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My local dealers (Blackbeard, Teach & Silver) are flogging a 2005 156 2.0 JTS
Veloce, 44203 miles, Nuvola Blue, leather, for £6695. Now, Parkers reckon a
car of that age with 30000 miles is only worth £4575, and my trusty old girl
is worth £850 as a trade-in, so where do I begin negotiations? Should I offer
them a tin of Brasso as well, necks for polishing of? I'm not desperate to
change, TBH, but it looks nice (in the pictures anyway - I'll go and have a
look on Saturday).

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Halmyre

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Halmyre wrote:
> My local dealers (Blackbeard, Teach & Silver) are flogging a 2005 156 2.0 JTS
> Veloce, 44203 miles, Nuvola Blue, leather, for £6695.

ROTFLMAO

> Now, Parkers reckon a
> car of that age with 30000 miles is only worth £4575, and my trusty old girl
> is worth £850 as a trade-in, so where do I begin negotiations? Should I offer
> them a tin of Brasso as well, necks for polishing of? I'm not desperate to
> change, TBH, but it looks nice (in the pictures anyway - I'll go and have a
> look on Saturday).

£3500, and take your own brasso


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Catman > wrote:

> Halmyre wrote:
> > My local dealers (Blackbeard, Teach & Silver) are flogging a 2005 156
> > 2.0 JTS Veloce, 44203 miles, Nuvola Blue, leather, for £6695.
>
> ROTFLMAO

Heh, that's a 'Black and White Garage' price....

I'm absolutely shocked they're still in business and selling cars.

> > Now, Parkers reckon a car of that age with 30000 miles is only worth
> > £4575, and my trusty old girl is worth £850 as a trade-in, so where do I
> > begin negotiations? Should I offer them a tin of Brasso as well, necks
> > for polishing of? I'm not desperate to change, TBH, but it looks nice
> > (in the pictures anyway - I'll go and have a look on Saturday).
>
> £3500, and take your own brasso

Parkers are *way* off on values for anything that isn't mainstream.

Just to give you a bit of info:

My 156 2.0TS Sportwagon with 10k miles on it cost me £5400 in September.
(Black, Momo leather, Sillyspeed, build date October 2002, but unsold
until October 2006)

Earlier this week a 159 1.9JTD Lusso sold for £7150 at auction with
about 40k miles on it, on an 07 plate.

I reckon £4k + your car is about right, but suspect you'll struggle to
get them to take yours as a trade-in.
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In article >, ess
says...
> My local dealers (Blackbeard, Teach & Silver) are flogging a 2005 156 2.0 JTS
> Veloce, 44203 miles, Nuvola Blue, leather, for £6695. Now, Parkers reckon a
> car of that age with 30000 miles is only worth £4575, and my trusty old girl
> is worth £850 as a trade-in, so where do I begin negotiations? Should I offer
> them a tin of Brasso as well, necks for polishing of? I'm not desperate to
> change, TBH, but it looks nice (in the pictures anyway - I'll go and have a
> look on Saturday).
>
>

UPDATE - went to look at it. Interior a bit scruffy - bad scorch marks on
headlining next to rear courtesy lights. Grubby leather on drivers door,
marks on passenger seat, chipped paint/plastic on glove-box latch. Some
exterior paint blemishes, bubbling on at least one alloy. Offered me £1050
for my car so price to change would have been £5645. I offered £4500 plus my
car, with predictable results, and we parted amicably.

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Halmyre

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