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Brendan

Brendan

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Hi,

Thinking about selling my car(can't believe I've just said that)

What do people think is a good price to sell?

Black Granturismo S MC shift 2012(preface lift)
FSH 46K Good condition...

Rough idea? £22K? Prices are all over the place.

Thanks
 
Brendan said:
Hi,

Thinking about selling my car(can't believe I've just said that)

What do people think is a good price to sell?

Black Granturismo S MC shift 2012(preface lift)
FSH 46K Good condition...

Rough idea? £22K? Prices are all over the place.

Thanks
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Any reason why ?

I think if you have a clutch history or % along with undersealing your car will have a better chance to sell. So many adverts don't share this information.
 
Jam-Mez said:
Any reason why ?

I think if you have a clutch history or % along with undersealing your car will have a better chance to sell. So many adverts don't share this information.
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Agree with this. When I was looking the amount of people who had no idea of engine serial or clutch life was almost an immediate red flag to me. To the point one guy wanted me to drive to Norwich to check his number for him to see if I wanted to buy it. Alternatively I did see one with a brand spanky new clutch and they were not moving on the price and that was 32k miles and £26k .
 
I very much doubt that other than a small minority, people know their engine number. It's just generally not a factor for nearly everyone

C
 
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CatmanV2 said:
I very much doubt that other than a small minority, people know their engine number. It's just generally a factor for nearly everyone

C
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Engine number is on the v5. There is no excuse for not knowing it.

If a seller can't be bothered it's their loss. The only thing I will say, that very sadly it seems that maserati granturismos are a buyers market, so sellers need to be on point if they wish to sell in a timely manner.

I think one day that will flip, GTs are guaranteed future classics...but we're some time before it becomes a sellers market.

I paid 32k for a 2011 GT 4.7S mc sportnline with all the carbon trim and fantastic condition about 18 months ago. I fully expected it to depreciate which I'm sure it has, but as I don't ever plan to sell it's irrelevant.

Good luck with the sale, base your price on good research in all places they are advertised and watch what they are being sold for on auction sites.

Advertise everywhere you can. Watch out for scam sellers.

I always figure you need 3 months to find a buyer. Some cars I have sold in 3 hours, some in 3 days, some in 3 months. My favourite was doing a deal for 71 911 on Christmas day. I probably had that for sale for 3 months.

So give it some time and don't drop your price straight away. Don't be afraid to put it on an ebay auction, but I would not list anywhere you have no control of a reserve price.

Finally I don't believe in cars sitting on the market, if a car had not sold in 3 months
...its overpriced
 
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There is no excuse for not knowing it.
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There's no excuse perhaps for not *looking it up* But equally the 'OP' could simply have asked the seller to look on the V5....

Of course there's very little assurance that what the V5 says is *actually* the engine that's fitted, but that's probably a low probability issue.

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Finally I don't believe in cars sitting on the market, if a car had not sold in 3 months
...its overpriced
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Can't help but agree.

C
 
Definitely on V5, I looked recently.

Selling your car privately has got to be one of the worst aspects of ownership, apart from the bills.

Carwow valued my car last week at £18.5, today they said £19.5 which is a fair figure. I uploaded all the pics and docs, and now it's worth £17.5!
 
It's on my v5, you can get it other ways, like from a HPI check etc. So a buyer that is serious can access it. Of course there must be occasions when it's missing from the v5, like experienced above. but generally that Is rare.

I come from the classic 911 world, where matching number cars command the highest prices, as changing the engine number on the V5 is a pain to do, it's a super quick check to see if its worth discussing further with the seller.

The key point is it's a buyers market and if a seller wants to sell in a timely manner they will need to respond to what ever a buyer asks for...or wait until the next buyer comes a long in the hope they don't....

Anyway as you say being on the V5 dosent mean it's still the original engine, but given that they mostly seem bullet proof then indeed it must be a very low probability.

Incidentally I have checked and taken a picture of my physical engine number, but only because I am a petrol head nerd!
 
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