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I want to sell my Mercedes C180 Classic FG52 LFK (88,000 miles) and buy a new C220 CDI SE BlueEfficiency manual. My current car was an Irish import, flat dark blue, no A/C, 6-speed manual (from Motorpoint) and has a 2 litre engine rather than the 1.8 litre supercharged engines that were normal in the UK in 2002. The on line Glass's Guide says it cannot give me a value for my current car when I feed in the registration plate: slightly worrying since presumably that is what dealers refer to. So should I bite the bullet and go to my local MB dealer and get the best deal I can or sell my car through BCA Sure-Sell, and buy my new car through Drive the Deal?
Asked on 12 June 2010 by GB, Ilkley
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Honest John
You don't have a UK car, which is why if can't be valued. It might be an older, late-registered C200, in which case it trades at about £1,000. If it is genuinely a 2002 build with the facelift attributes and 2002 build dates on the seatbelt tags and under the ashtray, then, if it were a UK car it would trade book at £3,275 minus £400 for the excess miles, plus, in your case, minus £1,000 for its doubtful status, so about £1,875. If it were mine I'd simply run it through www.sure-sell.info, declaring it straight off as an Irish import with the 2.0 litre non-supercharged engine. And buy the new car via www.drivethedeal.com
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