How accurate are these,looking to get a new tin top Yaris for the missus,the dealers down here are charging a good £600 more than the Parker prices on a £3-4K car

I use parkers to value cars every day to determine total losses, the insurer engineers use glasses, the difference is about 10-15% cheaper on parkers which I consider more accurate. Some of the glasses prices are comical, an engineer valued a Renault Laguna 97 with 163k on the clock at £1375 using the guide, the owner had bought it from a dealer for £625 only 5 weeks previously.

Parkers valued my ZT260 at £11,500 in January.

I got £7200.

Think they are all a bit pointless, especially now as there is no value in secondhand cars.

ATB

Simon

I asked this recently on said forum and got a few responses. For what it's worth I found Parkers to be pretty useless and found Glass' and Whatcar to be much more realistic... Even then I got a nice discount on the basis that nowadays car prices are falling like lead weights....

I recently bought a Punto for my daughter. There seems to be big reional differences too.

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I recently bought a Punto for my daughter. There seems to be big reional differences too.

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There's some good deals to be had at the moment.. credit crunch and all !!!

i work as a car saleman, and i think all i can say is, parkers GUIDE and glasses GUIDE are just that, a guide, cars are only worth what you can get for them these days.

The price drop is phenomenal right now!

I bought a brand new A6 2.8 Quattro Avant that had a damaged inner wing and headlight unit (straight from the factory). It was originally going to Japan, so the Sat Nav / DVD player is useless, but I like Radio 2, so no problems there

It has EVERY toy that you can get on a UK car, plus many more that seem to be just for the Jap market. New UK price would just have been over £40k for similar spec (not including the crazy Japanese stuff inside) - I paid less than £20k for it (with the damage put right).

6 months and 5k miles later - just checked Glass guide and a 'similar' 08 car is 'trade' retailing at £20k!

Can you imagine if you had walked into a UK dealership and paid the original price???

Think I would be throwing up right now!

PS - Very strange that the 3.0 diesel version is trading at nearly £9k more! I'm starting to think that the whole diesel 'thing' is a bit of a 'con'!

There's less than 10mpg difference between them, and this is pretty much negated by the current cost difference between petrol and diesel!