carl

As the wife now has a 206CC, I need to sell off her old Saxo (1.4 West Coast) to fund a daily driver for me (bit bigger than a Saxo, diesel, aircon).

The trouble is that the Saxo has a scrape in the rear quarter on one side (about 8 inches long). With that fixed I reckon it's worth £3.2-£3.5k. Do I plumb some money into it (I reckon £500-£600) and fix it up for a private sale, or sell it to a dealer in its current condition? I would hope I'd get about £2.8k for it like that. Obviously a dealer would be able to get the scrape fixed for less than I could, as they get trade rates and can reclaim the VAT (I think it's more of a new rear quarter panel job than a paintless dent repair job).

Of course the worst-case scenario is that I stump up the money to get it fixed, then end up selling it to a dealer for peanuts to get shot of.

BTW if anyone's interested it's a 1998 S-reg 1.4 West Coast (with the bodykit) with 39k on the clock. Single-CD, full Citroen service history, new pads+discs, newish tyres (Toyos), new exhaust. 52mpg on a run

TopBanana

Shouldn't cost that much to fix unless it was dented badly. I'd say £100 or so

marty_t3

yeah... just go for a cheap repair job and private sale. I did the same with a few chips and scrapes on my sisters 206.

carl

It's one of those 'dent scrapes' though -- looks like the metal may be creased

ScoobyJawa

PX'd the missus 106 when she bought her BRM at a Seat dealer. Her 106 had a few weeks earlier had a car parking dent scrape all the way along the bottom of the passenger door. Quote to fix was 400-600 quid and we wanted 2.5k for the car.
Went to Seat anyway with the dent and they still gave us 2.5k for the car in PX with the dent there.

brickboy

Carl, FWIW I'd try a couple of dealers without fixing it. If you can get your target money, no worries, you're quids in. If you can't, get the fix down then go private -- or take it to a different dealer.

Have you had a ChipsAway quote? It's surprising what they can fix.

apples24

iTrader: (1)

i think your behing rather optimistic on your asking price, especially the dealer one.

ScoobyJawa

Apples,

I'm not so sure, it was only Oct we got £2.5 from a dealer for my missus 106 XN Independence 1.1 on an R reg with 42k on the clock
You never know, they can suprise you sometimes!

carl

I'm certainly prepared to take advice on the price. Glass's say (at 40k miles):
Retail: 4090
Trade
Excellent: 2760
Average: 2420
Below average: 2080

I certainly think that for a dealer <£3k+a few hundred to fix up for a car that they can retail at over £4k is a pretty good deal.

but looking on Autotrader they all seem to be in the 3.5k-4.5k bracket, e.g.
98 'S' on 48k: £3495 (trade)
99 'T' on 53k: £3595 (private)
98 'S' on 32k: £4495 (trade)
99 'T' on 40k: £4995 (trade) <--- this lot must be having a laugh

I mean it does have a full main dealer service history, 11 months MOT, last serviced a month ago (at a cost of £350 for service+MOT+pads+discs )

If it had aircon and was a bit bigger I'd keep it to run to and from work in. In fact that's what I'm doing with it at the moment.

[Edited by carl - 1/10/2003 1:23:12 PM]