Just visited a dealer to see about part chopping my Croma, Glasses Guide recommends £5,500 plus I have the connect nav unit so I thought £6,000 was reasonable. The cheeky git offered me £4,500 what are these cars 21st century Lardas or something.

they prob read this forum & noticed your buzzing problem

I would also assume the big car market has plummeted somewhat with increase in fuel costs...give you £4505 for it

I very much doubt you will get £500 extra due to the Connect Nav unit...

Well for a unit that costs £1500 as an optional extra I thought this was fair however I'm quiet happy to rip the whole unit out and put in the bog standard fiat unit. I'm sure I'd get £500 or close to it f I sold it separately. Of course if you only want to spend £50 then you get yourself a used Navman. If anyone does think this cars or any other Croma like it isn't worth £6K with the mileage. Then I'd like to know what their driving and what they paid for it, jalopy drivers need not respond, they'd put the car back on the forecourt for at least £8K. You could also say that diesels are not worth the extra in comparison to a petrol equivalent but I bet all greedy dealers are still selling them at premium. T14086 I'll take you up on your offer if your serious call me in 2010 when I've clocked up another 20,000. It incenses me I was offered £1450 recently for a fully loaded Stilo Abarth I managed to get £2k and got rid of the dam thing still with 12 months extended warranty.
PS for a big car I get 600 plus miles on a full tank I don't consider that bad going.

Seems to have retained the legacy of the old Croma which, apparently, was the second highest depreciating car ever sold in the UK. (Probably why I kept my old Croma for so long). The top spot went to the Rover SDI.

Dave.

No they are not. They offered me £3000 for my old 04 plate multipla against a 2006/06 Diesel Croma for which they wanted £7495. I sold it on Autotrader for £4500.00. Luckily for me I went to a trade only auction in Manchester with our kid, and bought a 2005/55 Croma for £4300.00 with 40k on the clock.

Just seen a 2007 2.2 petrol eleganza with sat nav for £8500

Tony the Tiger said:

T14086 I'll take you up on your offer if your serious call me in 2010 when I've clocked up another 20,000.

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Serously for a moment.......sell it private as there are quite a few people wanting one as they are alot of car for little money. I missed out on a pre-reg 1.9 that went for £7995

However if I was you (and you seem to like the car) i'd get it sorted & keep it

£500 for a second hand satnav that will only fit in 1 type of car

dave said:

£500 for a second hand satnav that will only fit in 1 type of car

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And will also need modifications to the wiring, time delay feed, microphone, GPS antenna, wiring looms, etc... It really isn't a plug and play system.

It's not just a sat nav though it's the steering wheel it the housing, connectors, mikes job lot. Of course you can nip down to Tesco and get a Tom Tom 900 for £300 if you prefer and yes I presume the buyer would have a Croma and likes the unit but didn't want to cough up dealer prices . Such a buyer I'm sure would consider the unit a bargain, but not if he was in the market to spend £500 on a car. I used to have a shop a few years back and sold my dvds for around £20 you'd always get the what I can get 3 for a £10 down the car boot brigade well my answer to that was well off you go then.

Tony the Tiger said:

well my answer to that was well off you go then.

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Don't preach to me, lol - I have had 2 cars with Connect Nav+ in - a fully loaded Ulysse, bought from new - and also a Stilo Abarth selespeed, bought second hand...

And there are a few people on here who have attempted to retrofit the unit into a Stilo [there is even a full guide on here, including all the extras you need to source, some from Alfa].

I think all we are saying is that £500 is a lot to ask for a unit, with a very small audience.

Oh, and I currently run a Garmin 200W, and it knocks the spots of the CN+ imo

whoa there tony the tiger, you seem a bit pissed off with answers given to you OK you don't like but that doesn't mean that your all correct & everyone else is wrong you have to take into account a buyers market & the so called recession at the moment at the end of the day like it or not, not everyone has the same idea as yourself... i sold wee car different thing altogether but got far less than i original thought i,d get. its a buyers market remember, that simple ,but hard to swallow i talk from experience

Not pissed or preaching simply saying given the cost of the kit one would have to pay to have this fitted to a new car what I was asking wasn't unreasonable. After all I'm sure the dealer would bump the price up a few hundred simply because the kits there.

It's actually fitted with a serial code which is unique to the car never mind the model so it would be pretty useless in another vehicle unless Fiat were prepared to change the code.

Point is I think the unit is worth £500 on the used market whether someone's prepared to pay it or attempt to fit it is their choice. Of course the last two posters have valid points and unfortunately the residue value of Fiat is pretty poor any how so I only have myself to blame for buying the car from a Fiat dealer and paying top dollar.

By the way Jimboy that's a lions roar you should spend more time in the jungle.

Ahem.. Tony, you're not allowed to sell the Croma. Bunny told me to let you know.

Looks like you'll have to keep it.

otherwise..

Tony the Tiger said:

Not pissed or preaching simply saying given the cost of the kit one would have to pay to have this fitted to a new car what I was asking wasn't unreasonable. After all I'm sure the dealer would bump the price up a few hundred simply because the kits there.

It's actually fitted with a serial code which is unique to the car never mind the model so it would be pretty useless in another vehicle unless Fiat were prepared to change the code.

Point is I think the unit is worth £500 on the used market whether someone's prepared to pay it or attempt to fit it is their choice. Of course the last two posters have valid points and unfortunately the residue value of Fiat is pretty poor any how so I only have myself to blame for buying the car from a Fiat dealer and paying top dollar.

By the way Jimboy that's a lions roar you should spend more time in the jungle.

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Tony i was meaning stop not a roar

i think these dealers are offering people less for cars than they can sell them for, then selling them on for a profit like some sort of business, the gits

Hellcat you tell that Bunny to hop it I'll sell the car if I wish he's just lucky I'm in a good mood otherwise rabbit stew could be on the menu

Dave you know what I think you could be right!!!! There's a slight difference between a profit and killing though which is what these fools want to do to me if they think I'll sell the car (and I use the term car loosely after all it is a Fiat) for what they offered. The cheeky gits even tried to bribe me with a free bowl of Frosties, I nearly bit the hands off trying to get to em but then realised I'd just eaten 2 witty forum members an hour earlier ROOOAR.

Tony the Tiger said:

Hellcat you tell that Bunny to hop it I'll sell the car if I wish he's just lucky I'm in a good mood otherwise rabbit stew could be on the menu

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No cooking the wife.

















who'll cook my dinners then?

Tony the Tiger said:

There's a slight difference between a profit and killing though which is what these fools want to do to me if they think I'll sell the car (and I use the term car loosely after all it is a Fiat) for what they offered.

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Not really, that car (if you do sell it) has to be repaired (parts & labour), valeted, advertised, taxed, mot'd (if applicable) then make a moderate profit...now add that little lot up & its easy to see the garage will obviously offer you much less than you are expecting.

The trick to selling a car is to find someone who wants it so much that they are prepared (or blind) to overlook any faults/costs/price, trying to sell someone a car they dont want is near impossible, in other words what it is worth to you is not what its worth to someone else wether it is a Fiat or not. Buy a Alfa or a mondeo then you will know what depreaction is really all about