Car brokers for buying a new Clio & trading in an old one

mjfusent

My mother-in-law wants to trade in her 3 year old Clio for a new one and since she's not happy with the deal offered by her local main dealer I've offered to help by looking at online dealers/car brokers. So far I'm awaiting quotes from DCOOK and Llodys TSB.

Can anyone reccomend a good online car broker, they need to be able to handle trade in.

Thanks!

Mike

Chris_VRS

https://www.dealdrivers.co.uk seem to be very competitive!....although it doesnt appear they offer a trade-in facility?!....why don't you sell her car privately...get more £ for it that way :idea: ..autotrader or ebay....have it sold in no time!

burbs_2

mjfusent wrote:

My mother-in-law wants to trade in her 3 year old Clio for a new one and since she's not happy with the deal offered by her local main dealer I've offered to help by looking at online dealers/car brokers. So far I'm awaiting quotes from DCOOK and Llodys TSB.

Can anyone reccomend a good online car broker, they need to be able to handle trade in.

Thanks!

Mike

As Chris said above, why do you have to trade the car? Why cant you sell it yourself, pound notes are better than having the car, the car will be worth a lot more if you sell it personally.

A Clio is a popular car and as long as its up to scratch you will have it sold in no time, especially if you are willing to take a little less for a fast sale.

FirstClassMale

A word of caution about buying new cars online.....

When I used to sell new cars at a main dealer, we had a lot of people coming in with adverts for places selling direct at much cheaper prices. Upon investigation it was often found that the specification varied greatly from those models we had. A lot of these vehicles are imported or are "new old stock" ie a car can be lying around for two years before being registered as new.

Take the brochure from your main dealer and go through the specs with the online retailer. ABS and CD players were often standard on the retail models but tellingly missing from those offerred online direct.

Having said that, dont tell your main dealer where to stick it if you have definately got a better deal online. The chances are that it will be delivered to them for you to pick up.

blue_haddock

I used to work for a dealership and my role was solely selling cars through online brokers. Generally there are two types of online brokers - ones that deal with imports and pre-reg'd stuff like firstclassmale mentions but also ones that only sell brand new full spec cars through main dealers. If you deal with one of these a lot of them will do PX as they have full trade facilities although it is up to the dealer not the broker if they want to take PX.

I always took PX but because my margins were extremely tight i could only give what your car was actually worth rather than an inflated figure. Is there much of a wait for the vehicle you are buying? i usually suggested that i would give the customer £X.XX for their car as worst case scenario but they should try to sell it private for more knowing they have my offer as a fall back plan.

Brokers you could try include

https://www.carfile.net
https://www.broker4cars.co.uk
https://www.ukcarbroker.co.uk
https://www.drivethedeal.co.uk

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blue_haddock wrote:

i usually suggested that i would give the customer £X.XX for their car...

I'm guessing £0.01 or less? :rotfl::rotfl:

tomstickland

Then again, trading a car in at 2-3 years and buying a new one is the manufacturer's dream come true and possibly the worst way to buy cars. The customer keeps riding the spike in the depreciation curve. A lot to pay for the novelty of a new car.