
  • Retained value (after 7 years): 23.3-24.8%
  • Percentage value lost per year: 10.7-11%
And for comparison:

My Fabia 1.2
  • Price new in 2006: £8222
  • CAP px value now: £2675-£2850
  • Total value lost: £5372-£5547
  • Retained value (after 5 years): 32.5-34.7%
  • Percentage value lost per year: 13-13.1%
* Caveats:
  • Pricing does not take account of options, condition or number of owners;
  • "Value lost" calculations do not take account of inflation;
  • Percentage lost per year has been averaged out, so will naturally tend to reduce as the years go by;
  • Obviously, the prices quoted may not reflect what you'd actually be offered.
 
Some blurb from the site's T&Cs:

Any used vehicle valuation provided by us is a guide only based on the information provided by you and is provided on the basis of a single transaction between a domestic vehicle user selling a vehicle in a private non-commercial capacity.

The price you may ultimately receive on the eventual sale of your used vehicle is dependant on a number of factors, including colour and condition of the vehicle, promotions on offer and location. We do not guarantee that you will achieve a sale at the level of the used vehicle valuation. It is possible that you will achieve a sale of your used vehicle at a level higher than the used vehicle valuation provided.

In particular you should note that we may not be able to provide a used vehicle valuation for vehicles that are:
  • outside the age range of 3 months to 20 years old
  • outside the mileage range 1,000 - 200,000 miles
  • specialist or limited edition
  • in short supply or rare
  • not registered from new in the United Kingdom
For the purpose of our valuation tool mileage provided by you is rounded down to the nearest thousand miles.

Standard and optional equipment is displayed at the manufacturer’s original list price. This original list price may not properly reflect the value of the standard and optional equipment at the date we give the valuation. Optional equipment does not necessarily increase the used vehicle valuation.

All values are based on vehicles in a condition taking into account their age and normal usage, and are not adjusted to allow for any remedial work that has been undertaken to restore vehicles to an unusually high standard such as “concourse” show condition. This applies especially to vehicles that could be considered as "classic" models, or those that are collected by enthusiasts
 
thing is unless you actually buy the car new it is often difficult to determine the price paid for the car. As you know it is possible to get discounts from 0 to 15% or so on certain models. This can skew quite considerably the depreciation rate/yr.

My bet is the fabia would have had a bigger discount than the slk etc in the above example so may not have lost quite so much in % terms as the figures suggest

Oh, if I had a pound for everytime I heard "oh my xx yr old car was £70k or so new back in 199x.." I'm quite people quoting such facts are highly likely to be quoting list prices not prices paid !
 
I just tried my cars and the number was only recognised for one, however I think that value is probably fairly accurate and pretty well exactly matched Wisebuyers, which I also find to be accurate.

CAP is now meant to be one of, if not the leading trade guide and is updated regularly.
 
CAP is what all the dealers are using at the moment as they can't shift most cars themselves and so they are having to send lots of trade ins off to auction.

Glasses is well out unless it is something in huge demand or very rare.

However, webuyanycar has just valued mine at nearly 15% more than the CAP guide, but then they do take into account sat nav etc.
But I think the CAP prices are pretty close, if not a little scary.
 
CAP is what all the dealers are using at the moment as they can't shift most cars themselves and so they are having to send lots of trade ins off to auction.

Glasses is well out unless it is something in huge demand or very rare.

However, webuyanycar has just valued mine at nearly 15% more than the CAP guide, but then they do take into account sat nav etc.
But I think the CAP prices are pretty close, if not a little scary.

I have heard the same re CAP prices being closer than Glass'. Car prices have fallen sharply recently end of. Partly through the economy, fuel prices and the rest being its what they do, even classics have recently !!

It's human nature to think, hope that your car is worth more than it is in reality. Anyways what's the problem, if you are thinking of selling then surely its a golden opportunity to trade up, as the next car you will own will of fallen roughly the same %, therefore it will be a bigger saving in cold hard cash than you will of lost on your present car

If not thinking of selling then so what about how much your car is or isnt worth
 
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Trust me its a good thing that prices have fallen,,, says he with a 6hrs old E cabrio on driveway, ready to take a real pounding, but hey life is short, who cares :)

The same with house prices, it will be good when they go through the floor.
 
I have heard the same re CAP being closer than Glass'. Car prices have fallen sharply recently end of. Partly through the economy, fuel prices and the rest being its what they do, even classics recently !!

I don't think things have changed much. The dance is the same - the music is slightly different.

One new twist is that a sales negotiator can pull up webuyanycar to demonstrate whatyour trade-in is worth.

Now that adds an interesting twist to the market. Rather than arguing based on Glass's bottom book vs. say Parkers dealer sales price they simply point out something that is an actual starting offer from a third party which might well be lowered further.
 
2year old c250sport (with toys which the valuation does not take into account), 32,000 miles, £15k.

This car was £36k new from the dealer.

Wowsers.
 
From Wisebuyers.

Manual:

Retail: £21,894

Private Good: £18,464
Private Average: £16,754
Private Poor: £16,374
Part Exchange: £17,894
Trade: £17,137

Auto:

Retail: £22,994


Private Good: £19,414
Private Average: £17,624
Private Poor: £17,224
Part Exchange: £18,814
Trade: £18,020
 
If you're going to spam at least make it legible you f**ing moron!!
 
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spam?

Z4 wise buyer said 7.4k trade in
cap 5.5k
quite similar at auction a few months ago 8k

who to believe?
 
I actually have access to the full CAP valuation system, not just this site.

The "Dealer - Retail" and "Private Sale" prices were what I would expect to buy or sell my car for. Which isn't that suprising as the trade in value is always going to be significantly less than these values, otherwise car dealers would be charities rather than businesses.

One interesting thing I did notice was that what this site said was "Trade In - Average" actually was the "Trade in - Below" value.
 

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