GR86 GR86- Cars for sale - General Discussion

[Hachi-roku]

Just regurgitating the same erroneous spec sheet they published from the outset !

 

[Delahorney]

I told the guy I P/X’d mine to that if you don’t want to be taken the mickey out of, do not advertise it as having an alarm. He was blown away that it didn’t come with one.

 

[Martin_uk]

Apologies if covered elsewhere, but interested in peoples experience with Motorway sales platform.
I was curious and enquired about my Sept 2023 Manual GR86 with 9,500 miles in Saphire Blue Pearl and they gave an estimated price of £31,550

There is no damage I am aware of inc alloys, never crashed and has been carefully maintained.

I dont have to sell , but I do have two other cars and a few motorbikes so thinking I should cut back

 

[Silver Fox]

Apologies if covered elsewhere, but interested in peoples experience with Motorway sales platform.

My experience was that they are a bunch of soppy pr*cks.

Gave me an artificially high price, "confirmed" a sale for less, didn't get in touch with me to arrange collection, sent me round in circles when trying to chase up said collection, got all sanctimonious and pompous when I left a review on Trustpilot, and overall were a massive pain in the a*se.

Contrast this with a flawless experience with CarWow, who facilitated my sale and collection with a very professional and pleasant national buyer for a large franchise.

CarWow: Recommended.
Motorway: W*nkers.

 

[Carv]

Apologies if covered elsewhere, but interested in peoples experience with Motorway sales platform.
I was curious and enquired about my Sept 2023 Manual GR86 with 9,500 miles in Saphire Blue Pearl and they gave an estimated price of £31,550

There is no damage I am aware of inc alloys, never crashed and has been carefully maintained.

I dont have to sell , but I do have two other cars and a few motorbikes so thinking I should cut back

We appear to be saturating the market, as I am also going through the same process for mine (Sapphire Blue, 72 plate, manual, 7600 miles). They gave me a very similar initial valuation, then after uploading photos and disclosing any issues (one v. minor alloy scuff, and a few wear and tear paint chips as expected, all else in great condition) the revised valuation dropped to £30600. The best offer I got in the auction that it went in was ~£29500 so a few thousand off where it started...

Platform itself seemed ok, but a lot of chat with their support team for clarifications and amendments which made it feel a bit unwieldy. Then the usual chasing afterwards from them to encourage the sale. Someone I spoke to there said that only 6 dealers bid on my car because it was "niche" and only one bid was a serious one apparently. Considering my options at current...

Also new member, so hello!

 

[LU71KEE]

Hey guys.

I recently sold my 2.0 Supra to Motorpoint, after getting mucked around on Motorway and Carwow.

They gave me £34,200 for it which was £2000 more than the Carwow estimate and much more than motorway actually managed to achieve. (Although about 800 down on what they thought it was worth)

If you do the valuation it lasts for 7 days. The price can go up and down over time as well. Was offered 33k. Left it 2 weeks and the price went up to what I sold it for.

Funny thing is they’ve now dropped the price of the Supra to the point they’d only
Be making about £600 (I’m assuming they must make most of their money in finance etc)

Have seen a few 86s come and go. So might be worth a punt?

Cash was in my account within 30mins (and no fees on the payment)

 

[Martin_uk]

My experience was that they are a bunch of soppy pr*cks.

Gave me an artificially high price, "confirmed" a sale for less, didn't get in touch with me to arrange collection, sent me round in circles when trying to chase up said collection, got all sanctimonious and pompous when I left a review on Trustpilot, and overall were a massive pain in the a*se.

Contrast this with a flawless experience with CarWow, who facilitated my sale and collection with a very professional and pleasant national buyer for a large franchise.

CarWow: Recommended.
Motorway: W*nkers.

Thanks, very useful

 

[Martin_uk]

We appear to be saturating the market, as I am also going through the same process for mine (Sapphire Blue, 72 plate, manual, 7600 miles). They gave me a very similar initial valuation, then after uploading photos and disclosing any issues (one v. minor alloy scuff, and a few wear and tear paint chips as expected, all else in great condition) the revised valuation dropped to £30600. The best offer I got in the auction that it went in was ~£29500 so a few thousand off where it started...

Platform itself seemed ok, but a lot of chat with their support team for clarifications and amendments which made it feel a bit unwieldy. Then the usual chasing afterwards from them to encourage the sale. Someone I spoke to there said that only 6 dealers bid on my car because it was "niche" and only one bid was a serious one apparently. Considering my options at current...

Also new member, so hello!

Appreciate the info, thanks

 

[Martin_uk]

Hey guys.

I recently sold my 2.0 Supra to Motorpoint, after getting mucked around on Motorway and Carwow.

They gave me £34,200 for it which was £2000 more than the Carwow estimate and much more than motorway actually managed to achieve. (Although about 800 down on what they thought it was worth)

If you do the valuation it lasts for 7 days. The price can go up and down over time as well. Was offered 33k. Left it 2 weeks and the price went up to what I sold it for.

Funny thing is they’ve now dropped the price of the Supra to the point they’d only
Be making about £600 (I’m assuming they must make most of their money in finance etc)

Have seen a few 86s come and go. So might be worth a punt?

Cash was in my account within 30mins (and no fees on the payment)

Thanks for suggestion, will look into it

 

[Martin_uk]

Apologies if covered elsewhere, but interested in peoples experience with Motorway sales platform.
I was curious and enquired about my Sept 2023 Manual GR86 with 9,500 miles in Saphire Blue Pearl and they gave an estimated price of £31,550

There is no damage I am aware of inc alloys, never crashed and has been carefully maintained.

I dont have to sell , but I do have two other cars and a few motorbikes so thinking I should cut back

I took loads of photos, intending to upload, but then found you need to do through app live.

I contacted Group 1 Guildford who I bought car through and said considering selling and Motorway estimate.
They advised someone would get back to me, but nothing heard so far.

Im not too fussed as enjoy driving car as much as before


Thanks for comments and suggestions, much appreciated.

 

[rotweilerc67]

I tried Motorway last week - only 3 dealers bid and it got to 23.5k so ignored it as it was below the reserve.
Out of interest to see if it's as bad as people say I took it to WBAC, I was incredibly surprised at how little they actually checked the car out. They seemed to miss the dent on the A pillar and the scuffs on the alloys. Gave me an incredible price of 27k for a car with just under 34,000 miles which shocked me as I'm pretty sure I can go buy another with less miles if I wanted. I wasn't really expecting that or to sell it there and then so had to awkwardly carry all my bits home on the train.

It was an amazing car and worked perfectly as the single car solution for nearly 3 years but since my partner recently bought a Mini, I can use her old Aygo and get something a bit more scary on the side - viewing a S3 Exige tomorrow

On a side note if anyone ends up buying my old car (WN73 ZKJ) and wants the extra history and some bits I had for it, let me know as I have no use for them and they didn't seem to want it either.

 

[TorqueOfTheDevil]

I took loads of photos, intending to upload, but then found you need to do through app live.

I contacted Group 1 Guildford who I bought car through and said considering selling and Motorway estimate.
They advised someone would get back to me, but nothing heard so far.

Im not too fussed as enjoy driving car as much as before


Thanks for comments and suggestions, much appreciated.

Group 1 Guildford are a monumental waste of space... Still chasing for a seat defect I reported within week 1 of taking delivery....

 

[Silver Fox]

I tried Motorway last week - only 3 dealers bid and it got to 23.5k so ignored it as it was below the reserve.
Out of interest to see if it's as bad as people say I took it to WBAC, I was incredibly surprised at how little they actually checked the car out. They seemed to miss the dent on the A pillar and the scuffs on the alloys. Gave me an incredible price of 27k for a car with just under 34,000 miles which shocked me as I'm pretty sure I can go buy another with less miles if I wanted.

That seems to be a cracking outcome, nice one.

I wonder if they thought it was a Supra?

Be interested to hear how the Lotus viewing went.