triumphdave
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| posted on 23/10/08 at 08:42 PM |
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Parker used car prices
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
If you always do what you have always done you will always get what you have always got
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 23/10/08 at 08:50 PM |
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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.
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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Simon
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| posted on 23/10/08 at 08:53 PM |
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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
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BenB
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| posted on 23/10/08 at 09:16 PM |
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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....
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Thinking about it
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| posted on 23/10/08 at 09:51 PM |
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I recently bought a Punto for my daughter. There seems to be big reional differences too.
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iscmatt
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| posted on 23/10/08 at 10:27 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Thinking about it
I recently bought a Punto for my daughter. There seems to be big reional differences too.
This is very good point
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 23/10/08 at 10:36 PM |
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There's some good deals to be had at the moment.. credit crunch and all !!!
Ben
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mongrelwestie
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| posted on 23/10/08 at 11:02 PM |
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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.
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scootz
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| posted on 24/10/08 at 10:19 AM |
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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! 
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