Hi. I am considering selling my 2013 panda 4x4 TA. I've had it from new and it's just coming up to 17000 miles. It's a great car but my other half wants something bigger (I'm not 100% convinced). It has all the extras more dealer cars don't have so it has heated screen, seats, full climate control, sliding rear seats, reversing sensors, privacy glass, parking sensors, tom Tom prep and it is in Orange

Webuyanycar offer £7 straight off but I wonder if any of you have sold one and know if they are desirable.

Looking online they are £8500 at the cheapest and don't have any extras.

As I said, not sure I want to sell it but looking for any feedback/advice.

Extras are nice but will make very little difference to any trade bid you will get. They'll base it on year/miles/book price.

We buy any car can be good, but be prepared to be deducted for any mark what so ever.

Worth trying a private sale, problem is a lot of people at that level will require finance and the ability to trade in, not to mention pre reg 4x4's up at £11k.

Sounds like a lovely car tho, for a private sale I'd be going £7995 and see how you get on.

I'd try for a bit more - say £8250 - which gives you some haggle-room. It will still have a decent amount of warranty left, and it's not hard to get credit at the moment (and at a lower APR than you'll get from most dealers on a used car purchase). And there's still lots of PPI money swilling around...

Difficult to say how the colour will play. I knew when I bought my wee yellow beastie that the colour would make it more difficult to sell on (even in Norwich!). I got less for my yellow DS3 than I would have got for just about any other colour. Some people have no taste

I got £9300 for mine in a private sale six months ago (63 plate, had about 11000 the clock). I had people fighting over each other to come and view it despite it being the wrong time of year to sell a 4x4 (spring). It helped that at the time the only others on sale were at dealer who wanted daft money, they made mine seem cheap!

Start high, you can always reduce it if you're lacking in interest. No doubt they'll be a "worst winter for a generation" headline in some trash like the Mail soon, use it to your advantage;-)

Demic said:

I got £9300 for mine in a private sale six months ago (63 plate, had about 11000 the clock). I had people fighting over each other to come and view it despite it being the wrong time of year to sell a 4x4 (spring). It helped that at the time the only others on sale were at dealer who wanted daft money, they made mine seem cheap!

Start high, you can always reduce it if you're lacking in interest. No doubt they'll be a "worst winter for a generation" headline in some trash like the Mail soon, use it to your advantage;-)

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Good to know you had strong interest as that's what I have no idea of. I'm not convinced I want to sell it as it ticks all the right boxes.

Knowing my luck if I did sell before winter it will be the worst one we've had in recent years.

philboo said:

Knowing my luck if I did sell before winter it will be the worst one we've had in recent years.

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Sod's law - never fails, in my experience!

I guess the risk of hanging onto it until next year is that it's then running out of warranty, and by that time there'll be more available secondhand, as there will be loads of 3-year lease deals coming to an end (IIRC, while they went on sale in 2012, they only started coming through in any numbers in 2013). At the moment, TA 4x4s are still comparatively rare secondhand, unless they are ex demos or pre-reg, which would put them in a different price bracket from yours.

Hmm, tricky one!

I think whatever you do, don't be afraid to really push the extras on your car.

When I swapped our Panda last year, the dealer was a bit reluctant to offer too much for it as a trade in price.

However, I made it clear that my car had pretty much all of the flex options (i.e 60/40 split rear seat, folding passenger seat/table, comfort kit etc), and that really you weren't going to find many others like it in turquoise, if at all. The end result? Got a few extra hundred pounds on the trade in price, and the dealer flogged it within about 2 weeks. So that proved I was right to force the issue a bit more.

At the end of the day, anyone can buy a white 1.2 Easy, there's literally thousands of them. But yours in particular is a niche car, and the Panda is already really practical, so the fact you have the sliding seat etc is a real bonus.

I know you will all think I'm crazy but there might be another fully loaded orange low mileage 4x4 on the market next year when the 124 sport comes out..... LoL