2001 E Class Estate 320CDI - Whats it worth?

[gazzab]

Trying to decide whether to get myself a newer smaller car as my wife now has a family car. Cant work out what my car is worth. It is a 51 plate E class Estate 320cdi with leather and auto/tip. It has just broken 100K. FSH with the last one or two at a specialist. I am 2nd owner, previously my fathers car from new. I need to get a v small dent sorted on the boot. After that and a polish I think it is in pretty good order. I cant for the life of me work out what it is worth. Parkers seems to be out of step with autotrader. But autotrader is such a load of rubbish it makes it difficult. Anyone any ideas? Cheers
Gary

 

[type49]

Get a trade-in price for it, add £1000 & advertise it privately. Where abouts are you? Area makes a difference too. You'll get more for it in cities than in western Cornwall or Scottish Highlands. I wouldn't mind it myself but a 2001 is going to be too much for me.

 

[gazzab]

Cheers. Just found a link on Vauxhalls site to the Glass' guide. Reckons £7100 in excellent condition for a TRADE IN price. So as is I would say that I should probably be happy to get £7500 and maybe nearer 8K if I fix th elittle dent. Seems such little money for so much car ! Needs an MOT in January which I will do. But needs a service in 2K time. So I guess I should probably take 7.2K as is BUT I am restricting my market. Probably better to fix the dent, get it serviced and advertise locally. I am in the midlands near Bakewell, Sheffield etc.. (just moved here from Surrey).

 

[type49]

A car has to have a current MOT to be taken as a trade-in, that's the law. How bad is the dent? Has it broken the paint? If not, I wouldn't bother with it. Get a new MOT & spend a weekend with polish instead.

 

[gazzab]

A car has to have a current MOT to be taken as a trade-in, that's the law. How bad is the dent? Has it broken the paint? If not, I wouldn't bother with it. Get a new MOT & spend a weekend with polish instead.

The dent is the size of my thumb nail - very small but it has broken the paint.

 

[stumpy]

Spec makes quite a difference to the value on these. I was looking to buy one recently and so many had very little spec that I gave up.

 

[jberks]

With cars as complex and expensive to fix as these, many people insist on buying from a dealer. You may find a buyer privately though you'll probably find that it will be a friend of a friend rather than from an ad. Anyone buying privately will want to get a bargain (or else why give up the trader backup) so I'd say you need to be £1k under the screen price to be in with a look in. At that rate, you may be little worse off trading it in as a trader will have little trouble moving it on.
I'd advertise it for a month or so, then if no luck, given the hassle of selling privately, just job it in.

 

[malcolm E53 AMG]

Hi,
Had a similar problem when I wanted to sell my 124 Estate after I bought the 210 Estate. Advertised in Autotrader which was a waste of time, then rang round dealers locally and still no interest.

Totally frustrated by now as a last resort I picked up my digital camera, went outside and comprehensively photographed the car and placed an ad on ebay. I was after £500 (which I set as the reserve) and eventually was persuaded to stop the auction early as the buyer was prepared to pay £900. This was my first experience of ebay and I have bought and sold regularly since. I notice that 210 E320CDis come up fairly regularly on ebay and 100K examples seem to make around the 7-8K mark depending on spec etc.

In my opinilon a very good way to sell a car just so long as you are careful and vet your bidders.

The important bit you have done, keeping a full service history.

Good luck with the sale and above all else remember that you are selling a good car, as Jberks says you can always chop it in if all else fails.

 

[gazzab]

Cheers guys. Its an elegance with tiptronic, in silver, with grey leather and CD player. Dont think it has other extras. It is a great car, just surplus to reqs. Was going to buy another car privately tomorrow but may not if they are hard to sell privately. Suprises me - thought at this end of the spectrum people would rather buy privately than some 'honest john' trader with a pretty worthless warranty. Looks like 7.K is my target. Will take a look at ebay.

 

[gazzab]

Spec makes quite a difference to the value on these. I was looking to buy one recently and so many had very little spec that I gave up.

ooh an M5 - want to do a swap with cash your way.......? I presume you frequent PHeads?! I have had 3 TVRs , the last one a cerb just sold a few months ago.

 

[stumpy]

ooh an M5 - want to do a swap with cash your way.......? I presume you frequent PHeads?! I have had 3 TVRs , the last one a cerb just sold a few months ago.

The M5 is a keeper. Tremendous value for money and one of the best cars BMW ever made. I have been on Pheads but lost interest a while back. The Cerb is a car I'd like to own too. Good luck with the sale. Does your car have Parktronic and 7 seats?

 

[gazzab]

Parktronic ? Is that reversing sensors? No. (but you can fit those after market kits and colour code the sensors which I understand are good).
And it doesnt have 7 seats.
I askied my parents to order with those extras but they didnt.

 

[gazzab]

Just took it for an MOT, flew through.

 

[MAB01UK]

Try selling on PistonHeads Classified, the ad is free for private sellers including 6 photos...........jiust sold my C220 Sport in less than 24 hours on there.

 

[BRABUSW210]

My cousin is after a E320 CDI estate, 2000 onwards. If you PM me with a contact number he'll get in touch. He;s a genuine guy and has been looking for over a month for one.