Buying and seling woes...
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But with some investment and your golden hands, worth 5k now!
I paid £5000 for my 2.2 a year ago from a dealer. Low miles at 36k.
When I picked it up three days after leaving a deposit he said he'd had lots of phone calls.
So I'd say there's good demand for correctly priced Z's.
Some dealers are asking high prices, but does anyone know if they achieve them?
When I picked it up three days after leaving a deposit he said he'd had lots of phone calls.
So I'd say there's good demand for correctly priced Z's.
Some dealers are asking high prices, but does anyone know if they achieve them?
@Z3L I'm guessing you've seen this ?
http://www.oakwoodmotorgroup.co.uk/used-BMW-Z3-Mansfield-Nottinghamshire-976144
http://www.oakwoodmotorgroup.co.uk/used-BMW-Z3-Mansfield-Nottinghamshire-976144
I've just sold my 2.0 which was in stunning condition and didn't need a thing doing to it. It had done 135,000 miles and I priced it at £2250 which was just above average for similar ones advertised, albeit in worse condition and without anywhere near half the work I had done to mine. I had hardly any interest, maybe due to the timing but a good car should still sell. The one serious buyer offered me £1800 for it without seeing the car, which I excepted.
The only way I believe a good zed will achieve a decent price is if it is sold to a fellow enthusiast or someone who knows the car, there is simply far too many cheap ones about now to choose from. Most people just want a cheap sports car, run it for a summer or two and sell up so there is no point spending a fortune on one. People bang on about the prices going up and up because they have seen highly priced cars, but they simply are not selling.
I could have asked more for my zed due to the work its had and its condition, but there is too many others on the market that are much lower in price so there was no way I could price it at what it's truly worth as there would simply be no interest. Unless people actually come to see the car and the condition its in then I maybe could achieve a higher price, but why would they when there are millions of others going cheap. If its an enthusiast that knows the insides and outs of a zed then they would see the car for what it's really worth, but them most of us enthusiasts already own ours zeds and don't want another.
I've not been up to see that Dakar Zed yet, just a tad too far, a few more miles than I'd like, but otherwise love it, especially the hardtop! Have you seen it in the flesh?
£6K for a 100K miler... Really? even Santa would say HO HO HO,
Buy it, take it back to that garage and he will give you £1200 for it. which is probably what he paid the last person
Buy it, take it back to that garage and he will give you £1200 for it. which is probably what he paid the last person
Marketing is...everything, most of the time!
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As far as the photos go it looks a really nice car
Ye agreed but we all know pictures can hide a multitude of horrors! He's got two and the Dakar one is inside.
I'd really appreciate that. I'm looking for a nice car, not a daily in any way, the Astra does that. Thank you!In haven't but I'd be happy to walk round at the weekend for you and see if it would be worth the journey up.
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I've looked at this one a number of times it does look nice in the pictures but that's not always the same in the flesh .
I know certainly with mine there's bits that pictures hide but i see when in front of car
I know certainly with mine there's bits that pictures hide but i see when in front of car
My car looks great from 10mtrs away, especially when it's just been cleaned. If you stand a bit closer it looks it's age, but it's nothing a good detail couldn't put right.
OK @Z3I I got done early today so I've been to see the Dakar. I recall further up the thread saying pictures can hide a multitude of sins, well these pictures certainly do!
It's not a nice car at all I'm afraid. I'll bullet point things so I'm not here till bed time.
1. Yellow car red roof!
2. Front bumper doesn't fit correctly either side where it meets the bonnet.
3. Drivers side door mirror Base is new and unpainted. ( Why wouldn't you do that?)
4. Large dent above the drivers side headlamp.
5. Yellow paint on passenger floor pan where the front edge of the sill has been painted (badly)
6. Huge crease in the drivers door a foot long surrounded by small dings.
7. Several dings in the passenger door.
That's just what I saw at a glance. I didn't even bother to open the bonnet or the boot
In the cars defence the interior was very tidy, it had 4 excellent Avon tyres and the alloys were mint.
Like @gookah says it ain't a cheap car but if its a very long term investment and a car is right for you then maybe it would be worth it but this certainly isn't a car I would recommend to anyone on here. It's basically been valeted and put up for sale.
And to finish off the guy selling it was an arogant tosser! When I explained I was looking on behalf of someone else he said, "you can have a quick look but I'm closing in a minute" it was 3pm!!
Grumps.
It's not a nice car at all I'm afraid. I'll bullet point things so I'm not here till bed time.
1. Yellow car red roof!
2. Front bumper doesn't fit correctly either side where it meets the bonnet.
3. Drivers side door mirror Base is new and unpainted. ( Why wouldn't you do that?)
4. Large dent above the drivers side headlamp.
5. Yellow paint on passenger floor pan where the front edge of the sill has been painted (badly)
6. Huge crease in the drivers door a foot long surrounded by small dings.
7. Several dings in the passenger door.
That's just what I saw at a glance. I didn't even bother to open the bonnet or the boot
In the cars defence the interior was very tidy, it had 4 excellent Avon tyres and the alloys were mint.
Like @gookah says it ain't a cheap car but if its a very long term investment and a car is right for you then maybe it would be worth it but this certainly isn't a car I would recommend to anyone on here. It's basically been valeted and put up for sale.
And to finish off the guy selling it was an arogant tosser! When I explained I was looking on behalf of someone else he said, "you can have a quick look but I'm closing in a minute" it was 3pm!!
Grumps.