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Hi all, just looking for a bit of advice for my dad who is selling his 2007 Croma. He decided 3 months ago, because of a troublesome knee, to swap his Stilo estate for an automatic Croma. 3 months on and he's decided he doesn't like automatics.

The car is a silver JTD 150 Prestigio with 60000 miles on the clock and has leather, panoramic roof etc. He has asked me to sell it for him but I've no idea at what price to pitch it at or if I put it on Ebay what reserve to place on it.

Any thoughts guys? Thanks
 
A few pictures taken of the car in North Wales yesterday.

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I bought my Prestigio for £6k when it was 2.5 years old (a year ago), with 39k miles. But it's a 1.9 16v with a manual gearbox and no leather. I do think I probably got it about £500-£1000 less than most others at the time though.

The bigger engine may be a plus or minus, not sure which in these eco times. An auto box is normally thought to add a bit of value.

So it's a better car than mine, but a bit older and higher mileage. My guess would be anywhere between £5500 and £6500, but I'd be tempted to stick it on ebay starting at the absolute minimum you'd take for it and let the market decide what it's worth.
 
I think this is too low, but here's the bad news from What Car (not including leather)...

Fiat Croma Estate 2.4 Multijet Prestigio Auto 5dr 2007 (07) 60,000 miles
Dealer £5,350
Private £4,870
Part exchange £4,435
Trade £4,200
Cost new £22,230
 
Really difficult one. As a sadster I often look at the prices of Cromas, and the one overwhelming feature is how long the adverts are on various places. There is a dealer (Vauxhall) selling a 2.4 Prestigio with less than 40k miles, for £6500 if I recall. There is a 56 plate Eleganza auto on autotrader with 74k miles for £4500 but it has been there for months. Similarly with most of the others. I'm afraid, unless it is cheap it could take a while.

07 Eleganza went on ebay a couple of weeks ago for £2650. I bought my 55 plate Eleganza for £2150.....

I would pitch it at £5500 and be prepared to wait awhile or take less.

This of course does not reflect how good a Croma is, just the ignorant UK market.
 
lanciaman said:
07 Eleganza went on ebay a couple of weeks ago for £2650. I bought my 55 plate Eleganza for £2150.....
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Flipping heck. At these prices I'm tempted to buy another for spares.

It probably needs a much lower start price on ebay then.

Or perhaps just persuade dad to learn to love it?
 
Doofer said:
Flipping heck. At these prices I'm tempted to buy another for spares.

It probably needs a much lower start price on ebay then.

Or perhaps just persuade dad to learn to love it?
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Haha

I wish he did love it. He's mental in my opinion. The car looks and drives fantastic and the quality is a big step up from his Stilo. For some reason he wants a manual Citroen Picasso diesel now. As I said, mental.

He paid £6995 for it from a Fiat dealer in April so he's going to lose a fair bit on it.

Thanks for all the replies guys, I appreciate your help.
 
The Croma's definitely a car to buy a decent one of, look after it well and run it until it's time for the scrapyard.

My previous two cars (both 6-9 months old, £12k-ish when new, sold at about 3 years old), lost almost exactly £2k per year in depreciation (plus the effective interest lost on having the money laid out). If the Croma lasts another two years then I scrap it then it will have cost just the same.

Of course I'm hoping it lasts a lot longer and I'll get lots of years of "free" motoring.

VWs, Audis, BMWs etc are all thought to hold their value well. I'd disagree - they hold a bigger percentage of their value, but they still lose £1000s per year. It's just that they're so expensive to start with that it doesn't seem as much.
 
I would forget all the guide prices. I went to my local MB dealer at the weekend to look at a v.nice C-Class diesel estate, reasonably priced but not cheap.

Now I have a 2005 '55 plate 150 bhp Eleganza Auto with 42K on the clock and full FIAT service history, including two new front tyres, recent EGR valve and cam belt change. They didn't even look at the car and only offered £3,800 in PX. Bear in mind this car would be on a used car lot somewhere for £5,995 within a week. (n) :eek:

My response was a calm, measured and yet firm no. He then asked me what I wanted for the car (so I thinking I would chance my arm and ask for £5,500). The salesman said that he thought I was being unrealistic, to which I replied that he started it. It was downhill from there. They suggested that I sold the car privately. I said that I wasn't going to to do their bloody job for them, etc. etc.

Needless to say I don't own a c-class Merc, although my Missus thinks I went a bit far when I called him a t*ss*r before walking out (we don't mince our words in the North).

Is it just me or does anyone else find buying cars a right pain in the *rs*? I absolutely despise doing it, and is probably one of the reasons why I tend to keep my cars for 5 years or more.
 
Radlet6 said:
I would forget all the guide prices. I went to my local MB dealer at the weekend to look at a v.nice C-Class diesel estate, reasonably priced but not cheap.

Now I have a 2005 '55 plate 150 bhp Eleganza Auto with 42K on the clock and full FIAT service history, including two new front tyres, recent EGR valve and cam belt change. They didn't even look at the car and only offered £3,800 in PX. Bear in mind this car would be on a used car lot somewhere for £5,995 within a week. (n) :eek:

My response was a calm, measured and yet firm no. He then asked me what I wanted for the car (so I thinking I would chance my arm and ask for £5,500). The salesman said that he thought I was being unrealistic, to which I replied that he started it. It was downhill from there. They suggested that I sold the car privately. I said that I wasn't going to to do their bloody job for them, etc. etc.

Needless to say I don't own a c-class Merc, although my Missus thinks I went a bit far when I called him a t*ss*r before walking out (we don't mince our words in the North).

Is it just me or does anyone else find buying cars a right pain in the *rs*? I absolutely despise doing it, and is probably one of the reasons why I tend to keep my cars for 5 years or more.
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To be fair to the dealer they're not going to buy a car for £5,500 and then put a sticker on it for £5995 and make any money out of it.
 
Agreed, but I was staring high in the hope of getting £4,500 to £4,700 for it, but they wouldn't budge from £3,800. Also bear in mind they have profit in the new car which they can use as an allowance to bump up the PX value (I used to work in the trade - I know how it works).

They were effectively offering less than trade value as a trade in price - it was an insult and they knew it. There is only one reason for a dealer doing this and that is they don't want the car (unless it is ridiculously cheap). At £3,800, (allowing £500 from the profit of the new car) the Croma would have stood them at £3,300. At that price, they could have put that car straight back out to the trade and made a profit.
 
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