Selling a really cheap car

[Daviemck2006]

I had in my possession a 56 plate merc a160cdi auto with a knackered gearbox but still 6 months MOT. It was worth basically scrap money, which here is only about £100 to £120. It was still driving but making noises and dropping into limp home mode with transmission fault visit workshop displayed on the dash. It was ok for about 5 minutes when started before it went limp home. I saw an advert on Faceache for Arnold Clark saying they would buy any car, email for a quote then use +500 and you get £500 added to the price. I filled in the form, being honest about it dropping into limp home and the message on the dash. The quote came back, £50 for the car plus the £500. Please make appointment at a local branch. So this I did, at a branch that I had had problems with in the past and the manager threw me out. So today I went there, it was the managers day off, pity, and a salesman did an appraisal of the car, said its £100. I quoted the +500 again and got £600 for a £100 scrapper! I have no scruples taking £500 off Arnie shark, I reckon they cost me more than that at the last time I dealt with that branch. Just a pity the manager wasnt there to see it

 

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[big_al_granvia]

That is interesting, assume car must have a current mot

[R1152]

18 minutes ago, big_al_granvia said:

That is interesting, assume car must have a current mot

 

4 hours ago, Daviemck2006 said:

I had in my possession a 56 plate merc a160cdi auto with a knackered gearbox but still 6 months MOT.

 

[sutty2006]

58 minutes ago, R1152 said:

 

 

I’m guessing that’s a question in relation to qualifying to get a magical 500 from Arnold Clark for a banger worth feck all. 
 

winner winner chicken dinner! As they say. 

[Cheezey]

A lassie at work used this recently. She had a year old Sandero Stepway though. A trader that bought my father in law’s car from me last year and all of the car buying services, including Arnold, all offered roughly the same book price. Then she noticed the +£500 thing on Arnold’s website. She booked the first appointment and the car was away an hour or so later. Still took a fair hit on a year old car but the extra £500 took the edge of it. 

[sierraman]

Worth it not to have to deal with the morons you get on Gumtree. 

[Daviemck2006]

It was only going to be scrapped for £120. The guy at arnold Clark did take a quick spin in it, but it was always ok for about 5 minutes after starting it when it had sat an hour or so. Theres a retail park right across the road from the branch so I had a look around it for a while before crossing the road. Plus I had admitted that the eml was on intermittently. This seems like a great way to get rid of basically scrappers that are still road legal

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[Cookiesouwest]

Mmmmm

Off to check Arnold Clark website, right now

 

[Cookiesouwest]

354 for the suzuki, plus 500 !

I'm really hoping

1) They have a site nearby

2) Deal is still running at weekend

[cort1977]

Just checked and they refused to value a S reg...  Did say they would send an email so we'll see.

[95 quid Peugeot]

snap, on a "W Reg"

[Kiltox]

Aparrently there’s a massive shortage of used stock - not that this is the kind of stock they’re looking for. 

The trade offers for my 8 month old MG have increased by £4,500 in the past month and a bit. 

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, cort1977 said:

Just checked and they refused to value a S reg...  Did say they would send an email so we'll see.

 

1 hour ago, 95 quid Peugeot said:

snap, on a "W Reg"

They're probably going into meltdown as their website and sales team is overrun with queries on rumbling Mondeos and scabby Mazdas with four days' MOT left...

Tomorrow's news headlines:

Arnold Clark shock bankruptcy as Autoshite members take them to the fucking cleaners in less than eight hours

^^ A typical Arnold Clark dealership, tomorrow.

[juular]

Anything that financially bums Arnold Shark even a little gets a resounding endorsement from me!

Nice work and well earned cash. Now go back in when the manager is there and ask if they have any used cars for £600 👍

[stephen01]

Heard this on the radio on teh way bac k to the office,  checked my mini and takes the offer to £900, gutted as I've said my brother can have it! 

[big_al_granvia]

thinking for weekend, clear crap out almera, give it a wash, spray wax and hoover interior, get stevie wonder to mot it, take money and run

[Datsuncog]

Race you there.

£510, here I come.

[Talbot]

Quote

*If you have owned the car for less than 6 months we will require a main dealer VAT invoice as proof of purchase. Any backdated ownership will also require this supporting documentation

From the Arnold Shark website.

Seems they won't buy cars that have obviously been bought just for this, otherwise anyone could just go and buy a string of £200 snotters and sell them to Arnold Clark for a £500 hit each time.

Bah.  That's my business plan out the window then.

[Daviemck2006]

I only bought the merc 6 weeks ago for £600 then the gearbox started playing up two weeks ago. I was surprised they did it to be honest lol

That will probably be the young salesman getting a kick on the arse when the manager next sees him!

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[1duck]

16 minutes ago, Daviemck2006 said:

That will probably be the young salesman getting a kick on the arse when the manager next sees him!

 

Doubt it, guess they have a deal with a scrapyard/auction house to pay them most of the 500 quid so the risk will be negligible being an mot'd running car, more than likely it'll become auction fodder where it'd probably make 300-400 quid, as it's becoming hard to find a snotter with any sort of amount of MOT for much less than that so long as it drove through under its own steam.

Plus look at all the free advertising they are getting off the back of this, they've already bought a year old dacia further up for part ex using the same scheme, so it more than balances out people trying to game the system.

 

 

[1duck]

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

Race you there.

£510, here I come.

they valued my 2005 peugeot 107 at 50 quid, because i went through the form honestly. Still with the 500 quid bump from arnold that brings it up to a respectable offer of £550. Half tempted, but only very half tempted as i'd have to replace it with something else which would probably cost more than 500 quid.

They wouldn't even give me a valuation on anything older than 2005.

[Daviemck2006]

Although the getting more than it was worth from Arnie was good, the best bit about this was the not having to put up with the hassle of selling a car with a borked gearbox for a few hundred quid. I got my money back from the car I bought to do my work with which turned out to be a bucket of shit. It's a lucky escape for me, leaving with my fingertips intact.

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[Bren]

I am not sure how this will result in anything other than financial ruin. It seems to be on a par with magic beans. Gets popcorn and sits down....

[Cookiesouwest]

Sadly the nearest AC is in Southampton, 50 miles away.

Not sure, even the extra 500 quid is worth the grief from Mrs CSW for disappearing all day Saturday.

[Kiltox]

7 minutes ago, Bren said:

I am not sure how this will result in anything other than financial ruin. It seems to be on a par with magic beans. Gets popcorn and sits down....

99.99999% of people will be selling them a car that can be retailed for more than +£500 on what they pay for it. 

[colino]

I'm sure you are all wise heads and don't believe for a second that anyone is getting trussed up apart from the buyer.  Any promo trade-in offer means the screen price already has the padding added on.  Going back to ancient times when the government protected us from ourselves by needing you to put down a 1/3 deposit when buying a car on HP, every dealer worth his salt priced the stock accordingly.  That was the era of £1500 trade-in for anything, famously by Peter Cannon (The Big Noise in Fords) giving a £1500 trade-in value to a frying pan.  Nothings changed.

No trader is fleecing himself, nobody is getting sacked.

[Rod/b]

3 minutes ago, colino said:

I'm sure you are all wise heads and don't believe for a second that anyone is getting trussed up apart from the buyer.  Any promo trade-in offer means the screen price already has the padding added on.  Going back to ancient times when the government protected us from ourselves by needing you to put down a 1/3 deposit when buying a car on HP, every dealer worth his salt priced the stock accordingly.  That was the era of £1500 trade-in for anything, famously by Peter Cannon (The Big Noise in Fords) giving a £1500 trade-in value to a frying pan.  Nothings changed.

No trader is fleecing himself, nobody is getting sacked.

It’s not a trade-in allowance, it’s straight purchase: https://www.arnoldclark.com/sell-my-car

[UltraWomble]

Put the Yaris of Many Shitters currently owned by @JrWomble through and ...

 

Might see if I can persuade him to let it go....

[Jamie]

interesting they actually do drive them at AC, when you go to WBAC (we sold 2 this year) they arent even allowed to sit in them , they ask you to roll the window down to look at the mileage & Check the dash for errors coz covid.

[Split_Pin]

I initially thought this was about trade ins but very interesting that this is about an outright sale! AC are alright for deals, but I wouldn't even put a wheelie bin in there for a service or repair.

Hopefully they're still doing it in July when the Minis MOT is due......