Do bike dealers to p/x on cars?

[glade]

Thinking of chopping my car in for a bike...

will a dealership do me a p/ex or will i have to go to the bother of getting rid of it myself?

2000 V reg 1.4 Clio "Alize" 5Door hatch.

Parkers dodgy prices...
Private Good £ 2960
Private Poor £ 2165
Part Exchange £ 2525

[Biker Biggles]

Some will,but you probably won't get a good price.Many just get a local car dealer to offer on it and give you that amount.IE peanuts.

[mattSV]

They might do a p/x on it, however I reckon you would be lucky to get £2000 from them - they will have to chop it out to a car dealer, who will only give them peanuts for it :cry:

[glade]

i thought as much... ah well. £1 and 0% perhaps... then sell the car at leisure and get a better price.

[Toypop]

Is that your second car or your only car? If its your only car I reckon its probably worth more to you on your drive than the money you would get from selling it.

Keep it.

[glade]

My only car, but will be moving in with the mrs in july. My factory is next to her school so crap weather days i can catch a lift into work.

She's got a Liquid Yellow 182 (Amy R on CS - i've seen you on there)

I would like to keep the car but if i can get £2500+ in a private sale it would be very nice! (seen similar models on the trader going for 3k, same milage, same year, less spec... also there are the Mk1 clios still selling for £2k so i don't think this is unrealistic to the right person) Its got an inermittant fault which might be anything (probably coil pack) and i'd feel guilty selling it to joe bloggs with that fault. but if a garage will take it i couldnt care less - hence p/ex question!!

[kwak zzr]

when it comes to part x everyone takes the pi$$!! all my mate can get for his 54plate triumph thruxton is £3700 it books at £4600 :(

[SV650Racer]

They dont take the **** - they buy in cheap so they can sell on and make a profit!. As they are a business then thats the way it works!. If no dealer made a profit you would have to buy direct from the factories - trust me that wouldnt be very good for the customer!


anyways, some suzuki dealers are linked to suzuki car dealerships. They would take your car as P/ex. We have done as our workshop is behind a car sales place and they buy from the customer and give us the cash price.

Worth looking around, other than that stick it in autotrader and see what happens.

[kwak zzr]

there's making a profit (which is business) and there's taking the pi$$.

[SV650Racer]

so what do you reckon dealers should make?.

Consider out of the bike sales you have to cover:

Salesmans wage
Rent for the showroom space
Rates for that proportion
Vat
Electricity for the showroom
Insurance - we pay £8500 per year
Advertising costs (MCN charge £350 for a fag packet size ad per week)
Warranty
Workshop costs


so out of £900 initial margin you can bring it back down to £300 real profit

So define taking the pi** :wink:

[kwak zzr]

my local shop works on £600. i sold them a bandit 600 (cash) and they put 600 ontop of what they gave me, and i purchased a cbr600f at a different time for cash and the shop gave me the phone number of the last owner who said it was ok to pass it on, and he told me how much the shop gave him for it again it was £600.
the cbr was sold the same day it went in and they didnt evan clean it so the £600 was clear proffit. :wink:
i can manage £600 but i'd say anymore is abit much.

[SV650Racer]

it so the £600 was clear proffit

Possibly more like £200 dependant on how many bikes they sold that week. You would have to pay £89.36 to the Vat man. The salesmans wage for the week would be about £500 including the companies PAYE contribution. If they had only sold one bike that week - which does happen profit before rental space allocated from the showroom turnover etc would be £10.64 :wink:

Dont worry i do these figures on a weekly basis running my own shop. If you sold 10 bikes that week then the margin would be higher.

[Last Action Pimp]

its always cheaper to buy private, but you dont get the customer service of a dealer, and you pay the extra for your bike so you can have the dealer back up.

also if you p/x the bike you are paying (or loosing) the cost of the hassel of selling the bike private.

some shops even do free warranty with their bikes so i think that helps give you peace of mind.

[Dicky Ticker]

I know its not in your area but J Pease in Essex is both a car and bike dealer so for the cost of a phone call it might get you a result

Sorry for the late answer but just read the post