Selling mums 21plate Toyota Aygo

paul2louise

Mum bought a 21plate Aygo from our local Toyota dealer last August for £9k but doesn't want to drive anymore. It's got 25k mileage and is insured and MOT. I don't want the hassle of private selling. I am considering asking the dealer to buy it back but also need to consider the selling options like WBAC, or Cinch. Any advice please. I just want it to easy for her with minimal hassle. Thank you

Grumpy_chap

Obtain purchase quotes from the online buyers

Try a couple of local 'we buy cars for cash' dealers.

Ask the local Toyota dealership that sold the car.

Make a choice. Do the deal.

FWIW 21 plate Aygo with 25k miles would be an easy, local sell via village social media.

Altior

I had a very smooth experience selling via Carwow recently. As long as your mum, or another person on her behalf is comfortable with taking and uploading lots of pictures of the vehicle, keys, documents et al. It's anecdotal of course but I tried 3 or 4 options and they were much the best. It's a dealer auction method.

Just editing to add that you don't need to figure out the angles etc yourself, just follow instructions via an app. It's very intuitive, no hassle at all.

BEBELUCA2017

Stick the reg into WBAC for a base figure and approach the Toyota dealer with that figure at the back of your mind. The dealer should offer more as it's their own brand and they also know the vehicle if they sold it to your mum. Also, if it's still under used approved warranty, there would be minimum prep for them to make it ready for sale to the next customer.

paul2louise

Thank you @BEBELUCA2017 @Grumpy_chap @Altior . Getting prices and need to take some pics for the quotes.

Ayr_Rage

You may find your local Toyota will bite your arm off, Aygos are very popular.

Motorway currently have the best price for my vehicle and WBAC the worst.

Exodi

I sold my wife's last car (very similar to yours) on Motorway.

We tried selling it privately on autotrader, was an absolute mess, it was like being on Facebook Marketplace with the level of nonsense and delusion (some of it I suspect was disingenuous delusion by buyers dealers massively lowballing hoping for a quick flip). Also very few buyers will consider buying a fairly new car privately not through a garage (which I can understand).

Motorway was relatively painless, enter the details, take some pictures, wait a few days for the auction, decide whether to accept price, car collected a few days later and cash in the bank. WBAC is very similar (though the price was a bit lower than we got).

If you were to approach a dealer, I'd be informed of a price from WBAC/Motorway, else you may become a victim of a lowballing.

daveyjp

Search Toyota website for asking prices of cars of same spec, similar age and mileage to see how much they now are and base offers on those.

Small petrol cars aren't losing value, Toyotas less so.

paul2louise

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81956247#Comment_81956247

Its 6 months since she bought it and not done many miles and she paid 9k then so I have a rough idea what she will want for it. But it's more the case of how much they are prepared to offer given that she isn't buying another

paul2louise

Thank you. Yes I wanted to gauge a price with the selling sites and then their are 3 fairly local Toyota dealers that I am willing to approach.

Exodi

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81956412#Comment_81956412

Keep in mind though that just because she paid ~£9k, even if she drove to the garage next door the same day she bought it, they wouldn't offer £9k for it. This is because £9k is the retail price, whereas if you're selling to a dealer/auctioneer, they will pay a trade price for it, because obviously they're a business that needs to cover overheads and make a profit.

This may sound obvious, but a significant amount of people are surprised that they are offered less than they see them being sold for on forecourts/online.

I'm just hoping she has around £7k in mind, rather than around £9k in mind.

If she has unrealistic expectations and wants about £9k because "that's what she paid for it", I'd encourage her to try sell it herself for a reality check. You can try sell it yourself for retail price on sites like Autotrader, but as I said earlier "very few buyers will consider buying a fairly new car privately not through a garage" because they will offer a guarantee, whereas you won't.