I am test driving a fiesta today as I have had enough of my stilo now, love the looks hate the build!

I have been offered £5500 for my stilo at a ford dealership and £6000 from a nissan garage but I was wondering what people thought it might be worth private? Its a july 2004 stilo 1.4 active 3dr, has 5000 miles, polar blue and doesnt have a mark on it. No one seems to list the 1.4 yet, they are still the 1.2 and I assume that it will be worth a bit more.

P.S I know that 3dr stilos have a problem with the seat base and it was recently covered in a thread, I had mine replaced last week and the new one is actually worst that the one it replaced! :bang:

thanks.

you always get more on a private sale but can be a lot of hassle and can take time, it depnds if you have the time and dont mind the hassle

It must be worth more than that , its not even a year old yet. Either way your going to be losing a fair bit of money as the first year of ownership has the biggest depreciation.

if valuations are to be beleaved, our Stilo hasnt dropped in value since we bought it, again thats if they are to be beleaved.
But 5500 seems very low. Time to shop about, got to be a dealer that can give you a decent trade in

chris w said:

I have been offered £5500 for my stilo at a ford dealership and £6000 from a nissan garage but I was wondering what people thought it might be worth private? Its a july 2004 stilo 1.4 active 3dr, has 5000 miles, polar blue and doesnt have a mark on it. No one seems to list the 1.4 yet, they are still the 1.2 and I assume that it will be worth a bit more.

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Most Fiat dealers have them on the forecourt for about £7,500-£8,000. If you factor in the nice big discount (say £800) they will give in order to shift them (sorry, but it is a fact of life), then the dealer will be letting the car go for £6,700-£7,200. Therefore £5,500-£6,000 seems spot-on to me (to take account of overheads and profit). Try private (and all the hassle), but I'll be amazed if you get anywhere over £6,200 for it. Fiat do enough to harm the residuals by pre-registering boat-loads of them.

Dare I ask how much you paid for the car?

you think stilo are built crap, you wait until you have had the fiesta for a while

My friend has a 03 Fiesta, the older 1.3 engine. I had an argument last night about them with him. Firstly his is ok, but that's it, "ok". One of its problems is that it weights approx 1075kg. Ouch. Secondly, his car has a built in CD player but exercise windows? Hmm...odd choice there. It's also NCAP 3 only which for a car designed so recently is poor, especially given its size.

The new 1242 engine they use is a 16v valve unit (1.25 badged) and an improvement over the 1.3 (as used in the Ka, the old Ford Anglia engine).

that does sound like quite a cheap price for a trade in, but how much did you pay?! and what type of deal are you getting on your new car? Maybe try and flog it on ebay? Seen a few 1.4's on there at the minute for around 7K with alot more miles? Dont know if anybody has bid on them or not?! Or just try other garage if you cant b a**** with all the hassle and rememba to be a cheecky as possible if you dont ask; ya dont get!

your always going to get shafted selling your car so soon after buying it. Either take the hit or keep he car, not a lot else you can do. The longer you have the car in the market the less its going to be worth.

Residuals..........................

are very bad, as someone else as said, due to FIART pre-registering millions of Stilos, the offer you've had is about right, I'd snap their hand off, if you try to sell it privately you'll be stuck with it for a very long time.

I know a chap who has an 04 Stilo 3dr JTD Dynamic in black with less than 4000 miles on the clock, it was for sale last August, he emailed me last week, it has been for sale since then, advertised in Autotrader and Ebay, Local Press, etc and he still has it on his drive, he is desperate to get rid of it but the dealers offered him a really poor trade in. It's for sale for £8495 if anyone's interested!

If he can't sell that model, what hope is there?

I posted this earlier in the wrong thread somehow :bang:

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I hate to say it but the trade values of Stilo's are crap, I thought about changing mine in the middle of last summer (its was about the same age as yours is now), the Skoda dealer I spoke to said he would only give around £6500 for it, bear in mind mine is a JTD Dynamic too...

B4 Xmas (start of dec if mem serves me right) 2 fiat dealerships in the toon offered me £6000 p/x for a 3dr 52 plate dynamic, about 12,000 miles but in good condition (well it should have having spent a third of its life stuck in Benfields garage on railway street )

Stev

Was offered £6200 trade in today for my Dec 02 Stilo Abarth at a Fiat dealers that listed at £17.5k with options just over two years ago, now that is what I call depreciation. Remind me again why I didn't buy a Merc or a BMW?

thepottleflump said:

Remind me again why I didn't buy a BMW?

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you didn't want to drive around looking like a wA N KER

Maybe true but I would have had more money in my pocket as a result. You can't deny that £11.3k depreciation in 2 years is a good enough reason to go off a manufacturer - that said I didn't pay that for it and got interest free

You paid list price for the car?!

Don't be silly I didn't pay full list.

Well then it isn't 11.3k depreciation is it....nobody pays list and nobody buying one things that you paid 17k for it hence what they will pay for them.

Sorry, should have read the second line of your post.

Well I would say it is £11k depreciation since that was the price before getting down to business - I have known people to pay list, maybe not for a Fiat though.

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Well I would say it is £11k depreciation since that was the price before getting down to business - I have known people to pay list, maybe not for a Fiat though.

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While depreciation in the magazines is measured in relation to the list price, in the real world depreciation can oly be measured in what you have personally lost. If the car lists for £17K, but you buy it for £14.5K and then part-ex it for £7K (for example) you have not lost £10K, but £7.5K. Also, just 'cos BMW stealers sell cars for what appears to be 60% of their value after 3 years that the poor sod who traded it got nowhere near that. BMW dealers are old past-masters at making your trade-in appear the worst car they have ever seen

Read in Autocar yesterday Fiat reducing this years UK sales forecast from 75,000 cars to 45,000 cars in order to give the dealers some profit margins because they don't have to discount like hell to make the sales targets. It should also help 2nd hand values as the legions of Fiats with W*05 and W*55 numberplates (i.e. pre-registered in Bristol) should no longer exist.

Monkey