Selling a 4WD

It's petrol..my guess is, if it was diesel there would be much more interest...

When I traded in my 2002 Diesel Pajero with 97,000km on it, I had no trouble getting $30,000 tradein.

Initially they would think it was a Petrol and offer $22,000 and no discount on the new one - they just weren't interested in trading a Petrol Pajero.

I'm sure glad I paid $2000 extra for the Diesel 4 years ago.

Thats what you call ar.....s..y !!, bought it with out looking at it, dream! buyer.!!.

Good on you anyhow.

Cheers Axle.

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agree that EBay works, and also agree about starting bidding at a low price and having a realistic reserve to start a bit of a 'bidding war'.

Being a Toyota is a positive for resale; being petrol is not. There's also been a sudden dip in used car values in the last few years with 1 million new car sales each year flooding the used market. I used to be able to sell my second-hand cars for what I bought them for second-hand...no more...

Don't want to steal the thread but I got a question about pradOz lpg conversion, just basically want to know who did it and how is the car running, if you could email me at
dixie_lee_au@yahoo.com.au

Cheers
Dixie

Dont want to leave the city???? I had a bloke who left the state!! LOL !!!

People from a city get lazy ad dont like having to leave their house like us country folk!!

Laura

Hi Laura

Beats me why they want a 4wd!

When we went looking for an F250, we considered purchasing from any state, even 'looking' at one in Tasmania. As it was, the one we got was in WA, but it still involved a flight to the Pilbara (also had to drive to the city to the airport).

When we bought our caravan, we drove from WA to Qld.

Motherhen

Its a 3.o litre? there are so many of them for sale that i can understand why you get so many tire kickers / no shows - 4.2 litre on the other hand -- becoming hard to find and not as common as the 3 litre

Boc

Perhaps the cost of fuel, morgtage, Christmas , threat of an interest rate rise, falling share market, falling ozzie dollar, threat of recession in USA (particularly) etc are factors that make it increasingly more difficult to justify some expenses - such as travelling to the country or any unecessary distance(s). Just my theory.

I recently flew down from Townsville to near Gladstone to pick up my 100TD handed over the cheque and drove it back that arvo/evening. I was very happy to do this as it was exactly what I was after and I gave it a good shakedown run without kids annoying me for 1000km, lol.

The seller was surprised that I would do this so filled up both tanks for my efforts. Great rig, good price, happy people.

I find it almost laughable that people will enquire about a 4wd, then not want to drive out of the city to look at it - what do they want to do with it? Keep it on their lawn to look trendy?

What's more we aren't that far out in the sticks, and if we have a meeting, conference or whatever in Perth, usually do it in a day trip; drive, attend all day then come home. All in a day's work.

Boc, my son got a 4.2 and is rather more than disappointed (to put it politely) with the performance; especially after our 3 ltr.

Oh well - the right person will find us no doubt.

Motherhen

But be aware that after 2007 turns over, your car is effectively a whole year older, and therfore will fetch a lot less money.

I recently bought a small car for my daughter and convinced the seller to accept my offer after pointing out the above. He was, of course, unhappy about getting $1000 less than he was asking (15,500asking) but was better off with $14500 now rather than $14500 in January.

His trade-in value on the new car he had already bought was $12500, so he didn't do too badly from that perspective, but he still dropped a huge amount of money in 18 months he'd owned it.

owners = buyers

'if you want to get a decent price, you'll have to wait until fuel prices fall again.'

and that's likely to happen!!!

Leroy