Jimny prices

Webuyanycar have just upped their offer on mine from £20k to £25k despite it being 2 years and 2 months old and just past the 18k miles milestone.
I hope all gen4 owners have been in touch with their insurers and registered the increase in value, and paid any small increase in premium.  What have you insured your commercial one for Martin? 

I was asked for its purchase price (£20,485) and it's value, I said £23,000 based on what I had seen stealers asking (ok so a couple of them asked for £25k but that was plain fishing)

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Good grief £25,000 trade offer for a 2018

The world had gone mad !! People must actually be buying Jimnys for £28,000+ if WBAC are offering that.

Are they selling them in Harrods now? That's where all the silly money gets spent.

Just checked our 2020 again
l do wonder if they will actually give you that price or if they will talk you down when you get there.

What's bizarre is you can find them on sale at dealers for less.
Here's a 2018 that's been for sale a few weeks, it's only done 4,000 miles.

They will offer you about 2/3rds to 3/4s that price when you take it in, so expect about 20k. You might be able to push them up a bit, but at the end of the day they sell it on to a garage, Cinch or Carzoo and everyone has to make a profit.

I have had firm offers of £24500 and £25500 to part ex my 2020 GEN4.

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What's bizarre is you can find them on sale at dealers for less.
Here's a 2018 that's been for sale a few weeks, it's only done 4,000 miles.

The annual tax of £490 in the advert will be putting them off... 

 

Yes l did notice that!

Following advice above l have updated the value on our insurance to £28,000
As insurance pays out the replacement value (up to the value you insured it for) in the highly unlikely event that it's a total loss.
So if you insured it for £20,000 that's the most you will get.
Worth updating your policy where possible. lt didn't cost anything to update our policy.

I was speaking to a dealer down in Devon on friday who had just sourced one for a customer, they paid over £29,000 for it.

The customer paid over £29,000? (surely the dealer didn't....)

lt's a lot for a Jimny. But it might still make sense if bought on a PCP, due to high residual value at the end of the term making the payments lower.

And as the customer never owns the vehicle, if the payments are low enough it doesn't matter what the retail price is.

That might explain the high prices. Apparently 90% of people now buy cars on PCP agreements.

Strange stuff going on, my brother owned an Audi Q3 for a year, didn't like it so sold it to WBAC for a grand less than he paid for it, went to Cazoo and bought a BMW X3, got it home and priced it through WBAC and he could have made nearly a grand selling it to them!
Read an article online in Car Dealer, some dealers are buying cars from Cazoo and putting them on the forecourt, apparently cheaper than crazy auction prices at the moment and no preparation costs.